Jon ([info]jbmurray) wrote,
@ 2005-07-29 14:04:00
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I think it was [info]besskeloid who put me on to [info]real_funny_lady, who posts cool photos and pictures on a regular basis.

Do you think that by reading comments such as the ones in response to this entry, I'll be able to learn Russian?

I take it for instance that "Класс!!!" is a signal of approbation. And what's the betting that "великолепно" means "beautiful"?

I remember Fred Jameson reporting TS Eliot's opinion that the best way to learn a foreign language was to read its poetry (without a dictionary, natch).

Hmmm.



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[info]besskeloid
2005-07-29 09:24 pm UTC (link)
I'm not an elkoid. Anyway, glad to have got you browsing her.

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[info]jbmurray
2005-07-29 09:28 pm UTC (link)
Sorry. Fixed.

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[info]hoiho
2005-07-30 10:29 am UTC (link)
the best way to learn a foreign language was to read its poetry

Hmm, I'm less than convinced, given that I'm moderately fluent in French, yet I've been struggling mightily with parallel texts of Lamartine, Hugo, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbeaud and Mallarmé for the past few months. I'm really enjoying it, however.

But then, I'm no poet.

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