As the summer comes to an end, so has my time here. Thank you all who have been reading these articles, and of course everyone at Liden & Denz, for this summer! I decided ...
Russia is known for its complex bureaucracy. I remember reading an article on the Guardian years ago about how simple tasks, such as dry-cleaning your clothes, can take a lot ...
When I was in Moscow studying Russian at Liden & Denz in summer 2019, I lived in 3 different apartments in 3 months, booking via Airbnb. While I clearly would have liked ...
We are all a product of where we are from: every culture has its own sets of behaviours that we adopt, sometimes without being aware of it. Russia is no different. After three ...
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Russia is more than Moscow and Saint Petersburg, but does the same apply to Russian education?
The answer is yes! At least according to the latest ...
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Language learning can be done in many ways. Whether a method works or not depends on each person in the end, so I shall leave it ...
Foreigns in Russia will no doubt have encountered things or people they do not understand. Sometimes, this makes life complicated. Other times, it makes for a funny situation. ...
Let's learn some basic facts about the Far East!
So in the previous post, I introduced the Far East and noted that little attention is paid to this part of Russia. Indeed, a ...
What do you know about the Far East? For most foreigners and for me, the answer is: not much.
Even though my studies at Uppsala University is meant to make me a specialist on ...
Всем привет! Hello everyone!
My name is Nick and I am writing to you while sitting in my university library in Uppsala, a small city in middle Sweden. I am studying Russian ...
A summer like no other! Now it is time to say goodbye.
2020 has certainly been a rollercoaster for everyone. That said, I want to focus on the good things!
Though stuck in ...
Vocabulary do not say anything about how well you can construct a sentence, but it is of course essential if you want to understand what people say. You can also make yourself ...