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darchildreIn which there is a ridiculous chain of events:
So, I have been watching the Russian Sherlock Holmes, right? And occasionally, there are words I can pick out from that time five years ago when I was trying to learn Russian. (They are all on the level of "excuse me" and "good morning," which is about all I have retained, sadly. Well, that and "I would like tea, please".) This has made me remember how much fun I had while I was trying to learn Russian and inspired me to try again. So I spent some time today browsing Russian books on amazon, trying to find some simple Frog-and-Toad level books in Russian because such a thing would be a nice supplement to textbooks. Along with books like that, I also found The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in Russian for the kindle. (Well, English-and-Russian, though sadly not side-by-side.) It was only 99 cents and would be a fun thing to work towards, so I bought it. Anyway, it was thematically appropriate.
Which led to me sitting in my car on my break between Kingston and Bainbridge, slowly and laboriously sounding out the Russian version of Silver Blaze. I have no idea what any of it said, except insofar as I know the original story, and I was probably mispronouncing things horribly, but I found it oddly satisfying. And now I know how to spell "Sherlock Holmes", "Watson", and "King's Pyland" in Russian.
So, I have been watching the Russian Sherlock Holmes, right? And occasionally, there are words I can pick out from that time five years ago when I was trying to learn Russian. (They are all on the level of "excuse me" and "good morning," which is about all I have retained, sadly. Well, that and "I would like tea, please".) This has made me remember how much fun I had while I was trying to learn Russian and inspired me to try again. So I spent some time today browsing Russian books on amazon, trying to find some simple Frog-and-Toad level books in Russian because such a thing would be a nice supplement to textbooks. Along with books like that, I also found The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in Russian for the kindle. (Well, English-and-Russian, though sadly not side-by-side.) It was only 99 cents and would be a fun thing to work towards, so I bought it. Anyway, it was thematically appropriate.
Which led to me sitting in my car on my break between Kingston and Bainbridge, slowly and laboriously sounding out the Russian version of Silver Blaze. I have no idea what any of it said, except insofar as I know the original story, and I was probably mispronouncing things horribly, but I found it oddly satisfying. And now I know how to spell "Sherlock Holmes", "Watson", and "King's Pyland" in Russian.
