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Man, you sound just like Pushkin!

That was an old-fashoned way of constructing a sentence. A modern way would be 1-2-7-3-5-6-4.

These days I am only good in English and Russian. I used to know German quite well, and a bit of Italian, but have not done any practice and they lie there rusting. I can still jump start myself on German, and have done that when traveling there, but I don't use it normally.

The Russian culture is incredibly rich, rivaling those of France, Germany, England, Italy, but it is younger of course. I never lost my love for it - I feel sorry for come Russian immigrants who leave such a beautiful culture behind.

The Italian language is incredibly fascinating to me - I just love its music - that is linked or course to my love for Italian opera. Never studied French.

Russian language is tremendously difficult for an English-speaking individual, with some sounds completely impossible - I guess this is our payback to them for making jokes about our accent. There is no American who can pronounce the simple things like Tanya right. They all say Tan'ya. There are other difficult spots. The Russian grammar is real torture, with rules that read like whole chapters from Britanica - you can't learn it by the textbook, when each rule breaks up into twenty sub-rules, all with exceptions.




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