Воскресенье 24 Янв 2010, 12:37

Hallo. Alexander Piterskiy personally is on air. Is there anybody on the other end of the line?

Actually my English is pretty poor and quite imperfect. I realize that my popularity isn't wide enough as well. So I'm not sure that to start journaling here is a wise idea. Never mind.

For the first entry I haven't got any interesting news, I'm only going to say some common words and to outline some rules of what is happening here.

First of all: don't feel shy correcting me. If your English is better than mine (what actually isn't a big deal) and you clearly see my mistakes, show me them. Even if you think it's just a misspelling. I know it's not obvious, but I'm a perfectionist. Following this way we're going to kill two birds with one stone: (i) I will learn something new and probably next time my text won't be so annoying for the guardians of the purity of English language; (ii) you will feel like a good-natured person who helps people from Third World.
I realize that there are 2 main problems in English for me (as well as I guess for any Slav): the articles ("a" or "the"? Oh, shoot me!) and the tenses (you know, in Russian there are just 3 ones). In fact I'm able to create such complicated phrases as, for example, "If I had been born earlier, I would have had chance to see live Jim Morrison". But life shows that it's mainly a theoretical knowledge.
Also I see that people who don't know Russian at all understand me speaking English (but of course I cannot be sure they understand me correctly), so everything isn't as bad as it could be.

Why do I prefer writing English as things concern my creative work? Some people find it unpatriotic. The answer is perfectly simple: globalization. It's not personal.
Actually I really do love Russian language. I've written many short-stories and even published some of them in a lousy magazine. By the way, I've zealously logged a LiveJournal since 2004 (but not very regularly), of course in Russian. So if my listeners wished to study this language because of my being, I would be really proud. 8)

That's all for the beginning. Hope see you all next time.

Ciao,
Alexander Piterskiy.