Russia is home to a vast number of people from different nationalities and faiths. Despite our differences, we treat each other with respect.

🔵However, every summer (regardless of the region in our vast and beautiful country, religion, gender, or nationality), a number of Russians traditionally divide themselves into two irreconcilably hostile categories:

Category 📝: те, кому жарко (those who are hot) with the air-conditioning off
and
Category 📝: те, кому дует (those who are drafty) with air-conditioning on.

🔵These particularly "bloody" battles unfold in air-conditioned offices.

🔵The struggle to "neutralize the icy air conditioning" against "creating an optimally cool temperature for brain function" continues until autumn, when the warring parties, breathing a sigh of relief, and unite to fight off autumnal depression, lovingly supporting each other with ginger tea and homemade pies.

❓Which category do you belong to?

📎 Russian text (for true Russian language learners) is in the comments👇

#just_a_joke
#admins_thoughts

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😏There are both categories Те, кому дует vs тех, кому жарко in RCR as well.

• У нас ничья.
  [u nas ni-chya]
  It's a tie.

#useful_vocabulary

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​​😀Всем пламенный привет!

🔻Russian adverbs 'туда' and 'оттуда' are used to indicate direction in Russian.

1⃣ Туда
     [tu-da] - there
      To there, towards that place

• Пойдём туда.
  [pay-dyom tu-da]
  Let's go there.

🔻'Туда' is used with verbs of motion, such as идти (to go, come).

2⃣ Оттуда
     [at-tu-da]
     From there, from that place,
away from there

• Я приехал оттуда.
   [ya pri-ye-khal at-tu-da]
   I came from there.

🔻'Оттуда' is used with verbs of motion, such as приезжать (to arrive).

😀 In Russian colloquial speech, there's a sarcastic phrase:

• Я бы вас (тебя) послал, да вижу вы (ты) оттуда.
[ya by vas (ti-bya) pas-lal da vi-zhy vy (tu) at-tu-da]
🇬🇧 I'd send you (to hell), but I see you've just come from there.

⚠️Mind that it is pretty offensive!

🎧🗣👇

▶️ Сюда/отсюда (Revision)

#tricky_words
#verbs_of_motion
#spoken_Russian

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• Скряга (скряги) (common gender)
  [skrya-ga ]
A very stingy person, a penny
pincher

🔻There are informal synonyms for 'скряга':
• Жмот (жмоты)
[zhmot] (masc.noun about a man)
• Жадина (жадины)
[zhadina] (common gender)

Examples:
• Ну ты и скряга!
   [nu ty i skrya-ga]
=
• Ну ты и жмот!
   [nu ty i zhmot]
=
• Ну ты и жадинa!
   [nu ty i zha-di-na]
=
🇬🇧You're such a penny pincher!

🎧🗣👇

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🌚 Хорошего вечера, товарищи!

• Мак (маки)
  [mak (ma-ki)]
  Poppy(ies)

Video: artemmeletov

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Язык (языки) (masc.noun)
  [ye-zyk]

1) A tongue
2) A language
3) A clapper
4) А prisoner/informer (to be interrogated)
5) ...etc

• Языковой (masc.adj.)
  [ye-zy-ka-voy]
  Linguistic

But:
• Языческий (masc.adj.)
   [ye-zy-ches-kiy]
   Pagan

🔻There's a Russian saying:

• Язык до Киева доведёт.
  [ye-zyk da Ki-ye-va da-ve-dyot]
  SLT: A tongue can take you to Kiev.
  🇬🇧 If you ask, you will get.

Meaning: The power of language can lead you to a distant place. (In Rus' the city Kiev was considered to be a distant one). Though a military meaning can also be referred to this saying nowadays.🤔

▶️Тянуть за язык (Revision)

▶️Как корова языком слизала (Revision)

▶️Найти общий язык (Revision)

🎧🗣👇

#tricky_words

#useful_vocabulary

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🫥Сan you read this?

🗝
If you can read this, you're probably a Russian spy.

❓And a serious question:
Are you able to read in Russian?

Please take part in the survey over there👇.

#just_a_joke

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🇷🇺 Ещё немного русского вам в ленту!

Video:📷puh_kot_puh

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🇷🇺 По утрам мне особенно грустно!
🇬🇧 I feel especially sad in the mornings!

Preposition ПО means:

1.  Movement or direction:
• По лестнице
  [pa les-ni-tse]
  Up/down the stairs

2.  Time:
• По утрам
  [po ut-ram]
  In the mornings

3.  Distribution or Manner:
• По одному
  [pa ad-na-mu]
  One by one

4.  Purpose:
• По делу
  [pa de-lu]
  On business

5.  Following a certain pattern:
• По правилам
  [pa pra-vi-lam]
  According to the rules

6. Indicating a feature or characteristic:
• По матери я русский
  [pа ma-te-ri ya rus-skiy]
  By my mother, I am a Russian. (I am a Russian by lineage.)

🔻Note that the preposition ПО is written separately. Do not confuse it with the adverbs 'потихоньку' (slowly) or 'по-русски' (in Russian).

🔻It's impossible to mention ALL cases when this preposition is used!
But for those who are eager to do it: check ▶️this and ▶️this

🔻To cry on my shoulder and complain on the difficulty of the Russian grammar is▶️here.

🎧🗣👇 Не грустите по утрам, товарищи! Всех обняла!

#prepositions
#grammar_tips

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🔢🔢🔢 Ванная (комната) / A bathroom:

1. Ванна
    [van-na]
    Bathtub

• Принимать ванну
   [pri-ni-mat' van-nu]
   To take a bath

2. Душевая кабина
    [du-shy-va-ya ka-bi-na]
    Shower (cabin)

• Принимать душ
   [pri-ni-mat' dush]
   To take a shower

3. Гель для душа
    [gel' dlya du-sha]
    Shower gel

4. Шампунь
    [sham-pun']
    Shampoo

5. Мочалка
    [ma-chal-ka]
    Washcloth, sponge

6. Полотенце
    [pa-la-ten-tse]
    Towel

7. Халат
    [kha-lat]
    Bathrobe

🎧🗣👇

▶️Принимаю ванну (Meme)

#365_marathon

#survive_in_Russia

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