Quote Originally Posted by jimita
Believe it or not, I came to this forum because I wanted to learn something. Perhaps my initial motivation was not the purest, but over the last 2 months I became genuinely interested in the language and felt a need to rise to the challenge. I am a single parent with a full time job, a diabetic child with ADHD, a mortgage, and health issues of my own to deal with. Obviously, the time I have available to devote to learning a difficult language is limited.

I did not come here to be harassed by a juvenile misogynist who is convinced of nothing so much as his supposed infallibility. Do not think I will be driven away.

We are, after all, allegedly civilized people and really, isn't life too short to spend it bickering? I would hope that those who find my posts offensive or irrelevant simply elect to ignore me, and I will attempt likewise. The high road is always preferable.

As my knowledge of the language increases, so will my relevancy. Because of this site, I have gone from knowing nothing about Russian at all to being able to sound out words. To be sure, not a huge accomplishiment, but given my time restraints and other limitations, I dont think that is too bad. As a librarian, nothing bugs me so much as being functionally illiterate.

D'accord?
~j~


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