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« Reply #5310 on: 12:42:55, 20-08-2008 » |
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There is a slight variation between a proper karma and korma. What on earth are you talking about? |
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« Reply #5311 on: 12:46:13, 20-08-2008 » |
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chickens ?
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« Reply #5312 on: 13:20:27, 20-08-2008 » |
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It is rather people with chicken brains.
I am trying to explain why I can sometimes put wrong vowl.
a. because I have bad memory
b. because they spell the same words differently (it doesn't happens often)
c. because Russians like English don't say words the same way they write them.
I can see now that this was not a good idea.
Can I erase this part of my post?
I think I will leave it because Richard's remark will not be understood.
Also when I said students of immigrants were behind academically I meant in subjects like Math, science, etc.
Here I know people who took their children out of Russian school when they left to work here. But I was talking in my last post about University students.
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« Reply #5313 on: 13:45:51, 20-08-2008 » |
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But I was talking in my last post about University students.
OK, and what were you trying to say about them? Each of your posts is more confusing than the last. |
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« Reply #5314 on: 13:55:01, 20-08-2008 » |
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Sorry, sorry.
I was talking about it on the other thread.
I am really confused now. It is better for me to make an exite now. I have to meet my visiting friend soon.
I see now that my brains today are in a slow mode.
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« Reply #5315 on: 13:55:26, 20-08-2008 » |
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I like the way polish girls and russian girls speak, i find it rather endearing  |
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« Reply #5316 on: 13:55:35, 20-08-2008 » |
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But I was talking in my last post about University students.
OK, and what were you trying to say about them? Each of your posts is more confusing than the last. "The multitude which does not reduce itself to unity is confusion." (Blaise Pascal) |
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« Reply #5317 on: 14:13:33, 20-08-2008 » |
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I've got a bigger office!
And better still, it means I don't have to share anymore!
Ooh, lovely! |
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« Reply #5318 on: 16:29:53, 20-08-2008 » |
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Have you been good, then hh?
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #5319 on: 20:37:19, 20-08-2008 » |
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I've just been listening to The Sleeping Beauty from the Proms. In my still somewhat unwell state it's been just what I needed, unalloyed uncomplicated bliss. Not sure if I'm happy to realise that I've been listening to this music for well over half a century - I started very young, you understand  . I know every note, I visualise the ballet from all the different productions that are in my head. (I wonder what the music sounds like if you've never seen the ballet?) Although I'm not Russian, I feel as if it's in my blood, part of me. There are hardly any pieces I know as well. I hope Monica Mason wasn't listening when Chrisopher Cook said that the Rose Adagio was very difficult for the dancer because she has to stand absolutely still at some points. Er....it's rather more than that |
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« Reply #5320 on: 20:43:53, 20-08-2008 » |
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Mary Chambers,
I love Sleeping Beauty. I absolutely adore it. I don't like his two other ballets at all. I don't like Swan Lake and I don't like Nutckrucker and I never did.
But I love Sleeping Beauty. It brings so many memories.
There is Glazunov's ballet Raimonda that I also like for some reason. The music is not forward looking and is probably not good, but I love this ballet. It is about knight and a bad somebody from the East or something and a happy ending for a couple.
Another childhood favourite of mine is Glinka Ruslan and Ludmila. I know it is probably not good, but when I was five years old I thought it was the best opera in the world.
Thank you for your post. It brought childhood memories to me.
I am glad you are feeling better.
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« Reply #5321 on: 22:08:59, 20-08-2008 » |
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Yes Mary, was'nt it just!! Could'nt ask for more. Glad it uplifted you!
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #5322 on: 22:24:27, 20-08-2008 » |
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Wonderful, bbm! Some less familiar music in the second half. t-p - I like Swan Lake as well as Sleeping Beauty, but have never really liked Nutcracker. I have seen Raymonda once only. Rudolf Nureyev recreated it in the mid-1960s from his memory of dancing in it in St Petersburg, and I went to a performance, I think the first, in Birmingham by him, Fonteyn and the Australian Ballet. I can't remember much about it except that it looked rather spectacular (and I and my friends had coffee in the hotel restaurant where he and Fonteyn, with others, were having dinner - another spectacular performance, as I remember - how glamorous they were!). I thought I'd found a clip of them in it on Youtube, but it turns out be mostly about the social aspects of the London premiere - Pathe News. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23BvP871u6c |
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« Reply #5323 on: 22:43:21, 20-08-2008 » |
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Thank you Mary Chambers.
I had 10 or 15 mins of good time. I don't exactly know why I liked this ballet so many years ago, but
Margot Fonteyn is fantastic.
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« Reply #5324 on: 22:47:16, 20-08-2008 » |
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I'm in a good mood, but I missed the Tchaikovsky tonight, shame it wasn't televised. |
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