Now that I've retired, I've got plenty of free time which I decided to use constructively by combining pleasure with learning. While I'm brushing up my German, I'm also learning Russian! Why Russian? Well, it's a kind of challenge to me as this is a rather difficult language considering that Russians use the Cyrillic Alphabet. That was all I knew about the Russian language in addition to two words:да and нет - yes and no. There are 33 letters in the Cyrillic Alphabet. Some of them are pretty much the same as in the Latin Alphabet. To my surprise, a few are exactly the same as in the Greek Alphabet and pronounced almost the same. For example, в г п р ф х к . And there are the difficult letters which look like drawings to me. For example: Б Ж З И Й Ц Ч Ш Щ Э Ю Я . But my wonderful Russian teacher Daria uses a board so that I can follow her hand and write the difficult letters. She explains everything clearly and simply and she makes me feel I am in a real class. If I have questions, I put them in the comments and she always answers! And yes! I always do my homework!
In Cyprus, there are many Russian tourists, so many signposts are also written in Russian. Today, as I was driving home from the beach, I came across a Russian signpost at the red light. I was able to read it! This gave me such a wonderful sense of achievement! I'm in Lesson 4 right now and I have learnt about nouns and gender: masculine, feminine or neutral . In German and in French, this is a pain in the neck! You have to learn gender by heart. In Russian, it's a piece of cake! There are simple rules relating to the ending of a word. At the moment, I'm learning to read Russian. Daria says it's very important. I've also learnt some vocabulary such as greetings, family and food. Right now, I must do my homework!
Пока! (Bye!)
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