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Outline world map for children, print and complete three tasks
In a Russian school, such a map has a second name. Mute. A mute map is a geographical map without names. For our kit...
What Russian and Polish have in common and where the traps begin
A piece of paper is hanging on the door of a Warsaw shop. Four lines, in large letters. A Russian standing in front of it for the first time understands about half. Worse...
Why Russians write ZY instead of P.S. and where the vowels went from «spasibo»
At the end of the message, the person adds: «PS. I'll be later tomorrow.» If you type PS without switching from the Russian keyboard layout, you get ZY. In...
How to set up a Russian keyboard on Windows, Mac, and phone
Valentina Petrovna was turning sixty-five. On the fourteenth of March, in Samara. And her son-in-law was sitting in Ann Arbor in front of a glowing screen and already...
Russian folk crafts from Khokhloma and Gzhel to Zhostovo and Palekh
Late 1924, the provincial administration. Alexander Zubkov, secretary of the new artel, brings in its charter for approval. The officials look on with suspicion. The applicants...
How to watch cartoons with a child so they start speaking Russian
We use a simple scheme at school. Three minutes before watching, a short clip and a conversation after, and a regular cartoon becomes a full-fledged...
A child started at an American school without English. Eight tips that work in the first year
Nine-year-old Artem arrived in New Jersey in July, and in early September he went to the third grade of an American school, knowing only a few English words...
The soft sign and hard sign, why does the Russian language need two letters without sound
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,…
How to read Russian abbreviations and what to do with them
In the 1920s, the Russian language abbreviated everything in sight and at some point got around to people. Boys were named Vladlen, from Vladimir...
Outline maps, what are they and why does a child abroad need them
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...
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