почему я изучаю русский язык?

привет друзья! мои друзья часто спрашивают меня, почему я изучаю русский язык? ...

OK enough now! In case you wonder your monitor's gone nuts looking at the above text, your monitor is working fine, and you dont have to adjust the character encoding for your browser! That funny-looking stuff is in Russian, and here's the translation: "Hello friends! My friends often ask me why I am studying Russian?...".

The reasons are:

- Russian is waaaay cooler than any other foreign languages I know.

- Learning Russian is very challenging. (Believe me!)


Yesterday, I was looking at the back-cover of my text book, and Voila! there was a "Top 10 Reasons for Studying Russian". And according to the first law of blogging, I can certainly write a blog entry on this!

So, with all apologies to the Editor of the book "Live from Moscow" (and Dave Letterman), I am reproducing those reasons here.

давайте... ( ~ let's go )

10. The alphabet is the hardest part. Really.

9. Those funny-shaped letters make great tattoos.

8. Big Brother would want it that way.

7. Dostoyevsky makes for good light summer reading.

6. Russian has 75% fewer calories than the leading foreign languages.

5. Learn the meaning behind those little wooden dolls.

4. Understanding Russian grammar is guaranteed entry into the "Mensa" society.

3. The word for "hello" has 13 letters.

2. Knowing two alphabets increases your brain capacity.

1. The book is cool.


что Вы думаете?! ;) (What do you think?!)