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Russian vocabulary learning is a frustratingly slow business.

I think I just spent three hours on one track of my CD (granted, also learning the correct spelling, and granted, occasionally looking up related words and very, very slowly typing them — and next on the list: learn the order of the Russian letters on your keyboard; but still), and now my brain is utterly, completely blank. Of everything. Including the words I just spent hours memorising.


Bought this, maybe it'll help.


Still on the to-do list: belly dancing practice, since I've been awfully slack recently and class starts next week.


Kind of pathetic for a Sunday afternoon lj etnry. Apologies, etc. :(

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In the absence of anything even remotely resembling an intelligent thought, here's some music instead. Fatima Spar und Die Freedom Fries, who from what I'm reading have been quite popular in the Viennese Club scene for years, but since I and the Viennese Club scene don't really mix I only kind of stumbled across them today completely by chance, but, very nice. Turkish and Balkan and kind of swing-y and really feel-good.

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