Russian Language "Click"
Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 5:12PM 
I seem to have “language spurts” the way children have growth spurts, and am in one right now. Because Russian words are so different from English, sometimes when I try to learn them, they just won’t “stick”. It can be frustrating. However, for the first time ever, suddenly words I have obviously heard, but don’t actually know have been coming to my mind. Yesterday I arrived home thirsty from the transitional home, went to the kitchen for a glass of water and the word “zhazhdooshee” popped into my head.
From time to time, as a child does, I repeat words because I like the way the sound. I started doing that with this word, “zhazhdooshee”. I poured my water, then, wondering what the word actually meant, looked it up in the dictionary. You could have knocked me over with a feather – the word was “thirsty”. I had no idea! (If you’re wondering how I could possibly live in a country for 6 years and not know the word for “thirsty”, when you’re thirsty here, you say, “I want to drink.”) This has happened to me many times over the last several days – words I don’t ever remember hearing suddenly pop into my head at the right time. It’s very exciting!
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