Tomorrow will be the first day of summer in Russia and we’ve already hit 36C (96F) here, wow!🥵 When our apartment turns into an oven, it’s hard to be productive. Language learning took a serious nosedive in the heat. Luckily … Read More
Winter is melting away here as the temps climb from -3C to +7C. Here are some photos I took before the thaw arrived… To the roundup! что интересного почитать Beautiful March 8th greetings from Russia’s Khakassia Nature Reserve. Also: в … Read More
Have you ever dreamed of visiting St Petersburg, Russia? Or moving there? Or how about moving there, exploring the city’s retro cafés and gilded museums, and then starting your very own tour company? If that sounds enticing to you, you’ll … Read More
Here it is, the word that makes everyone learning Russian tremble in fear… Достопримечательности. It takes a while to get the hang of this word, doesn’t it? How long did it take you? I had to break it down into … Read More
Explore Chelyabinsk in winter? Let’s go! 🙂 The city opened a cool new museum last fall: Центр исторического наследия Южно-Уральской железной дороги (Historical Heritage Center of the South Ural Railway). Take a look inside the museum here! It’s probably a … Read More
Привет from Chelyabinsk! Today is the last day of winter in Russia… although it’ll probably still look like this outside tomorrow. This month we tried something new: a Virtual Vodka excursion to St. Petersburg. When covid started keeping everyone at … Read More
Meet Andrew Sabak, a professional Russian>English translator and a current student of the famous Liden & Denz Intercultural Institute of Languages. Давайте познакомимся! Andrew, what’s currently your favorite word in Russian? A word like “защищающиеся“ (transliterated as “zashchishchayushchiyesya”, meaning “defending … Read More
January in Chelyabinsk: Maybe it’s the cold temperatures. maybe it’s the covid situation, but I think I spent most of January indoors on zoom. The good news: a lot of it was in Russian! Two hours a week of Chinese … Read More
Welcome to the fifth edition of Russian Words! This is an occasional series that highlights interesting vocabulary in Russian. If you’re an intermediate student of Russian and hungry for new vocab (or you don’t speak the language but you have … Read More
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