As a Russian student of about 6 years (scary!), I have been on a quest to find the most effective tools to accelerate my language learning. Among the various resources I have ...
On the world cultural stage, it’s fair to say that both Russian and native Russian-speaking demographics are very well represented, though primarily on the platforms of ...
Russian is widely accepted as being one of the hardest languages to learn, hence its invariable presence on lists of ‘the hardest languages to learn’. So when its revealed ...
Any lover of Russian literature will have undoubtedly come across the likes of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Chekhov as it is these ‘fathers of the classics’ that Western readers ...
Any cinephiles out there will undoubtedly have consumed the majority of Hollywood’s output of the last 50 years or so. Some particularly voracious viewers might have ventured ...
Inexorably, Russian literature is immensely broad, deeply convoluted and far from a transparent sub-genre for any non-native prospective reader. In this regard, Tolstoy is the ...
Anyone brave enough to study Russian, regardless of level, is likely to end up spending some of their time in Riga. After all, for practising real-world day-to-day spoken ...
Russian is, and has long been, one of, if not the most geographically prevalent languages on the planet. Russian as a language stretches from the freezing yet astoundingly ...
Some time ago, we interviewed our student Nathan Paul, who studied Russian at Liden & Denz St. Petersburg in 2018 and 2019. Almost two years have passed since our ...
Snow is falling in the streets, the Christmas decorations start lighting up as the sun disappears behind a row of pretty buildings. I am standing at the bus stop in the cold, ...
For most of us it is one of the first things to tackle when learning Russian: The Cyrillic alphabet. Despite looking very cool it can be a bit confusing when starting out the ...
Music has been a life long passion for me. Even as a child I would annoy my parents at the dinner table with my singing, leading to them declaring the kitchen a ...
