Let's be honest. My aim has never been learning Bulgarian. Before coming in this slavic country I wanted to develop my Russian, Italian and English. I thought it might be easy. But at the end I only spoke in English and in Estonian. I thought it would be easy to speak with locals in Russian but hell no. It made everything so complicated. I am not really confident speaking in Russian and I was really confused every time when somebodie tryed to speak with me in that language. Sometimes I couldn't even recognize is it Russian or Bulgarian. So using Russian was my last option. I would like to say to myself, Eleri, study more this language but sad story is that I have Russian lessons only 2 weeks more. And then I might never study it again. This is my story with Russian but let's continue.
My second wish was to practise Italian. First weeks in Italy I tryed to speak in Italian, actually Quirino and Giuseppe tryed. If they gave up there wasn't even any point for me to start conversations in Italian. Actually this project was kind of developing my language skills. I have never been understanding Italian more than in our Greece trip. After that my language level was decreasing. And at the end "Non ho capito un cazzo!" Again, funny story, where am I now? I am still listening Italian music but I don't even pay attention to the lyrics anymore. I don't care about what they are singing, like 3 years ago. I can't say that Italian is past for me, I spent months to study this language. I rarely read something from Italian media or watch films. And I swear in Italian, even my classmate does it 😊 My English level is good but it can be definately better. My peers Engish level is even on C2 (Tsau Siim) level. Mine is hopefully B2. Anyway, I had a long journey to go and still have. EVS seemed to be a good language experience. Easy way how to develop your language skills. I have now more courage to start a conversation in English. Even thought all the errors I had speaking with others. It is really hard to express yourself as you are used to do in your mother tongue. My vocabulary has widen thanks to the project, grammatically I can't promise I got new knowledge but it was a good practise after all. Whilst, I started writing blog in English, it might help me even more. And again I am aware that I make a lot of mistakes. Important is an idea not an accomplishment 🙃 I helped Hutman and Seher with English learning. I promoted application Duolingo, where you can easly achieve basics at different languages. Hopefully it helped them learning English and Marat learning Italian. Marat also had private language lessons with Italian guys. Even though my aim wasn't learning Bulgarian I used the opportunity to get know with this language. First lessons were with Tsvety. Get to know with alphabet and basic expressions in two divided groups. People who knows Cyrillic and who doesn't. But then Tsvety left, which made my life complicated, but it is an another story. Rashed took over the lessons. We learned about everyday items, food, our work and travelling. I skipped the last class because I was too tired to wake up and learn something. But the class took place under our balcony and the balcony door was open. Probably my unconscious still heard those words and they are somewhere in my brain. The most eager learner was Quirino, he even learned Cyrillic before coming in Bulgaria. He tryed to speak with locals at every appropriate moment. Spanish guys had the hardest life. Everybody has their inner Spanish living there, because Spanish is so known language that even Estonians have learned it from telenovelas or from more professional way. Italians understood Spanish especially well. So, it was impossible to backbite somebody in front of other nations. There was always an opportunity that somebody might understand. And then we have Estonians who put on their poker face and talk about everything they want because nobody anyway doesn't understand. It is an advantage being Estonian. But if you teach others your language curse words you have no mercy. Every time you swear, somebody notices it and exhort you. Funniest moment of that was Marat reaction who asked why we are saying "Artura" all the time, instead we were saying "türa". Хайде, xайде!
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