*taps mic* Is this comm on?

[littlebutfierce]

I've been looking for a still-active languages/language-learning comm on DW & don't seem to be finding any, alas! (If I've missed one, please let me know.)

In the meantime, in my own journal I got a little excited recently about language-learning, useful websites, techniques, etc. I would love to have more people joining the discussion -- here (if this comm wakes up? *hopeful look*) or in my journal... ?

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Literature is pretty in just about any language.

[claire_chan]

French is connected with Russian, Latin, and Greek, so when Tolstoy writes about, say, Anna Karenina saying something in French, it pops out of the Cyrillic EXTREMELY clearly. Then being a Romance language is the Latin part of how French and Latin are connected, then Greek spelling paradigms are confusingly similar. @_@ French is regarded as the elite language in Russia, though I've only forced myself through a few French drills in the past.
Then my mother's German helped me vaguely understand ein kleine Deutsch...
I have this sense telling me is right, but I can't parse why only kleine has an e at the end in a little bit of German, though I think I've heard both eine and Deutsche... it probably has to do with the declensions, but I'm just about to take a victory nap after securing my own copy of Доктор Живаго. By Boris Pasternak. *sleepy laze* Here's a little English summary of the plot.

I have grandiose aspirations, or at least I might be able to understand more than three-quarters of my books in a few years. Maybe.