The pace of my baby/pigeon Russian lessons has slowed because we've pretty much got the basics covered (i.e. bottle, milk, sleep, awake, feed, what time, finish, how many...). However, here and there I still get a few new words in.
I find that my brain still does not retain much and I still feel so frustrated at not being able to have detailed conversations with the nanny. Or with anyone for that matter. Once again, reminded of how lucky I am that the nanny is SO patient with me, because we really do end up "saying" quite a bit to each other each week.
January 11
February 28
March 6 - this turned out to be the day of body parts!
March 19
Can't believe it took this long for us to need the word for "cry."
March 27
March 28
I find that my brain still does not retain much and I still feel so frustrated at not being able to have detailed conversations with the nanny. Or with anyone for that matter. Once again, reminded of how lucky I am that the nanny is SO patient with me, because we really do end up "saying" quite a bit to each other each week.
January 11
- turtle -- черепаха ("cheddy-PA-ha"); I love this one. :)
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| a picture is worth a thousand words |
- dancing -- танцы ("tahn-tzay"); to explain what I do at my weekly Zumba classes
February 28
- bib -- фартук ("FAR-took"); this apparently really means "apron," but R always calls the bib a fartook so...fartook it is! This is another one of my favorites. :)
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| fartook :) |
March 6 - this turned out to be the day of body parts!
- ear/ears -- ухо / ушки ("OOSHay"/ "OOSHkey")
- nose -- нос ("nauss"); wow, how easy-peasy!
- cheek/cheeks -- щека / щеки ("SHAYka" / "shaykey")
March 19
- slippery -- скользкий ("skolskey"); it snowed (late MARCH!) so the sidewalks were slippery. And we tried to talk about it.
- to cry -- плакать ("plakat")
- he cried -- он плакал ("ohn plakal")
Can't believe it took this long for us to need the word for "cry."
March 27
- take a walk -- погулять ("pagoo-LAI-yet"); for my Siena.
- feel happy -- хорошее настроение ("haROshay nastraiYEN-eh"); when I put this into Google Translate it came back with "good mood" so that was interesting.
- holiday -- праздник ("prads-zNEEK") or выходной день ("veeHAUD-noy deeyen" which is actually "day off").
- class/lesson -- урок ("oo-ROCK") or занятие ("zan-YAT-yee-eh")
March 28
- refrigerator -- холодильник ("hollow-DEE-nick")
- Monday -- понедельник ("pahn-ee-DEL-nick") strangely and confusingly similar to the word for fridge when a Russian-speaker says it.
- week -- неделя ("neh-DEL-yah")
Love two of these in particular--the fact that it took that long to have to talk about crying, and the fact that Monday and fridge are so close. Made me chuckle--thanks!!
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