All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘russian’
Teaching a Child the Russian Letters
I had a lovely conversation today with a mother of a little 2 year old. Her family is trilingual, where […]
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A Book Collection about Russian Winter
My oldest daughter loves reading and being read to. Right now her reading in Russian is a lot better than […]
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Russian New Year: Everything You Wanted to Know About Grandfather Frost
Russians love celebrating New Year and for me as a kid it was one of the favorite holidays, second only […]
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Not from Russia but Speak Russian
Where I live in Northern CA there is a huge Russian-speaking community, and I am so happy that my kids gets to be exposed to Russian a lot, just because of that. Recently it dawned on me that out of the people I know who speak Russian so many are not actually FROM Russia, although most are from the former USSR.
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What is YOUR Name? (Russian Names)
In Russian it is very traditional to have an official name and a family-freinds names that have many variations are are used interchangeably.
Russian full name consists of a first name, a last or family name and a patronymic (an adjective formed from the first name of the father). In the official documents or when you fill out a form, last name goes first, then first name and patronymic. So it looks like this: Ivanova (family name) Lidya (first name) Nikolaevna (patronymic) – Иванова (family name) Лидия (first name) Николаевна (patronymic).
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Too Purpley! by Jean Reidy
I decided to share it with you as it’s not quite as easy as it might seem for the parent and the end result was – she learned a bunch of new words (hurray!).
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Do Cartoons in Russian Help Teach Russian to Kids?
As a child my parents were always trying to limit my screen time (that pretty much was TV time) in […]
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