Russia Eight - Transcription
"I was born in a military family, that's why we moved a lot during my life. So I changed like 5 schools and 6 classes. I was born in Baku, Azerbaidzhan - it used to be apart of Soviet Union but now it separate republics, even though I am Armenian. So then my whole family, they had to move from that country because there was this bad advance between Armenians and Azerbaidzhans. It's like history - it still continues, I mean Armenians and Azerbaidzhans they don't live very peaceful with each other. But I've been lucky we moved earlier, so we moved because of ourselves not because we had to move. And we went to . . . I used to live on Caspian Sea. It was just on the coast, so it was very beautiful there. But we moved from there when I was very little and my sister was little too - I have one sister and one brother. We moved to Czech Republic - it was Czechoslovakia. And I went to school there. I can't speak Czech because it was Russian school. It was for military children. It was just military family district. So we stayed there about 5 years and then we moved to Belarus because they moved the forces so my father had to go there. But we stayed there not very long. We stayed there like 5 month or 6 month. And I've been learning Bela-Russian language over there. So it - I actually did very good, but then I notice that my Russian became very bad. Like grammar was just awful. So I just asked my father's for permission (she means 'I asked for my father's permission - she has one father), like, "can I do not go to that class? Is it okay? Are we going to stay here?" He was like, "No we are going to move. Don't worry." So like I . . . I skipped those classes. And then . . . so it didn't influence me, because we moved to Russia any ways. So I had to learn better Russian than Bela-Russian. So we moved to Rostov-on-Don . This is the city on south of Russia. And I still live there. All my family is there. But my mother's relatives and my father's relatives they're in different cities. So even in Rostov we changed like four places. Because we didn't have our own house yet so right now we live in our own place. So I don't know - maybe we'll move somewhere else from there. My parents, they are like, "Oh, we stayed here for 8 years already, like in this city, isn't it time to move somewhere?" I have little brother he is 4 years old. I always was interested in languages. And the first time I just started learning English, it was in school. It was 5th grade, I guess - 5th or 6th grade. But it wasn't very serious because usually in school they are like, I don't know . . . teachers are not, maybe very good. Even if they're good, they're are not very . . . like, hmm . . . they're not very strict.
Russian : Letter from Tatyana to Onegin from Eugene Onegin by A. Pushkin. ?????? ??????? ? ??????? ? ? ??? ???? -- ???? ?? ????? ??? ? ???? ??? ???????? ??????, ? ????, ? ????? ???? ???? ?????????? ????????. ?? ??, ? ???? ?????????? ???? ???? ????? ??????? ?????, ?? ?? ???????? ????. ??????? ? ??????? ??????; ????????: ????? ????? ?? ?? ?????? ? ???????, Tatyana's Letter to Onegin ``I write to you -- no more confession is needed, nothing's left to tell. I know it's now in your discretion with scorn to make my world a hell. ``But, if you've kept some faint impression of pity for my wretched state, you'll never leave me to my fate. At first I thought it out of season to speak; believe me: of my shame you'd not so much as know the name, "
Transcribed by Colum Morgan