Learning Russian is Fun! (More Fun With Russian) The Russian language is a beautiful language of incredible depth and nuance. Here's just one example. In English, we really only have one word for "go". To illustrate: I go to the hockey game. I go to Paris. I go to the bathroom. You see, no matter where you go, you use "go"...no matter how you get there...plane, train or by foot. Compare this with the much longer Russian word, путешествовать. I need not remind you that we English-speakers don't like to waste our time and energy with long words. Life is much too short for these words. Two letters ("go") is perfect for us. But recently, I found another word for "go" in Russian: мулать What does it mean? Sound it out...mule-at. It means to go by donkey or mule, of course! Я мулаю, ты мулаешв, он/она мулает, etc. But here's a great twist! There are two versions of this verb. The word can end with a soft sign...or...a hard sign. And here's why: мулать (soft sign) - your donkey is happy to be travelling with you мулатъ (hard sign) - your donkey is not happy at all to be travelling with you and it makes your life "hard". Get it? Do you see the subtle nuance in this language? Here's one more word for you before I end this session of Fun With Russian... Ohmygoshиватся - this is the Russian word for the pain you get in your stomach when you see all the endings for Russian words and how they change in all the different cases. Прощай! See you soon!