Russian Is My Mount Everest
A grueling, painful, lifelong joy of studying Russian was sparked by Anna Karenina.
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Episode Notes
Many years ago, after reading Constance Garnett’s English translation of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, John McWhorter wondered what it would be like to read the novel in its original Russian. So he set to work teaching himself the language—and he’s been at it ever since.
Podcast production by Mike Vuolo.
