Hello everyone!

This week we are finishing introductory Russian class and continue learning Russian in situations. Imagine: a family of foreigners has just arrived in St.Petersburg. They know just a little Russian but they will use it in all necessary situations – and you will learn them too! Getting through passport control, demanding your lost luggage (it does happen), ordering taxi, eating out and much more.

http://edufire.com/classes/93-situational-russian-

Start November 28, 5 pm London time

Почему у Вас все классы или рано или тогда, когда у меня спорт??:))))

Я никогда не ем мясо. :)

Марко, наверное, вегетарианец. А может быть, он просто не любит мясо!

Строгий вегетарианец…. is that right? :)

Я бы сказал “ортодоксальный вегетарианец”:)))) just kidding:)
Марко, почему ты вегетарианец?

Well, a vegetarian doesn’t eat meat or fish…. but does eat dairy. A vegan has nothing that is derived from an animal, dead or alive, in their diet.

Why? I don’t think there’s a short answer, but every reason you can probably think of. :)

That’s a good answer, Marco!:)
I meant no harm!:)
Каждый имеет право жить так, как ему хочется:)

No harm was taken…. and of course, I agree. :)

Why are you writing in English, if you can write many things in Russian??:))

Because I can’t write many things in Russian yet. :( But I’m getting there! :)

Oh, I see:)) I write better, than I speak:((

You speak just fine. =)

tut-tut-tut
Don’t flatter me!:)
Не льсти мне:)

Privet! That’s about one tenth of my russian vocabulary

Poka

Enrique, join Yulia’s class and you will enlarge your Russian vocabulary:)))

Hello,
I am busy preparing my literature presentation. Tell me, do you have any specific questions? Any name or book you would like to hear about? I will include everything that interests you!

Max Frai ‘Complaints Book’:)))
kidding!

to be honest the first book that influenced me was Turgenyev “Fathers and children” (I don’t know the correct translation)

Evgeniy, I read Fathers and Sons by Turgengev (in English) and I also liked the book. I was angry when Bazarov died though. I also liked ‘Notes from the Underground’ by Dostoevsky, but I’m a little worried. If I sympathize with the narrator, does that make a psychopath as well? Lol. I don’t know how I feel about ‘Crime and Punishment’ by Dostoevsky, it had a strange ending. I love ‘Anna Karenina’ by Tolstoy. A bit long, but still a great story. The book that changed my life is One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Short but very powerful tale.

Ginny, you know a lot of Russian books:) Some of them I haven’t read:) As I don’t like any literature that takes too much energy to be understood:)) I’m sure I’ll read some of them later, when I’ll feel like reading that kind of books:)
As concerns Fathers and Sons…. I hate Bazarov, Arkasha, Arkasha’s father. I DO like Pavel Petrovich Kirsanov! I think he is a true man! He is a noble and real gentelmen!

Really? I don’t like Pavel at all. I don’t know if my memory is correct, but in the English translation it’s implied that he is a womanizer. That really puts him low on my list of favorite characters. However, I hate Nikolai even more. He only acknowledges Fenichicka when he gains Pavel’s approval. Not very noble at all. Honestly, at first I didn’t like Bazarov, but I feel he just got carried away with the Nihilist movement. Deep down inside he’s probably a good guy.

Well, Pavel Petrovich isn’t a womanizer, as the last part of his life he loves the only one woman! And he has never thought about marriage with someone else! I think he is the best character in this book:)
Evgeny Bazarov, well, maybe he’s a good guy deep inside, maybe…. But, he’s too selfish and too proud to accept the thought that he isn’t a nihilist, as he can feel and he has feelings to (I forgot her name:((( ) that lady!
He behaves too bad! So, I felt no pity at all when he died!

I think one class is not enough. So on Thursday will be only the first class I was just collecting data about Lomonosov
So much to tell about!