Making Connections

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

There's a store in town called Europ Market that sells a lot of Eastern European food items and cooking supplies. I recently saw one of their ads in a local paper and under the title Euro Market it said Русский Магазин. Knowing the meaning of "Русский" and the French word magasin (store, shop) I put two and two together and guessed that that Русский Магазин must mean "Russian Store."

Just wanted to share this little "joys of language learning" story with you all.

Comments

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

I live for moments like that ^_^

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Same! When I first started learning Spanish and French I was so excited every time I saw the relationship between words that shared a common Latin root like the Spanish verb necesitar (to need) and the English word necesity.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Браво, мой друг.
Did you get this one? ;-)

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Not sure what друг means unless it's "drug." But "Браво, мой…" I take to mean "Bravo, my…"

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Друг means friend.

[-zephyr.livejournal.com]

I live in a bit south of you (near Portland, but still in Washington) and we have Russian Magazines all over the place. I was just thinking that very thing yesterday...hmmmm ESP.

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

Я люблю Портланда! I don't know if that's correct, my Russian knowledge is next to nothing.

So there's a large Russian population in Portland? Cool.

[-zephyr.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, a HUGE Russian population. They have officially taken over the area, which is great in my opinion because I'm a bit of a Russophile.

[ugly-boy.livejournal.com]

That's cool! I've been saying for a long time that I need to get down to Portland soon, and now there's another reason. I've never really has any Russian food.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

It's funny that I know Russians in Seattle very good (I have a friend there who owns the local Russian radio, Radio Avrora, and I stayed with the guy all four times that I have visited Seattle) and I think I have even heard the ad of this same store on Radio Avrora (I'm even afraid that it was me who was in fact SAYING this ad - Igor asked me to record a few ads with my Muscivite pronounce which I gladly did for him...)
But i've been in Portland twice and never heard about Russian population over there, since my friend who I came to visit was Italian American :)

fat fingaz

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Muscovite, of course