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Knowing Polish and understanding a Russian film
I am an American that learned Polish, to some level. I was watching the Russian film last night titled “Seventh Cradle”. It is like a Russian ”Indiana Jones”.  There were no subtitles nor lektor. I did not realises this when I started the film. Now the good news is, even though […]

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Phonetic Slavic languages
Phonetic comes from ancient Greek meaning ’sound - voice’. The Slavic languages are phonetic. This is one great advantage when trying to learn. Despite the strange streams of consonants or the Cyrillic alphabet, once you learn the 50 or so sound combinations and letters you can read as you would speak. Spelling is […]

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Why earn more degrees, just learn a language for more earnings power and a richer life
In the States its very trendy to accumulate more degrees and initials behind your name. It is education inflation.  Our fathers need a colleage degree now we need a masters and really some extra designations beyond that. Although it looks […]

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The word dobry in Russian, Polish and Ukrainian languages
Dobry is the universal Slavic word meaning “good”.  You could be in Ukraine, Poland, Russia or anywhere in Eastern Europe, and if you only knew this word, you could be OK in many situations.The Russian, Ukrainian or Polish word dobry can mean “good, fine, OK, sure, lets do it, […]

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Preposition ‘on’ in the Slavic languages - Russian, Ukrainian, Polish.
When native Slavic language speakers, such as speakers of Russian, Ukrainian or Polish speak English they often have trouble with prepositions.  In Russian, Ukrainian and Polish the preposition ‘on’ is represented by the word ‘na’. Na means on, but it has a much wider meaning in […]

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Bilingual education in America
The USA has given more funding and starting new programs in bilingual education in the public schools.  The objective is to make the USA more competitive in the global market.  These programs are just not traditional languages classes in a foreign language, but these are true bilingual education programs in public schools. […]

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Beautiful Russian brides
How to find a Russian bride
The purpose of this article is how to find a Russian bride and talk about Russian brides.  I will be honest and I will tell it like it is. Further I am not selling anything other than language MP3 and software lessons .  I have nothing to do with […]

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Like in France and other counties that are being exposed to English,  there is some degree of encroachment of English on the Russian language.  Ussually young people travel to the west or at least see American movies and shows and pick up slang.  It is just not that pick up slag, it is they use […]

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Russian in Russia
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Years ago people use to dream of living in France. My sister spent a year in Paris working for a French bank. But for the pay you get you can live in a small room in Paris with strange plumbing as many of the building codes are out of date.While in Moscow […]

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Putin, Russia and the Russians
Putin’s Russia
Although not exactly a Russian language topic it is worthy of some attention. Putin could fit the description more of an old believer czarist than a modern democratic president.
Russian Economy
I think the Russians generally like him as his imperialistic grab for natural resources has made the Russians the Arabs of […]

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