Thread: What is the main reason that you are studying Russian?

Originally Posted by Misnomer

нет, наверно в плане что русский язык -засада , так схватит что не выберешься. Ну то есть засасывает другими словами.

Да, но, может быть, дело даже не в языке, но в русской культуре, в людях.

Originally Posted by Dimitri

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Засадный - is slang and means good, interesting

между прочим, посмотри телек, идёт засадная передача

No..

засада - it's ambush

And when you say "засада" about something (it's like slang) it's meaning like "to be ambushed" => something very hard, unpleasant

"засадный" - people don't say this way.. but it's possible to understand

I hope I was explain it understandably

Well tell that to my book of Russian Slang & Colloquial Expressions

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Well tell that to my book of Russian Slang & Colloquial Expressions :)

If I were you, I'd burn that book :)

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Originally Posted by "kalinka_vinnie":20ggxodl

Well tell that to my book of Russian Slang & Colloquial Expressions

If I were you, I'd burn that book [/quote:20ggxodl]

Almost the same was what I heard from one of the Americans about English phrasal books.

That's why I dont read them :)

Thought it was a pretty language and started out trying to learn it for background to a novel I'm writing. Then I decided that it would be interesting to figure out what my Russian friends were talking about and things sort of went from there. Still quite the beginner though.

Originally Posted by BlackMage

Other: I love vodka.

Also, the American education system put a gun to my head and told me to study it.

What other languages were you offered in high school? (I'm assuming you're talking about high school, because university wouldn't force you to take something outside of your program).

We are only offered French and Italian here.

yeah.

I said "other" because a bunch of the reasons apply to me. I really like learning other languages, but had no plans to learn Russian until I met my boyfriend! He's Russian and hearing him speak it with his family all the time made me interested. So now I take it at school and I love it! (Although I'm still REALLY bad at it... )

Originally Posted by love.angel

What other languages were you offered in high school? (I'm assuming you're talking about high school, because university wouldn't force you to take something outside of your program).

We are only offered French and Italian here.

Spanish, French, Japanese, German.

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Well tell that to my book of Russian Slang & Colloquial Expressions

I have the Dictionary of Russian Obscenities. (Copyright 1987)

Originally Posted by Kimberloo

I said "other" because a bunch of the reasons apply to me. I really like learning other languages, but had no plans to learn Russian until I met my boyfriend! He's Russian and hearing him speak it with his family all the time made me interested. So now I take it at school and I love it! (Although I'm still REALLY bad at it... )

This was basically my reason too. Met this Ukrainian computer geek\film sputtering inventor dude who said that if I wanted to understand him I'd have to learn Russian. So I thought I'd try.

ANyway, I know I blew it with him, but I'm still interested in the language. Who knows, I just may meet another Ukrainian geek who pushes all my buttons the way Pavel did.....sigh

Originally Posted by jimita

Who knows, I just may meet another Ukrainian geek who pushes all my buttons the way Pavel did.....sigh

Are you a computer or a robot? We geeks can only push those kinds of buttons.

Originally Posted by BlackMage

Originally Posted by jimita

Who knows, I just may meet another Ukrainian geek who pushes all my buttons the way Pavel did.....sigh

Are you a computer or a robot? We geeks can only push those kinds of buttons.

Ukrainian geeks are not quite like American geeks, blackster!

Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie

Ukrainian geeks are not quite like American geeks, blackster!

The difference is in the buttons, rather than the geeks.

Originally Posted by BlackMage

Originally Posted by jimita

Who knows, I just may meet another Ukrainian geek who pushes all my buttons the way Pavel did.....sigh

Are you a computer or a robot? We geeks can only push those kinds of buttons.

Well he did sort of make me totally nuts and this was not a good thing...and I am not a robot or computer, just your basic divorced librarian book slut sort of person who has a thing not only for accents but also certain kinds of book learning....

I didn't see a voting option for "I want to import my Russian brides with less difficulty." Hmm...that's an oversight on your part, MasterAdmin...

Originally Posted by Barmaley

I didn't see a voting option for "I want to import my Russian brides with less difficulty." Hmm...that's an oversight on your part, MasterAdmin...

How about "other (explain)" option?

I have been learning Russian over than 20 years and I find it very interesting. If I didn't know Russian, I wouldn't interact and communicate with my Pals!!! They know nothing but Russian and this is an obstacle in improving my English!!! But this fomum give me one of the general oportunities of practicing in English!!! I like it very much!!!

Originally Posted by Chuvak

I have been learning Russian over 20 years and I find it very interesting. If I didn't know Russian, I wouldn't interact and communicate with my Pals!!! They know nothing but Russian and this is an obstacle in improving my English!!! But this forum gives me one of the [general](надо заменить "general" другим словом, здесь не имеет смысл oportunities to practice in English!!! I like it very much!!!

Ты очень хорошо говоришь по-английски.