languages

phew, russian is difficult, Cyrillic is weird, the grammar is haphazard (although, theoretically much simpler than English). I have, regardless, this perverse interest now to really learn Russian; would be an interesting mix of languages for me, japanese, chinese, russian, english -- not a single language even within the same linguistic family as the other.

grammatically i really love japanese. everything makes sense, theres not many exceptions, yes perhaps there are many dimensions and the levels of politeness seem infinitely intricate, but it all fits together very snuggly. a lot of times i think that learning japanese was really helpful for computer science even -- ie, programming languages are, as a rule, very grammatically tight. in japanese, every part of speech is marked by a particle. granted in spoken japanese, these are dropped all the time, etc; but, in its strictest form, the grammar is extremely precise in delineating meaning.

anyway, been jawing russian at the cat, intermittently watching japanese tv, reading/writing english websites; its all kind of giving me a headache, but its all very horrowshow, darou