Feeling quizzical about quizzes?
Feeling testy about tests?
Not sure what answering questions and filling in blanks can do for you?
Let alone your grasp of the Russian language?
As either an evaluation of skills or a learning method, …
Making your own tomato sauce is easy.
Marcella Hazan’s famous recipe calls for only four ingredients: tomatoes, butter, onion, salt.
But many people still buy jarred sauce. Maybe because it’s slightly easier.
Or because no one has ever told them, …
Talk is cheap.
At least, it seems that way before you start learning a language.
Then suddenly, the type of conversations that aren’t worth a second thought in your native language become intrinsically valuable in your target language.
It can …
Your day-to-day life is hectic.
You have a job. You take care of your baby (or fur-baby). You have a social life. Maybe you haven’t even had time to catch up on the newest seasons of “Stranger Things” or “Veronica …
You can’t lose a language.
Not really.
Sure, you can learn Russian and then forget it.
You can let your Russian grow rusty and full of weeds, slowly abandoning it to the sands of time.
But you won’t lose …
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.”—Sir Richard Burton
Traveling abroad does something to the soul.
You could see travel as a chance to unwind and take a vacation, and there certainly isn’t …
There are quite a few hoops to jump through when learning Russian.
You have to learn a whole new writing system, totally new grammar concepts (how can “I love you” mean the same as “I you love”!?) and words that …