Tag: Russian
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End of Summer 2021
Here it is the end of summer 2021. Can you believe we’ve been fighting THE CORONAVIRUS for nearly two years now? And I still can’t help but wonder, why this virus? Be that as it may, the world is still turning and we are dealing with it. Here are a few updates of things going…
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Picking up Russian (again)
These books have been sitting in my apartment since I moved in and I’ve hardly had time to look at them. Actually, it wasn’t the time, it was the ability to look at them and spend the time to read and gain something from them. I bought these books when I was traversing through Russia…
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February finished, music didn’t
Hard to believe that it’s the end of February 2021 already and we’re now into the Year of the Ox according to the Chinese zodiac. I wrote at the beginning of the month that I wanted to finish up with the tracks I’d made for Jamuary 2021 but, here we are at the end of…
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Giving up on Chinese for… Russian?
As I mentioned in my previous post, I hadn’t done much reading in English this semester because I had another thought: why not read in another language? To which you might respond “Chinese, right?” Well, no. You see, I’ve got kinda fed up with Chinese. Not only is learning Chinese difficult, it’s made more difficult…
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Poltava, Ukraine Part 1: Language Learning and Water Nymphs
I had heard about Poltava from a few folks. It was the site of an important Ukrainian battle (the Battle of Poltava) and that it was one of the few remaining cities that still spoke and preserved the Ukrainian language and heritage. Not only that, the age-old pagan festival of Ivana Kupala would be held…