Tuesday 8 May 2012

Multi-lingual in 9 months?

We began learning Russian in the middle of January and our Russian is going from strength to strength.  Although we are making progress with the Chinese it is so much harder but it was always going to be a challenge!

We have our homework organised for the first three months of the trip which takes the form of learning the basics of two more languages: Vietnamese and Indonesian.  We have "Basic Conversational" level courses from Pimsleur and they are ready to be downloaded onto iPods.  We hope to complete the Russian course by the time we leave London but think that we will still be tackling Mandarin as we travel through Russia and Mongolia to Beijing on the Trans Siberian.  We won't even attempt the basics of Vietnamese until around October, so that's something to look forward to(?).