ABOUT ME

I am a linguist and philologist, I like to use different languages and to reflect on them. I love nature and history.
My girlfriend is a social anthropologist, she is here on her one-year-long fieldwork, and I am here to stay with her and to help her, and also to learn Buryat language.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I have hosted people only a several times because my living conditions don't afford it to me very often. Though, I have surfed a lot..

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I like the idea very much, what to say. It is not that CS has changed my life as many of the members write but I have had a lot of positive experience

Interests

linguistics
languages
concept of politeness in different cultures
history
politics
classical music
nature
mountains

• cooking
• politics
• music
• classical music
• anthropology
• history
• languages
• mountains

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Baroque music, Greek music, klezmer, some jazz

Books: ancient Greek and Roman classsics (I am a classical philologists by the first education), the beatniks (Kerouac, Ginsberg ecc), Russian authors such as Gogol and Zoshenko, jewish yiddish litterature such as Sholom Aleykhem, Italian authors of the 20th century - Primo Levi, Cesare Pavese, Natalia Ginsburg

Teach, Learn, Share

Languages, what else? Maybe cooking some Russian things also

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Turkey, Ukraine

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Russian Federation

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