{"id":1550,"date":"2010-11-18T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2014-07-17T14:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T14:03:31","slug":"hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/hello\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0417\u0434\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0443\u0439\u0442\u0435! [Hello!]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>\u00ab\u0414\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0435 \u0447\u0438\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0438!\u00bb<\/strong> [Dear readers!] As you can probably see from the author name on this post, there is a new blogger here on Russian Blog: me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00ab\u0427\u0443\u0442\u044c-\u0447<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0442\u044c \u043e\u0431\u043e \u043c\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>:\u00bb<\/strong> [A little bit about me:] <strong>\u00ab\u041c\u0435\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044f<\/span> \u0437\u043e\u0432<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0442 \u041d\u0430\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043b\u0438\u044f.\u00bb<\/strong> [My name is Natalie.] <strong>\u00ab\u042f \u0441\u0442\u0443\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0442\u043a\u0430 \u0438 \u044f \u0437\u0430\u043d\u0438\u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u044e\u0441\u044c \u0438\u0441\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u0435\u0439 \u0438 \u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043c.\u00bb<\/strong> [I&#8217;m a student and I study history and the Russian language.] This year, I am studying <strong>\u00ab\u0432 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u041e<\/span>\u043a\u0441\u0444\u043e\u0440\u0434\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u0443\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0438\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u00bb<\/strong> [at Oxford University]. In my free time, I like to read <strong>\u00ab\u0440\u043e\u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u044b\u00bb<\/strong> [novels] and <strong>\u00ab\u0438\u0433\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u043a\u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043f\u043a\u0435\u00bb<\/strong> [play the violin]. <strong>\u00ab\u041c\u0435\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044f<\/span> \u0438\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u044e\u0442 \u0438\u0441\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u044f, \u043f\u043e\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430, \u043b\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0440\u0430, \u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430 \u0438 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>.\u00bb<\/strong> [I&#8217;m interested in history, politics, literature, music, and languages.]<\/p>\n<p>How did I get interested in the Russian language and Russia in general? <strong>\u00ab\u041a\u043e\u0433\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span> \u043c\u043d\u0435 \u0431<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044b<\/span>\u043b\u043e \u043e\u0434<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043d\u043d\u0430\u0434\u0446\u0430\u0442\u044c \u043b\u0435\u0442, \u044f \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0447\u0438\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043b\u0430 \u043a\u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u0433\u0443 \u043e \u0420\u043e\u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0445.\u00bb<\/strong> [When I was eleven years old, I read a book about the Romanovs.] It was a work of historical fiction focusing on Anastasia Romanova, the youngest of the Grand Duchesses. The epilogue contained information about what happened to the ill-fated Romanovs and also a bit about the Russian language. I was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward several years. <strong>\u00ab\u042f \u043d\u0430\u0447\u0430\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span> \u0437\u0430\u043d\u0438\u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u043c \u0432 \u0443\u043d\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0438\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u0435.\u00bb<\/strong> [I started studying Russian at university.] <strong>\u00ab\u042f <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044c \u043b\u044e\u0431\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044e<\/span> \u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044b<\/span>\u043a\u00bb<\/strong> [I love the Russian language], which is a good mentality for a Russian language blogger, right?<\/p>\n<p>What sort of topics to expect in the future? <strong>\u00ab\u042f \u043b\u044e\u0431\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u044e<\/span> \u0438\u0441\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u0438\u044e\u00bb<\/strong> [I love history], so some discussion about Russian history is definitely in order. <strong>\u00ab\u041a<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0436\u0434\u044b\u0439 \u0434\u0435\u043d\u044c \u044f \u0447\u0438\u0442<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u044e \u043d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043d\u0430 \u0440<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c\u00bb<\/strong> [I read the news in Russian every day], so current events and politics will be featured as well (in fact, I found an amusing video while reading <strong>\u00ab\u0420\u0418\u0410 \u041d<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u00bb<\/strong> [RIA Novosti, a Russian news agency] today that I plan to write about). And, of course, we mustn&#8217;t forget <strong>\u00ab\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0430<\/span>\u0442\u0438\u043a\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [grammar]. It&#8217;s the grammar that truly makes the Russian language <strong>\u00ab\u0432\u0435\u043b<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0438<\/span>\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0438 \u043c\u043e\u0433<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u0443<\/span>\u0447\u0438\u0439\u00bb<\/strong> [great and mighty], if you ask me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/11\/red-square-350x263.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/11\/red-square-350x263.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2010\/11\/red-square.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>\u00ab\u0414\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0435 \u0447\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0438!\u00bb [Dear readers!] As you can probably see from the author name on this post, there is a new blogger here on Russian Blog: me. \u00ab\u0427\u0443\u0442\u044c-\u0447\u0443\u0442\u044c \u043e\u0431\u043e \u043c\u043d\u0435:\u00bb [A little bit about me:] \u00ab\u041c\u0435\u043d\u044f \u0437\u043e\u0432\u0443\u0442 \u041d\u0430\u0442\u0430\u043b\u0438\u044f.\u00bb [My name is Natalie.] \u00ab\u042f \u0441\u0442\u0443\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u043a\u0430 \u0438 \u044f \u0437\u0430\u043d\u0438\u043c\u0430\u044e\u0441\u044c \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0435\u0439 \u0438 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u043e\u043c.\u00bb [I&#8217;m a student and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/hello\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1131,1211,1213,1248,1696],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","tag-learning-russian","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-russian-language","tag-1696"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/6226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}