LEARNING RUSSIAN
Sir.-The arresting heading to your article on the Russian alphabet startled me, for one, into something like excitement and expectancy. I therefore set my teeth into it immediately. The lesson was well written, popularly presented, and made one feel that one had mastered Russian in one lesson. But confidence soon gave way to misgivings. Without detracting from the simplicity of the article, I feel that by merely learning the alphabet you are only @ shade nearer the heart of the business. Surely the tone of the article is overambitious in dismissing some of "the bugaboos" with a flourish. The writer has not dared mention grammar-the basic foundation of an ability to speak the tongue. Either "the bugaboos" have some foundation, or I find it difficult to reconcile the tone of the lesson with the impression given by the late Harold Williams, "The Cheerful Giver," viz., that of the 50-odd languages he had mastered he found Russian the most difficult.
SCROOGE
(Christchurch),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 3
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162LEARNING RUSSIAN New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 3
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