Russian is extremely complicated with all these damn cases and word endings!!!
OK--my brain is completely saturated at this point. I have only been here a few days and I feel like I am actually losing the Russian that I knew before I got here. Today my teacher was chatting to me in Russian and started to explain something in English and it didn't even register. I didn't realize she was speaking in my native tongue. I have nearly yanked all of my hair out. I shouldn't have got it cut before I left because I could have saved some $$.
I have had 3 different teachers so far and they have all been great. Each has a different teaching style and this is refreshing because after a few hours I need a bit of a change. Tamara has these sticks that she beats me with if my grammar is incorrect. Not really, we would toss these sticks back/forth as she would have me simultaneously recite verb conjugations. She would also throw a stuffed animal fish at me.
Here is Tamara throwing sticks at me while I spew out Russian verb conjugations.
Lyoubov was another one of my teachers. She actually told me that my pronunciation was very good--I sounded Russian. I think she was lying... She is actually quite pretty--I am not sure why she didn't smile for the camera.
4 comments:
Ed,
i'm loving these updates, but my jealousy is out of control. thanks for posting so often.
Ed,
These post are awesome...Sounds like you are having a great time. Keep up the good work.
Hi Ed! We miss you! We're going through shugah withdrawl!
~ Kelly and Pepper
spew out Russian verbs - man that's going to take a LONG time as the endings are always changing. :) I asked a Russian - do you actually change all the endings or are they just putting us thru this torture for nothing and you can speak in the neuter form all the time??? She said - no - they change them! DANG - I guess it's like us not using our articles - a - the- it etc. ;)
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