Уважение к другим людям помогает нам понимать друг друга.

With stress marks, it is:

Уваже́ние к други́м людя́м помога́ет нам понима́ть друг дру́га.

A rough English-style pronunciation is:

oo-va-ZHEN-ee-ye k droo-GEEM lyoo-DYAM pa-ma-GA-yet nam pa-nee-MAT drook DROO-ga

A few helpful notes:

• ж sounds like the s in measure
• unstressed о is often pronounced more like a
• я in людям sounds like ya
• Russian stress is important, but stress marks are normally not written in everyday text

Because Russian uses the fixed pattern уважение к кому-то / чему-то to mean respect for someone / something.

So:

• уважение = respect
• уважение к другим людям = respect for other people

This is just the normal Russian construction. English uses for, but Russian uses к here.

Because the preposition к normally requires the dative case.

So:

• другие люди = other people, in nominative
• к другим людям = to/toward other people, in dative

Both words change because the adjective must agree with the noun:

• другие → другим
• люди → людям

Людям is the dative plural form connected with люди.

This is a common pattern with the word for people:

• nominative plural: люди
• genitive plural: людей
• dative plural: людям

For learners, this word feels irregular because the singular is usually человек, but the plural is люди. So you have to learn these forms as a set.

Because the grammatical subject is уважение, and уважение is singular.

So the structure is:

• Уважение = subject
• помогает = singular verb matching that subject

Even though the sentence talks about other people and us, the thing doing the helping is respect, which is one abstract idea, so the verb is singular.

Because the verb помогать takes the person being helped in the dative case, not the accusative.

So:

• нам = to us
• нас = us

Russian says, literally:

Respect for other people helps to us understand each other

That sounds unnatural in English, but grammatically it is normal in Russian.

This is a very common Russian pattern:

помогать + dative + infinitive

It means to help someone do something.

So here:

• помогает = helps
• нам = us, in dative
• понимать = to understand

Together:

помогает нам понимать = helps us understand

You can compare:

• Это помогает мне учиться. = This helps me study.
• Музыка помогает нам работать. = Music helps us work.

Because the sentence is talking about a general, ongoing ability or process, not one completed act of understanding.

• понимать = to understand, in a general or continuing sense
• понять = to understand / realize, as a completed result

Here the idea is:

Respect helps us be able to understand each other

That is why понимать fits better than понять.

If you used понять, it would sound more like helping someone reach one specific completed understanding.

Друг друга means each other or one another.

It is the standard Russian reciprocal expression.

Examples:

• Мы понимаем друг друга. = We understand each other.
• Они любят друг друга. = They love each other.

In your sentence, нам tells you who is involved: we/us.
Then друг друга means that the people in that group understand one another.

Because понимать takes a direct object, and with друг друга, the form changes depending on the case needed.

After понимать, you need the reciprocal expression in the accusative:

• понимать друг друга = to understand each other

Other cases would look different:

• доверять друг другу = to trust each other
• говорить друг о друге = to talk about each other
• гордиться друг другом = to be proud of each other

So you do not memorize just one frozen phrase; you learn that друг друга changes by case.

They are completely different in meaning.

• другим comes from другой and means other
• друг друга is a reciprocal expression meaning each other

So in this sentence:

• к другим людям = toward other people
• понимать друг друга = understand each other

This is a very common point of confusion for learners because the words look similar, but they do different jobs.

Yes. Russian word order is flexible, although the original sentence is the most neutral and natural:

Уважение к другим людям помогает нам понимать друг друга.

You could also rearrange parts for emphasis, for example:

Нам помогает понимать друг друга уважение к другим людям.

That still makes sense, but it sounds more marked and less neutral.

For learners, the best approach is:

• understand the original order first
• remember that Russian often moves words for emphasis, contrast, or style

Yes. A very literal breakdown is:

• Уважение = respect
• к другим людям = toward other people
• помогает = helps
• нам = us / to us
• понимать = to understand
• друг друга = each other

So the sentence is built like this:

Respect toward other people helps us understand each other.

That literal view is useful because it shows the grammar clearly, even if the most natural English translation may be slightly smoother.