I'm having a wonderful time taking lessons from my Russian born
teacher. She has a very good sense of humor, and the hour's lesson is
serious, then funny and back and forth but always upbeat and focussed..
I do my best and sometimes I play passably, and often, not. I figure some comments in Russian might be in order at appropriate times.
So I need some expressions. Could anyone provide Russian — in phonetics, of course — for any or all of the following:
1.
That was brilliant, if I may be so bold. (Wild overstatement, of course.)
2.
Horowitz wishes he could have played it better. (Ditto)
3.
I am mortified! (So often, so true.)
4.
I think I should change my shirt and shoot myself in the head. (Never, but she'll laugh.)
Isn't Number 4 very Russian? I seem to remember in a Russian novel some guy either comtemplating such a ritual, or maybe even going through with it. It seems like I also recall that it was not changing into just a clean shirt, but a clean white shirt. No doubt, I'm totally wrong, though.
Anyway...
If you want to throw in various humorous expressions which bear upon my pianistic ineptitude, that's be wonderful. I'll have many more opportunities to use them than numbers 1 and 2.
But please understand my teacher is such a proper lady I never even consider saying a 'hell' or a '***' in her presence.
And if you don't want to bother, that's okay. Just let the thread die its own slow death.
You might,however, supply the poor thing with a clean white shirt.
