This is where I will inform my family, friends, and other interested people what is going on in my life while I am nestled within the busoms of the Motherland(Russia)as a Rotary Exchange Student. I may not be the one blogging these things, however I will have written them. My mother may post parts of my emails I send to her as Blogging isn't exactly part of my routine yet.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Learning Russian...with some help from a new friend
At the University there is one Chinese girl that decided that she really likes me, and wants to be my friend even though she has very little English and even less Russian. Her name is Yu-Yuting, and she is very sweet. She tends to do very well in the Russian class, even though some of the Phonetics are pretty much impossible for the Chinese palate (particularly words ending in hard consonants and the Russian letter р, which is like the Spanish rr). Today she came into class late, and when she sat down and pulled all of her papers out, she gave me a piece of paper. On it, in English, was a guide on how to conjugate Russian verbs. I was so shocked. She said they haven't covered this in class yet. Still, most people seem to know how to conjugate and it will be good to study now. I couldn't believe she did that for me. It must have taken forever to translate, put in a cognitive order, and write examples, too. I couldn't thank her enough, and she was thrilled that I was so happy and just THANKFUL! I am excited to study this sheet of paper, as it even has the exceptions (grr, why can't there ever be just a solid rule?) and how to properly conjugate those. I never would have expected anyone to go out of their way like that and do that for me. She even printed all of the Russian, because I told her that I can't read the cursive yet.
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