Archives for: "September 2010"
Враг
Враг is the Russian word for enemy. Try it out loud, it even sounds tough! Правда ли, что кошка и собака враги? Is it true that cats and dogs are enemies? Вот видишь, они враги. See? They are enemies. Both Russian and English have plenty of sayings… more »
Сок (часть первая)
The word for juice is сок. Usually when we talk about juice, we specify the type of juice, thus we have phrases like: apple juice orange juice grape juice In English the phrase “apple juice” is made up of two nouns where the first noun modifies the… more »
Дома
There are three words that native speakers of English often confuse at first in their studies of Russian: The first one of those is дома, which is an adverb that means “at home.” It never changes its endings. The second is домой, which is an adverb that… more »
Стюардесса
Whenever you go on a plane, the person who makes it a safe and pleasant flight is the flight attendant. In Russian you would call her стюардесса. The literal translation is stewardess,but that hasn't been politically correct in the U.S. since the late… more »
Дом (часть первая)
There are three words that native speakers of English often confuse at first in their studies of Russian: The first one of those is дома, which is an adverb that means “at home.” It never changes its endings. The second is домой, which is an adverb that… more »