=)

i was just wondering... is it easier for you to express your thoughts in English?

what is your native language?

BuTToN

Мой родной язык русский! Любимый мой, любимый! Вот только факт моего семилетнего проживание "заграницей" обамериканил меня. Русский забывать начинаю... Мне этого совсем не хочется. Года 3 назад я и ни думала, что до такого могу дойти. А вот оно...приближается.

Я уже приближаюсь к тому что мне почти нет разницы на каком языке излагать мои мысли. Думать на английском я начала, когда прожила тут года 2-3. Сначала у меня от этого был шок и я не могла понять, что происходит!

Всё же русский мой родной язык и забывать я его совсем не собираюсь. Стараюсь читать по русски. (читать я очень люблю, а книги в основном на инглише.) Как попадётся книга на русском, так я потом хожу, как просвящённая, и в мозгах крутятся выражания, слова интересные. Так приятно, приятно... Такое чувство принадлежности к моей родине...

Вот. Высказалась.



P.S. As for all my blabber stories in English, that's from my class (obviously we do everything in English there ).



P.P.S. One more thing: I don't like talking in English (because I have an accent). Usually if a Russian talks to me in English, I answer in Russian. But that started to change recently, like for the past two years. I start speaking English to my Russian-speaking friends. (Bad, bad!) Usually it's not even pure English but what we call Rusglish, which is a combination of both languages and russification of American words and phrases. It's really funny when you listen closely to this kind of talk!!

you know what?

when I was studying in America, everybody told me that I have a cute French accent )))

that's funny! why French?

nuriya



I guess my pronunciation was kinda... soft and French

I'm always laughing at those silly American movies with Russian characters. They think that Russian language is very rough, which is totally untrue)))

BuTToN

I see. I should ask what my accent sounds like. Wonder what I would get as an answer.

I'm always laughing at those silly American movies with Russian characters (oj, my sister "loves" those movies, too!)

nuriya



how often do you visit Russia?

BuTToN

ещё ни разу...

My dad and I are planning to go this spring. (we were actually planning for the past summer...but, you know, money issue comes in)

nuriya



=)))

my family is living in the USA too

I'm gonna move there when I finish studying )

BuTToN

really? wow, that's cool! How did your family come here. We came throught the Christian (Lutheran) organization for refugees.

What are you studying? Does it have to be done in Russia? (wait, do you live in Russia or somewhere else? now, I'm getting a little confused here...)

And another question: where does your family live, what state?

Personally, I think that Russian is a very rough language, especially when you compare it to Spanish or Italian or French.

Leilani

It might be rough, but I love it nonetheless. I love it as it is just because God gave it to me as my native language.

hm...Italian...another beautifull language...

I consider Spanish and Russian in the same roughness area somehow.

And what do you mean by "rough". Is it just the sound of it, without understanding the words, or the words themselves...

nuriya oh no, Spanish is a melody, compared to Russian.



And what do you mean by "rough".

You know how some people go "ouch!" when they hear German, well, that's what I mean by rough. And even for me, a native speaker, when I watch russian movies, the language just doesn't flow, it's choppy.

Leilani

ohh, that's what you mean. I don't agree with you completely on your last statement. But we'll leave it at that.

As for Spanish, it is melodic. The roughness I referred to in it was all the "rrr's" and how they say it that gets my attention. But I love it, I really do. The other day I was watching new in Spanish. I was laughing, it was crazy. I actually could catch some words that, I think, I got. I love how Spanish people talk. They are so fast!

But Italian, to me personally sounds more pleasant, there is more melody in it, in the intonation. It's basically the same as Spanish, but the Italian intonation just gets me.

nuriya yup, people are entitled to their opinions.

But I don't think it's a stereotype that some people consider russian to be rough...I think, in a way, it also has to do with biology, difference in hearing.



As far as Spanish, I think Cubans speak the best...they enunciate each word so perfectly. As opposed to Puerto Ricans, who tend to slur the words and pronounce "r" as an "l".

Leilani difference in hearing - absolutely.

don't know the details and dialects of Spanish, but I love the "r's" to really roll. (that's all I know )

nuriya



so many questions)))

well, my family moved there a long, long time ago. my parents got devorced and my dad moved back to Moscow. right now i'm living with my grandma, just because she is getting old and she needs some support. my mother and aunt... they live together in San Franciso, CA. they've got one of these little cute houses right next to the ocean side. i've finished high school in the US. and now i'm a junior student at Moscow Academy for Tourism and Hotel Catering Businesses )))

BuTToN

Wow!

thanx for the explanation!

So you are going to move to CA once you're done with schooling, right?

I live in WA but I know someone here who lives in SF))

nuriya



I guess that it's better to move to CA...

but I'm not sure that I can spend the rest of my life there...))