One of my students is 55 years old. He is polyglot, speaks 7 languages, during one of our lessons he said: Yaroslava, learning Russian for 1,5 years, I feel myself in the middle of the ocean, I swam the middle and can’t get back, so much effort, but ahead is another middle!!! That was my favorite quшote. That’s quirky feeling all of us probably experienced. The more I learn, the more I realize how few I know! They are the languages i faced in my life
1. Arriving at Shanghai 2 weeks later I found myself at SPANISH meet up. One of the outstanding things here is diversity of foreigners. And yes, I adore foreigners. And Latin people know it. So it helped me to feel so comfy and find new acquaintances. Thanks to meetup.com
2. PORTUGUESE is quite easy after Spanish and sounds amazing, like you go back in time watching our favorite soap operas , novelas. I trained it with Duolingo. It’s good if you already have some grammar basement, not suitable for beginners.
3. Sound odd but with ENGLISH my relahtionship is shorter than with Spanish. And there is a logic explanation why I try to narrate my life here in English despite of in russian I could do it more colorful and sophisticated. I am preparing for IELTS and try to boost my writing skills so that’s I covered all my thoughts and feelings in English.
4. Now it is turn for minor note. CHINESE couldn’t touch my inner being and I quit every time after 2-3 days attempts. I can count till 100 and I know some food items. This is the all I gained for 4 months. There are objective reasons for it. I can justify myself. I will write about it my next post.
5. Last time I subscribed to Jimmmy Kwik YouTube channel. He said there is no bad and good memory. There is lack of motivation, trained and untrained memory... and I have students making great performance in RUSSIAN. We just need to find our personal motivation. We can’t pick other’s people motivation.
