How to stay healthy? This edition of the Street Russian Project has nine pieces of familiar advice…. but in Russian! Let’s go 🙂 #1. Попробуй новый спорт / Try a new sport: #2. Иди … Read More
The words below come from a Google search of Какие фразы и слова вас бесят?, or What words and phrases drive you crazy? 😉 They’ve been categorized and explained here for your amusement. Here’s a preview: 7 things … Read More
Мне так стыдно- I didn’t study Russian at all this month. Did you? There’s only one solution for this: let’s just wait for October to start 😉 In the meantime, I’m pretty sure these videos at least count … Read More
Honestly, Russian hasn’t been on my mind much this month. I’m currently studying in a Spanish immersion school, so my brain is trying to dredge up verbs en español instead of по-русский. Playing Cards Against Humanity was pretty much … Read More
We’re lucky: some things translate literally between English and Russian, like бедный как церковная мыш, or “poor as a church mouse”. Others are not phrased in quite the same way, but are pretty easy to guess. For example, If … Read More
On the most basic level, ловить = to catch. There’s an endless amount of things you can лови (catch): рыбу (a fish) такси (a cab) вора (a thief) мяч (a ball) снежок (a snowball) мышей (mice) шпиона (a spy) … Read More
Happy end of the month! 🙂 Was July a good month for your language learning efforts? I got some learning in, like going to this Russian dinner party (discovered there that Зоя is a common name for a female goat … Read More
Planning to someday move to a place where Russian is spoken? This Street Russian Project is especially for you: get ready to look for a place to live! : ) Of course, even if you already have a place … Read More
This a really dorky confession, but I read reference books for fun. When I was a little girl, it was the English thesaurus- I’d sneak peeks at it during boring school lessons and try to find strange words. When I … Read More
Take a listen to this silly but catchy song that hit Russian airwaves in 2006. It’s one of several remakes (including a slightly-off Dutch version) of the Persian-English song “Temptation”. The original version seems to be more about love than … Read More