Кружка мне не подходит, но надпись топ)

Look, I knew five languages by age 19 and now I am learning like 3 more. I work as a language instructor and a consultant. If I can give language learners only one advice, this is it.

STOP LEARNING WORDS ON THEIR OWN.

You're doing yourself a disservice by learning lists of "30 words you must know!" "100 most common words!" like it literally means nothing if you cannot use those words in an appropriate context with proper grammar. So what you actually need to do is learn those words via example sentences.

Of course, sentences have more words so you may think you're learning less but you're actually learning the way to use it in context. That's what's important.

Language is about communication, which also means if you want to learn languages, you have to observe how people communicate with each other universally. Native speakers never have a list of words they know and they don't count every single new word they've learned. So why are you doing it to yourself? What native speakers do is listen to the new word, remember the context they're spoken in, and keep using that word in that context. And that's why people go "wait, you can use that word LIKE THAT?" all the time. So you, a language learner, are also allowed to do that. I'm not even saying those word lists are useless but they're the most useful AFTER you've known most of them and are trying to go over them for practice etc. Native speakers do click on those word lists to check out how many words they don't know or to remind themselves of those words or to learn some facts about each word. That should be your goal as well.

Learn sentences. Learn them in context. Do not fall into the "I must know xx amount of words or I'm a failure at language learning" trap perpetuated by bloggers or youtubers or whatever. Have fun with it!

Могу себе представить, сколько хейта наша девочка получила на этом конкурсе красоты (

Я видела в Твиттере истерию из-за русского персонажа в One Piece. Это прям нелепо было.

Собака лает, караван идёт.

Translation: “I am fucking tired of the soviet car industry” *the standard effect of touching a soviet car* *laughs in russian*

Suffix -ина for 'meat of...'

In English, words for animals and words for their meat can look very different. In Russian, there is a regular model to make a word for "meat" from the name of the animal. All you need to do is add the suffix -ина to the root of the word:

Свинья -> свинина 🐷

Баран -> баранина 🐑 (баран is a male sheep, ram, not just any sheep, but it gives the name for the lamb meat).

There could be some phonetic modifications though, the stem can be shorter or longer:

Курица -> курятина 🐔

Also, for cow meat, Russian uses the archaic root *govędo:

Корова -> говядина 🐮

The model works for virtually any meat source, but let's stop here.

Planets in Russian! 🌍 PS: Learn Russian with the best FREE online resources, just click here https://www.russianpod101.com/?src=tumblr_infographic_planets_121024

Whenever Americans use Cryillic like. That. I just. Instantly shrivel up an cry

What frustrates you most about Russian grammar?

Пугать так пугать is an expression meaning "if you have to be scary, be really scary".

Infinitive verbs in Russian can be used in many weird ways, including for "have to".

Пугать - to scary, to spook.

Как же сложно сделать по-настоящему кринжовую презентацию

P.S. но я справилась

Artist Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky at work on a portrait of Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia.