If you are wondering where Russian found me, you should look to a basement at Beloit College. This basement housed classes in many languages, but I spent most of my early time there on Ancient Greek, which I was sure I wanted to continue through college. It’s one goofy language. But that first year, I didn’t get the intro geology class that I wanted, and the only thing that would fit my schedule was Russian. So I studied Russian and Ancient Greek in the basement.
In comparison to Ancient Greek, beginning Russian is really boring.
