User:Grimaldosz

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I am having problems with my computer and had to switch to Linux, where I can't use Cyrillic keyboard until I have done my own keyboard layouts (which is awfully big job to do) so it might happen that I won't be very active for a couple of weeks. I will also travel, but will try to log in to at least check out the messages! Thank you very much for your patience!

Who am I?

I am Ilya - a 22 years guy living in Helsinki. At the moment I am living for myself, spending my time with my hobbies and learning more about the things that interest me. Since this is a language community, I think you should read my story about me and the languages. I hope you will not be too bored while reading it!

My story

I was originally born in Russia but left the country at age of five. From the early beginning, because of the relatives from my mother mother's side I have heard Finnish so besides Russian I had the ground of Finnish in my head. After moving to Finland it didn't take long untill I learned the whole language.

In the first years of school I was taking mother tongue (Finnish) and French since the third class. Besides that I was also taking some lessons of Russian. English began as second foreign language since the sixth level. From the seventh level as obligated, I studied Swedish. Untill then, I wasn't that interested in 'real' languages. They were something that...we all had to know to survive. In the eight level I heard and saw Norwegian first time in my life and it started interesting me, but didn't catch all my attention yet.

The college started. And I got an amazing teacher of Swedish and German. Since then, languages became ones of my greatest passions. Besides Swedish and German I was studying Norwegian by myself, mainly on the net through talking with my friends from Norway. I actually learned it almost fluently except pronunciation. Swedish I learned fluent and I was loving every moment of learning that. English was bad through the whole college time. My teacher found in the last year a good way to teach me. He told me about Old and Middle English and through their grammar he helped me to understand the Modern English. Since then I learned English very quickly too.

After the college I started concentrating on rarer and more "individual" languages, like Koinee Greek, Latvian, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Tibetan and also Spanish (which is very good to know as half of the world speaks it more or less!). After all I find all languages more or less interesting and have been discovering a bit of all of them - some just out of curiousity some for many of personal reasons.

My language

Besides the interest in the existing languages, I have one more passion - my own language. I was twelve years old when got involved in Eastern Orthodox church, where they taught me to read Old Church Slavonic (which I read almost fluently and can understand about half of it) and Koinee Greek, which is the variation used in liturgical texts. I have had "frames" of an own language since the early years of mine, but the time I spent in church made the language alive. I started translating prayers and other stuff into it and slowly, but certainly, it developed and became a proper language. I have just let the language develope itself in my head, without trying to make any grammar details strictly considerably and I am quite satisfied of the result of that.

You can read more about it here: Greadian My other constructed languages are Kraish and Alarian

If you have any questions about anything, just contact me. I will be glad to answer and help!