You probably have heard that Russians are not friendly. Imagine you see your neighbor – you don’t know the name but you live close and you wanna be nice to him. Would you say “Hello” Or if you enter the elevator with some other person – would you greet hi

My english collegues often don't understand why russians are so obsessed with language fluency of translation. Their point is if the line is grammaticly correct why don't you like it. The problem is very language-specific. Russian language is full of sino

Recently I passed a test of Russian as Foreign language in Internet and now warn you about the qulity of such tests: According to esl-languages.com online russian test I have upper-intermediate level of russian. I am native. And I have just the same upper

The funny thing about russians is that you can almost undoubdfully recognise them by the way they name boss. It is because russian will try to call your patron "chief" or even "chef" due to linguistic coinscidence. This is simply because the word шеф (pro

Тапок в пол, вдавить тапок в пол means "to speed up" (only for cars) or, literally "to press accelerator pedal rapidly"

When translate english to russian or russian to english one must bear in mind that the word might have more than one meaning in another language. № Word Translation Example 1 Light свет light of a bulb лёгкий light as a feather 2 Issue выпуск side issue и

Prepositions. They are king. Learn one werb with all prepositions – and you’ll know enough words to talk. Let’s take the word ехать . Ехать Выехать Проехать Доехать Заехать Въехать Наехать Переехать Объехать Подъехать Съехать Уехать Поехать Отъехать besid

As you know of the importance of stress in Russian, it is important to remember that Russian never has numerous stresses in one word. You may not realize how usual it for English words – congrAtulAtions, mUlti-lIngual, negOtiAtions etc. Whith this logic R

Russian grammar is quite close to German. Instead of 4 German cases Russian has six. There is a special funny phrase that helps Russian kids to learn the names of these cases. Иван родил девчонку, велел тащить пеленки. Ivan rodil devchonku, velel taschit’

RU in case you want to learn Russian i can recommend you very good dictionary software - Lingvo , and also free online dictionary