I got to have hella fun today thrift shopping with a friend, and amist the unmatched bone china and musty cardigans, I managed to spend not too much money and get some nice things. But what I must say, is that I found a book on how to learn Russian, and I bought it. Oh yes.
I have this idea that one day I'll continue to teach myself French, and maybe learn Japanese, Old English, and now...Russian. Am I crazy? Probably. But I feel like I should know these things, whether I want to or not. It's a strange craving I've always had, and ignoring it doesn't do too well.
The only problem with the Russian book is that it wants me to learn the entire alphabet and characters BEFORE I learn anything else.
I DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF PATIENCE!
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I have a friend from Belarus that taught me all of the good Russian swears.
Baspar-vu, chmo blet!
Zing! That is the best friend ever! Of course, I then had to look them up on the internet. :D
Last summer we had a young Japanese exchange student for a month. They come in order to learn idiomatic American English in a full-immersion way, I suppose. We likely hindered this goal, however, as we continually pressed the poor thing to teach us the Japanese word for *everything*.
We may do it again this year, and consider it Japanese 201.
Duffy, I had a similar experience with two Koreans girls in one of my writing classes. Everyone bothered their poor souls, and not very good at English, they weren't sure what to do!
I spent a few years teaching myself Japanese. Hiragana and Katakana writing was pretty easy to pick up, but Kanji really sucked...at one point, I learned about 200 Kanji, but that was still only 10% of what I needed to be literate.
Talk about patience...after a couple years, I was at the level of a first grader and while I could somewhat converse in romaji on a messageboard, my speaking pretty much sucked!
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