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Yeah! I would be more than willing to help out. (I'm thinking of a career of Russian teacher, so I want to practice on somebody.) You can write in my journal or send me an e-mail krikousha@hotmail.com
If you are able to get to Reisterstown, MD - we can meet. The only thing - I don't have any textbooks, only kids literature:)

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cema.livejournal.com

Oh, Reisterstown. Full of Russians. The only place I could find huckleberry juice.

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Oh, you can't imagine how much weight I've put on when we moved here.
Пряники, сушки, глазированные сырки, бублики, пирожки ...

(For the moderators: it's not offtop, it's cultural context.)

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Cultural context that is, only it's great to explain what is what :) Challenging but quite important. Can you describe глазированные сырки, for instance? ;-)

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Chocolate covered cheesecakes with fruit fillings.
100 percent natural. (No preservatives and artificial ingridients.) Very yummy!

Also, the subject is especially dear for the average Russian soul - It was a great deficit in socialist and post-socialist Russia. (I mean until early 1990s.)

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solito.livejournal.com

Fruit fillings??? It's quite a new sort of глазированный сырок for me...

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Fruit fillings, chocolate filling, condensed milk filling ...

Yeah, it's new feature, comparing to the ones they used to make several years ago.

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Yes, it's a 1990s feature. Cocoa-flavored, apricot-filled... tons of stuff like this. My stomach doesn't understand this right, though :)

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Yeah, and when multiplecolored, they can be use to create a pretty nice decoration on the carpet.

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oh, reistertown is a bit of a distance off. but we could arrange to meet... one weekend out of the month or so. or a friday night. I'll get back to you on that.

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ex-tempus-fr701.livejournal.com

I'd be interested in joining you guys too, if that's cool -- I'm from Salisbury originally, graduated from college last year, now living and working in Rockville (near DC). I studied Russian for a couple years at college but haven't kept up with it (and I was never all that good in the first place) and I think just getting a chance to talk some would be good practice.

If you do end up organizing something, let me know -- swinslow04 [at] gmail.com. thanks =)

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awesome. yeah, we can all meet and chat, etc. I'm up for anything.

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Great! Get ready for some Чуковский. (or Высоцкий).

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you're referring to the musician, right?

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No, I think you mean Чайковский - "Nutcracker"s author. I am talking about Чуковский - he authored the best, to my mind, children books.

I think they can be used to learn the language as well.

Высоцкий is .... very-very roughly we can compare him to a rock singer. His texts are really intense ... if it's the right word, and can also be used for educational purposes.

So, if you guys, want to get together - write me an e-mail.

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oops! amazing the difference a word makes with a few letter changes!

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OK, guys, keep napkins close. Don't read it if you're hungry.

Бублики - bagels, but large ones, and usually with .... мак on top.
Сушки .... well .... a kind of pretzels ...
Пирожки .... pies the way decent Russian grannies baked them, yeast dough, different fillings - apple, meat, cherry, cabbage.

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мак is poppy seeds (why don't you just use a dictionary? ;-)).
You don't have to translate пирожки, I've seen many PIROSHKI eateries across Northern America :)

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You can send a special agent to find dictionary in my apartment - because I have time either to put things in order (навести порядок) either to stare at PC.

BTW, if anyone shoots a film about apartment robbery, or pogroms (yes, this word does have russian origin) - I can provide you with decorations for a fare price.0.

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oryx_and_crake

use multitran.ru - it is a good online dictionary, and it being online, you don't have to unearth it from a pile of kids' toys and underwear prior to use
;-)

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Сruel. Only Russians can be that cruel to each other. Right now I understand why we, guys, had a civil war, revolution and ЧК.

You want a confused homemaker TO PUSH MORE BUTTONS ON THE PC?

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solito.livejournal.com

If you plan to learn Russian you have to learn how to drink as well :))

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At least to pretend that you do :)

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Not to boast, but I don't have to learn how to drink. Thanks to my heritage and upbringing, I can drink a fifth of wiskey or vodka like it's water.

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oryx_and_crake

He who comes forth with a fifth on the Fourth,
May not come forth on the Fifth
:-)

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battersby.livejournal.com

I like that. where did you get it? or is it just a proverb?

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oryx_and_crake

I believe it is a quote - if you Google it, you will probably find out the origins.

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oh, I do take care, my dear. I rarely drink hard.

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There's nothing wrong with that :) I personally gave up drinking years ago.
There's an old Russian joke on this subject:

- Девушка, почему вы не пьёте и не курите?
- Потому что я не могу больше!!!

Can you figure out what this means or I shall provide a translation as it's required by the community rules? ;-)))

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http://users.livejournal.com/_viola/

Hey thanks for that! I'll use that next time I'm being plied with vodka! That's one thing about Russians, they are so generous and I've never learned how to politely decline.

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