Russian Roundup – June 2018

by Katherine on June 30, 2018 with No Comments

This month we went to visit my husband’s family in Hawaii with a suitcase full of Russian snacks.

In previous visits, I set goals like learn 5 new Russian words from listening to people talking. This time I didn’t have any goals and I don’t think I learned anything new, although I did get a good amount of speaking practice with his mom. And as usual, the food she prepared was great! Meals were usually a tasty mix of Russian food and local fruit, like борщ + морковный салат + жареная рыба followed with fresh lychee or mango. Here’s a breakfast of блины with avocado that had been picked the previous day and mango jam-

In other news, I finished both Russian Tutor and Schaum’s Russian Vocab. I also watched «Обитель зла».

On to the round up!

Что нового (What’s new)

- Check out this cute skit called Чай, кофе, сок?

- Here’s a fun Ekaterinburg Travel Guide.

- Ever thought of riding The Cable Car in Khulo, Georgia?

- Beautiful photos from Кенозерский национальный парк.

- Watch trailers for new Hollywood movies… in Russian. Or even better: watch new trailers for Russian films here.

- Русский языкот «гой еси» до «лол кек»: Старославянский и сленг, оканье и мат, ѣ и ё, Мефодий и Розенталь — всё, что нужно знать о русском языке и его истории, в видео и подкастах.

- I just discovered you can read/listen to English-language updates from the Russian Embassy in the US: Russian Embassy Weekly.

- And finally, this woman is pretty awesome! She’s singing частушки, which is I how I found the video. (I was trying to figure out what a частушка is… turns out it’s a limerick or naughty rhyme.)