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| s0fist Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5047 days ago 260 posts - 445 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Sign Language, German, Spanish, French | Message 57 of 64 05 January 2012 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
Shoot! Here I was thinking I'd make a few people laugh on the New Year's eve. :( 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 58 of 64 08 January 2012 at 10:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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" the "by me is" replacement for "I have""
I think it is only a feature of the East Slavic languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 59 of 64 08 January 2012 at 11:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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Celtic languages have that feature as well:
(Irish) Tá leabhar agam (I have a book), lit. "There is a book at me" 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 60 of 64 24 January 2012 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am learning Russian for a couple reasons
a) I wanted to pick up a new language anyway as I have not learned a language properly for some time b) Russian is big, sounds powerful c) It is a language of SCIENCE! d) I am interested in a look at the other side of the world e) I want to do the Trans-Siberian railway f) literature g) girls h) because I can I just like learning languages. 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Moneymax Newbie United States Joined 4694 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* | Message 61 of 64 25 January 2012 at 4:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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Although this might not be too important Russia will be the host of the next winter Olympics which is why I
chose to study it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 62 of 64 25 January 2012 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
Of course they are subjective. They are HER reasons. If we were only to give factual reasons, this would be a short thread, indeed. As for my own situation, my biggest reason to learn was curiosity. Growing up at the end of the cold war, I got a chance in high school to study Russian. I like things that are "different" and this seemed to fit the bill. I did one semester in the fall of '91 when the Baltic Republics broke away. It was an exciting time to study because of the current events. While it has been 20 years since my first and only truly active study of the language, I still manage to remember what I have learned. I am surprised by that given that I was only a beginner at best and I had not done much to preserve it. So I think the language has staying power, and I'll be revisiting it for the May 6WC. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Tarshish Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4696 days ago 13 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English*, Modern Hebrew | Message 63 of 64 25 January 2012 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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As a young child (2-4) I was exposed to a lot of Russian, so much so that were I to have
had any degree of exposure afterwards I probably would have attained a high level in the language. The fact that any basis in Russian was lost is something that gnaws at me now that I am studying languages actively. In any case it is a language that I see myself attempting after Spanish, but I might do some purely technical groundwork on the alphabet in the meanwhile. It is also a language that has a lot of native speakers in cities and countries that I frequent. Definitely a lot of appeal for an English/Hebrew speaker as there are many Israeli Russians who would love to improve their English. Edited by Tarshish on 25 January 2012 at 7:56pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Марк Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5057 days ago 2096 posts - 2972 votes Speaks: Russian* | Message 64 of 64 27 January 2012 at 9:01am | IP Logged | |||||
I know. I was speaking about Slavic languages only. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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