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electric_blue68

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62. That's funny being told your various language speakings sound like with this accent, or that accent....

Sat May 31, 2025, 10:15 PM

May 31

South Africa?! Hahahahaha!

Oh, your Russian speaking- that's hilarious!
And also being someone with initiative.

Back in '66 - '67 when I was in JHS in NYC my school was only one of four that taught Russian, along with the standard French and Spanish. We had had a French teacher in our gifted 5th & 6th grades. But I didn't like her, so I didn't want to take French; which was too bad bc I ended up visiting Paris decades later during a gifted vacation to my relatives in a small westerm Swiss village. My uncle said he still spoke French with an American accent. Ha, I couldn't tell!

I had no interest in Spanish. So Russian it was. I also thought (though I didn't quite yet know about the bad feelings between Ukrainians and Soviet Russians) it'd interesting to talk to my 1st Gen Ukrainian-American dad in Russian bc I did know they were similar. He talked to his dad in Ukrainian.

I did quite well! Got an 85, and as you well know a totally different alphabet, and m, f, and n. Unfortunately, while my local HS had it, the specialized Music and Art HS I was going to didn't. Thus I slogged through Spanish. I think my Spanish spoke with a ?Castillan accent? The "th"?

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