The Russian Language
How to explain stereotypes about Russians to a child and not get lost
One day your child will come home puzzled. At school, someone taunted them, laughing, about bears in the streets or about eternal...
Russian language level test for a child. Which of the four types is yours?
Two children are growing up in the same immigrant family, in the same house, with the same parents. But their Russian is different. The older one chats...
Why does a child need Russian in 2026 and 10 honest answers to this question
Sooner or later, this question confronts almost every Russian-speaking family abroad. The child is growing up, English is already their native language, friends…
Why schools start teaching slower, and it works
Twenty topics per semester, a frantic pace, test after test. The child barely grasps one thing before being pushed to the next. Sound familiar?...
Words that exist in Russian but not in English
There is one Russian word that made even Nabokov give up. A writer equally fluent in both Russian and English, a master of both...
Game for children on the Russian alphabet. Catch the letter in time
Free Russian alphabet game for children: letters fall from above, you need to catch the right one before it falls. Three speeds,...
The Woman Behind the Method: Who Was Maria Montessori
Montessori. This word is known to every modern parent as a synonym for gentle and eco-friendly child-rearing. But where did this approach come from? On...
Russian Idiom Quiz. Will your bilingual child understand?
To lead someone on. To be left with nothing. To twiddle one's thumbs. Does your child know what these really mean? For children,...
Russian Typing Tutor for Bilingual Children
In English, a child scribbles blindly, fingers fluttering. But when it comes to writing a couple of lines to Grandma in Russian, everything freezes. Where is that letter? Click...
Russian Tongue Twisters for Pronunciation Practice — Knowledge Test
Catch any adult who has spoken Russian all their life. Ask them to say "syvorotka iz-pod prostokvashi" three times in a row, quickly. The first time...
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