Need some help with slang Hello! Now I’m reading book ‘Thirty-something: a young woman guide to the giant underwear’ by Ingrid Reinke. There are a lot of slang-word. So, I need your help!) ‘Hey, pretty young thing, don’t worry about aging and turning into a wrinkly old sack, because the truth is that this shit kind of rocks’ - last phrase … standing in front of the bathroom mirror alone at night, slamming Pinot Noir and having an internal nervous breakdown about that ever-deeping forehead wrinkle. - slamming Pinot Noir, ever-deeping … just start slathering gobs of sunscreen all over your body… - slathering gobs … who she was: a pretty, nice, put-together, independent … - put together Mexicana gang-member looking lip-liner… - gang-member …from underneath uniformly thick, mullet-like bangs that extended back…- mullet-like …the box of maxi-pads at least a dozen times. - maxi-pads Then in the back, instead of a normal, kid-butt, heart-shaped patch of material was a huge, flap-jack-shaped area that seemed designed to compress the entire region… - kid-butt, flap-jack-shaped I was utterly gob-smaked – literally, my world was rocked. - gob-smaked …ass-smooshing underwear. - ass-smooshing Shoot, for all I knew… - shoot Thank you in advance for your expanation)

New Interview Today I had my first interview in English but with Italian reqruters. It was a lot of fun! I realized that I can lie in English better than in Russian! So, I think, I get this job! Which job? I tell you later in next entry!

Introducción Hola! Soy de Novokuznetsk, una ciudad grande, industrial y suficiente verde. Ahora soy vivo en Moscú. Estudiе́ ingenería en la Universidad de Siberia. Aprendo inglе́s y español en mi casa para escuchar lecciones y hablar con mis amigos vía Internet. Tengo muchos amigos Americanos de Estados Unidos que tambien hablar español.

Is it possible for foreigners to learn Russian? Part 3 (translation) Why Russian language can be called hard? There is no stress above the letters. In some languages there is a tradition to put stress; when you read a book, for example, you always know which syllable (or syllables) need to be emphasized. In other languages there are rules to regulate which syllables are stressed. Of course there are also some exceptions but still there are rules. In Russian language you’ll have to act only by memory – there is no rule for placement of accent. There are a lot of exceptions and rules. As we said before, the most who studied for 10 years at school, 5 years at university, in addition lives in Russia and speak Russian, doesn’t know many of the rules. And what to say about exceptions from these rules!

Is it possible for foreigners to learn Russian? Part 2 (translation) Why Russian language can be called easy? There are not articles in language. All words are used without special participles before them. It would be unusual for people whose mother tounge is English or Greek, so to speak. And more, Russian letters are relatively easy perceived in contrast to the hieroglyphs, that’s why people might learn how to read comparatively fast. It is a bit more complicated with speaking, because it is hard to understand all turnovers and pronunciation of Russian, as it might seems strange for us. Russian language is a very beautiful – and therefore it is quite well perceived on ear. Compared to Bulgarian which is such a similar with Russian language, for example, Russian sounds like a song! Of course, there are some dialects in Russian language, but in general language differences are small – residents of Vladivostok perfectly understand people from Omsk and Moscow. Exceptions are small towns in the Far North and remote areas – taiga, for example.

Is it real to learn Russian for foreigners? Part 1 I've never translated articles from Russian into English. So I decided to try to do it with one interesting text about is it easy to learn Russian language. So, If you hesitate in learning Russian or not maybe this article might be useful for you. A grand and powerful Russian language for most of whose who is reading this article is mother tongue. That’s why we hardly imagine how foreigners suffer from trying to learn and speak it. But there are examples of many people, for instance, students of Russian University of People’s Friendship inspire as young and as not so young people to start learning (exactly) Russian language. But do a lot of us know all rules and write without mistakes? Put stress correctly and speak without stylistic mistakes? What to say of those who haven’t heard Russian since they were born – this is a science for them. Learning Russian for foreigners is something equal to be fluent in Chinese. Cases, endings, endless exceptions of rules. And what about shades of speech – epithets which are used so skillfully by some masters of word that you can’t understand at once in which way this or that sentence was formed. What gives knowledge of the Russian to foreigner? A foreigner who decided to learn Russian can set absolutely different goals ahead – such ss communication with Russian business partners, studies in Russia (Russian educational system is known for all over the world), for communication with Russian tourists, for example, in a home country of a student. Residents of many countries know Russian – if you will learn it you will be able to explained to Ukrainian, Belarusians, Latvians and Lithuanians – especially, the older generation, and also to emigrants from Estonia, Kazakhstan, many of the republics of the former USSR. Moreover, some of masterpieces of cinema and literature are very difficult to translate so to save original sense and all shades of author speech. In these latter days, more and more foreigners learn Russian to contact with our compatriots who are located abroad as tourists, for example.

verb + -ing Hello! I’ve read English grammar and decided that I need to practice some of topics. This exercise is about using ‘-ing’ form after some verbs. I tried to make up few sentences. Waiting for you corrections and comments. 1. If you want to be healthy, you should stop smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol and eating bad food. (stop) 2. I enjoy dancing at home when nobody watching me. (enjoy) 3. My nephew always fancy playing with his toy cars. (fancy) 4. I avoid talking on serious topics. (avoid) 5. I admit (that) speaking to foreigners is the best way to learn languages. (admit) 6. Many people consider using proper language instead of slang. (consider) 7. She misses playing guitar. (miss) 8. I always practice writing on Italki.com. (practice) 9. Kate’s finished washing dishes. (finish) 10. He doesn’t mind meeting me at the airport. (mind) 11. I can’t imagine sleeping only four hours a day. (imagine) 12. A lot of businessmen deny (that) studying in a university gives you a good job on a future. (deny) 13. I involve learning languages because it gives you a lot of opportunities. (involve) 14. If you in a bad relationship with a boss you can risk losing your job. (risk) 15. Who doesn’t like postpone doing boring things for next day. (postpone) 16. Delay paying a mortgage makes your credit history worse. (delay) 17. Doctors suggest drinking at least 1.5 liters of water every day. (suggest) 18. Parents always regret shouting on their kids. (regret)

It is cruel to keep animals in zoos I think that it is cruel to keep animals in zoos for different reasons. First, it is not a real environment for them. Even if animals were born in zoos and have lived there for all their lives it is still not the natural environment for them. Second, they are not real animals in close area. They forgot how to hunt for saving live and not die from huger because of not using their skills to survive. They like pets that get everything by masters. In my opinion it is against to rules of nature. Last reason is that a zoo is not a right place to keep rare species of animals. I think it is better to make different reserves for all over the world and save animals there. It would be natural, humane and honest decision with respect to the nature.