Why are you mad at Mexico?

The sounds in the Russian language seem wide and broad and a bit complex, but intriguing. It’s not a harsh sounding language at all, and I love to hear the stress from natives and the tonal sounds. I’ve studied Russian now for a little over a year, and I’m afraid I bit off more than I can chew, but for some strange reason I keep forcing myself to try and learn.

Another reason, Americans have been blamed for not knowing a second language, like numerous foreign people do. I’m mad at Mexico, so I refused to learn Spanish (though very practical). The Russian language also seemed a bit of a novel, and it’s history has be pondering and I wish to learn enough to start reading literature that had given Russia a good name before Communism.

The alphabet came easy to me, and I’ve been having fun writing phoentic English using the Cyrillic alphebet.I’ve been building up a good vocabulary, however, I’ve been beat up so bad with the Declensions of the nouns that I still cannot form my own sentence! (Age!) I can phoentically read Russian and understand only a few scattered words…I don’t think I will ever master it though. Constanant clusters can be dangerous to the English tongue.

Final reason for lmy desire to learn Russian (despite the interest after the cold war) is, I havn’t done well with English, I better try something else!

For a final note from some of my Russian friends, though I cannot speak Russian, my imitation of Russian accent has them amazed, I do feel a little proud of that! And I was shocked to hear them refer to the German language as the ‘barking language’.