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 Topic: Russian Children |
Bat
Replies: 8
Views: 2173
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 Forum: Russian People Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:09 pm Subject: Re: Russian Children |
- Are they uncomfortable with touch? For example, holding hands and hugging?
Depends on the age. Primary school children touch each other a lot, teenagers don't do it so freely (girlfrin ... |
| Topic: My experiences of Russia as an Irish person |
Bat
Replies: 11
Views: 5259
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Forum: Russian People Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:57 pm Subject: My experiences of Russia as an Irish person |
"Idiocy of russian laws is compensated by non-compulsion of their execution"
Saltykov-Shchedrin said that. |
| Topic: russian pioneers |
Bat
Replies: 14
Views: 5048
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Forum: Russian People Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:06 pm Subject: russian pioneers |
| I was born in 1983 and happened to be an oktyabryonok (октябрёнок) - that is younger than pioneers, wearing a badge with Grandpa Lenin on it. I liked stories about Lenin (like the one about 6 inkpots ... |
| Topic: Learning the Russian Alphabet |
Bat
Replies: 14
Views: 8708
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Forum: Practise Your Russian Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:03 pm Subject: Learning the Russian Alphabet |
This trick works with some of my tourists: look at international words and the words you already can pronounce written in Russian. You just get used.
Examples I show to my tourists in the streets:
К ... |
| Topic: friendly greeting? |
Bat
Replies: 5
Views: 3261
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Forum: Russian People Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 4:04 pm Subject: friendly greeting? |
| The thing is, it often depends on your own feelings/intuition. For example, I don't hug or kiss my friends when I meet them, I try to escape hugging some of my relatives because I don't like them. But ... |
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