Елизавета reports on a disturbing direction that her Pimsleur Russian lessons seem to be taking…

In the last Pimsleur lesson, I learned how to wine and dine my colleague’s spouse. In this lesson I have learned how to invite my colleague into MY HOTEL ROOM. Is it normal in Russia to invite your colleague to your hotel room? If so, I do not really want to go there.

My Russian teacher once decided that, for the day’s lesson, we would role play me trying to chat up a cute girl.  Unfortunately, this was in a one-on-one class, my teacher was almost sixty and had a sparkly set of gold teeth.  The role play did not go well.