This week's featured word is управление, the Russian word for administration, direction, or control, because no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to avoid learning about languages.
Earlier this week, I was watching one of the lecture videos recorded for a course on deep reinforcement …
read moreThis week's featured word is varken, the Dutch word for pig. Similarly, the Dutch word for pork is varkensvlees (pigs-meat).
Another dutch word is aarde, which means earth or soil. Planet Earth is de Aarde. And earth makes an appearance in aardappel, the Dutch word for potato …
read moreThis week's featured word is квітень, because I was too impatient to wait until November. Квітень (pronounced kvee-teyn) is the Ukrainian name for the month of April. In Russian, the names of the months sound familiar: January is январь (yan-var), April is апрель (ap-ryel), and October is октябрь …
read moreI was recently on a plane for the first time in a while. When clouds obscured the landscape below, I decided to engage with the screen in front of me. Prompted to choose a language I opted for one I don't know all that well …
read moreThis week, we'll look at the Russian word догадок (transliteration dogadok), which, in the context we're interested in, means conjectures or guesswork. Our focus is really on the declension of догадок (genitive plural) rather than its meaning: any Russian noun would do, but I chose that one because …
read moreThis week, our featured word is ворона, or maybe it's собака, or maybe it's корова, or maybe it's all three. These are the Russian words for crow, dog, and cow, respectively.
They figure in a short Soviet claymation film, Пластилиновая ворона (Plasticine Crow), based on Aesop's fable about the fox …
read moreThis week's word is the Dutch winkelwagen: winkel means shop or store, wagen means cart or car, and together they form a shopping cart. I found the sound of the word amusing and wanted to feature it for that reason alone.
I was just going to leave …
read moreLast week, I experienced a bit of reverse culture shock. This was all the more surprising given that I had neither left my original cultural environment nor spent any significant amount of time emerged in the culture I had seemingly adopted.
I was waiting for the ski …
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