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Borscht

Borscht (борщ), a cabbage and beetroot soup, is known in many, if not every, Slavic cuisine. I wouldn’t be wrong […]

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

The Napoleon Cake also is known as mille-feuille, a sort of custard slice cake, and has been one of the

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

We need goals. They navigate us through the chaos of life. They help us to become what we want to

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

Have you heard about a language learning method called interlinear translation? I hadn’t, until recently. A few days ago, I

The first steps into a new language are the hardest ones. You know so little, you have to look up

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

Pelmeni (plural, пельмени in Russian) are dumplings consisting of a filling wrapped in thin, unleavened dough. The typical filling for