Learning Russian... I have found it to alright. There are some sounds which are a little tricky, I wish I could show you what the letters looked like. The ones that I most struggle with (english equivalents) zh, sh and sh. Mostly it is just unfamiliar.
At my last lesson I was asking for random vocabulary words and then I ahd a brain wave and I asked for the words for HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES and TOES.... then I sang it for her in Russian, she had a good laugh and then sang with me!
She is now taking a break for the summer, though she said if I really needed more lessons she could do it. I also took some time to ask her how she did with learning English when she came to North America, now 15 years ago. She said that the 1st year was the toughest but it was at the end of her first year that she remembers dreaming in English, as it surprised her.
It was encouraging to talk to her about those aspects as I am finding it difficult thinking about the fact that this is the language I will have to master in order to communicate! Before this my experiences with other languages were all short term but this one won't be!!
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