Study of Russian proverbs by Chinese students (based on the use of the DeepSeek)

Abstract

The relevance of the work is due to the growing interest in studying the Russian language in China, attention to the personal aspect of language learning as a central concept of anthropological linguistics and a change in the perspective of scientific research in connection with the use of artificial intelligence, including in the social and humanities. The purpose of the work is to consider the possibilities of using the DeepSeek chatbot in studying Russian proverbs in a Chinese audience. The objectives of the study are, firstly, to find out what information about the meaning and use of Russian proverbs a student studying Russian can independently obtain using the resources of the DeepSeek neural network, and, secondly, to determine how this information can be used by a teacher to adjust the skills of understanding text in Russian and using Russian proverbs in speech. The study showed that when using the DeepSeek chatbot in the process of teaching Russian to Chinese students, the need to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers should be taken into account. The analysis of the content of DeepSeek responses to queries about the meaning of the Russian proverb Poverty is not a vice, its translation into Chinese and use in Russian and Chinese revealed problems such as the difficulties of translating the word “vice” into Chinese and emphasizing the rational-pragmatic assessment when using the Russian proverb. It has been proven that the main difficulty in using the DeepSeek neural network when studying Russian proverbs by Chinese students is the cultural barrier. While DeepSeek overcomes linguistic barriers quite successfully, overcoming cultural barriers requires a special approach.