First exercises

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I sat down and solemnly worked through the exercises in Chapter 1 of my Durham University Russian course, involving reciting repeated phrases along the lines of "Is this a trombone? No, it is a violin" (at least the choice of vocabulary has some appeal!) And still struggled with the written exercises, being at sea as to which situations require в +prepositional and which require на +prepositional (в клубе? в концерте? в оркестре? Apparently it is НА концерте -- 'on' a concert, just as one writes 'on' paper or voyages 'on' the ocean wave...)

And, embarrassingly, I still mix up 'm' and 't' and 'y' and 'i' when asked to write words from their *sounds* (as opposed to copying from print, which I can do well enough -- that being my main experience of late!)