Russian vocabulary – One

What does ОДИН (one) mean in Russian?

The word ОДИН (ОДНА, ОДНО, ОДНИ) is one of the commonly used Russian words.  

Russian “LET’S DO IT” form of IMPERATIVE

“LET’S DO IT” form of IMPERATIVE In my Conversational Russian METRO Club I have a lot of Russian learners who are very attentive to details, and they ask me a lot of very good questions. I decided to share my answers to some of their questions in this group so you can learn from them […]

Conversational Russian Podcast – Preview

What is a good way to memorize and retain a lot of vocabulary? Several things can play their role into it. First, you need to meet new words within one hour several times in different media, i.e. 2. Read them at the meaningful and engaging context; 3. Understand their meaning from translation of the single […]

Russian POSITIONAL VERBS

Let’s talk about one of traditionally difficult group of verbs – POSITIONAL VERBS.  Those verbs describe different positions of a person or an object – SITTING DOWN, STANDING, LAYING DOWN, PUTTING DOWN – and moving to those positions.They are frequently used, so it’s a good reason to use them correctly.  Do you know when you’d need to […]

How to make “Винегрет?”

Ингредиенты – Ingredients: 4 свёклы (beets) 4 моркови (carrots) 4 картофелины (potatoes) 1 луковица (onion) 5-6 маринованных огурца (pickles) 1 баночка зеленого горошка (canned green peas) 1 яблоко (apple) Соль (1 ч.л.), сахар (1 ч.л.), перец молотый черный – по вкусу Salt (1 tsp), sugar (1 tsp), ground black pepper – to taste Оливковое масло (olive oil) […]