That's correct, but usually you say яичница-глазунья. The opposite is яичница-болтунья - literally chatterbox but here it's related to stirring. It means scrambled eggs but to us these are two kinds of the same thing. So normally people just say яичница unless it's really important to specify which kind.reineke wrote:In Russian, eggs fried this way are called глазунья (glazun'ya).
Great explanation. I'd add that каникулы implies fixed dates and duration. It's also used a lot about the 7-10 days off work that most of the country gets in January (can also be used for May but майские праздники is more common - it's more ambiguous if you say новогодние праздники because the holiday season is roughly from Dec 25 to Jan 25vonPeterhof wrote:Radioclare wrote:Throughout the course of the chapter, the book uses three different words for holidays and I don't feel like it defines them very clearly:
отпуск - leave, holiday
каникулы - vacation
отдых - rest, holiday
Are all these words interchangeable? Or is there some nuance in meaning? As far I'm concerned a holiday is a holiday, a vacation is when an American has a holiday and leave is something you might get from the army...
MamaPata is essentially right about каникулы. While it has other uses (e.g. налоговые каникулы for, I believe, "tax holiday"), its primary use is for the regular school holidays. Отдых is the general word for "rest", but can also be used in the sense of "holiday". На отдыхе is a common way of saying "on holiday": for instance you can say "Она на отдыхе в Сочи" to make it clear that the person is taking a holiday in Sochi (as opposed to visiting the city for work or a family emergency). Отпуск is the usual word for "leave of absence". By itself it doesn't distinguish between paid or unpaid leave, but it is distinguished from regular days off (выходные) and national holidays (государственные праздники; праздник by itself can also refer to festivities that aren't formally recognized as grounds for letting employees take a day off).
). An institution can also close for каникулы if it simply ceases operations for 2+ weeks in summer.
reineke wrote:In Russian, eggs fried this way are called глазунья.
I am very tempted to break out the Schaum's grammar but for now I'm managing to hold back, because I think it's better for me psychologically if I feel like I'm moving forwards.
On first glance, chapter 9 looks like it's going to be a lot easier because the main grammar point is the future tense, although there is a section on dates and I struggle with dates in every language. I've spent an hour this evening putting all the chapter 9 vocabulary into Memrise so that I can learn it during the week. But this trip gives me a good motivation to try and get fit to cope with the inevitable walking uphill. I swear there is no downhill in Portugal, only uphill It's the most expensive trip I've ever booked and every time I look at the bottom line of my holiday-costing spreadsheet I want to weep 
I'm sure I read an article once about a part of Greece where lots of people from Serbia go on holiday and the restaurants have Serbian menus, but I can't remember where it was.Radioclare wrote:It's fair to say that my grasp of adjective endings is pretty hazy, particularly the dative/prepositional/instrumental.
This chapter was primarily about the future tense and so it wasn't too difficult. Chapter 10 is going to be about verbs of motion, so I have a premonition that that is going to be less fun. Oh well, it was useful practice and in particular it has helped me to get my head around reflexive verbs, which was something I was struggling with beforehand I spent most of today researching Greek public transport in an attempt to plan my itinerary and to be honest it seems like a complete nightmare. My guidebook, which is several years out-of-date, blithely refers to how easy it is to get from A to B by train, but then when I look it up I find that every train route which might have been useful was discontinued in 2011 or similar. The bus system seems very... erm... "Balkan"... except that the ticket prices seem Western European; not a winning combination It feels like planning bus travel in Montenegro about 5 years ago before they had the idea of putting bus timetables on the Internet so that people could, you know, actually look at them. Very few Greek timetable seem to be accessible online and so I have been reduced to reading Tripadvisor threads and pinning my hopes on the comments of random people who might have seen a bus somewhere five years ago... But it looks beautiful And the accommodation is absurdly affordable, at least in October and in the part of Greece I am going to. If I wanted to book the absolute cheapest hotel rooms available in my destinations, the cost would be on a par with Lithuania; that's how cheap it is 
So I've been able to afford to book slightly nicer rooms than I expected and still end up paying only half or even a third of what I'm paying for significantly inferior accommodation in Iceland And it's a long time until October, so by then I ought to be able to learn the Greek alphabet at least and hopefully the days of the week for reading bus timetables. 
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