Russian Language
Unarticulated vowels in the root of words and how to stop making mistakes with them
The Kupchinsky yard explained the voiceless vowels in the root of the word better than any textbook, although no one spoke those words there. Evening. Nine-story buildings…
The child says «yes» to his grandmother and doesn't understand anything; how to teach him to ask again
Sunday evening. The phone is on the kitchen table, propped against the sugar bowl, and Grandma is on the screen. She’s already in the middle of the night, but she’s saying goodbye…
Grandma pays for Russian lessons; how to agree on a goal with parents and the child
In Fasmier’s dictionary, the word «lesson» has ancient Russian meanings, and there are no schools among them at all. «Condition, completion, transaction, rule, payment,…
Parts of speech in the Russian language and how to explain them to a child simply
One day, linguist Lev Shcherba, a future academician, suggested a strange phrase to his students. In the most famous version, it goes like this: «Glocaya kusdra shteko...
Pickled and marinated cucumbers: what's the difference and what to look for on the label
If you go from a cart on a New York street to a refrigerator in today's supermarket, you'll encounter different cucumbers along the way, all with similar...
Vocabulary words for elementary school and how to memorize them without rote learning
The word «cow» is written three times in the notebook. The first time it is «karova». The second time it is «kova», but the first «o» is so densely outlined that it is hidden under the…
Soft and hard consonants: why the letter «z» is written in the word "tooth" and it is not heard
A little more than a hundred years ago, the word «tooth» was written with a solid sign at the end, «zub». The reader of that time did not recognize this sign…
The child does not understand what the parents are talking about in Russian, and where to start the conversation
In Anglo-speaking families there is an old habit. When a child needs to discuss something that they should not yet know about, adults…
A family word: how to ask grandma about it and record its history
In November 1877, Dostoyevsky gave a whole chapter of his «The Writer's Diary» to a single verb. The verb was «to fade away,» and at the end of the chapter...
The child guesses the words when reading; how to teach him to check the end of a word
The child reads aloud a short winter story, in a boisterous, almost uninhibited manner, and on one line he says «They started to make a snowman.» In…
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