school marm
Veteran Member
I got my B.A. in Russian, lived in the Russian house for a year, and did two months of study abroad in Moscow, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and Kiev. I received a fellowship to pursue a master's in Russian at Ohio State, but my future husband made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I then worked as a translator for about three years.
My oldest son served as Russian-speaking missionary in Ukraine for two years. If he can ever get well enough to return to school, he has just a few classes to finish up a B.A. in Russian as well. My oldest daughter was trying to figure out a class to add to her schedule three years ago. I suggested Russian, and on a whim, she signed up. She absolutely loved/loves it. After struggling so much with her major classes (agronomy and crop science), she's thrilled to have something come so easily to her that she hardly has to study at all.
My oldest son served as Russian-speaking missionary in Ukraine for two years. If he can ever get well enough to return to school, he has just a few classes to finish up a B.A. in Russian as well. My oldest daughter was trying to figure out a class to add to her schedule three years ago. I suggested Russian, and on a whim, she signed up. She absolutely loved/loves it. After struggling so much with her major classes (agronomy and crop science), she's thrilled to have something come so easily to her that she hardly has to study at all.