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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

I just watched on A&E a special of "Paul McCartney live in Red Square," and the Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov stated that when he was 10 and he first heard the Beatles, it was them who inspired him to learn English. This made me recall what wolk_off had said about him learning English through The Beatles as well. So I was just wondering, how many Russians out there had The Beatles as an inspiration for learning English?

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[freyja-freyja.livejournal.com]

A collegue of mine always says that :) He's not a LJ'er, so I speak for him. His name is Denis.

As for me, I don't remember already. For me languages are worth learning for the sake of them... I just enjoy the process.

[mozartianka.livejournal.com]

I had %)

[ex-nobodyel.livejournal.com]

and what is incomprehensible? love conquers all...

[bogund.livejournal.com]

i got to know many words through the beatles and the kinks songs

[apredeus.livejournal.com]

well - that was actually Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin
but yeah, translating lyrics from your favourite songs is a great practice - these words and phrases you remember forever *)

[shatrus.livejournal.com]

I had. It was not only The Beatles songs, but also Pink Floyd, The Doors, The Who, Procol Harum...

[dark666.livejournal.com]

I had. At first it was only The Beatles, but later it also were Queen, Deep Purple and so on...

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

All you need is love, you see :)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

To be serious, I always said that those were the Beatles who prevented (or, at least, delayed for a few decades :)) the World War Three - by making the Russians believe that the English-speaking people: 1. existed at all, and 2. weren't all devils :)

[schwarzer-tod.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, I can see you as a young stilyaga prancing around in a zoot-suit =P

And hey, it works the other way too. It's very easy to remember Russian phrases from Kino songs.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm a 1980s teenager, not 1950s :)) Though there was a bunch of "secondary stilyagas" in my time too - the 1980s youngsters who imitated the 1950s style. But I've never been one. What I looked like when I was 18 was this:

[oh-yum.livejournal.com]

Hotttt.

Not exactly Beatles, but

[hellga.livejournal.com]

I learned English because I was taught it as school, but one of my cousins learned English by listening to and reading the script of Jesus Christ Superstar.

[mymrik.livejournal.com]

Queen and George Michael had spurred me to learn English.

[grosman.livejournal.com]

At the beginning it was the Beatles, then Simon & Garfunkel, and then everybody else :)

[ilia-yasny.livejournal.com]

My English was strongly improved by listening and reading lyrics by The Beatles, Jesus Christ Super Star and later Deep Purple.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_beast/]

never actually liked the beatles. i learned english by frank zappa songs =)

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

"Some say it's your nose, some say it's your toes, but it's your mind?" :)

=)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_beast/]

information is not knowledge
knowledge is not wisdom
wisdom is not truth
truth is not beauty
beauty is not love
love is not music

[yk4ever.livejournal.com]

our english teacher was really into beatles, and she made us learn some song. Once I was drunk and felt a necessity to sing :] and I couldn't remember anything else but Yellow Submarine.

[russian-bob.livejournal.com]

15 years ago I memorized "Yellow Submarine", "Can't buy me love" and "Eleanor Rigby", still remember. :)
Songs and poems help learning a lot.

[yms.livejournal.com]

Me too :) But there was no Internet in that time...
Sometimes the lyrics could be heard distinctly and I wrote them down as heard (with some gaps), sometimes they could be found in newspapers and magazines (it was the perestroika time :)

Pink Floyd served as a source for advanced English :) I copied lyrics from their three album covers and it greatly extended my lexicon :)

[kreecher.livejournal.com]

I tried Roxette to learn English, but it was late, since I talked in English quite well, when I've heard "Joyride" for the first time! %)