Comments on: Why am I learning Russian? http://languagegeek.net/2007/05/01/why-am-i-learning-russian/ Just blogging about my language geekery. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:24:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Rmss http://languagegeek.net/2007/05/01/why-am-i-learning-russian/#comment-13294 Rmss Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:04:20 +0000 http://languagegeek.system13.org/2007/05/01/why-am-i-learning-russian/#comment-13294 WLB; are you reading Russian books? Listening to Russian news? If not; that might explain the reason you can't form your own sentences yet. I was studying Russian for about 2 - 3 months after which I was able to hold simple conversations with natives. WLB; are you reading Russian books? Listening to Russian news? If not; that might explain the reason you can’t form your own sentences yet. I was studying Russian for about 2 - 3 months after which I was able to hold simple conversations with natives.

]]> By: Josh http://languagegeek.net/2007/05/01/why-am-i-learning-russian/#comment-13238 Josh Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:10:32 +0000 http://languagegeek.system13.org/2007/05/01/why-am-i-learning-russian/#comment-13238 Hi WLB: Indeed, the declensions in Russian can be overwhelming. I'm not very far along with the language, and I'm already struggling with the declensions. Why are you mad at Mexico? Hi WLB: Indeed, the declensions in Russian can be overwhelming. I’m not very far along with the language, and I’m already struggling with the declensions.

Why are you mad at Mexico?

]]> By: WLB http://languagegeek.net/2007/05/01/why-am-i-learning-russian/#comment-13224 WLB Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:50:20 +0000 http://languagegeek.system13.org/2007/05/01/why-am-i-learning-russian/#comment-13224 I myself wanted to learn Russian for several reasons: Living in Alaska for quite a few years I've seen numerous Russians and Ukranians coming in our villages for the summer during commercial fishing season. I've had Christian reasons to seek these people out and try to be a friend to them. 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'. I myself wanted to learn Russian for several reasons: Living in Alaska for quite a few years I’ve seen numerous Russians and Ukranians coming in our villages for the summer during commercial fishing season. I’ve had Christian reasons to seek these people out and try to be a friend to them.

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’.

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