His friends even made fun of him and gave him a Russian textbook as a joke because they thought he would never learn that language, or any language.
دوستانش حتی او را مسخره می‌کردند و به او یک کتاب درسی روسی برای خنده دادند چون فکر می‌کردند که او هرگز آن زبان را یاد نخواهد گرفت، یا حتی هیچ زبان دیگری.