cjareck wrote:Interestingly, we have a Polish "skwer" but it is taken from an English square and means "city square". The equivalent of a shipyard is "stocznia," which seems to be our original word
Russian also has the word сквер with the same origins, but its meaning has shifted to something closer to "public garden" - basically a small space of urban public greenery that's too small and open to be considered a park. It's unrelated to скверный either way, which is a Slavic word related to the Czech "skvrna" (stain, spot) and Croatian "skrnaviti" (to desecrate).
Then I watched a second video, which was filmed in Krasnodar. I would have struggled to mark Krasnodar on a map before today to be honest but it looks like an interesting city 
I know, I know - I said I wasn't going to. But the previous episode I watched ended with a character unexpectedly dying and I really wanted to see what happened next.
The first bit I studied today was about the different masculine/feminine endings for names of professions and nationalities. I felt like I was already quite strong on the nationalities, but a lot of the words for professions were new to me. The second part I looked at was about the gender of indeclinable words of foreign origin. I have to confess, I had assumed these were all neuter (except кофе, which is always given in textbooks as an exception) but it turns out that, like everything in Russian, it's more complicated than that. Lots of the names of towns are masculine (based on the word for town, город, being masculine), while the names of rivers are feminine (after река). There was a whole list of rules like this and it reminded me of the very distant past... probably over 15 years ago now... when I was trying and failing to remember lists of rules about noun gender in German. I can visualise a page in my grammar book which explained that the gender of rivers in Germany is always feminine (except for when it isn't - der Rhein, der Main), while the gender of rivers outside of Germany is always masculine (again, except for when it isn't - die Themse). In the end I just gave up and decided never to talk about rivers in German 
Also I accidentally managed to order the same thing four times at the weekend (long story!) and all four packages turned up today, despite my best efforts to cancel the orders, so now I have three packages I need return.
Ironically after I was writing about adult children imposing on their mother in 'Татьянин день' the other day, the storyline in this series today involved a father throwing his daughter out of the family home and telling her to prove she's capable of supporting herself. If you learn one Croatian word from the below clip it should be the exclamation "van!" (out!). I counted it 7 times!