{"id":15215,"date":"2022-08-03T01:50:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T01:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=15215"},"modified":"2022-08-03T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T22:19:00","slug":"saying-goodbye-part-ii-but-sequels-are-never-as-good-as-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/saying-goodbye-part-ii-but-sequels-are-never-as-good-as-the-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Saying Goodbye (Part II \u2013 but sequels are never as good as the original)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following up on the lovely and teary goodbye offered by Bota, I would like to offer my own.<\/p>\n

But first, like always, a lesson in lexicon:<\/p>\n

The act of saying goodbye is \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0449\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 while an actual goodbye is \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u044b. This is from the word \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0301<\/strong>\u0442\u044c\/<\/strong>\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0436\u0430\u0442\u044c<\/strong>, which actually means to accompany someone in order to say goodbye to them. \u041c\u044b <\/strong>\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043b\u0438 <\/strong>\u0431\u0430\u0301<\/strong>\u0431\u0443\u0448\u043a\u0443 <\/strong>\u0441 <\/strong>\u0434\u0435\u0301<\/strong>\u0434\u0443\u0448\u043a\u043e\u0439 <\/strong>\u043d\u0430 <\/strong>\u0432\u043e\u043a\u0437\u0430\u0301<\/strong>\u043b<\/strong> We took granny and grandpa to the station<\/em>. \u041f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442\u044c <\/strong>\u0434\u043e <\/strong>\u0434\u043e\u0301<\/strong>\u043c\u0443 <\/strong>to walk someone home<\/em>. \u042f <\/strong>\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043b <\/strong>\u0435\u0451 <\/strong>\u0432 <\/strong>\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0440\u043e\u0301<\/strong> I walked her to the subway<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0449\u0430\u0301<\/strong>\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f<\/strong> means to say goodbye. If you want to say farewell to someone, you will use this verb (the non-reflexive form) and say \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0449\u0430\u0301<\/strong>\u0439<\/strong>. But I am not saying \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0449\u0430\u0439 to any one of you. There is definitely more to come.<\/p>\n

I have been writing for this blog for less than a year. The opportunity popped up for me in September of last year and I embraced it with everything I had. Through this incredibly emotional year, I wrote many blogs (actually 22 in total), but I had a lot of fun doing it. Through writing for you, I remembered many good times of my life in Russia, of the journey of over a decade it has taken me to learn it. Let\u2019s take a quick look at what we covered, shall we?<\/p>\n

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  1. My first blog post<\/a> was thought up at about 10:30AM one weekday morning under oppressive fluorescent lights in an office when I was starved and thinking, how can I make it the next ninety minutes to lunch? I wrote a few other posts about food, including my posts about breakfast time in Russia<\/a>, as well as some of my favorite Soviet foods<\/a> that you can find in any Russian store today.<\/li>\n
  2. We also talked a lot about my favorite topic, which was grammar! I love, love, love grammar! (I know, I\u2019m a bit crazy, aren\u2019t I?) We raced<\/a> through prefixes for a few verbs<\/a>, explored prefixes themselves<\/a>, explored Russian morphology with baby animals<\/a>, and even I used my own embarrassing mistakes<\/a> as a teaching tool.<\/li>\n
  3. I loved covering my favorite topic, which is history. Some of the most read blogs that I posted among the readers of this blog were about history, including my blog about Khrushchev\u2019s great plans<\/a> for Soviet Kazakhstan.<\/li>\n
  4. But lastly, it all comes down to the music. This was always my favorite theme to talk about, and I loved stuffing YouTube videos into my posts, which added color and sound to each post, bringing it alive on the screen. We said goodbye to summer<\/a> with Sofia Rotaru and Alla Pugacheva and even explored some Russian opera through Russian opera stars. And so I leave you now, dear readers, with one of my favorite bittersweet songs from Russian cartoons, \u0413\u043e\u043b\u0443\u0431\u043e\u0439 \u0432\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043d Blue Wagon from the legendary series \u0427\u0435\u0431\u0443\u0440\u0430\u0448\u043a\u0430 Cheburashka:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XVDkdvEplrQ&t=1s<\/a><\/p>\n

    I wish you all the best and please keep up your efforts to learn Russian, an incredibly rich and beautiful language.<\/p>\n

    Keep up the good work,<\/p>\n

    Ryan Green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Following up on the lovely and teary goodbye offered by Bota, I would like to offer my own. But first, like always, a lesson in lexicon: The act of saying goodbye is \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0449\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 while an actual goodbye is \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u044b. This is from the word \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0301\u0442\u044c\/\u043f\u0440\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0436\u0430\u0442\u044c, which actually means to accompany someone in order to say…<\/p>\n

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