English Lessons For The Native Speakers

I am a survivor of socialism and I blog here whenever I feel like it, sharing the truth and insights of being a hostage to socialism for the first 18 years of my life and having the courage to escape it.
I have journeyed from behind The Iron Curtain to FREEDOM and I will never give it up!
I write about my experiences, past and current, through my life, my eyes, my heart. I hope you find something that will resonate with you. If not now, maybe in the future.

Being “Russian”

Marina Berkovich 03.03.2022 No Comments

For the past 42 years since I arrived to USA as a stateless refugee from the USSR, I have been fighting to preserve the integrity

English Lesson 1 for Native Speakers: In Conjunction

Marina Berkovich 27.09.2020 No Comments

My very first English lesson happened when I was about five in my Soviet Union pre-school. Here’s what we were taught to sing: Good morning,

Word Inversion Is World Inversion

Marina Berkovich 30.08.2020 No Comments

In my youth I was fascinated with my “discovery” that all life originated from Africa. There were no blacks living in the USSR. In some

About The Attitude

Marina Berkovich 04.08.2020 No Comments

As I am knee deep in my next pre-query work, I recently stumbled upon a blog by a very famous literary agent. He had advertised

English Lesson 2 for the Native Speakers

Marina Berkovich 27.10.2017 No Comments

There are no reasons to not know the proper forms of greeting and address of people one already knows or may meet, yet there is

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