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gnomewithalaptop · 1 month ago

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i'm curious - what inspired you to study russian?

Short answer? I was Hella bored during quarantine senior year of high school

Longer answer is that Covid hit while I was Deep into the Star Trek hyperfixation, and about midway through reading a Spirk fic, the author abruptly pivoted into a Chekov-focused side plot that involved a LOT of transliterated Russian

So, as bored teenagers are wont to do, I downloaded Duolingo and spent the next three months learning the alphabet and a couple dozen basic words and phrases. Fast forward to four and a half years later and now I'm a quarter way through a Russian language post-grad program ✌️

#the more boring answer is that my russian prof peer pressured me into signing a contract #that i'd be a russian major in exchange for scholarship money #and then i was locked in for the next four years unless i wanted to back out and pay them back the money i'd already accepted #but that's less fun -- though it does have the nice side effect of my post-grad program being fully paid for #seriously tho thank you for the ask <3 hope all is well with you #i'm excited to see how that natasha romanov fic you're working on turns out!#asks #beloved mutuals #ladybirdbeewrites #school talk

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