Archive for May, 2009
Examples of Strange Russian Expressions Posted by josefina on May 31, 2009
Sometimes Russians may say something that sounds so strange that you cannot – even though you know the meaning of all the words in the sentence they just uttered – for the life of you understand what they mean. An example is the famous expression «да нет» [‘yes no’] which I up until a couple…
Russian Literature On Stage: «Поэма «Русские женщины» Н. А. Некрасова» [The Long Poem “Russian Women” by N. A. Nekrasov] Posted by josefina on May 29, 2009
Though there are still some problems with posting pictures here on the blog we can always use videos instead! This is just the beginning – I intend on posting the whole 10 minute version of this tiny play in a couple of days – of how we staged «поэма «Русские женщины» Н. А. Некрасова» [the…
Tomsk Trip – or Traveling Siberia by Train Posted by josefina on May 25, 2009
This is a video I shot on the «Иркутск – Минск» [‘Irkutsk – Minsk’] train «где-то между Омском и Тюменью» [somewhere between Omsk and Tyumen’] in Western Siberia. On Sunday morning on the train I got bored and decided to play with my phone for a while and found out that it can film videos!…
In The Russian News Posted by josefina on May 18, 2009
Good evening, everyone! I’m sorry the latest entries on the blog may have been posted a little too frequently, but there’s a reason for that – tomorrow I’m taking the train to Томск [Tomsk]! «В Сибирь!» [To Siberia!] In Tomsk I will take part in the annual conference for foreign students in Russia – «Всероссийский…
Swedish/Russian Eurovision Skit: “Tingaling” Posted by josefina on May 17, 2009
This is funny because it is a true image of what most Swedes consider Russia to be like. But what are they singing? Here’s the lyrics in English, Russian and even with a little bit Swedish: Погриманский на здоровье [‘Pogrimanski’ (?) to your health] Глобоский гротески [‘Globoski groteski’ (?)] Наступающим! [with the coming!] (Tingaling, tingaling) (Tingaling…
Test Your Russia IQ! Posted by josefina on May 16, 2009
This is interesting: the travel site Travel all Russia has a timed test you can take to find out just how well you know everybody’s favorite “Родина Мать” [Motherland]: Russia IQ test – how much do you know about Russia? All you need to do in order to take it and try your knowledge about this…
Евровидение! [Eurovision Song Contest!] Posted by josefina on May 13, 2009
Suddenly it is that time of the year again – the time when one cannot help but feel that one is, was and will always remain a European. This feeling is first and foremost connected with an important European annual event in May: «Евровидение» [Eurovision Song Contest]. This year the competition takes place here in…