New York is expanding programs in which students will be taught in two different languages, including Russian and Hebrew. Mayor de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza announced this on the first day of applications for Pre-K and 3-K at ...
TOEFL cannot be compared to any English exam we took at school, university or in courses. It has its own structure, specific logic and tasks. In addition, special attention should be paid to vocabulary, since the exam tasks include texts ...
It is not uncommon to hear phrases or expressions in English that are confusing to any foreigner for whom English is not their first language. These are idioms, or phraseological units, which for English-speaking people are an integral part of everyday communication. About some of them, funny and ...
In the United States, activist Mark Goldberg organized a fundraiser to punish lawyer Aaron Schlossberg, who spoke rudely to immigrants because they spoke Spanish. The conflict took place at a restaurant in New York. Schlossberg stood in line, in front of him were a couple of clients with whom ...
In the village of Ninilchik on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, about 185 miles from Anchorage, linguists have discovered a relict dialect of Russian. According to Share America, a small group of elderly Alaskans lives in the village, thanks to whom the dialect of the Russian language has survived, practically frozen in ...
Most Russian words that have passed into world use are associated with certain historical events. Bolshevik, udarnik, kolkhoz, komsomol, starosta, tundra, taiga, troika, izba, telega, balalaika, vedro, matrioshka, okroshka - this is only the tip of the words that migrated to other languages. “My club...
If you need to learn English from scratch in order to watch movies in the original and communicate with foreigners, then with these tips, language learning will go faster. 1. Learn with Interest It is very difficult to learn a language effectively without a specific goal or motivation. Try ...
Elena Budovskaya, a lecturer at Georgetown University, once sent a letter to her American and Russian colleagues with the idea: "Discuss the language of Putin at the annual conference in Chicago." She admits that she did not expect such a response. Linguists, one by one, began to send in topics: "Putin and his keywords", ...
Whatever you say, English is the ideal choice for international communication: in the 16th and 17th centuries it was Spanish, from the 18th century it was French, and in the 19th century it was actually German. Unlike the last two languages, and from Slavic or Asian languages, English is much simpler. But…
Whether or not to teach Russian to a child born in the USA is a dilemma worse than the Hamlet question for many Russian-speaking families. And even if parents want to pass on their language to the next generation, they face new problems: how to teach, how to motivate the child and ...