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Open a Russian newspaper from 1916. The first thing that catches your eye won't be the yat. It will be the hard sign. It sticks out almost everywhere: godъ,…
In the 1920s, the Russian language abbreviated everything in sight and at some point got around to people. Boys were named Vladlen, from Vladimir...
On the kitchen table lie two maps of Africa, and both are white. One is from the school atlas that mother brought with her to...
In the play, next to the line, there are parentheses. «I won't go» (defiantly). And right after: «I won't go» (confused). The words…
Seven-year-old Nika from Vancouver returned home with a science assignment where she had to color and label the seven continents. Her mother...
In the summer, a Russian-speaking family in the States was talking via video call with their grandmother, and the mother asked her daughter to show on the map the city where...
01 What is the dominant language of a bilingual child? It is the language that comes first for the child: it is the one they think in,...
01 Michael in Russian is it Michael or Mikhail? Both variants are correct, they just answer different questions. Michael conveys the sound of English...
01 Why can't Russian stress be determined by a rule? Russian stress is variable and mobile. It can fall on any syllable…
The American Foreign Service Institute, which has been training translators for government needs for over seventy years, keeps unromantic accounts. For each language there...
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