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 [...]
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 [...]
Expressing yourself in a foreign language is a tricky task and just a few minutes of a somewhat adequate conversation and absence of confusion on the other person’s face could be quite rewarding. Before you start diving into dictionaries, or, I would say, slovari (meet the first Russian language representative!), trying to cramp as many [...]
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 [...]
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We are currently putting together an actual iPhone Application to learn many things bout the Russian language. For now however please check out a web application (and soon to be widget) for children to learn Russian on the iPhone. Go to the Application and click the plus sign in Safari for iPhone and click save [...]
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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
I’ve known Sasha since I lived in Yoshkar-Ola. His observation is a bit crude (and I’ve written to him to suggest he tone back his rhetoric a bit) but it’s very true. For some reason when American’s think of the capital of the oppressive Soviet regime they think it was all Russians (It was not, [...]