Interview

Interview with Kuligina Dar'ya



Who are you?

Hi! My full name is Kuligina Dar’ya. I’m a student in the Institute of foreign languages. I’m studying English and German. I’m an ordinary student without extra possibilities, but with brains in my head) I’ve been learning English since I was four, and now I’m 21. Still I can’t say that I’m perfect in it. For my mind only native speakers know English perfect, as for example I know Russian. I’m a native speaker of this language, so it is logical to think that my knowledge of it is close to perfect))) As it was said in one clever book, not a man can know perfectly more than one language. But at least I do my best to improve my knowledge of the English language.

How did you learn English?

I’ve been learning English since I was four. My studying began in the kindergarten. I was a rather promising child, so parents decided that I should learn it deeper. Since that time, I’ve learnt it at school and had private lessons. My school wasn’t specialized at English, it was an ordinary school. But I was happy to have there a teacher who taught me privately. Still I’m grateful, that she gave me a ticket in my life. As I was rather capable it was not too hard for me to learn English. I have good memory for words, so at first I just learnt them and tried to use them in my everyday life. My mother helped me a lot. She spoke to me on different themes. We were communicating with simple sentences about everything we saw. In such way I improved my vocabulary and speaking. I enjoyed writing stories in English. It was not a problem for me. At first I had to look almost each word to express what I wanted. But later I felt, that I almost needn’t vocabulary. Now I’m improving my English in institute. I feel that I need to speak more, especially to native speakers. That’s why I’m working now in wedding agency. There are a lot of native speakers, and I have to communicate with them all time and I should to communicate in correct way and very fast. I was really glad when understood that I could do it more or less easily.

What has English given you?

Pity, but I don’t have exact answer. I’m too young, and I’m studying yet. But English is an international language and I think that in future I will find worthy usage to my knowledge. Even now I see a plenty of advantages. I can have friends from different countries, and I shouldn’t spend time and money on translators, I can read in English everything I want, or everything I need. At least in future I can earn money on those people who don’t know English!
Learn English and be happy!