> He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off. surely i know that it's impossible to 'parse' words out of the speech without talking to language sp

> He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off. surely i know that it's impossible to 'parse' words out of the speech without talking to language speakers all the time. when English speak i understand a half! actually I (as many Russians) appreciate that you know Russian and tried to understand what he was saying. i guess it's seldom for a native English-speaker to learn a language out of the list of Spanish and French :) Russian is the hardest of the wide spread Indo-European languages, i think, due to all it's flexes and stems, which you know ('umru'='i will die', etc), so you're cool :) > the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said. AND there might be something in that illegible part of the compilation, deciphered with the special techniques. for the show it was complied with the clear part. actually i dont know what would i cry in this situation, definitely wouldnt greet the nation etc :)