Click!

Last week, my language neurones finally clicked into place.
I started speaking a lot more Russian, and a couple of people independently complimented me on my pronunciation/accent :-)

I put this down to 2 factors:

- I have finally managed to do what I was planning to do for the last 6 months, which was to go through my Russian lessons from the start-ie good old revision. I have been through most of the book that Galina, our teacher, made. It is all quite basic but it relly helped me to start making sentences
-A mud engineer called Ivan knocked on my door one evening for some geo-information; he mentioned that him and Matt (Brettle) used to practise conversation, so I suggested we do the same. Which is what we have been doing, and it also helps because he has been speaking slowly to me

Petroservices found out that we were doing this practice and decided to teach me more Russian too. Unfortunately they always speak too fast, and when I ask them to repeat they repeat the easy word slowly and the bit I didn't get really fast! But it's been fun.

I need to write more now too. Like this message for Galina:

галя, спаснбо за письмо. мне очень приятно. приятно посмотреть зто кино!