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 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 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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