15 postcards about the intricacies of the Russian language that are not easy for foreigners to understand

How to understand Italian gestures without knowing the language: A short guide from a native of Rome

It is believed that if Italians are forced to talk to each other without using gestures, they will not be able to understand each other. This is, of course, an exaggeration, but non-verbal cues in Italian culture are a huge part of communication. Italian Valentina Moretti in her video blog decided to tell more about Italian gestures

Why the "great and mighty" Russian language did not become the state language in the USSR

The largest country in area in the entire history of human civilization was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. However, if you look into all the intricacies of such a designation as "state", the USSR did not have one very important component of it. This is a single state language. After all, the Russian language officially, from the point of view of legislation, never became the state language in the Soviet Union

Larisa Golubkina - 81: Why is it not easy for a famous actress to find a common language with her daughter

March 9 marks 81 years of the famous actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR Larisa Golubkina. She has not appeared on the screens for a very long time - the actress chose to leave the cinema at the peak of popularity so that the audience will forever remember her as a young beauty, such as she was in the "Hussar Ballad", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "Liberation" and "Three in the boat, not counting the dog. " Recently, her name has been mentioned more often in connection with her daughter Maria Golubkina, who continued the acting dynasty. Their relationship is always

22 postcards with strange and obscure words from Dahl's "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language"

Vladimir Dal received a university medical education and during the war with the Poles was a resident at the St. Petersburg military ground hospital. But most of all he was interested in ethnography. He was friends with Pushkin, Zhukovsky, Krylov, Gogol, Yazykov, Odoevsky, and therefore there is nothing strange that he decided to try his hand at literature. True, his first book is “Russian Fairy Tales. First Friday”(1832) was banned. And only thirty years later saw the light of his large-scale brainchild - “

An easy way to learn sign language from illustrations

Renowned artist Alex Solis has created a series of drawings that can be used to learn sign language. The image of each gesture is supported by a miniature illustration, thanks to which the information is easier to remember. Unknown gestures are associated in our minds with cute drawings - and the language is assimilated as if by itself