Happiness is....
The beginning of the year wasn't really easy for me. I had to change my schedule totally, because I needed extra money. So I left my studing at the department of Free Arts and Sciences (which was a kind of escape for my soul), and found two different jobs to earn more money. I felt intellectual and social isolation during this month, but today I made a desicion which helped me to built a new perspective of my life. This morning I decieded to buy the ticket to the UK, where my best friends live. We met last year, when they were studing Russian in my University as exchange students. I never thought people with very different backgrounds, languages, politics could become so close and valuable to each other.
We have many terms in Russian to define different kinds of relashionships. We have analogies for friends, comrads, familiars, buddies. But we have no translation for one very important and very deep link, which is called "soulmateness" in English. It's more than just friendship or crash of another formal relationships. It's something too difficult for verbilisation, something out of borders. My friends are my soulmates, and possibility to see England, which was my dream since 13 years, is less tremendous for me now, then perspective to see their beautiful faces.
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Anna-
Very well done, and quite touching.
A few corrections below, but this reflects a very high level of mastery of English.
Could you send me the same text in Russian?
Thanks so much, and good travels!
Best,
Val
Happiness is....
The beginning of the year wasn't really easy for me. I had to change my schedule totally, because I needed extra money. So I left my studing (perhaps better stated -- So I put off my studies.... or So I quit my studies... at the department of Free Arts and Sciences (which was a kind of escape for my soul), and found two different jobs to earn more money. I felt intellectual and social isolation during this month, but today I made a desicion which helped me to built a new perspective of my life. This morning I decieded to buy the a ticket to the UK, where my best friends live. We met last year, when they were studing Russian in my University as exchange students. I never thought people with very different backgrounds, languages, politics could become so close and valuable (valuable really doesn't fit here... typical usage would be "a valuable experience" -- not used to describe relationships. A better word might be supportive of each other ) to each other.
We have many terms in Russian to define different kinds of relashionships. We have analogies for friends, comrads, familiars (familiars is no longer used. I thing the term would be acquaintances) , buddies. But we have no translation for one very important and very deep link, which is called "soulmateness" in English. It's more than just friendship or crash of another formal relationships. It's something too difficult for verbilisation, something out of borders (out of borders is understandable but a native speaker would not say this.) . My friends are my soulmates, and possibility to see England, which was my dream since 13 years, is less tremendous important for me now, then perspective to see their beautiful faces.
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