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 Russian (Джуманджи: Новый уровень + Холоп in the theater and Питер FM on YouTube). I’m starting to think about how I can improve my Russian in 2020 and I think watching movies will be a big part of it. Next month I’m planning to see ⁠(НЕ)идеальный мужчина and Вторжение. Have you seen any movies in Russian lately? Are you starting to think about how you’ll improve your Russian in 2020?

To the roundup!

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Что нового

• New Russian words from 2019.
• What does Я хз mean?
• Take a walk through Moscow’s Park of Fallen Monuments.
• For when you’re bored: Reddit’s Ask a Russian.
  • What would actually impress you that a foreigner knew about your country and its culture?
  • Etiquette for changing from вы to ты.
  • If you were going to make a Russian cyber-punk movie, where in Russia would be the best setting?
• Make yourself some cranberry kvass or beet kvass.
• Amazon Prime Europe is getting a new Russian TV show.
• Do you know what Сто лет в обед means?
• On surfing in Kamchatka.
• Twitter + Yakutia = https://twitter.com/yakutia.
• Short article on several Russian words that are harder to express in English.
• English & Russian proverbs.
• Two useful Russian words of the day: пощёчина and самообладание.
• Everything you could ever want to know about the verb держать.
• Have you seen the Moscow Health Department’s video on vampires and anti-vaxxers?
• How to not get refused for a St. Pete’s e-visa.
• Improve your Russian vocab with this simple online game.
• This just happened but maybe you can find info here for a future opportunity: Volunteer Archaeology in Kazakhstan.
• So, Lenin was… a mushroom? How have I not heard about this?!
• Why you wouldn’t want to fly on the Soviet Concorde – The TU-144 story.
• One-minute video of an amazing project for WWII veterans called Бесплатный ремонт.
• Food for thought as we enter a new year: Language learning habits: how to achieve more by trying less.
  

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What is one thing you did this month to improve your Russian? What are your language goals for next year? Leave me a comment below! 🙂