I'm a senior at Northwestern University, majoring in Religious Studies and Slavic Languages/Literatures. I just got back from spending a year in the former Soviet Union - I lived with a host family and studied the Russian language intensively for 9 months in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and for 2 months in Vladimir, Russia. Speaking Russian is so much fun - I can't imagine my life before I had access to the riches of Russian literature and film. Russian is such a rich language I could talk about it fo...