Russian Study Group

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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby DaveAgain » Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:40 pm

einzelne wrote:I'm really curious what these "Boltz textbooks" based on "Robertson's methodology" were...
In his Polyglot Gathering talk Principles of accelerated language learning, Grigory Kazakov highlighted a Russian:Polish course.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Anastasiia K » Wed Feb 23, 2022 3:01 pm

I am a Ukrainian 4th-year student from LCC International University in Lithuania, who majors in Psychology. I am conducting a research experiment as a part of my fourth-year thesis process. The purpose of my study is to determine whether speakers of different languages perceive colors differently, particularly the speakers of English and Russian languages. I am also investigating if color discrimination abilities might improve after new language acquisition, for example, Russian. To make the second part of an experiment possible, I need to recruit 30 native English speakers who have nearly fluently learned Russian (levels B2 and higher). I am reaching out to you with the hope that you could help me to find people, who would be interested in taking part in a short 10-minutes experiment. I would appreciate it greatly if you could share this message with English-speaking people who have learned or know Russian in your organizations/university, or who major in Russian language and culture studies. You can find the link to the experiment embedded in a short survey below. Thank you in advance for your input. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me – akendys19@students.lcc.lt, or my thesis adviser Jennifer Schneider - jschneider@lcc.lt.

FOR RUSSIAN speakers and those who have learned RUSSIAN: https://www.psytoolkit.org/c/3.4.0/survey?s=kX3Ph

FOR ENGLISH speakers only: https://www.psytoolkit.org/c/3.4.0/survey?s=UHh8E
FOR NATIVE RUSSIAN speakers: https://www.psytoolkit.org/c/3.4.0/survey?s=kX3Ph
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby acorngalaxy » Sat Mar 12, 2022 6:41 pm

Pure torture. One day's worth of words. :o :shock: :?

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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby DaveAgain » Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:31 am

At the recent UFC London event the Russian-English interpreter seems to have been having a bad day :-(

https://www.reddit.com/r/MMA/comments/t ... ator_does/
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby DaveAgain » Sat Apr 16, 2022 6:04 am

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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby lichtrausch » Mon Apr 25, 2022 10:47 pm

Farida Rustamova tweeted today:

илон маск мог бы подкупить всех, кто нужен, чтобы организовать табакерку. но он купил твиттер

I can't make sense of it beyond its literal meaning. Can someone explain what she meant?
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby vonPeterhof » Mon Apr 25, 2022 11:46 pm

lichtrausch wrote:Farida Rustamova tweeted today:

илон маск мог бы подкупить всех, кто нужен, чтобы организовать табакерку. но он купил твиттер

I can't make sense of it beyond its literal meaning. Can someone explain what she meant?

Табакерка ("snuffbox") is a shorthand for a palace coup, in reference to the assassination of emperor Paul I by a group of Imperial Guard officers. One of them supposedly knocked the emperor out by hitting him on the temple with a snuffbox, and since the official cause of death was recorded as "apoplectic stroke" it's been joked that Paul I died "of an apoplectic stroke with a snuffbox to the temple" ("от апоплексического удара табакеркой в висок"). Lately snuffbox memes have become popular among embittered Russian dissidents as an expression of the desire to see Putin removed from power as soon as possible and/or disillusionment in all other possible methods of removing him.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby lichtrausch » Tue Apr 26, 2022 1:28 am

Thanks! Always nice to learn some history through language learning.
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby IronMike » Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:36 pm

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Sounds like motion verbs!
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Re: Russian Study Group

Postby Mista » Tue Aug 09, 2022 8:21 am

IronMike wrote:Sounds like motion verbs!

I think I would go for unidirectional here
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