Last January I made these reading lists: 2020 e-books about Russia and Russian and Russian books currently on my bookshelf. In total, I finished nine of those books (well, one was a grammar textbook). The most disappointing read was probably … Read More
Поздравляю вас с наступающим Новым годом! This month I listened to a Товарищ иностранец podcast about fashion and watched the first episode of the реалити-шоу «Разведёнки». I learned the meaning of the word рыгаловка. Thankfully, not from personal experience! (Hint: … Read More
Meet Neri, an adventurous Floridan living in Moscow! We met on Instagram, where Neri shares beautiful photos of her adopted city and lots of clever observations on language learning. But she is far beyond simply captioning photos in Russian – … Read More
I give up, я сдаюсь! There are just so many loanwords now that maybe it’s pointless to keep sharing them here. What do you think? On one hand, it’s kind of fun to spot them mixed in with real Russian. … Read More
The final chapter of Schaum’s Russian Grammar is СДЕЛАНО! 😁 79 pages of Russian verbs, done! Random things I learned: Russian has so many verb conjugations! More than I could have imagined + lots of verbs that take some remembering, … Read More
It’s Black Friday time in Russia…. which means stores are advertising a variety of colorful sales. There’s Чёрная пятница. There’s Белая пятница. There’s even Золотая Пятница! The country also celebrated Mother’s Day (Sunday, Nov 29th) and has started hanging up … Read More
This isn’t the first time I’ve shared Russian songs with you this year – there was a September post on 9 Russian songs about the coronavirus and 3 songs that are hot in Russia right now way back in January … Read More
Covid-19 has turned me into a local news junkie. The upside to this addiction is that I can only get my fix in Russian. I’ve gone from hardly ever reading the news in Russian to reading more than is healthy. … Read More
This month my husband and I watched an episode of Лучше, чем люди, a popular TV show about motherhood, robots, and bitter divorce. The verdict? Eh, that first episode was enough. Also, we finally saw the Disney film Последний богатырь. … Read More
Last year Chelyabinsk opened a fairy tale trail (тропа “Лесные сказки”) in one of the city’s most popular parks. How well do you know Russian fairy tale characters? I recognized a couple of them but still had to do a fair amount … Read More