Comments on: One Year With Russian Blog! http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/ Language and Culture of the Russian-Speaking World Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:55:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Alex http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-1842 Alex Sun, 01 Feb 2009 19:11:38 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-1842 Hi J, I've spent the last 5 years in Spb and am now planning a move to Omsk. =) Any advice you have regarding Omsk - getting there, finding work, and getting visa stuff sorted - would be really helpful. alexjude@mail.ru Cheers Alex Hi J,

I’ve spent the last 5 years in Spb and am now planning a move to Omsk. =) Any advice you have regarding Omsk - getting there, finding work, and getting visa stuff sorted - would be really helpful.

alexjude@mail.ru

Cheers

Alex

]]> By: Krakow http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-443 Krakow Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:36:44 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-443 Hi Josefina, are you single? I think I want to marry you :-) Hi Josefina, are you single? I think I want to marry you :-)

]]> By: Eric & Regina D. http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-429 Eric & Regina D. Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:11:50 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-429 Dear Josephina, First, I absolutely love your blogs! They're not only highly entertaining but educational! I and my wife are both native Russian speakers, hailing from Ukraine. We're both American Citizens as unfortunately, when one left the USSR, one surrendered their citizenship. I have lived in the States most of my life, leaving Russia (CCCP at the time) with my parents due to severe religious persecution. Irregardless how the defunct Soviet State dealt with it's ethnic population, I've had a tangible sense all my life that Russia was my home, or " Наша родина ", if you will. Your experiences help me for however long, to re-visit the land of my birth. I have fond memories of Kvass, and honestly love gretchka also! :) Your love for Russia comes through in your writing! I have read a lot of "Russian Blogs" - Yours stands out in it's creativity and genuineness. Please continue writing!!! Signed, Eric and Regina D., NYC NY Dear Josephina,

First, I absolutely love your blogs! They’re not only highly entertaining but educational! I and my wife are both native Russian speakers, hailing from Ukraine. We’re both American Citizens as unfortunately, when one left the USSR, one surrendered their citizenship.

I have lived in the States most of my life, leaving Russia (CCCP at the time) with my parents due to severe religious persecution.

Irregardless how the defunct Soviet State dealt with it’s ethnic population, I’ve had a tangible sense all my life that Russia was my home, or ” Наша родина “, if you will.

Your experiences help me for however long, to re-visit the land of my birth. I have fond memories of Kvass, and honestly love gretchka also! :)

Your love for Russia comes through in your writing! I have read a lot of “Russian Blogs” - Yours stands out in it’s creativity and genuineness.

Please continue writing!!!

Signed,
Eric and Regina D., NYC NY

]]> By: Bruce Dumes http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-425 Bruce Dumes Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:35:43 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-425 I talk about the etymology of Corok on my site http://learningrussian.wordpress.com. It is borrowed from Greek τεσσαράκοντα (40 in Greek) as a result of Russian trade in Byzantium. τεσσαράκοντα is pronounced like tessarákonta, so it looks like they borrowed the middle of the word (tessarákonta) and it became “сорок”. I talk about the etymology of Corok on my site http://learningrussian.wordpress.com. It is borrowed from Greek τεσσαράκοντα (40 in Greek) as a result of Russian trade in Byzantium. τεσσαράκοντα is pronounced like tessarákonta, so it looks like they borrowed the middle of the word (tessarákonta) and it became “сорок”.

]]> By: Anna Aitchison http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-421 Anna Aitchison Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:42:55 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-421 I love your russian blogs, so informative and educational. I am looking for a source to find origin of "Corok" (40) have you any ideas. Love to hear from you I love your russian blogs, so informative and educational.
I am looking for a source to find origin of “Corok” (40) have
you any ideas. Love to hear from you

]]> By: Anna A http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-420 Anna A Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:40:15 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-420 Love your russian blogs so informative and educating. I am looking for the origin of the word "Corok" (40) Have you an idea of a source I can search to find it - love to hear from you Love your russian blogs so informative and educating.
I am looking for the origin of the word “Corok” (40) Have you
an idea of a source I can search to find it - love to hear from you

]]> By: Bruce Dumes http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-417 Bruce Dumes Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:30:23 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-417 This morning I found your blog and I'm so happy to see it! It's wonderful. As it turns out, I recently started a "Learning Russian" blog myself. Please check it out! http://learningrussian.wordpress.com/ I'll look forward to your new posts! This morning I found your blog and I’m so happy to see it! It’s wonderful. As it turns out, I recently started a “Learning Russian” blog myself. Please check it out!

http://learningrussian.wordpress.com/

I’ll look forward to your new posts!

]]> By: Lu http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-414 Lu Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:45:29 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-414 Congrats on all the congrats and your blog-iverssary :) Thank you for making me notice your very first post. it makes me melancholy because it reminds me of times when i used to be full of belief and without a doubt of my mission to save the world. haha and you made me veery jealous of you being in russia with that one passage (in an earlier post) with russians being more compassionate and human towards the drunks and other unfortunate. Congrats on all the congrats and your blog-iverssary :)
Thank you for making me notice your very first post. it makes me melancholy because it reminds me of times when i used to be full of belief and without a doubt of my mission to save the world. haha and you made me veery jealous of you being in russia with that one passage (in an earlier post) with russians being more compassionate and human towards the drunks and other unfortunate.

]]> By: John Turner http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-413 John Turner Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:27:06 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-413 Keep smiling and blogging sweetheart. We all love what you are doing. For someone that continually looks for books, websites, and other forms of information about Russia and the Russian language; you are a true god send. Thank you so very much... John Turner Richmond, VA (CWA) Keep smiling and blogging sweetheart. We all love what you are doing. For someone that continually looks for books, websites, and other forms of information about Russia and the Russian language; you are a true god send. Thank you so very much…

John Turner
Richmond, VA (CWA)

]]> By: Gabriel Ferguson http://www.transparent.com/russian/one-year-with-russian-blog/#comment-412 Gabriel Ferguson Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:39:49 +0000 http://www.transparent.com/russian/?p=179#comment-412 Finally! An excellent blog about someone doing what I hope to be doing in a few years. I have been in love with Russia for about 4 years. I've been teaching myself the language for about a year (I'm English). I really just want to teach English there for a while, and have those vodka induced laughs with the legendary people of Russia. Keep up the good work. I'm definitely going to continue reading. -G Finally! An excellent blog about someone doing what I hope to be doing in a few years. I have been in love with Russia for about 4 years. I’ve been teaching myself the language for about a year (I’m English). I really just want to teach English there for a while, and have those vodka induced laughs with the legendary people of Russia.
Keep up the good work. I’m definitely going to continue reading.
-G

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