this is a long-term goal, but my short-term goal is to try the vocabulary lessons I recently received (if only to prepare me for more structured classes, either university or pimsleur?). I am definitely more interested in speaking than reading at this point, and hope to visit Russia someday if dreams come true. (that’s def a life-long-term goal)

why speaking and not reading? well reading is what translators are for ;) and speaking is for person-to-person communication in real time. besides, you learn to speak your native language long before you learn to read and write in school. they’re both important; I hope someday I can set a goal (secondary, tentative to finishing this one) to read and write in Russian too.

I had to finally pick a language, and Russian was always my first love, so Russian it is. it helps that my sister and her husband are also studying Russian as well. (the top five language candidates, for anyone who cares, were Russian, Japanese, French, Spanish, and Arabic.) (but German tied with French, and then there was Welsh…)