Sup fuckers! :honk:

Hope you practiced today! I've been busy with other things but I'm about to get to it. Gonna go buy a burrito and listen to Language Transfer in the car on the way there/back and then maybe do some duo-lingo lessons. I don't know, not every day has to be an hour plus, right?

Is daily too frequent? Not frequent enough? We could make this a weekly thread like they have in some other communities, but we gotta get HYPED for the first week at least I think.

We've had really positive engagement so far. Maybe we can get one of these posts featured/cross-posted to main, let other comrades know what we're up to. I dunno, we'll feel it out as we go!

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      Cool. Are you doing it informally, or are you in a school program? I think we've had some interactions on here before, but maybe not about Russian.

      • RNAi [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        nah just duolingo and re-starting it by twelfth time

        • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          I learned a lot as a young student, and then dropped it completely for probably 15 years on the advice of my Russian friend that I now (ironically) speak to weekly in Russian.

          I got back into it using Mango Languages through my library. I'm actually making more progress than ever. I'm sure my brain worked better as a kid, but I'm better at studying now. I understand my motivation better too. A native friend of mine put something on Facebook about the importance of keeping your ancestral language, and I realized I really did crave that connection with my past relatives.

          • RNAi [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            keeping your ancestral language

            My family do has an ancestral language that my grandparents spoke daily basis, my parents understood it, but never passed to us. Now the language is dead-ish worldwide. It's really frustrating cuz I would had love to be native bilingual, but now no matter how hard I try it wouldn't be native to me and it's pointless anyways.

            • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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              4 years ago

              You're teasing me. I want to know the language, but don't want you to dox yourself. I'll just pretend your grandparents were speaking Latin for some reason.

              • RNAi [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                I wish, that way I could at least summon demons, but this stupid language only allows you to get in heated discussions with really old fr*dos.

      • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]
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        4 years ago

        Oh how it fills the cockles of my heart with joy to see the daily threads making connections. :Care-Comrade:

        Congratulations Rod, you're on the peer pressure ping list for tomorrow! (if Rnai gets back to you he's on it too!)

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I talk with a native speaker friend of mine once a week. This week we'll be discussing this video:

      https://youtu.be/OPGDvd3HAKE

      I don't understand every word of it, but I think I caught all of the jokes.