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‘Thank you’, ‘Please’ and the magic words

Photo credit: Margaret Littman, Tribune Newspapers When I was initially thinking about how to structure this blog, I was considering (and many people were encouraging me) to write it in Russian. I...

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Losable… and other -able adjectives

Photo credit: funnyjunk.com What an eventful week… Yesterday I taught my first Russian class at a language school – it was a new experience for me as so far I have only taught individual students. It...

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Russian up… and some other phrasal verbs you never knew existed

Photo credit: wikipedia.org The other day I had another class with my Russian beginner group and one of my students had just returned from a trip to Russia. We all asked how it went and he was really...

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