The right and proper use of learning Russian

[byslantedlight]

Am very excited. Just re-watched Stopover, and ... I understood what Radook said to Kodai at the end! The actual words! Turns out this learning Russian lark might be useful...

Also, got my picfor1000 challenge today. It's gonna be... challenging. But fun! I know I have about a thousand WIPs sitting around, but I'm feeling all inspired and spring-like about this one : )

Have also discovered the joys of Elizabeth Holden, Keynote Press Pros zines, and Rediscovered In A Graveyard by HG. And I am gonna post about them properly soon. As soon as my eyes stop melting.

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Must tell you that being a fan of UNCLE (Illya) and Star Trek (Chekov) in the 70s did have some bearing on me taking up Russian
Ha! That's brilliant! And they say that television has no influence on people's actions... *g*

My doctoral course has a language requirement (I think that's a US thing?), and alot of the literature in my field is Russian, so it made sense. It was either that or Danish, which was also tempting, but the sound of Russian has been appealing to me for a while now, so...

I'm a little peeved though cos I'm going to have to drop it for a semester - it clashes with another class that I have to take. Although in a way this is a good thing, cos the class I attended was only twice a week (to fit in with other classes again) and I don't think that was intense enough for me. So I shall wait for a semester, and then start again with the 5-day-a-week class. And in the meantime hope I don't forget the little that I learned...

The writing of it turned out to be more fun than I expected too - back in primary school in Australia, we had a teacher in grade 4 who decided to teach us fancy cursive script rather than just the regular round-y sort that most kids learned in the 70s. I was chuffed to discover in my Russian class that this fancy script was very like the cursive used in Russia! So it feels like it was all meant to be *g*