Interview with Nadja (№2))

Who are you?

Hello, everybody! My name is Nadya Poritskaya. I’m 21 years old. I live in small town Nizhnegorsk (Crimea). I like my town, because it is small, comfortable and there is no such “crazy” traffic as in cities.

How did you learn English?

Answering this question I should say that I don’t know English in the perfect way=)
I learned it at school, but I had no big interest, mainly because my teachers didn’t make me to be interested in it. If they gave a powerful incentive to learning English, I could learn it better, I could know it better. Of course a lot of depended on me…

When I was in the eleventh grade I went to the tutor. There were the best English lessons during my school time. I have never failed to attend my lessons. The cause is not in the money (these lessons were chargeable). This English was interesting. I have learned how to read, write, and speak in the right way. I have enjoyed my lessons.

I decided to cast in my lot with English (связать свою судьбу). After finishing school I’ve passed entrance examination. Institute… it is another world… Lections, seminars, conferences, hours in library… Arakin, Developing Reading Skills, different manuals…

Practice at school impressed me a lot. All my life somebody had taught me. Firstly my mum, then school teachers, finally institute lecturers. But now at school I was not as pupil, but as teacher. Now I should teach children to read, write, speak. The world turned over =))

What has English given you?

A lot of opportunities!!! Firstly I can speak in English and every native speaker can understand me. And they do! I have pen friend in Poland. Several times I’ve worked as interpreter (volunteer from USA works now at my town). She doesn’t know Russian, but she wants to know, so through such communication we help each other)))
Secondly I understand English songs, movies, sitcoms.
Knowing English brings me not only moral satisfaction, but working skills.
English is my language!