Talk:Ileana's Stuff/@comment-4423292-20141006152152

Just before we started EESM, we started learning English and Russian. At the time, I liked English better just because it used the Latin alphabet too.

Luca was always better at languages than I was.

When we started EESM, we took language classes with Astrauckas. I think one the main reasons I became friends with Emelia in the first place was because she spoke Romanian, and I was lost and alone in language soup because I barely spoke English or Russian. But then Emelia didn't really end up speaking Romanian together very much. Within a week, all of us were friends — me, Luca, Emelia, Cristi, and Nayden. Nayden didn't speak Romanian, so we spoke English when we were hanging out. They helped me learn it, both on purpose and inadvertently. That's why I'm fluent in it, because I speak it with my friends all the time.

I speak Russian too, but I'm not that good at it. I've been in Russian class since I was 11, and that's not nothing. But I don't actually speak it much. When someone says something in Russian, I almost always understand at least enough of it to work out what they're talking about. But I'm not so good at responding in Russian.