Russian Welcome Party/September 2009

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On Sunday, September 6th, we had great time celebrating the beginning of the new school year. There were a lot of great home-cooked food!

welcome to oberlin

this is a new post without pumpkins.

Давайте познакомимся!

Здравствуйте дорогие студенты Оберлин Колледж. Меня зовут Ксения. Я приехала к вам из России, города Екатеринбурга.

Ksenia Troshina

Ksenia Troshina

Ekaterinburg is sometimes called the third capital of Russia. Read more…

Несколько слов о предлогах и времени

Many students get confused about telling time in Russian, and telling at what time something happened is no exception. Today I want to discuss the use of prepositions and the expression of time.

Consider how you might answer the following questions:
В котором часу?
Во сколько?
Когда?

The easiest situation is right on the hour, using в + ACC, as below:
Когда ты придёшь домой?
Я приду в час. (в два часа, в шесть часов…).
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Русский и английский языки такие разные!

Many students struggle with how to say “different” in Russian, so in this first of a series of tips on studying Russian we’ll visit the myriad of ways Russian approaches this deceptively simple concept.

The first word that usually comes to the English speaker’s mind for different is “другой“, though this may better be thought of as “a different one” or “another one” as below.

Маша купила одну бутылку минеральной воды, а я купила другую.

Masha bought one bottle of mineral water, and I bought another (different) one. Read more…