>>>>>Надежда умирает последней.
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>>>>It is too funny when a German guy writes in Russian :) How would you even know such a proverb?
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>>>It's a small world. Look, weirder things happened already: you wrote this in english.
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>>Not so weird. I live most of my life in the USA. I write very poorly in Russian (make many mistakes, grammatical and bad spelling). Taking my English as an example is not valid. Come to think of it, I write better in Spanish than in Russian. If I could only learn to write and understand so well in French (work in progress).
>>Lutz, I am pretty sure, does not use the Russian language much or at all. Still, he remembers some important sayings. I am impressed.
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>Last winter I just realized that I read too much in english, so for a change I found that the complete works of brothers Strugacki (strugatsky) were available online, so read most of them, in russian. Quite refreshing.

For Arkadi i Boris my Russian is not enough. I'm happy that I can follow English literature, since German is, if available, sometimes poor translated. And Germans use ticker paper stock and larger fonts. I can not afford a new bock shelf at all.