practice english

[anna_domini]

У меня катастрофически мало практики активного использования языка. Все понимаю, а говорю с трудом.
Поэтому решила попытаться писать сюда на английском. На злободневные темы, что ли, пока не знаю.

Today there were two news which attracted my attention immediately.
And one of them was about Oleg Karavaichuk, whom we knew well. There are a few things that come to my mind as I write his name: that he was a vunderkind (gifted child?.. don't know the word), that he was crazy and very poor, and that he liked me in a very strange way. He often came to me to say hello, invited me to his concerts (and I blame myself now I haven't attend any), and it is even more astonishing as he often did not think well of people around. I felt something special, as he favourited me - who am I? just a girl living nearby?... I felt very embarrased and confused every time he spoke to me, cause I didn't understand, why.

Another very sad thing about him and his death is that I've tried to listen to his music several times, but I never liked it. And today, as if in memory of this person, whom I knew and who passed away, I opened this video - and what a surprise, it's wonderful, it's amazing, it's Music... And now he will never come to our fence with his "hello, I'll have a concert this week, would you like to come?..."
My life is not only full of such things - it is a life of missed EVERYTHING. I always understand, what I could have done, whom I could have talked to, right after it becomes impossible.
What a dickhead am I.

Here I write this, just to remind you, there was such a boy talented since birth. Living after his mother's death all alone, terribly deprived of everything but music. He ate 2 bananas a day, he slept on the floor, and his piano also laid there with him, he was freezing in winter and always walking around and singing in summer, and he died all alone, some strangers (workers) found him unconscious in his house. He died in hospital a few days after. Nobody came. A genius (possibly) as it is.

Comments

[tukai.livejournal.com]

Когда читаешь, сразу понятно, что автор думает по-русски, а потом переводит.

[heatherfalls.livejournal.com]

Для этого даже читать не обязательно, мы же знаем автора.

[heatherfalls.livejournal.com]

Я к тому, что "как будто это что-то ужасное или удивительное, если сразу заявлено, что человек практикуется".

[anna-domini.livejournal.com]

странно, мне казалось, что я излагаю более-менее ходовыми фразами.
очень, очень не хватает практики :(

[la-kis.livejournal.com]

А те, кто не знает английского, идут мимо?
*я про себя

[anna-domini.livejournal.com]

почему? есть же гугл-перевод :)
я в ФБ писала по-русски примерно об этом же.

[nedowell.livejournal.com]

ИМХО - некролог - не лучший способ тренировки языкознания... :(

[anna-domini.livejournal.com]

в данном случае это не некролог, а личный опыт.

[nedowell.livejournal.com]

Тем более, я ж не наезжаю, но просто тема выбрана неудачно - вроде бы переживания от того, что не стало знакомого человека, пусть не близкого, но такого - значимого, скажем, а с другой стороны - рассудочный перевод на несвой язык. Как бы сразу личные эмоции отметаются, не "слушайте, люди, какого человека не стало", а "вот так я умею переводить".

[anna-domini.livejournal.com]

как ни странно, но ровно наоборот.
я могу сказать по-английски то, что неловко по-русски.
и да, я не сижу и не перевожу рассудочно, я пишу сразу без черновика, просто на английском.

[angerona.livejournal.com]

Not a dickhead at all, but your emotions are very understandable (and natural). Your English is pretty understandable, too :). Not perfect, but not atrocious either. It lacks that "MGIMO finished" quality that drives me bonkers in native russian speakers trying to speak/write English :).

[anna-domini.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's good, just needs a little more practice :)))