Somniloque: are you for or against sleep talking? Beyond other sleep disorders somniloque is quite rare and less harmful. I am one of those people, who "suffer" from somniloque - to be more exact, I don't suffer at all and don't see anything bad in it. My relatives are scarecly can be called victims of circumstances - usually they have lot of fun litening to my sleepy musings. Sometimes they can represent some linguistical stuff and nonsence ( due to my intensive study), sometimes I just say weird things like : "Don't feed the dog with cigaretts, it will fart with smoke." But it's ok. My ex-boyfriend had an awful habbit of talking to me while I was sleeping. He asked me and I answered. I can remind that feeling of discomfort, when you try to understand, whether you've blurted out something indiscent or not. What do you think of somniloque - should it be cured somehow or not? Did you have stories of you (or somebody of your frineds or relatives) sleep talking? To crown it all I'd like to share with you a very interesting to my mind, blog of Sleep Talkin' Man. If somebody is interested - I will be glad to dicuss it with you http://sleeptalkinman.blogspot.ru/

My house was robbed this week It happened on Monday. The day was absolutely perfect for robbery. Somebody knew exactly, that I left for Moscow, to my hostel, my elder brother lives in Moscow also, and visit parents very rare, my father flied abroad on Saturday and mother was in her office. The material demage was not large - an old lap-top, some gold trifles and father's leather briefcase...ah, and car's keys...But the moral demage was absolutely unmeasurable. They walked with mud, dirty feet on our clothes, new mother's coat, white-snow bed-clothes and towels. They jumped on my books ( I have a big library) and split many of them into pieces! They broke our icons, which are so important for my mum...They threw all the stuff out of the shelves and cupboards...My mum only occasionaly didn't drop in that day! I refuse even think of the possible consiquences.... We all are afraid of that fact, and feel very uneasy, because our house is not an impenetrable fortress anymore...

Language perception or what prevents us from talking a foreign language?-2 Probably, not. I wanted to give some examples on the issue. I also faced this problem during my study and it still remains half-solved:) In school I studied two languages - English and German and already had thoughts of going into linguistics. I liked Greman very much, I can't even explain you my devotion to it. But in the University English became my first working language and Spanish became the second. The only way to study German was unacceptable for me - or I transfer in a weaker group or I stay and study Spanish. I can read it, know the grammar perfectly well, and understand Spanish speech, but.... I practically could not speak. I did my best and hit the books, but all was in vain. As if there was some block in my mind which prevented me from speaking and thinking in Spanish. Now I have quite good progress, but still - it requires much efforts from my side. And I have a group mate, she is from Moldavia. She still can not cope with all that, just imagine - she thinks in Moldavian, then translates into Russian, then translates into English or Spanish...poor thing! An idea occured in my mind - maybe it is something, very unconcious, some inner refusal to perceive and adopt another culture? Gremans were always very close to me - their literature, mentality, and so on, That's what I can't say about Spaniards ( I don't mind to offened somebody's national feelings!) What do you think, my dear friends? What are the barriers in language perception and how can we avoid them in the process of self-development? I'm really interested in your views!

Language perception or what prevents us from talking a foreign language? I've decided to write this post because this topic got stuck in my mind just a few days ago. Some people are more successful in learning languages and they somehow manage to start think in a foreign language - because this is one of the issues you can't do without if you want to be "fluent". Fluent means, to my mind, not only an ability to react a random topic in the conversation, but also a kind of a self-help psychobabble, what is namely: dreams "translated" in a foreign language, thoughts in a foreign language and ability to describe evrything around you with the help of the foreign language ( the last example is an exercise, created by Kato Lomb, one of the first symultaneousl interpretors in the world). And here is the point where we face the problem. Some people spend so much time in hope to learn language and improve it to a certain extent, but fail. Is it true that some people are not able to master a foreign language? But science runs, that there is no biological inclination for languages, that means that ANY person can theoretically speak ANY language. At least, it motivates:) But, it is a sad fact, that many people will be never fluent in the foreign language they learn. Does that mean that each of us has his own limit?

First notebook entry: Introducing myself I'm learning English and try to improve it again and again for career purposes. I'm going to become a teacher of English. Besides, I'd like to make friends from GB and USA. My native language is Russian, I may help in its study. I enjoy different kinds of dancing - I dance belly-dance, trible, salsa, flamenko; also I'm interested in embroidery.