The language I am fondest of is Russian.

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Англоязычный журналист о русском языке (и о некоторых других тоже). Забавно.  
Утверждает, что   "Ten years on various continents have given me fluency, more or less, in Spanish, French, Russian and Hebrew (though most of them I didn’t start from scratch), plus a working knowledge of spoken Arabic and Portuguese." 
Опыт подсказывает, что разные люди очень по-разному понимают fluency. Хотелось бы, конечно,  полиглота этого разъяснить,  по крайней мере в части русского.  
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10943973&pub=010408&fsrc=RSS#top

 

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Re: Don't shoot...

[(Anonymous)]

I wish I could take the credit for that great article, but, alas, I just wrote a couple of comments in the blog...

As to the hidden meaning of the saying "poliglota raz'jasnit'" - I am drawing blanks here. Let this be something for me to wonder about.

My sincere compliments on your LJ pages - the quality is quite above the average!

Best,

NS