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The Joy of Learning the Russian Language





I am really enjoying my adventure into the Russian language. I find the words for animals are very pretty.  Bird is птица which sounds like peteetsa  to western ears.  The word for deer  оленъ  is a woman’s name in Britain, that is Eileen.  The little bee is  пчела  which roughly sounds like another name, Petula. What a happy thing to turn off the T.V. and spend some time on something as worthwhile as learning another language.  My chances of meeting a Russian speaker are not great where I live, deep in the countryside, but no doubt I could do something about this if I really tried. Just as I had written this I went off to discover if I could watch Russian T.V. online and found Kino 1 TV.RU. That is not quite like talking to someone face to face but I think it might well help me. I seem to be falling in love with Russia.  So far it is with its history and language.  I know little about modern day Russia.  That is a further area to explore.

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