Languages have always come fairly easily to me. I can see a foreign word and its English definition written down, then listen to it a couple of times, and by then I will have usually internalized it. This process helped me become fluent in Spanish and German pretty quickly.
I was recently inspired to learn Russian (ok, it was to impress a girl – but now I just really want to know exactly what the homeless Russian man on the corner is screaming to himself about). Russian is tough because not only are there more letters in their alphabet – 33 to be exact – but it’s based on the Cyrillic alphabet, so it looks like this:
Спагетти
That spells “Spaghetti”.
I bet that I can do it. Besides, I need a hobby to keep me busy because – let’s face it – being a grad student at BU, I have oodles of time to spare (kidding). We’ll see how this goes.
The D.C. reference streak is over, but the homeless man streak begins! Dosvidanya until next week.
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