Russian language

When You Are Strange

When I was a teenager, I explored the Western rock music. Among other old names, I discovered The Doors and […]

If you are learning Russian, you might have heard that in Russian, word order is flexible. What exactly does this

Every time I start my car, a dash camera (yes, I have a dash camera in my car) says: “Starting

What’s the difference between настоящий естественный and реальный ? Could you give some example phrases to illustrate the distinctions, and

When I was a child, I was an insatiable reader. I read everything I could get my hands on. Once

I often hear from students of Russian that verbal aspect (perfective and imperfective verbs) and verbs of motion are the

I’m a German native speaker and I can’t roll the R at all. It really bothers me and I feel

The question of why some words look suspiciously similar in Russian and English first arose when I started learning English

Any language has many words that have literal definitions but are rarely used in their direct meanings. For example, nobody

Russian has many ways of expressing your affection for someone. One of the most common is adding a diminutive suffix

he first thing I learned about the German language was that all nouns in German are written with a capital

The Russian language, like many other languages, has many words that derived from the names of geographical places. The French