Yuri looks so determined that he can't, but Victor wants to fawn all over this adorable wrinkle in his forehead and the firmed corners of his mouth. It's just so cute, this focus on getting it right, on finding whatever answer it is he thinks Victor is requiring, or whatever answer he's requiring of himself. "That's a lot."
Not that he can talk about the complications of the Japanese language, when Russian is notoriously difficult ... even, occasionally for native speakers, but Japanese does seem to have an extreme amount of rules and specificity. He's not certain why it's coming up right now, but at least he feels he can safely comment on the complicated nature of Japanese. What little he's picked up from living in Hasetsu has been specific to both situation and person, and he won't pretend he has anything more than a child's grasp of grammar and meaning. The honorifics still confuse him, and so do the variations on seemingly simple terms.
Referring to yourself, for example.
But he can listen attentively when Yuri is trying to make a point about it, or with it, because he is has always been a superlatively polite person, and also because he finds it genuinely interesting, if unexpected.
(Though he does hope it connects somewhere to something he understands.)
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Date: 2017-04-24 06:05 pm (UTC)Yuri looks so determined that he can't, but Victor wants to fawn all over this adorable wrinkle in his forehead and the firmed corners of his mouth. It's just so cute, this focus on getting it right, on finding whatever answer it is he thinks Victor is requiring, or whatever answer he's requiring of himself. "That's a lot."
Not that he can talk about the complications of the Japanese language, when Russian is notoriously difficult ... even, occasionally for native speakers, but Japanese does seem to have an extreme amount of rules and specificity. He's not certain why it's coming up right now, but at least he feels he can safely comment on the complicated nature of Japanese. What little he's picked up from living in Hasetsu has been specific to both situation and person, and he won't pretend he has anything more than a child's grasp of grammar and meaning. The honorifics still confuse him, and so do the variations on seemingly simple terms.
Referring to yourself, for example.
But he can listen attentively when Yuri is trying to make a point about it, or with it, because he is has always been a superlatively polite person, and also because he finds it genuinely interesting, if unexpected.
(Though he does hope it connects somewhere to something he understands.)