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Comments on: What Is In A Name? https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/05/02/what-is-in-a-name-4/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 04 May 2012 03:43:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/05/02/what-is-in-a-name-4/comment-page-1/#comment-59463 Fri, 04 May 2012 02:35:57 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=25244#comment-59463 I had three 37 week courses in the military that involved 30 hours/week in the classroom, and then additional time in the lab listening to tape recorded spoken Russian. After the first six weeks in the second course, no English was spoken, and the entire third course was in Russian.

They broke down as military Russian in the first course, political Russian in the second, and colloquial Russian in the third. It wasn’t until the third course that we were assigned decent Russian literature to read. [A little ‘socialist realism’ and Party propaganda goes a long way towards fostering dislike of the Soviet system if you can think.]

My Cyrillic handwriting is significantly more legible than anything I was ever able to accomplish in English, so I write notes to myself in Russian if I have to be sure of remembering something.

]]> By: jams o donnell https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/05/02/what-is-in-a-name-4/comment-page-1/#comment-59462 Thu, 03 May 2012 13:00:10 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=25244#comment-59462 Вперед!

by coincidence that was the name of our Russian textbook series at school.

Our school was strange in that it offered Russian as the second language.In the second year of Secondary school the top 8 in the year (100 students per year at my school) were selected to study ancient Greek, the next 25 were allocated to Russian and the rest did metalwork.

I took Russian until O level standard (10th Grade?). I wish I had taken it at A level.

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