student

[Edward M Dumanis]

Look. When Russian students come here to study, they do not necessarily
study English. I know some of those students who came here before via
different exchange programs, they lived here staying with American
host families while attending local high schools, and actually graduated
from American high schools. Now, they attend our universities, and hardly
can be distiguished from American students. They could have any major,
e.g., Math or Physics. They just study, and their "culture practice" is
just normal development not different from their American friends.
The point is that "stazhirovka" can be used ONLY in some specific cases
but cannot be used as a UNIVERSAL equivalent for "study" while
"uchjoba/uchit'sja" is such an equivalent.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu>

On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Anna Rakityanskaya wrote:

> I think the key issue here is the fact that those foreign students are
> actually taking classes ABROAD, which (to a Russian) makes it a LANGUAGE
> AND CULTURE PRACTICE (i. e. "stazhirovka") more than just plain STUDYING.
>
> Best,
>
> Anna Rakityanskaya
> University of Texas at Austin
>
>
>
> At 11:53 AM 3/15/02 -0800, you wrote:
> >Edward Dumanis <dumanis at acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote:
> >
> > >I do not understand why both words would be correct.
> > >They have different meanings.
> > >Since when "stazhirovat'sja" can be used instead of "uchit'sja"?
>
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