040 943 Damn, unlucky … .. This phrase can be heard on city buses in Russia much more frequently than others. In my city, this tradition is firmly entrenched among the youth, mainly students and schoolchildren. You need to count all the numbers on the ticket so as to check out is this a happy one [...]
Weekly we will be posting recipes to help you acclimate to Russian Culture! Here’s the first. Borsch is a very common soup made from beets and cabbage. It’s tasty and healthy! Many wrongly assume that because of the typically intense flavor of beets that borsch has some strong flavor to it when in fact it has [...]
What is our little site. Is it yet another ‘read a couple phrases about Russian and maybe take some quizzes and run to Russia as an anachronistic tourist site?” No. We here have a mission; and that mission is not some plug in plug out language exchange profit scheme. We are righting wrongs. Every time [...]
Continue reading about Open Letter to the Publishers of Russian-American Dictionaries & Lessons
Lest I forget our policy of daily updates. I think today we should examine the word “Malo”. This is sometimes a hard word to translate because it comes up in several situations. It’s very easy for learners of Russia to associate this with situations rather than look at the word and apply it in the [...]
While I am not able to give a ton of details what is shaping up is really really cool! Our new Russian Language Community is going to be THE place for English speakers, and Russian speakers to mingle and help eachother learn language, and culture. You’re gonna LOVE it! From Russia, With Love! Люда
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A comparison of American and Russian attitudes… Firstly, every now and then when we want to see a brand new movie or to get an album of a favourite band we: USA RUS Go to the store and buy it of course or turn on the computer and order(!) it. Turn on the computer, log [...]
We have started phase one of the new look for the site! Please feel free to comment with your thoughts! Also we are working hard on the new Learning-Russian online community. Soon Russian speakers, and English speakers will have numerous tools to help each other learn one another’s language!
While I have Russian ancestry, through my Russian-born mother, I am American born, and though we spoke a lot of Russian at home growing up I didn’t have the advantage of a true exposure to Russian culture until my teens when I started investigating Russia more fully, and taking student trips to Russia when I [...]
Continue reading about Домовой, Your creepy little home guardian!
You arrive in Rossiya in the evening one day. Hungry after a long train ride you decide to look for dinner. You consult your handy English-Russian dictionary for the right word, and ask some passersby where a good place to find dinner is. They all suggest that it’s past dinner time. You’re confused, hungry, and [...]
While we are wrapping up our first publicly available iPhone/iPod application we decided to make a list of some other great applications for learning Russian on the iPhone. Check our our language tools page for more! Tvoi Uchitel, Lyudmila Green