Re: Hi from Ukraine

Re: Pavel Iosad on Saturday, November 24, 2001 12:12 AM

> Greetings from a second Russian speaking, language-collecting
> and -constructing Moscovite!
Glad to meet you, Pavel!

> Shalom. Hayati lilmod ivrit, aval eyn li (gosh, I forgot the word for
time,
> seeing it's 1 o'clock AM now :-)). Ani rotseh (enter) ha-universitah
Moskva
> (the MGU), well I need to prepare. :-)
Eyn lekha zman? Chaval...
Ata rotze lehitqabel la-Universita? Yofi!

> As an aside, don't you communicate wth anyone from the Jewish University
in
> Moscow?
No, unfortunately, I have no ties with Moscow. BTW, that's my FIRST year as
a Hebrew teacher, I'm just a novice. I work at a Baptist Bible college, and
they ASKED me to teach some basic Hebrew. You see, I'm a "Torah-observant
Messianic Jew", so I have tough problems on this issue with both Jewish
Orthodoxes and fundamental Christians... But the later have to TOLERATE me,
because I'm a precious specialist for them now... My Hebrew is pretty poor,
mostly theoretical, enough to recite prayers from Siddur (prayerbook), but
that's the best they (I mean the college) can afford - what other kinda Jew
would go to teach Baptists? :-))

> Reading all your posts, I still haven't ben able to figure out what your
> name is after all :-)
Call me Igor or Yitzchaq (read: Its-khak)...

> I'd love to speak Ukrainian fluently - I do love the sound of it, but: ya
ne
> duzhe harno rozmovlyayu ukrayins'koyu, ale use rozumiyu, mozhu bagato
choho
> skazaty :-)
That's great!

> If you don't mind, tell us about some of your projects!
Later, when I have some...