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On Thursday evening, nine-year-old Sonya comes home from school and says a phrase to her mom that sounds the same every April in émigré families...
In Brighton Beach souvenir shops and Russian delicatessens in California, matryoshka dolls stand in rows. On the left, large, bright red ones with a bouquet of roses on their bellies...
We have a student at our school named Lenya, he's nine years old and was born in San Francisco. He's been learning Russian for two years now. Last week at...
Twenty-six-year-old Caitlin from Boston sits over the translation of a simple English phrase, «I bought a new red bag.» She thinks for a minute. She writes down: «Ya..."
A 35-year-old engineer from San Francisco is watching the third episode of «The Boy's Word» with English subtitles. He listens to the characters cursing in something incomprehensible, and...
Emily from Austin started dating a guy whose entire family is from Minsk. His grandmother only speaks Russian via video call. Emily…
A bilingual child is doing their Russian homework. Verbs. On the sheet, there's a line: «I ___ to school.» The task is to put the verb «идти» (to go) in the correct...
A bilingual teenager from Chicago receives the phrase «I love you» in a chat from a friend. He looks at the screen, frowns. «Wait, why «I»..."
Bilingual grandson on a video call with his grandmother. The grandmother asks, «Where did you go today?» The grandson replies, «I am going to the park.» The grandmother patiently corrects him:…
A story from October. A mom from Seattle sent us a screenshot of her eight-year-old son's notebook. On the page, in neat handwriting: «Yesterday I..."
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