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[germaniac-z.livejournal.com]

Hey. I am Alina from California, live in Germany. I am trying to learn Russian, but I am pretty bad at it so far.
I would love to practice with someone who can help me out.

Anyway, I was wondering if "мир" really means both 'peace' and 'world'. If so, how do you say world peace?
большое спасибо ♥

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[colonelrabin.livejournal.com]

in no case "freedom", but "peace" and "world". Yes, these words are homonyms in Russian.

[germaniac-z.livejournal.com]

Aaah I heard this from somewhere and misplaced the meaning.

[engimono.livejournal.com]

Мир means "PEACE" and "world".

Also, there is an older (now mostly "poetic") version of the word meaning "world" - свет.

It (свет) also means "light" (a noun, as in "speed of light"). ;-)

[al-r.livejournal.com]

Hi, I am also Alina :))
I am Russian and I teach Russian. Now I am in the US, I've been to California in January, and in August I am going to Germany :))
If you want we can sometimes talk on skype - or how did you mean to practice?..

[germaniac-z.livejournal.com]

oh that would be amazing. I sent you a message with my skype name.

[archaicos.livejournal.com]

In the older Russian the word used to spell differently, depending on the meaning. That is, there were two different words that pronounced the same. But with the elimination of i the two words are now just one word with several different meanings. It used to be: мир = peace, мiр = world.

[germaniac-z.livejournal.com]

beautiful. :)

[alex-mashin.livejournal.com]

Миръ & міръ, to be precise.

[ilia-yasny.livejournal.com]

World peace will be "Мир во всем мире". Also, during the Soviet era thу very popular pacifistic slogan was "Миру - мир!" meaning "Give peace to the world!".

[seraph6.livejournal.com]

I second that.

[yefremov.livejournal.com]

I think there's similar slogan in english - "Peace on Earth", right?

[irina-medvedeva.livejournal.com]

Right.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

>In orthodox christian context "мир" means

Note that in Orthodox Christian context, it is still written as мiръ, even now, even on the Web (check out various Orthodox Christian blogs and sites.) This is to distinguish мiръ (as "world") from мир (as "peace").

[konstkaras.livejournal.com]

It's written not by Orthodox, but by ones who prefer pre-1917 orthography (see ijitsa_ru. For sake of distiguision some (even A.Solzhenitsyn) use мiр.

[kandinsky-rina.livejournal.com]

hi, I am Kate and I am russian and live in Moscow.
If you want we can talk on skype
And when you will come to Moscow - I can help you)

[goldmarina.livejournal.com]

Hi, Alice. I speak Russian natively and I live in Bad Kreuznach and work in Wiesbaden. Where do you live? I mean I could help you if you feel like practicing Russian. You can write here ulyamari@yahoo.de

[abiura.livejournal.com]

Hi, I am Anna. I live in Moscow. In fact I studied English and German in the university to become an interpretor, but now my job is closely connected with italian (eh-eh-eh, you never know your future), a and I almost forgot German. But if you would like me to help you with Russian I will also ask you to do me a favour in response. Help me with my German or I will forget it forever :((( PLEASE!!! ;)

[germaniac-z.livejournal.com]

oh I would love to! I sent you a message with my contact information!

[germaniac-z.livejournal.com]

oh it didn't work. Well my icq number is: 211978744

[emelinerin.livejournal.com]

Hi, I am Alina. :) I live in Russia and I am Russian. I can help you to study russian. Write me here chuchic1@yandex.ru

[cherity-ev.livejournal.com]

I see there is a lot of people who want to help you and to talk with you. But if it's not enough you can practice with me:)

icq 209742072
I'm Luba

[diatel-a-g.livejournal.com]

Hi, my name is Julia. I don't speak English, but Russian my native language. If you want - I'll speak with you in Russian from icq. Sorry to my mistakes, my English is very bed:(