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   Катажина:

   I would be interested in writing some short posts, aricles (in the future) for your blog. I am learning Russian (under-intermediate level) and have been there twice.
   Looking forward to receiving email from you.

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   Mark:

   I am very interested in writing some posts and/or articles for the Russian Blog. I haven’t been to Russia, but I have been to Ukraine and seen Russian influences there (I will be returning to Ukraine in October).

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   Edward:

   First let me thank you both – Yelena and Josefina – for the dedication you’ve shown to this wonderful blog.

   I’d love to contribute a post or two about my experiences riding a bicycle across Russia — perhaps illustrated with some photos, and a sprinkling of lines from Lermontov’s poems.

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   Natalie:

   I’m interested! I have been to Russia and Ukraine and I am learning to speak Russian. Look forward to hearing from you 🙂

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   Kelsey:

   I’m interested! I’m learning Russian and hoping to go there soon.

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   Ryan:

   I’d be interested in a series of long-ish (maybe?) posts on the history of Russian. I just last week finished a course on Old Church Slavonic, and it did a wonderful job of elucidating various aspects of modern Russian grammar.

   I’m going into 3rd year Russian at my university in late September, which I will be taking concurrently with a bona fide history of Russian course.

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   trudy ringer:

   I am a teacher and have taken students to Russian eleven times visiting various parts of European Russia. I taught Russian but since retirement feel I have lost so much. My parents were Czech and we found some common ground to speak together. I have some interesting situations to tell about students experiencing Russia for the first time.

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   trudy ringer:

   OOPS! I also want to thank both of you for your insights and helping with the language.

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   Svetlana:

   Yelena and Josefina, I am no writer, but I could send you some pictures to ilustrate your posts, if you find it interesting.
   And thanks for the interesting posts, as usual 🙂

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    Mikhail:

    Hi!
    First of all thanks for interesting blog. Read about familiar things in english are very interesting 🙂 I wanna write a post about Russia (or russian language my be or anything else) for a long time. So if you interested in look from inside the Russia I will try to write about anything what folks more interested in.

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    hugo ly:

    .YOUR BLOG IS GREAT. THANK YOU.

    I WILL LIKE TO WRITE SOMETHING IN YOUR BLOG, PERHAPS MY BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE VISITING MOSCOW AND ST PETERSBURG.
    MY RUSSIAN IS VERY POOR RIGHT NOW,
    BUT WILL DO IT SOMEHOW
    MY BEST WISHES,
    WILL WRITE LATER
    HUGO LY

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    David Roberts:

    One of my classmates from Russian evening classes directed me here. Excellent, already I feel my russian getting better! I’m always on the lookout for connections between russian words and their equivalents or similar in Western European languages, and I find a bit of knowledge about the Welsh mutation system helps to spot some otherwise non-obvious relationships (for anyone not into welsh, a lot of the grammar is based on changing the initial letters of words according to a set of mutation rules) One case I came across in one of the posts is Вороны (Voroni) = crows. B and V are very similar (in Spanish they sound almost identical) and bearing that in mind, I see an obvious connection with welsh “bran” – there’s a town in South Wales called Cwmbran, lit. “crow valley”. Having made this link, I know I’ll now never forget the russian for crow. Whether I’ll ever really need it is another matter! There are one or two other rus-welsh links I’ve found – one is rus nebo (sky) – welsh nefoed (heavens). I wonder if these come from early contacts between slavic and celtic speakers when the celts lived in SE Europe?

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      yelena:

      @David Roberts David, our big and heartfelt thanks to your classmate! Your question is very intriguing. I did some light digging around (mostly Wikipedia) and sent you my thoughts on this in an e-mail.

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    Karyn:

    Hi guys,

    thanks, as always, for the informative/entertaining blog – it is one of my favorites!

    I would love an opportunity to contribute! As a Russian language learner of almost 15 years, I write my own blog (passionforrussian.com) and organize the largest Russian convo meetup group in the Washington DC area. I am currently planning my next trip to Russia this August. I am full of topics and ideas to write about – let me know! 🙂