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Learning How To Speak Russian
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Couch surfing
is for us
A few months ago we discovered a gentleman by the name of
Ritch Hammond who is an ex-British army man who worked as a
translator on the trains travelling across Russia up until
about 12 years ago.
We had agreed to meet up months ago but what with one thing
and another it never happened until today. Ritch
arrived out of the blue this morning. It was great to
meet him. He had lots of information for us which was
fascinating to hear. He is going to help me learn
Russian. I've been trying very hard with the language
for the past couple of months using CD's. However I'm
sure lots of my pronunciations need working on. In
fact, if a Russian heard me speak their language then I
don't think they would understand a word that came out of my
mouth. As an example, I thought the Russian word for
train was pronounced as "voyust" but it turns out it
is "poyust". I didn't discover this for several
weeks after I began learning the language from the CD.
And it is one of the main words we will need to know on our
train adventures.
But now, with Ritch on the scene, my language learning
abilities will sky-rocket (I hope).
Ritch will contact us again shortly and will bring around
some gear to help us learn.
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Booking our tickets to Russia
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