Marina Vantara

In 2014, Ministry of Education of Ukraine announced that the Ukrainian National curriculum will be simplified. Their excuse is that the...

Having colleagues or friends, whose first language is Russian, some might have wondered, why is it so difficult to persuade those to...

Did you realise that, when you travel to a Russian speaking country or simply meet a Russian speaker on a holiday resort, you can easily...

Despite its graphic equivalence to the Russian letter e as well as positional phonetic similarity of the Russian vowel /э/ with a few...

The proper name Russia is the only one known by non-Russian speakers who sometimes become confused with the fact that it has two...

Even years since I had become a fluent speaker of English, I had been completely blind to see the relation of the words ‘Slav’ and...

What are the first phrases that are usually being taught at the beginning of a foreign language course? Correct, they are WHAT IS YOUR...

*Ethnolinguistics (or cultural linguistics) studies the relationship between language and culture, and the way different cultural groups...

It has been over two years since I wrote this article - and yet it still seems to be read rather frequently and receieves a lot of...

The origin of the Russian Grandfather Frost is fundamentally different from the European Santa Claus. Santa Claus was a real historical...