#Russian language
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Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.
It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.
Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.
Hope this will be helpful.
#cyrillic#russian colonialism#ukrainian language#slavic languages#turkic languages#russian language#russian invasion of ukraine
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"I learnt to write slogans and posters". Vintage Russian poster by N. Zaitsev (1920s).
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Map of where the Russian Language is spoken.
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I have been learning Russian for two and a half months ("I wanna read Dostoyevsky in the original" - the queen's gambit) and it's such a simple language, apart from the pronouns.
Pronouns are horrible in Russian :(
Stay yourself, stay curious
#russian#learning russian#russian language#language#language learning#dark academia#academia#Dostoyevsky#fyodor dostoevsky#russian lit#russian literature#the queen's gambit#tqg
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people you meet in russian class
kid who knows a ton of molchat doma and kino songs, but keeps forgetting how to say "hello"
heritage speaker who knows vocab but not grammar rules, who's besties with the language fiend who knows grammar but not vocab (this was my friend and I)
kid with scary politics
bored tech genius who speaks russian with the thickest american accent you've ever heard
the alt/goth kid. there's always one.
the one who always shows up late and gets called out by the professor every time
the one who dropped out as soon as they heard about genitive case
retired old guy who was in the military and is awkwardly singing cheburashka songs in the back of the classroom with the rest of the students
humanities student intimidated by all their stem and polsci classmates (this was also me)
"cyka blyat lol edgy communism memes" kid who really wants to commit to the bit
quiet slavic kid who never talks but is somehow tight with the professor
the one a little too into soviet history
the one who never tried to learn to read cyrillic
the one who insists on writing in russian cursive, despite the fact that none of the other students can read it and the professor keeps correcting it (this was also me. we didn't even have to learn cursive. I just wanted to learn it for historical research purposes)
the one romanov apologist (may also believe they're a reincarnation of anastasia romanova)
#language learning#russian#russian language#I miss russian class. I made so many friends. and the professor loved me so it was awesome#she also made us tea and pirozhki sometimes
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Learning Russian on Duolingo
Edit: Fixed “моя яблоко” to say “ мое яблоко ”. This is what I get for not consulting my notes.
#duolingo#duolingo owl#russian language#language learning#duolingo fanart#comic#snake's art#I get it I'm mispronouncing everything jeez
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Spring vocab French & Russian <3
spring - le printemps - весна
flower - la fleur - цветок
to bloom - fleurir - цвести
to grow - grandir - расти
petal - la le pétale - лепесток
butterfly - le papillon - бабочка
bee - l'abeille - пчела
bird - l'oiseau - птица
rebirth - la renaissance - возрождение
daffofil - la jonquille - нарцисс
grass - l'herbe - трава
#more vocab!!!#french vocab#french langblr#langblr#learning french#french#french langblog#learning russian#russian vocabulary#russian langblr#russian language
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Hello! I'm a native Russian speaker, I can help you practice speaking and writing and answer your questions about the Russian language. I can also teach you how to use gender neutral pronouns for yourself or others as I am nonbinary myself.
I don't ask for anything in return, I just wanna hang out. We can chat here on Tumblr or somewhere else
#language#langblr#languageblr#russian langblr#russian language#learning russian#language learning#learning languages#language help#bilingual#gender neutral pronouns#русский язык
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Did you immigrate to another country? Is it safe there?
No, I’m still here :)
#we don’t even think about this - I mean we have 2 kids one of them is only 3 month old and we are lazy#часть команды часть корабля 😂#russian language
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AKDKAJXJOSKCKd
#art#meme#mk1 2023#mk1#kung lao mk1#kung lao#kung lao x raiden#raiden x kung lao#raiden mk1#russian language
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This is a figurative expression (idiom, excuse).
When a person is tired of doing something, he says "я не могу". then the interlocutor can say consonant "через немогу" - it means "though you can't do anything, but you must. try your best."
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С наступающим!
[s nastupayuschim]
Here's your Russian phrase of the day (or rather, week). It means "Happy upcoming [New Year]" and is used to wish a happy new year to people who you will likely not see/interact with until after the year turns.
Used lots this week in places like the office, shops and any place where you buy or get something, when saying goodbye to taxi drivers, delivery people, gym clerks, house maintenance etc. etc.
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#persona#persona series#persona 3#persona 3 fes#persona 3 portable#persona 3 reload#p3#p3 fes#p3r#persona 3 elizabeth#elisabeth#p3 elizabeth#p3 reload#meme#persona 3 meme#multilanguage#multilanguage meme#russian language#russian
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Population who speak russian by U.S. county
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Russian necrovocabulary
@chupachai for you personally, dear 🖤
умерший (m, single), умершая (f, single) – deceased, dead
покойный, покойная – deceased [derived from покой (peace)]
покойник, покойница – deceased [derived from покой (peace)]
усопший, усопшая – deceased [derived from church-old Russian «to fall asleep»]
почивший, почившая – deceased [pretty outdated, derived from old Russian «to fall asleep»]
преставившийся, преставившаяся – deceased [church-old Russian, from an old Russian verb with meaning “to transit, to transfer”]
погибший, погибшая – perished, a person who died an unnatural violent death
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мертвый, мертвая – dead
мертвец – dead
труп - corpse
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умереть – to die
погибнуть – to die an unnatural violent death, to perish [this is important; we will not say умерший, умереть about a person who was stabbed with a knife or hit by a car or died in an accident or killed in the war; we will not say погибший, погибнуть about a person who died of old age or illness]
скончаться – to pass away
уйти из жизни – to pass away
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These verbs are often used in relation to animals, in relation to people it sounds very rude or vernacular
околеть – to die
издохнуть – to die
сдохнуть, подохнуть – to die
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Some expressions with the meaning «to die», many of them are pretty sublime:
почить – to die [perfect form of the obsolete verb "почить", to fall asleep]
уснуть вечным сном, уснуть навеки - to sleep an eternal sleep, to fall asleep forever
приказать долго жить – to order to live long
отправиться к праотцам - to go to the forefathers
отдать Богу душу - to give God a soul
отправиться на тот свет - to go to that world
отойти от мира сего - to depart from this world
отойти в лучший мир - to depart to a better world
отойти в мир иной - to depart to another world
испустить последний вздох - to breathe a last breath
испустить дух - to give up the spirit
сойти в гроб - to descend into the coffin
сойти в могилу - to descend into the tomb
лечь в сырую землю - to lie down in the damp earth
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почить в бозе - to rest in god [an outdated ecclesiastical expression, can be used by very religious people or in an ironic, mocking way]
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Colloquial, slightly rude expressions:
протянуть ноги – to stretch legs [pretty vernacular]
сыграть в ящик – to play box
надеть деревянный тулуп - put on a wooden sheepskin coat
надеть деревянный макинтош - put on a wooden mackintosh
отдать концы - give up the ends
дать дуба – to give oak
помереть - to die
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Colloquial, vulgar or criminal expressions:
отбросить копыта – to drop the hooves
отбросить коньки – to drop the skates
склеить ласты - glue the fins [criminal]
окочуриться - I believe that this verb has the meaning of "harden", a reference to rigor mortis
скопытиться - to be knocked off the hooves
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стать героем – to become a hero ))))) [internet slang]
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how the Russian language changed directly following the revolution is so interesting. They lost whole letters! They used to have θ! and differentiate between the spelling of есть (to be) and ѣсть (also pronounced yest, to eat). As a student I'm glad I no longer have to memorise which homophonic letters go where, but it's still very interesting.
Plus! the introduction of товарищ (comrade) removed miss/mister/most esteemed etc, and when the USSR was disbanded (is that the right term?) the old words seemed too aristocratic and товарищ was too communist so they got new words! My teacher said господин and госпожа still sound too old fashioned to her, and that is why they use Девушка and девочка now for woman and girl instead of calling women by Госпожа. ( I think that's the word my teacher said but she didn't write it down, so if it's wrong sorry. I think it means missus?)
anyway I just think the evolution of language is really cool especially when it interacts with history and politics
please tell me anything you know on this or similar topics I love knowledge.
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