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russian!
yay, i got a summer FLAS, long after the deadline (ssh!), so i'll be here in (blazing-hot) central virginia studying russian for six hours a day all summer (well, eight weeks). twelve undergraduate credits, which i don't need, and two years' worth of russian, 75% of which i've had before, but (a) i've lost most of it and (b) stipend, so why fight it?
still hope to hit Nimbus in july (before the russian is finished) and the stratford festival in august (afterward).
have just tried to write out a sentence in cyrillic script. in english, i print -- i print fast, and things run together a lot, but it's not writing, to people who make the distinction between writing and printing-by-hand. i barely write my signature. when i started taking russian in college, we were by turns discouraged and outright forbidden from printing in cyrillic, so it wasn't long before cyrillic=writing had transposed in my head to writing=cyrillic. if i tried to write an english sentence in cursive, russian letters would come out of my pen. this was fine, since i never needed to write cursive in english; it kept things neatly sorted in my poor right-brained little mind.
but now, dude, i'm trying to write in russian, and nutty things are happening. the letters are looking like the cyrillic alphabet having an identity crisis. if, as was the case in my english school, points are taken off for having too many things crossed out? i'm going down, man.
(the sentence, for those of you who care -- [waves to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sithdragn!] -- was one of darthrami's favorites: ya ochen' lyublyu govorit' po-russkiy, a ya nikogda nye znayu shto skazat', which looks ridiculous in the roman alphabet; 'i really like to speak russian, but i never know what to say'.)
will dig out old textbook and try to learn case endings ahead of time, so they don't run me off the rails when i hit them in june.
still hope to hit Nimbus in july (before the russian is finished) and the stratford festival in august (afterward).
have just tried to write out a sentence in cyrillic script. in english, i print -- i print fast, and things run together a lot, but it's not writing, to people who make the distinction between writing and printing-by-hand. i barely write my signature. when i started taking russian in college, we were by turns discouraged and outright forbidden from printing in cyrillic, so it wasn't long before cyrillic=writing had transposed in my head to writing=cyrillic. if i tried to write an english sentence in cursive, russian letters would come out of my pen. this was fine, since i never needed to write cursive in english; it kept things neatly sorted in my poor right-brained little mind.
but now, dude, i'm trying to write in russian, and nutty things are happening. the letters are looking like the cyrillic alphabet having an identity crisis. if, as was the case in my english school, points are taken off for having too many things crossed out? i'm going down, man.
(the sentence, for those of you who care -- [waves to
sithdragn!] -- was one of darthrami's favorites: ya ochen' lyublyu govorit' po-russkiy, a ya nikogda nye znayu shto skazat', which looks ridiculous in the roman alphabet; 'i really like to speak russian, but i never know what to say'.)will dig out old textbook and try to learn case endings ahead of time, so they don't run me off the rails when i hit them in june.