Believe in yourself in Russian This Russian reflexive pronoun refers back to the subject of the clause (for example, you are talking about your self and using себя will denote you as well. So себя denotes the same person) The reflexive pronoun себя does not occur in the nominative case and does not change for […]
Russian film War and Peace Russian viewers might think there are better movies for foreigners to see, but here is what top American film critics recommended for the world’s timeless classic cinema fund. Below we take a closer look at 10 of the most important films. Here is the list of Russian films: This black […]
Have you ever tried Russian borscht (or borsch) or борщ? This is the very popular soup in Russia. Borscht is a soup very popular in several Eastern European cuisines, including Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Belarusian, Lithuanian, Romanian, and Ashkenazi Jewish cuisines. Watch the video (in Russian and English) and learn how o make Russian borscht! The […]
Click on the photo to enlarge Dative case is usually used: 1) the Russian Dative case is used to represent the indirect object that is to say, it denotes the recipient, addressee or beneficiary of an action. Иван позвонил маме. Ivan called to mom. 2) the Dative is widely used in impersonal constructions that describe […]
How you can improve your listening and comprehension skills? Have you ever tried to converse with a native speaker of your target language but found that despite being able to speak pretty well you can barely catch a word of what he/she says? It’s not that they’re speaking too fast. They’re speaking normally. The problem […]
A strange and beautiful sight greeted locals in the Gulf of Ob, in northwest Siberia, after thousands of natural snowballs formed on the beach. In Russia, Siberia an 18km stretch of coast was covered in the icy spheres. Why? The sculptural shapes range from the size of a tennis ball to almost 1m (3ft) across. […]
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“То, что нас не убивает, делает нас сильнее.” Ф.Ницше Many students asked me the question: is there any rule about when you should use Russian relative pronoun который, vs pronouns кто or что? For example, it seems that in a phrase like “Девушка, с которой я вчера познакомился” you could easily replace it with “Девушка, […]
Welcome to our Siberia! It is an incredible snowy wild and mysterious Russian land. Have you ever dreamed to come and see а real beauty of Taiga wild nature? It is never ending land, full of flowing rivers and dense forests covered with diamonds of snow frost. It’s look just like amazing fairy kingdom, the most fascinating […]
Russian universities were traditionally given the best buildings in the city. Only in exceptional cases were campuses built in rural areas. RBTH presents interesting and little-known facts about university campuses in the country. Read about hidden treasures of Russian universities
Have you seen new Russian film “Викинг”? The epic Russian blockbuster screened in 2,600 Russian movie theaters and in three Baltic states chalked up $6.7 million in ticket sales over the past weekend. ‘Viking’ starring Danila Kozlovsky tells the story of Prince Vladimir the Great who converted Russia to Christianity in 988. The film was released on December 29. The film’s […]
Russian prepositions of place. Let’s have take a look at Russian prepositions of place and case followed after them. We need the word лестница – stairs НА+ Prepositional case (сase N6) Человек стоит на лестнице. ЗА+ Instrumental case (case N5) Человек стоит за лестницей. ПОД + Instrumental case (case N5) Человек стоит под […]
Сдать/ сдавать хвосты This Russian idiom literally means «to give your tails» – and denotes the following: – to pass an exam again, because it was not passed before – or to pass all exams that you have to pass, to write all the papers that you have to write, to read all the books […]
«Green» vocabulary – names of the grass, plants, trees and parts of it in #Russian. ствол – trunk ветка – branch лист – leaf цветок- flower корень – root каштан – chestnut сосна- pine кипарис – cypress ель – fir-tree яблоня – apple-tree вишня – cherry тополь – poplar ива – willow пальма – palm […]
