On my first trip to Russia I had little command of the language. I had
taken a basic course in Russian and some tutoring. At my tutors
recommendation I had purchased an electric dictionary that had a voice
function. I could enter the word and press a button and the dictionary
word pronounce the word.
My first noight in St. Petersburg it was late and I was hungry. I stopped
at a meat market and saw they had some good salami. I walked up to the
lady at the cash register and entered salami into my dictioary. I pressed
the buttom and the dictionary said "Kelbasa". The lady screamed something
to the other lady behind the meat counter. She took my money and I went to
the meat counter where I was handed a wrapped package. I left feeling
victorious.
When I got to my room I opened the package and found that I had purchase a
kilo of the tiny hot dogs.
Best regards,
Tom
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