My small blog intro Hi everybody! My name is Kostya and it's an introduction to my first attempt to share my internal world with others using a non-native language. I'm going to write something like series of blogs. Through these blogs I'm going to show my viewpoints about topic I face with in my daily life, describe features of life of Russian student or just share my opinion related to events happened in the world. I'd be happy if some of my viewpoints or facts that will be described occur to be interesting for you. Obviously I will be pleased with any advice given because my main purpose is to get more familiar with a culture of English speaking people. So, who am I? As I mentioned above, my name is Kostya, my hometown is Kharkov, Ukraine. I'm a 20 years old at the moment and I study physics and computer science in Moscow Institute of Physics and High Technology. Beside study I work in an IT company dealing with backups&cloud computing software, so if you're interesting in modern IT technologies you"re welcome to write me, I hope we'll find something interesting to discuss! To begin with, I'd like to explain the situation about English in Ukraine and Russia and for what reason I'm writing this one. I have been learning English since my middle school, although I actually realized an importance of English skills in last two years only. The bulk of local citizens here are almost totally unfamiliar with foreign languages and are unable to communicate with people who doesn't speak Russian, even though they have a small basis of English vocabulary. It's normal ,though, because you don't have a need to use foreign language in your daily life. On the other hand, you're immersed in English any single time when you're using the Internet or play Dota in Steam, but you don't realize it. Anything changes when you face with a science or any related discipline. You will get a real pain in your butt if you try to find a manual to the most recent software or to look up a prove of some theorem related to modern graph theory. In other words, if you're a geek you can't get by without a knowledge of English. The thing is that when you have already felt confident to read technological texts, you are still unable to fluently communicate with native speakers, your language still sounds weird and phrasal verbs confuse you . I hope that I will change it speaking with you guys and that you can help me to get more familiar with your world.