Russian Lessons

A day at Mary's Russian language and Ukrainian culture school:

Wake up and have an amazing breakfast prepared by a wonderful grandma. Practice telling the grandma how amazing the cooking is and various food related words. (Very important.)

One person puts the food away and washes the dishes while everyone sits at the table conjugating verbs. It is very fun. The verbs will be used later in the day; you had better remember them!

Peak in the fridge and realize that there is no more персик juice. Better run to the store! If you can remember the word for ice cream you can get that too. Or just say что это and point and someone will tell you how to say it. 

On the bus practice reading advertisements. 

As you are out and about, Mary will suddenly say "What is that word?!" and you get to read a word you will understand. Or she will say "Listen!" and you get to hear a phase you know. Or she will repeat a phase and wait for comprehension. 

The ladies in the bazaar love to talk to you, so buying things is very necessary for language development. You can make lots of friends! They might even say you are so pretty they thought you were Ukrainian. 

The afternoon is the time for advanced Russian lessons. If you are less advanced you can attend however and get a jump start. This is important as Mary has a Seven Time rule. You need to be able to remember and use something after the seventh time she has taught it to you. Fortunately Mary's genius students learn by the third or fourth time so she rarely has to go to extreme measures. These usually involve object lessons that are calculated to make an impression, involving headscarves, cucumbers, and more. 

In the evening are Grant's lessons. They are funny to listen to because people get giggly at night and Grant has a funny vocabulary. Things like любимые другs, would you like to be stung by a bee, and things related to traps. 

Mary will stay to all hours if people want to learn Russian. So your dreams will even be filled with Russian.