January felt like a good month for learning Russian! This year we took part in a legit Крещение celebration, the kind that has a village priest standing on ice at night, reading aloud from the Bible, with a choir singing behind … Read More
С наступающим! Do you have plans for New Year’s Eve yet? We don’t have anything planned so far (total 😳😳😳) but it’s been fun to see everyone getting into the holiday spirit here. This month I watched 3 movies in … Read More
Счастливого Хэллоуина! 😀 Have you had any interesting chances to use Russian lately? This summer I had several cool random opportunities to use Russian. On a Portland – Seattle flight, I sat next to a friendly husband and wife from … Read More
This month we visited D’s mom, who lives in Hawaii. I did a little related reading, including Inside the Bizarre, Racist Scheme to Import Siberian Workers to Hawaii in 1909 and The Hawaiian Don Flowing. We tried watching a TV … Read More
Привет! Not much to say about Russian this month except that I shared a bunch of photos from Chelyabinsk here. How was your August? To the roundup! ✎✎✎✎✎ Что нового What’s the difference between черника and голубика? How do you … Read More
I had high hopes for this month. On July 1st, I told myself, “I’ll do a bunch of Russian word searches!” I did two. “I’ll finish my Russian song book!” I copied the lyrics for three songs and never opened … Read More
This was that month, the month where the hot water gets turned off for 2 weeks. I gave up and bought a кипятильник. It takes about 90 minutes before the water really gets warm but it’s worth the wait. 🙂 … Read More
Some photos from this past month: Not much time for studying this month (surprise, surprise) but I did come across several interesting links… Что нового Useful Russian vocab for talking about LOTR, GoT, and Harry Potter. Learning Russian à la … Read More
It’s been a strange month. My husband’s mom was rushed into emergency surgery and my husband left Russia to help her recover. (She’s doing well now!) At the same time, I slipped on the ice and ended up with a … Read More
For this month’s trashy TV show, I watched an episode of Давай поженимся! (Let’s Get Married!) that featured an American man looking for his second Russian wife, requesting that she “look like a stripper”. 🤣 But it was interesting to … Read More