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Saturday, August 30, 2008

LEARNING RUSSIAN

It is said that to learn a new language is to experience another life. This, my life, needs to be pumped up, and in the process I am going to study one of the greatest languages literature has ever known: Russian.

My aim, however, is no grander than the quote. I only wanted to read Anna Karenina and the poetry of Anna Akhmatova in their original Russian text.

I am giving myself a full year. One year from today, I hope to talk to you, Anatolya.

posted by cbs @ 5:09 AM   | 2 Comments

2 Comments:

At Mon Sep 01, 01:18:00 PM , Blogger witsandnuts said...

Hi, dropping by from Toni's page. It's really interesting to learn new language. As much I wanted to learn french first, I have to know Arabic first because of my location. Best of luck!

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At Mon Sep 01, 05:01:00 PM , Blogger cbs said...

hi witsi, thanks for the vitsi. yay, arabic sounds interesting, too. i was reading this morning kurt vonnegut's man without a country, and he said americans do not appreciate arabic too much - and then he posed the challenge: try division using roman numerals.

best of luck din.

 

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