I hope it'll help you to know that: people with Russian accents sound SO damned cool to native English speakers. If they look at you oddly, it's probably because they think yer cooler than they could ever be... and freaking sexy (metaphorically... AND, perhaps, literally--Russian accents have a certain charm, you know!)
I studied Russian for about five years--and from the beginning, practically, it struck me that RUSSIAN IS A MUCH MORE LOGICAL LANGUAGE than English! And I realized that I would HATE to have to learn English, were I Russian! This damned language of ours is beautiful, in its way, but ridiculous and overly idiomatic--look at these words, how we have to spell them! It's ridiculous: one example out of a million: the word "motion." Were I an ESL speaker, I'd read it "Mo-tee-on." Because THAT makes sense--and English, mostly, DOESN'T make sense.
Should I get started on articles (a, an, and the), I'd be writing yet longer--a full-fledged essay. Suffice it to say: ARTICLES ARE ILLOGICAL, and serve NO PURPOSE except to differentiate native speakers from second-language speakers...
What kind of creative writing? You guys--wit yer Pushkin, yer Gogol, yer Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn--you're brilliant! Even our greatest of the last century--Nabokov--is actually yours! And your accents are freaking awesome! I recommend flaunting it.
Self-conciouss about my English
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I hope it'll help you to know that: people with Russian accents sound SO damned cool to native English speakers. If they look at you oddly, it's probably because they think yer cooler than they could ever be... and freaking sexy (metaphorically... AND, perhaps, literally--Russian accents have a certain charm, you know!)
I studied Russian for about five years--and from the beginning, practically, it struck me that RUSSIAN IS A MUCH MORE LOGICAL LANGUAGE than English! And I realized that I would HATE to have to learn English, were I Russian! This damned language of ours is beautiful, in its way, but ridiculous and overly idiomatic--look at these words, how we have to spell them! It's ridiculous: one example out of a million: the word "motion." Were I an ESL speaker, I'd read it "Mo-tee-on." Because THAT makes sense--and English, mostly, DOESN'T make sense.
Should I get started on articles (a, an, and the), I'd be writing yet longer--a full-fledged essay. Suffice it to say: ARTICLES ARE ILLOGICAL, and serve NO PURPOSE except to differentiate native speakers from second-language speakers...
What kind of creative writing? You guys--wit yer Pushkin, yer Gogol, yer Dostoyevsky and Solzhenitsyn--you're brilliant! Even our greatest of the last century--Nabokov--is actually yours! And your accents are freaking awesome! I recommend flaunting it.