С Новым Годом, Y’all!

(That’s “Happy New Year” in Russian.)

I’ve been enjoying the hell out of the new Russian course I started on the language website Duolingo. It’s free, it’s fun, and did I say it’s free?

And one of the neat things I’ve found is the ability to change my keyboard from the Latin alphabet to Cyrillic with just the click of an icon, thanks to Chrome and its language input extension. They have over 70 languages you can toggle back and forth between on any website where you can enter text.

And, here’s something interesting I found about learning another language as an adult: