«Средь бела дня» – ‘In Broad Day Light’ Posted by josefina on Jan 20, 2009
«Дрессировке не поддаётся!» [Doesn’t succumb to taming (or training; teaching)] – I saw this splendid advertisement for «Новая газета» [‘New Paper’] in Yekaterinburg in early January, and had planned on using it for a post on the dative case with the words ‘Anna Politovskaya Would’ve Been Proud”, but yesterday’s events caused me to think it…
The Splendor of Russian Proverbs! [Пословицы!] Posted by josefina on Jan 17, 2009
The ‘Word of the Week’ that we’ve had here on this blog for a while now is a very good thing (it proved especially good when that “word” was «Барак Обама»), but what about making some changes in the new year and try ‘Proverb of the Week’ instead? If you really want to get to…
Russian Favorite Word Continued: «Отстой» Posted by josefina on Jan 12, 2009
Never mind the swastika someone painted on this poster (honestly, I didn’t even notice it was there when taking the picture so please forgive me this stupid mistake!) but let’s instead try to focus on two other things present there: 1. “the Soviet poster revived in the 21st century”, and 2. poetry about a bank…
What’s Your Favorite Russian Word? Posted by josefina on Jan 5, 2009
Not very often do we think about what are favorite words are. Not in our native languages, neither in the foreign languages we speak. I didn’t really think much about which Russian word I preferred for a long time. My American classmate here in Yekaterinburg told me a couple of weeks ago that her favorite…
С Наступившим! [Happy Not-so-New-Anymore Year!] Posted by josefina on Jan 2, 2009
In Russia «Новый Год» [New Year] is the BIG holiday of the year, it is to one sixth of our planet Earth’s spacious land what Christmas is to most of the Western world. So if you’re in Russian between, let’s say when the first colorful lights start blinking, sparkling, glittering and the stores put up…
And the ‘Name of Russia’ is… Posted by josefina on Dec 29, 2008
…АлександрНевский [Alexander Nevsky]! If you remember (and have been a reader of this blog for long enough – thanks, by the way!) I wrote about the Russian people voting in the national contest/TV show «ИмяРоссии» [Name of Russia] in a post of mine back in July [ИмяРоссии: who’s your pick?]. Well, ladies and gentlemen, yesterday…
«С Рождеством с Урала!» [Merry Christmas from the Urals!] Posted by josefina on Dec 24, 2008
«С Рождеством с Урала!» This Christmas card is old – from 2006, when I had just moved to Yekaterinburg, and there’s a mistake in it (guess where?). When I sent it out to friends and family that year it caused a sensation because of its… well, partly because of its portrait of Russian contemporary society…