All posts tagged with "russia"

I recently went back to listening to my Russian language lessons while walking the dogs at night. I had gone through pretty many before our last trip to Russia (55 of 90 lessons), and while it was definitely helpful, the actual Russians speak way too quickly for me to understand even the occasional word or phrase that sounded familiar to my ear. But I think it would be cool to speak Russian to my Russian kid, so I'll keep trying.

You know how you'll sometimes run into a foreign student and tourist, and they have something about them -- either in appearance or action -- which is incredibly foreign, nerdy, and funny? The best example I can think of is the wearing of socks with sandals.