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Origins of Kvass
Kvass is a medieval drink which means ‘leaven’.  It is basically non-alcoholic drink fermented from rye and mixed with herbs or fruits like mint and strawberry.  If you have never tasted it your missing something.  It is popular in Ukraine and Russia and goes back 5000 years plus. It is also known as [...]

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Ukrainian Russian gas dispute
Wake up!

Russia is a Empire. It always has been and they are not going to change soon.  I am an American in Poland and see that Russia has been an Empire for at least 500 years and why would they change.
Putin is a Czar. Does anyone really think Russia is a [...]

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Russian, Ukrainian and Polish recipes
I am an American who has live in Krakow for five years.  I grew up in America as did my parents. But my grandparents were from Lublin, Poland and Ternopil, Ukraine.  I love Polish cooking. I love Ukrainian cooking. Living in America I often had Polish and Ukrainian cooking but never [...]

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Russia wants to takeover part of Ukraine
Russia wants Crimea to be part of Russia not Ukraine. Why? Oil. Read my comment at the bottom, its really about oil. What does Russian say is the reason? There are many Russians that live in Ukrainian Crimea.   Why is this crazy that Russia wants Crimea? Because [...]

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Beautiful Ukrainian Prime Minister
Who is the most beautiful world leader? By far without a question the Ukrainian Prime minister. She is not only beautiful, but intelligent, moral and but tough. She lead the orange revolution, was jailed for political reason, has unfairly had political mud slung at her, stood up to [...]

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Most economically valuable languages to learn
Conventional wisdom says if you are are looking for the most economically valuable language to learn, learn Spanish. Why? Spanish is gaining momentum and the line between the English and Spanish world in the Americas is blurred.
However, the most economically valuable languages to learn is not Spanish at least from an [...]

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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. Here is [...]

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15% more earnings for bilingual skills
I have been looking around at how much people get paid for being bilingual. If you are talking apples and apples, bilingualism will reward you with about a 15% increase per year in your pay. However, this is for basic job. The reward for a professionals, will be a higher, [...]

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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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