The way, I use English
Posted on Среда, Июль 21st, 2010 at 00:58Till learnig in school, I get poor marks on English lessons, and didn’t think of it, like a big part of my life (I didn’t like to learn ever, but all learned, so I did). At the end of the school life, I sudenly wrote a litle poem in English, an I thought: «Wow, I’m using English preaty well, aren’t I ?».
At that time I loved to play HoMM III, and realy wanted to play with someone real (not just computer), but there were no good russian sites to do this. So I just walked on American site, read forums, read the messeges and was king of shoked : «Wow, I realy can clearly understang, what are they speaking about.» At fist I was very shamed, to write something, but then I realised, that good English, that I’m use is preaty rare, and people just go on path of simplycity (No one cares ! lol =)).
Anyway I, in my habitual (used traslator, lol) maner, didn’t love to chat much, so at that moment my way of progressing «my english skill» stoped. I read instructions on electrical stuff, my parent bougth, and played games on english (they were not lagging so much, as their russian pirates analogs (want to paste lol, but stoping myself, in case of too many lols, lol)).
Time passed by, and I sudenly started to watch anime (with Russian subtitles), even joined the anime club, and spend a lot of my time in it. I wached anime so much, that I started to look for good ones, and sudenly smashed into the wall. This wall thas named «too poor anime society in Russia». There were no enough russian subtitles to all the series, I wanted to watch. So I started to watch amine with english ones.
To cut long story shot, I was waaay to bad english user to read english subtitles good and fast. If it was joke in a text, I acted like :» – Huh ? – What ? – Errr - Ohhhh. – It was a joke. – damt.», and it was real hard to read them in realtime, trying to have fun of watching something. I stoped to watch anime ? No way. I still watch it with russian subtitles. But what I did to my «hunger of more» ? – I just started to read manga.
Sad thing so say, but I wroted the whole post, and it vanised away right in front of my eyes, by one stupid click. Poor poor me. I have no backups of the the second part (about manga), so I’ll just write it later (sory).

ES would have fainted if she saw your post
Thank you for an interesting piece of your life.
Yarik, I know you are open to studies now.. What about spending some time studying some grammar you missed at school? On your own? It can be fun!
And looking forward to your story about manga! I like it, too.
What’s your favourite?
Obliviously it is One Piece (anime is my favourite too, but the story is so good, that I can’t wait for ecranisation, and read it every week).
And about grammar – I think, I’ll try. At least, now, I don’t feel shame, till using translators, all thanks to your post about them.