A small piece of distant Bolivia in the Russian village. 
My cactus (Parodia formosa) is blooming!
Category: Blog
Read out loud in Spanish #2 / Rusa leyendo en Español para practicar la pronunciación (esp subs)
¡Hola amigos! En este vídeo estoy leyendo en español un texto del libro An Elementary Spanish Reader de Earl Stanley Harrison. (Libro de dominio público).
“Un hombre insaciable”
Soy rusa y me gustan mucho los idiomas extranjeros y sobre todo el español.
Estoy leyendo en voz alta para practicar la pronunciación, la entonación y el ritmo en español.
A mí me gusta muchísimo practicar la lectura de esta manera. ¡Espero que estas prácticas me ayuden a mejorar todos mis idiomas extranjeros – español, inglés, polaco, armenio…
Read aloud in English #2 – Grimms’ Fairy Tales – The straw, the coal, and the bean (eng subs)
Hi friends! Today I’m going to read you in English the Brothers Grimm fairy tale ‘The Straw, the Coal and the Bean’. This work is in the public domain.
I made this video to show you my daily read-aloud practice and also to help me track my reading and pronunciation progress in English.
How do I find time to read?
How do I find time to read? 
I read everywhere, whenever I can, even if I have only a couple of minutes. I read on the train, read while standing in a queue, I read at a café etc, etc.
You can always find time to read if you have a really good book with you. The book that you just can’t put down!
Read Chekhov with me in RUSSIAN #1 – Лошадиная фамилия, А. Чехов / with EN transliteration + RU subs
Hi! Today I’m going to read you in Russian the classic Russian short story – A Horsey Name by Anton Chekhov. This story was published in 1895 and is now in the Public Domain.
I’ve added the English transliteration and Russian subtitles to the video. I hope this will help Russian language learners feel the rhythm, stress and intonation of this beautiful language, and also to practice pronunciation. Read with me and sound like a native Russian speaker!
Anna Karenina – the same opening line in 5 different languages (Eng, Esp, Pol, Rus, Am) /Read aloud
Hi friends! Today I’m going to read you in 5 different languages the same first sentence from a famous Russian book Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Let’s compare this famous opening line, and how it’s pronounced in Russian, English, Spanish, Polish and Armenian.
Dlaczego Rosjanka uczy się polskiego – 8 powodów, dla których uczę się polskiego (video in Polish)
Witam! Często pytacie się mnie o to, dlaczego uczę się polskiego. Mówicie: “A dlaczego akurat polski? Jakie masz powody? Czy Twoim zdaniem, warto uczyć się języka polskiego?”; i tak dalej.
Zrobiłam już krótki filmik w języku angielskim na ten temat, a teraz chciałabym spróbować Wam trochę opowiedzieć o tym wszystkim po polsku.
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language – David W. Anthony
I just finished reading The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.
This book was written by David W. Anthony and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, not just because these subjects (prehistory, horses and languages) are my three favorites.The author also did a really fantastic job and described his detailed and very interesting investigation into the origins of Indo-European languages, the location of the Proto-Indo-European homeland and so much more.
This book was very well written and well-illustrated, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in knowing more about the Indo-European language family, the domestication of horses, the invention and use of wheeled vehicles, and also about Russian and Ukrainian archaeological studies.
Some interesting quotes from the book:
“It is oddly ironic that capitalist archaeologists made the mode of production central to their definition of the Neolithic, and Marxist archaeologists ignored it.”
“…you cannot understand the Indo-European problem if you ignore migration or pretend it was unimportant in the past.”
“Horse domestication might have depended on a lucky coincidence: the appearance of a relatively manageable and docile male in a place where humans could use him as the breeder of a domesticated bloodline. From the horse’s perspective, humans were the only way he could get a girl. From the human perspective, he was the only sire they wanted.”
“The absence of bit wear means nothing, since other forms of control (nosebands, hackamores) might leave no evidence. But its presence is an unmistakable sign of riding or driving.”
― David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World.
Started Reading – 19 March 2021
Finished Reading – 15 April 2021
My Rating: 5 Stars ★★★★★
Why Learn Polish? – 8 Reasons why I’m learning Polish / My story (eng subs)
Hi friends! Here are 8 reasons why I’m learning Polish and why it’s so important to me. Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the Polish language. People were asking – Why are you learning Polish? Why Polish? What is your reason?
Harry Potter i Zakon Feniksa
Дочитала ГП-5 на польском. Самая большая книжка в серии читалась на удивление легко. 
И, как обычно, незнакомых слов было много в самом начале (13 слов на первой странице первой главы), а в конце книги их стало значительно меньше (6 слов на странице предпоследней главы и всего 4 слова в начале последней главы).
Супер-история, на самом деле. Учит языку (языкам! 
) и не приедается!