forgotten Russian - how to restore it?

[Katya Burvikova]

Dear Seelangers,

I have a young student who is trying to learn Russian. She was adopted from 
Russia at the age of 8, she is 14 now. Her Russian is absolutely gone, all she 
remembers are few basic words like hleb, maslo and oy. I noticed that some 
things she would say automatically - for exmple, we didn't learn construction "U 
menya net..." and Genitive case yet but she said "u menya net akvariuma" using 
the right ending. Has anyone had  students with same problem and how did you 
make them remembering forgotten things? Are there any know strategies to take 
out things from lingsuitical subconscious? 

Thank you!

Katya Burvikova




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