Russian via Skype Hello! Привет! 🙂 My name is Olia and I’m a qualified and highly experienced Russian language teacher (native speaker) I give private lessons for individual, paired, or small-group learners in St. Petersburg or via Skype. – Active learning of grammar, an extensive conversation practice. – Creative tasks that will make language […]
“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 […]
Dear friends, Today is March 8th (восьмо́е ма́рта) –it’s a Women’s Day (Междунаро́дный же́нский день). This the holiday for all women, including mothers, grandmothers, daughters, and girlfriends. March 8th is an official public holiday in Russia. This beautiful spring holiday is most often celebrated in the family circle with a festive meal and champagne. Another […]
Happy Maslenitsa! – watch Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London and ambassador for the annual London Maslenitsa Festival of Russian culture, inviting everyone to join the festival in Trafalgar Square. Full details www.maslenitsa.co.uk
How to learn the Russian alphabet How to learn the Russian alphabet? I hope you have already seen the Russian alphabet Video 1 and Video 2 I know, that it’s quite difficult to learn by heart the Russian alphabet . Today, I’d like to show everyone how easy it is to learn the Russian alphabet […]
Looking for an effortless apple cake? Try Russia’s most popular dessert and you’ll always have your go-to recipe. This simple dessert is known to everyone in Russia, but it actually originated in Britain in the 18th century and was known as “Charlotte”. This apple bread pudding was first invented by peasants, but the Russian version […]
Click on the photo to enlarge New vocabulary for you! Public places. банк – a bank овощной магазин- a greengrocery школа – a school мэрия- a city- administration стадион -a stadium вокзал – a railway station почта – a post аэропорт – an airport театр – a theatre замок – a castle бассейн – a […]
You already know that Russian alphabet consists of 33 letters: 10 vowels (а, е, ё, и, о, у, ы, э, ю, я), 21 consonants and 2 signs (hard and soft). There are 2 letters in Russian alphabet which are not pronounced: soft sign Ь and hard sign Ъ. These two letters are silent. They don’t […]