The Russian word for cinnamon is корица.
What color is cinnamon? It's brown, right? And what is the Russian word for brown? It's коричневый. Wow, what a coincidence.
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| es | la canela |
| fr | la canelle |
Summer 2012 offerings through ASU's Critical Language Institute:
Albanian
Armenian
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
Farsi
Macedonian
Modern Hebrew
Polish
Russian I, II (at ASU)
Russian III, IV (in Kazan)
Tatar (in Kazan)
Uzbek
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Russian trivia
The 5000 most common words in Russian
The three Russian spelling rules
The four most irregular verb stems in Russian
The fourteen verbs of locomotion in triplets
The three irregular instrumental plurals
The ten neuter nouns that end in -мя
How to type Russian on your computer:
Homophonic Russian keyboards for Windows Vista, Windows XP, GNU/Linux & KDE
Homophonic Russian keyboard for Mac OS X
Other help on Russifying your MacIntosh from AATSEEL or Friends-Partners.org
Punto Switcher — automatic Russian/English keyboard switcher
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