I recently purchased a CD of Useful Russian Language for Adoptive Parents. What a good idea that is! I had thought about getting just a standard "learn to speak Russian" language CD, but really, what good is it going to be to learn how to ask for soup in a restaurant or how to ask for directions. What I really need for our trips, and once we are home, are phrases that may be familiar to a baby or toddler. Liam likes to listen to the CD with me, mostly because he thinks that the Russian speakers English is hilarious. They repeat words in English and Russian and it is repeated by a female and a male Russian-born speaker. The male, Sasha, really does have a hysterical English accent. He sounds like a robot from a Terminator movie or something. All he has to say in robotic English is "Ju are a very smaaaart boy." and Liam is rolling.
We haven't learned too much yet, but we can successfully say in Russian: Hello, Yes, No, Good Night, Good job!, Poop, and Pee. It's a start, anyway...
I am also officially addicted to an online geography quiz site. I don't know if anyone else is interested in geography, but I am so addicted to this site. I know there are so many other things I should be doing, but this is fun! I'm not even sure why, because it just shows me how bad I really am at geography. There is a World one (that's the one I've been doing), and also US-only and Canada-only, etc. I think I'm worse at the US-only one than the World one, and Canada....well I just embarrass myself there. But I'm practicing. If anyone wants to challenge me, let me know. My best score is 101 on the World quiz so far.
http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq
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