And Now, A Few Months Later I Finally Saw The New Major Grom Movie : And I Have Ponderings.

And now, a few months later I finally saw the new Major Grom movie Майор Гром: Игра and I have ponderings.

Overall a pretty solid movie, I had no idea what it would be about as I blocked all tags to avoid spoilers. The plot was a tad chaotic and to some extent more violent (literally, first few minutes in and bam! chaos) and unlike the previous movie, it didn't really have that particular flavour of comedy to back it up. It was almost 3 hours long but the fast-pace was enough to keep the momentum going. There were also a few cameos that had me going??? Because there were definitely a few celebrities that I did not expect to feature in this movie.

Chaos aside, the storyline was interesting as there were a few directions going on at once, and as an action movie it's definitely good. Thing is, I don't know if it was intended to be an action movie as it looks like one but it feels like it's supposed to have a more nuanced plot? Maybe it's just me but anyone who watched this movie feel free to share your thoughts.

The soundtrack was epic, Sergey Shnurov's Dragon was just 10/10 and now my playlist has once again expanded. There were other songs but this song that they used during the credits really stuck in my head.

I won't spoil it, but overall it's heavier than the previous Major Grom movie, so whilst I can recommend watching it, be aware that it can get a tad gory in my opinion.

Apparently a new Major Grom/Майор Гром movie just came out (like a week ago) and now I have to wait until it's available to watch online in good quality because I refuse to besmirch this potential masterpiece by watching it in 360p with barely distinguishable audio.

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I will be away for the next 2 weeks or so, apologies if I haven't replied to any asks or messages, I'll do so once I'm back.

See you all soon!

Slavic roots western mind turns 1 year old today!

It's been exactly a year since my very first post as slavic roots western mind, and looking back it's been a good year. I'm thankful for everyone for sticking around and supporting me, here's to hoping for more years like this!🥂

Oh got it! I'm still sorting through it, but so far the best source I found was Inner Mongolia University's course on Open163. They have a good beginners course, but the only possible snag is that they use the traditional script rather than the cyrilic. Most of the chinese courses also actually use the traditional script, which they do teach but it does make things a bit more challenging imo.

Discovered that there are regular flights between Germany and Mongolia so decided to give Mongolian another try. I was pleasantly shocked to discover that there are now more and better learning resources available.

My main mistake was relying solely on english teaching material, I completely forgot that I know other languages e.g. Chinese and the resources found on Baidu look promising.

I might make a post with the resources and material at some point, but for now I need to sort out what's useful and what's not suitable yet.

Who knows, perhaps a summer exploring Mongolia isn't such a distant ethereal dream after all.

Yep, the traditional script is definitely more difficult even with detailed explanations! I guess there may be some differences between the script used in Inner Mongolia vs Mongolia, as Mongolia switched to cyrillic but Inner Mongolia kept using the traditional script so it may have evolved a bit.

It would be interesting to see if and to what extent both scripts differ but the resources may be a tad difficult to find. Apparently the Mongolian in Mongolia is based on the Khalka dialect which has a different pronunciation from Inner Mongolia's Mongolian, so phonetics may also be at play here.

Cyrillic is quite different from the latin alphabet, but it can be learned with practice. The only slight issue is that phonetically mongolian cyrillic is really different from russian, bulgarian, ukrainian cyrillic etc. so the pronunciation can get very confusing if you already know or if you're learning another cyrillic-based language.

Discovered that there are regular flights between Germany and Mongolia so decided to give Mongolian another try. I was pleasantly shocked to discover that there are now more and better learning resources available.

My main mistake was relying solely on english teaching material, I completely forgot that I know other languages e.g. Chinese and the resources found on Baidu look promising.

I might make a post with the resources and material at some point, but for now I need to sort out what's useful and what's not suitable yet.

Who knows, perhaps a summer exploring Mongolia isn't such a distant ethereal dream after all.

There's nothing like an online recruiting conference for potential employees/applicants at a chinese company to humble you. It's like I understand, but then I absolutely don't and the topics keep flowing so quickly.

And this was just the presentation about the company culture, the job positions and responsibilities, etc. I could understand the information presented on the slides, but my listening skills definitely need more work.

On the plus side, I now know exactly what I need to brush up on if I want to try for an office job in China although the intense and fast-paced working environment has it's own challenges. Time will tell.