I would like to learn Russian, Chinese, French and many others also.  The problem remains the same, I wasn't born there and learned it from birth. Translations and learning Russian from English translations is not natural and offensive. Language is best learned from your mother's lap. Since I am well past learning by that process I think I could pick it up by being around children who are learning their language in just that way. I managed to learn a few words in French while watching a child learning French at home. But I'm certainly not well versed from the little movie I saw. 

Yup. Although I am not presently taking all of the drugs that I am addicted to, I do take drugs that enable me to function close to what most folk may consider as normal. 

Thanks for your kindness...I was a drug addict, moon-shiner, and about the lowest creature to crawl out of our cultural sewer years ago...and now all that is behind me and I've no interest in going back. It is amazing what a person can learn along such a way. 

Most folk who are unusually cranky and very difficult to get along with are experiencing stress and/or pain that they don't understand and think; mistakenly, that their pain is coming from other people or things in their environment. Their comments about themselves and their bodies are the REAL problem but is denied and protected from exposure. This oddity-behavior of protecting secret pain can be rooted out and exposed by gaining trust , expressing personal pain of a similar nature based on the observed clues from the rant-acker along with a surprising personal happy conclusion suggesting comic relief.

Secret drug addiction "on a Jones" can be very harsh...like quitting smoking cigarettes which involves addiction,  finding sexual activity painful and secretly witheld as a fact.

My personal method involves the use of grazing animals. However I have had the mower problem too. I found that my yard was not graded flat and level which required lots of top soil added to the yard along with weeding and then reseeding and some additional washed sand. After a while it started to look like a golf course.  But then I noticed that the trees were showing a lot more roots as a result of fertilizing the lawn around the trees. I tried to keep the emerging roots under control by adding more dirt around the base of trees. Then I picked up an odd hose attachment designed to press a 3 foot long rod into the ground to water and fertilize trees...so the trees don't root up the lawn around them.  So I see now that the lawn and tre game should have been started when I was a kid...but I'm near 70 now and turned yard maintenance over to a bunch of animals.  

The most intimidating legal device for use on police and all other social malcontents is a hand held electronic camera like many handheld phones have built-in. This progressively available personal technology can easily out preform any person with verifiable facts.That Witness in your pocket and recording an event is one item we all need to record the facts especially where your personal freedom is at stake.   When a couple of guys tried to rob me, I simply pointed out 2 of the three cameras surveilling the immediate area and they ran away. I told the police and they got the recordings and the would-be-robbers were in jail two weeks later. This is why there are so many people in jail in the USA and why we actually need more cameras on the streets...and on your person. 

Have an audio/video recording device in your possession at all times. Many cameras record sound and visual events. The more this type of device, to witness what you see and hear and say, the better. The facts, recorded this way benefits everyone with the unbiased truth. Hear-say evidence is subject to bias and false interpretation. Recorded facts are too difficult to falsify and need to be in the public trust as soon as possible. I personally would entrust my recording to a Catholic Priest and few alternatives since there are no public assigned receivers of recorded witnesses established by law. 

The skills needed to maintain and repair my own appliances has been a great asset for myself and many of my neighbors also. I know industries would prefer that we just throw away all in-opperable  appliances and buy new. Most industries try to make things last...just past the warranty. I like products to last well past the end of everything and everyone else. So I study production processes and materials as well. Also longevity,   etc.

Russia does it's own thing and I am sure they can handle their own problems better than anyone else can because they understand their own culture and what goes on there is not our business. Their independent thinking got them where they are and our involvement is not wanted. If I spoke Russian I would go there for my understanding of the Russian people and not to compare my background to theirs. Comparative analysis between nations makes problems rather than solves problems. 

Being shown the icy street in front of the store is enough of an incentive for most of the employees I know there. Psychological prompts are the main reason folks stay in such jobs. It is easier to work as an employee than to be your own boss in your own business with employees. Not being skilled as an employer is a sure path to bankruptcy. Family owned businesses often fail as a result inexperienced relations in charge of more responsibility than they can handle.