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[threeplusfire]

The coughing is especially bad today. My head hurts from it, and it makes my eyes tear up. I loathe this sickness, whatever it is. I should be studying but I feel too physically bad to concentrate. My textbooks are piled up next to my tax papers and my homework assignments.

Times when it's so frustrating to be unable to explain myself, unable to show why some things are so meaningful. Communication stalled, and nothing I can say will get through. I wonder where exactly it goes wrong, in the words or the voice or something deeper. I am failing to reach you.

It was so beautiful outside today, I should have stayed longer in the sunlight and blue sky full of paper thin clouds, sixty seven degrees, with air moving softly over my face. I can't feel it anymore.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Let me start by recommending any and every Slavic language out there. They are beautiful and expressive in ways that are so unique. Intimidating at first, it gets much easier after the first couple of semesters.

I started learning my second semester of college, actually in hopes that learning such a different language would help my English writing skills. Russian is very different from English, it's a much more context driven language. Structure-wise, it's complicated. It can seem overwhelming and hard when you first start learning the case endings, but soon you begin to see the pattern. With Russian and a few of the other languages, you will have to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. But that isn't too bad, just kinda strange. It messes with your penmanship skills. ;)

For some the hardest part is just absorbing another vocabulary. (You've had some experience with French and that will come in handy if you decide to take another language.) For me, it's the difference in grammar structures that throws me off. It's getting much easier now that I'm on my second language, though I do drop Russian into my Czech a lot and my professor shakes her head at me. Speaking is pretty easy. You just have to learn to make funny vowel sounds, or eliminate your vowels altogether. Strch prst skrz krk! Which is a great Czech sentence with no vowels. Means "Stick your finger through your neck." I'm still puzzling out the deeper meanings of that one.