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russian English

  • Live and learn

    Posted by on May 31, 2010

    On the final day of Russian English month, freelance translator and interpreter Alexander Dron shares some of his experiences as interpreter with us. Thank you for all of you who have contributed to Russian English month! ___________ My most recent ordeal on TV was a press conference following a meeting of European finance ministers which [...]

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  • Fashion false friends

    Posted by on May 27, 2010

    Our final Russian English guest post this month is from Uliana Urubzhilova. Uliana has been living in the US for three months. She’s studying at the International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT) in Florida, majoring in Fashion Merchandising. She graduated from a university in Russia last summer and has an equivalent of a Bachelor’s [...]

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  • Do we have to speak Maclish?

    Posted by on May 25, 2010

    To mark Saints Cyril and Methodius Day, which commemorates the creation of the Slavic Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets, we have a guest post by Biljana Naumoska, Senior Lector in English at the Department of English Language and Literature, “Blaze Koneski” Faculty of Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia. Biljana holds an M.A. in [...]

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  • Sayings: lost in translation?

    Posted by on May 19, 2010

    Over on Facebook we asked fans to translate – word for word – sayings from their language into English where the translation really doesn’t make sense in English. This turned out to be quite entertaining for a day at the office, and I’m sure there is a lot more fun to be had in this [...]

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  • The influence of English on the Russian language

    Posted by on May 17, 2010

    Our first Russian English guest post is from Yuliya Melnyk, an ESL teacher and journalist originally from the Ukraine. After more than 10 years of teaching English at the Kirovohrad State Vynnychenko Pedagogical University, Kirovohrad, Ukraine, Yulia enrolled into a grad school in journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She started her career in [...]

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  • Babes and babushkas: It’s Russian English month!

    Posted by on May 10, 2010

    It’s Russian English month, yay! I have almost no experience with Russian or any other Slavic language so I have spent some time collecting some interesting links and reading articles, blog posts etc that in one way or another address the topic of ‘Russian English’ or ‘Slavic languages and English’. The reason we thought May [...]

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