or I am easily motivated by shame 💚

sure you could, it's like . . . you just need the right motivation. i was mocked in class once, early on, for not recognizing the Russian translation of the Taming of the Shrew (my classmates thought I wasn't familiar with Shakespeare) and it was a great motivator.

i promise it's not at all remarkable, if one is young and doesn't have anything much else to do

Well for me I think the trick of it was to be young.

why? i learned russian to study there, it seems a pretty ordinary thing. there was decent scientific knowledge in russian (i translated some decent scholarly papers) although of course I personally couldn't manage to love it & stick to it.

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