Dasha and I went through more of the cases of the nouns. It was quite fun to find the structure of the Russian language – what means this, that and why something is how it is. I hadn’t read any long texts or didn’t know that many words, but still I could understand how Russian works. That’s how amazing my teacher is. I think I will study the cases again at some point, perhaps more properly, eventually. It’s kind of funny that in a way I know how the language is like but on the other hand I don’t.
Also, sometimes it was fun to notice that when Dasha didn’t have the words to explain something, I could guess what she meant – and I guessed it right. Sometimes I could make up examples in English, and she translated them in Russia.
She had brought the cutest old fairytale book with her, and in the end of our meeting I tried to read the story of the Snow queen. My reading was slow, and Dasha had to correct my pronunciation quite a lot, but still it was fun and it went better than I expected.
Some words are just incredibly hard to say. Apparently I just can’t find the sounds from my mouth, and if I manage to make a correct sound, it feels weird. But hopefully I’ll get used to speaking this magical language called Russian.
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