Surprise!
Just for fun 🙂 – do you know all of these words?
Can you translate all ten pictures into English? Leave me a comment below! 🙂
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2 Responses
Jasilyn
Nope. My Russian is horrible. 🙁 🙁 🙁
Katherine
You’ll get there, Jasilyn!! Here’s one to start with that’s kind of funny (and Anton might have some interesting thoughts on it, too)-
#5. Крепкий орешек is the translation of Die Hard (the movie). It literally means “hard nut”. This term is used to describe someone who is unstoppable, like Bruce Willis.