17.12.2016

Russian Expression: “Владимир на Шее”

Russian Expression: “Владимир на Шее”…
29.11.2016

Idioms from Griboyedov’s comedy “The Woes of Wit”

The action of A.S. Griboyedov’s comedy “Горе от ума”…
15.11.2016

Russian Idiom: “Родился в Cорочке”

Born with a silver spoon in the mouth or…
01.11.2016

Russian Idioms: Seven Fridays in the Week

Means that a person is unstable in its opinion,or…
07.03.2016

Нечего – Ничего

Если тебе нечего сказать, ничего не говори! (If you have nothing to say, don’t say anything!) You can see in this sentence that we are using […]
07.03.2016

Russian Toponyms

В перестроечные годы в один день слово “Таллин” стало на одну букву длиннее – “Таллинн”. (During the years of the Perestroika, the word “Tallin” gained one […]
29.02.2016

Animate/Inanimate Nouns and Accusative

Following our last article about animate/inanimate nouns in Russian, I wanted to add few things on this subject. Accusative form can have two endings, depending if […]
29.02.2016

Animate/Inanimate Nouns with the Accusative Case

The accusative case is particular in the sense that masculine nouns have two possible endings depending if they are одушевлённые (animate) or неодушевлённые (inanimate). If they […]
17.12.2015

Language Changes and Norms

Facts appearing in the living speech to acquire the status of norms, should necessarily answer to intra-linguistic laws, not in contradiction with the basic tendencies of […]
02.12.2015

Russian Proverbs, Solution of our Game

As promised, it is time to give you the answers of our game from Friday. 1-Ё: Повторение – мать ученья: (Repetition is the mother of learning). […]