But that would not be learning Japanese. Would it?

You're right about my name. It is a play of words. A mix between a Portuguese term ("trinca-espinhas") and the endings of many Slavic Names.

I adopted it years ago, I wasn't even dreaming about learning Russian by then.

What is cool about Russian is that for us Westerners, the alphabet is not that different. Almost every Russian Character has the equivalent in our Alphabets. 7 of the letters are exactly the same (а, е, о, с, к, м, т), 5 other letters are also in our Alphabets but sound different (у, н, х, в, р) = (u, n, h, v, r) and after that, I only had to learn the others. Most of them are phonetically similar to the remaining letters we know, example: ф = f, и = I, ж =j ... And so on.

With Japanese it's a whole different game, as we can't make such equivalence. As you know.

I am glad I met you, too. Good Portuguese there. 😉

I am already enjoying my weekend since Thursday. Hope you have a good weekend too.