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Harry

I met today with a former student, Harry, who studied Tatar with us back in 2011. He has been living in Kazan the last two years. Wow, his Russian has massively improved. I'm very impressed. I think he might get a 2+ or 3 on the ILR spoken proficiency scale. It makes me feel great when I students who have made this much progress.

Harry said something amusing. He meets pro-Russian/anti-American sentiment in Kazan quite a bit. Now he has gotten tired of putting up with it, so nowadays he always contributes the alternate opinion to the conversation. I have great sympathy with him. In the past I've been mostly apolitical, but I'm getting so tired of the anti-Obama talk that I can barely restrain myself now.

This entry was posted on July 16th, 2014 at 09:00:00 pm by Don and is filed under Uncategorized.

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Comment from: Paul Bailey [Visitor]
Paul Bailey

I watched Michael Moore’s “Sicko” again today; it’s made me very sad, but I was given pause to realize that Obamacare, in fact, now covers most of the issued addressed in the movie. A small step forward for sure, and it’s over priced, but I’m reminded what an important step it was, and I’m thankful for him making it happen.

07/27/14 @ 23:28


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