Inglise keele ajalugu, essee "My languages"
been told that I pick them up rather easily. That might be true, although I did not pick any Greek up
in Greece but that might have been because they spoke so damn fast that I could not tell if it was a
word or an entire sentence.
The first foreign language I learned was Russian. Considering I was ten when Estonia became a
Republic, it makes sense. We began studying Russian in first grade, though it was simplified –
"koška" instead of "kot", "medvešonok" instead of "medved", "saichik" etc. Did not make much
sense and we mostly played some games in Russian (Tare-tareke etc). Learned as much playing
outside, since we had Estonian-Russian kids around as well. Not that we played with them. It's sad
to say but it was not a nice time to be a Russian kid. We were mean to them, and we did not even
know why. I think that's the only time I've ever been part of bullying someone, but there was this
kid everybody called Vene-Russ and we spent a lot of time playing mean tricks on him
annaabi.ee 
