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I studied BA Russian and Soviet Studies at Portsmouth University from 1988 to 1990. Unfortunately, I did not complete the four year course, due to getting married and then having a baby a year later.
The course was the reason I chose to go to Portsmouth, moving 210 miles from my home in Lincoln. I have been interested in the USSR and the Russian language since following the successes of the Soviet team (especially the gymnasts) at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
I became fascinated with the Cyrillic alphabet and wanted to learn the language. I had an opportunity to do this with a short night school course as a teenager, which whetted my appetite to study it further.
One of the advantages of the course at Portsmouth was that you could learn the language ab initio. The other parts of the course sounded fascinating too, as it included a wide range - the history of the USSR, the geography, politics, economics, sociology, Soviet literature and linguistics.
When I began the course, I found I was useless at economics and found no interest in linguistics either, but the other parts of the course were much better. I soon chose to concentrate on language, literature and politics and I got a lot out of these subjects.
It is a shame I dropped out of the course, as I do think it is the best course around for that subject, with a much broader structure than most degree courses which just concentrate on the Russian language.
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scotlandizdabest 14.09.2008 (21.10.2008)
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