Nektarios in Russian

Nektarios14 · Post by **Nektarios14** » Sun 11 January 2004 12:58 am

I am planning on sometime down the road (hopefully sooner than later!) learning Russian. But to start off, could somebody please write me name (Nektarios) in the Russian form of it and how to pronounce it correctly.

Many thanks!
Nektarios

bogoliubtsy · Post by **bogoliubtsy** » Sun 11 January 2004 8:55 pm

Нектарий

Nektary

Slight emphasis on the "ary"

Nek(sounds like "neck") tary(like Atari, but without the first "A")

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Sun 11 January 2004 9:25 pm

Nektarios, I am surprised to hear that you are interested in learning Russian. Not to be rude, but you haven't struck me as a Russophile. Have you decided on this just to be able to have access to more Orthodox texts?

Nektarios14 · Post by **Nektarios14** » Mon 12 January 2004 12:10 am

Peter,

Thanks!

Natasha,

In general I don't love any Orthodox Culture over another one (not to be confused with those hating all ethnic Orthodoxy in America). The parish parish that is three miles from my house is Greek and the closest monastery is VERY Greek (St. Anthony's), so deciding to first learn Greek was an issue of immediate practicality. If the closest parish to me had been Serbian, I would have started learning that...Russian, then Russian first etc. Since I am a convert I have no ethnic ties so it didn't really matter to me. But my major reason for wanting to learn Russian is that there is so much Orthodoxy that is in Russian that I don't want to be cut off from it because of linquistics.

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Mon 12 January 2004 6:50 pm

Yes, there is a lot of Orthodox material available in Russian. I only asked because I remembered reading on the other board about the remarks from your Polish family regarding your conversion.

Nektarios14 · Post by **Nektarios14** » Mon 12 January 2004 7:49 pm

My Grandpa from Poland (who BTW is fluent in Russian) had some not so good meetings with the Soviet Army. So he is of the thinking anything Russian = communist oppressors of Poland. So it is easier to say that I am "Greek" Orthodox to him - which he has no issues with. The rest of the Polish half of the family really couldn't care less.

And I could just tell my Grandpa I am in training to learn the language of the enemy