meen-ya zuh-voot erica. ah tebyah?

[schmerica]

RUSSIAN <3 <3 <3.

(lyra_sena is not online, so I feel okay about using those fake hearts with abandon. Woot! I run wild!)

This week we started learning verbs. And new cases! And apparently now adverbs as well!

Conjugations and declensions and eeeeeee! Seriously, you should not underestimate my geekiness here. I am incredibly damn excited.

I really do need to get a phone post some time, just to show off to you all me trying to say "Hi, my name is Erica!" and "I live in America!" and "That's my window!" and "What are you doing?" If I knew how to do the transliteration or type in Cyrillic I would show off anyway, but alas.

WHEE, Russian. *sighs happily* Now for an afternoon of Russian workbook, season two Buffy and Coca-Cola. Life is good.

Comments

[thelatinist.livejournal.com]

*would never underestimate your geekiness*

I LOVE language. As a Latin and Greek teacher I can totally understand being excited about new cases. Just wait until you get whole new tenses and moods. Oh, and voices! *grins*

You can always use character map to insert cyrillic characters, though that can be tedious. Windows will let you change your keyboard layout. Read more about it here (http://zsigri.tripod.com/fontboard/cyrinst.html).

If you have a Mac there are also ways...I just don't know them.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm, grammar...

[thelatinist.livejournal.com]

Hey, I used to diagram sentences for fun. Oooh! that's what I'll do this evening!

[melo-l.livejournal.com]

меня зовут мело и я живу в париже. как дела?

Russian is just such the greatest language. *g*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Хорошо, спасибо! Меня зовут Эрика и я живу в Америке.

[mamajoan.livejournal.com]

hee hee! I took a year of Russian in high school and now the only sentences I remember how to say are "I don't understand Russian," "Your brother is a hedgehog," and "where are the nuclear vessels?" :)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hee. I have no idea how to say any of those but the first.

[shayheyred.livejournal.com]

There's a really, really fun website called "Free Online Translation at http://translation.paralink.com/ that I used when I wrote my Man From UNCLE epic to translate between english and russian.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh. But the showing off aspect gets kind of knocked down when I have to translate it from English on the internet to be able to show people, doesn't it? Still, that is nifty.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

meen-ya zuh-voot erica. ah tebyah

Wah for my not having Russian drivers on the computer at work. Stupid admin restrictions. *growls*

Menya zovut neekol. Ochen priyatna, erica.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Ochen priyatna, neekol!

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Сейчас я в доме. Где вы изучаете?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grins* Dude, this is the first week we're on verbs -- I know like ten of them. I seriously had to go look up the one you used.

Я изучаю в универцитетe, Эвергрин (www.evergreen.edu).

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, it's been a little while since I've studied (it's all slowly draining out of my brain, wah!), but I did so for quite a few years, so if you ever want to chat, lemme know. :-D

Я изучала в Джорджа Вашингтона (http://www.gwu.edu).

[hobbledehoy.livejournal.com]

(hop hop hop)

and *we* are on for thursday, but the siderick has class on thursday evening.

also http://www.sonofthemask.com/ unfortunately, for the alan factor. not for the alan factory, though. also unfortunately. (oh, and ben stein. i hate the world who puts these people in this movie)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

yay Thursday! But eeck for maskness. Hmmph.

(I have no alan icons left. I am too cheap to rebuy my icon space, alas.)

[cislocative.livejournal.com]

oh buddy. you only wish that you were here, taking Gothic with Colette this semester. SO much fun. so much linguistic dorkiness. it's great.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

dude, I always wish I was back at SRC. You don't have to rub it in.

[norah.livejournal.com]

U nast yest ALTERNATIVE HEART METHODOLOGY!!! & hearts ; without spaces is html for I ♥ you.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but they don't have the same do-it-yourself charm, you know? Or, uh, something.

[tanyasrc.livejournal.com]

Hi! I was wondering around ppl's ljs and found yours. I saw that you already figured out how to use cyrillic, but here is also a good website: http://translit.ru/
You just type stuff in english letters and it will give out stuff in Russian:
like you type "Privet" and it converts it into "Привет".
By the way, меня зовут Таня. Я из России, но я учусь в Америке в Бард колледже :)