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[kittydesade]

Как по-русски?
-- Where are you going, to the lecture or to Sasha's?
Куда ходите, на лекцию или к Саше?
-- We're going to a party.
Мы ходим на вечеринку.
-- Will Sasha be at the party?
Саша будет на вечеринке?
-- No, but her sister will be there.
Нет, но её сестра будет там.

-- Are you going to the library?
Вы идёте в библиотеку?
-- No, I'm coming from there.
Нет, я прихожу? ходу? оттуда.
-- How long were you there?
Сколько времени вы были там?
-- Four hours.
4 часа.



Gnarl. A little less than a month and I'm out of practice. Two more grammar points and then it's reading Night Watch (or, well, Twilight Watch) and translating pieces and so on and so forth. Until I actually manage to embed this silly language into my brain.

The more I watch TV shows from the past and present, the more I wonder why physicality and physical awareness has become a thing for TV actors lately. Recently watching Sherlock, I notice Benedict Cumberbatch has all the limbs ever and flails them around in ways that should be ungraceful but actually he's very coordinated. Purposeful in the flailing. Whereas watching Highlander from about fifteen years ago, the two most physically coordinated people in the cast are the two who do extensive physical training outside of acting, the marathon runner/multi-athelon athlete and the martial artist. And Amanda is all over the place with her body and her limbs. This doesn't entirely explain Bruce Boxleitner, who also has all the limbs ever and is actually very graceful, but, wait, no, equestrian. Never mind. Compare also, Tom Hiddleston, Jackie Earle Haley's directedness in Watchmen, um. I should look also at younger actors who aren't martial artists, but.

Anyway, the more I think about this, the more I also realize that physicality is a really major button with me. Which amuses me. Today, though, less moving around, or, well, maybe not. Maybe getting up and stretching every hour or so. Anyway, less focusing on moving around, more focusing on getting more scenes bashed out in the Big Bang of suck so I can make it suck less in the second go-round. And self-indulgent Methos-focused Mary Sue.