improve my Russian

in school for 10 years but now I can barely speak the language. When I was in Russia some of the learned stuff came back, but I didn’t dare to speak Russian. I tried to improve it few years ago in a seminar at the university, but I didn’t enjoy it. Now I have to think about another way to get better in Russian.

I am giving up on this one. The real reason – my desire to improve this language is not at all strong. So I will stay the way I am – not having problem understanding (reading, watching a movie, understanding people when talk to each other, or to me) and not being able to speak. On the other hand – where exactly am I going to speak Russian? In Brooklyn? LOL
So Gemmword, one ring is on its way to you. Lets see when exactly I am going to find my way to the post office to send it.

this does not seem to be working. I will most likely fail. The only thing that makes me feel better about my failing and the fact that I will have to :( say goodbye to my gorgeous ring is that I will actually not give it to someone who will not appreciate it, but I will be sending it to Gemmword. Russian is not really my language I guess. :(

. . . but can now barely speak the language, which saddens me.

I went to see a Russian film tonight (with subtitles).

I hope, but it’s just too far down the list for me right now. :(

Will give me “Master i Margarita” by Mihail Bulgakov in Russian. I’ve read it already 3 times, but never in Russian. I love the book and I guess it will be easy for me to read.

is:“Nemnogo solnca v holodnoy vode i drugie povesti” (I just can’t type it in Russian, trying to find where the letters are on the keybord – I can’t make it phonetic for some reason) by Francoise Sagan
Not really my type of book, but because of the lack of anything better I’ll just read this one, till I get another one. I’ve read 5 pages already, and I’m surprized how easy it is for me. I expected it to be more difficult. Just wanted to write this down

I will start reading books in Russian. Well definetely I will not start with some classics like “Война и мир”. Any ideas for a light reading (and entertaining)?

I’ve just returned from two weeks in the Ukraine and my Russian has definitely improved. Hardly anyone there speaks English and so you have to use Russian all the time.

I also had several hours of classes of Russian a day and now feel much more confident in my Russian langauge skills.

Well, it took a BIG move for me, in order to reach this goal… that of moving to ESTONIA, just so I could relax abit and get the practice I needed within a Russian speaking community.

I’ve learned other things and other life lessons while there too, so everything connected with the goal to improve my Russian has shown it to be a worthwile goal indeed.

I never aspired to speak PERFECT russian, and so now that I’m moving away from Estonia, I’m not upset that it’s still not perfect… but I come away with good experience and an excellent core of the language… really it’s set me up for life… I’ll never forget Russian, now that’s it played such a big part in my life. I’ll always take up opportunities to use it in the future also, so as to keep it up.

I love how knowing another language opens up the way to communicating with so many more people possibly. So this was worth it for sure.