Put an article back I’m going to share a way of making your own exercises on articles. All you need is to choose any text you like, semi-automatically remove articles from it, fill the gaps and automatically compare the result with the original. You will need: - Notepad++ with the "Compare" plugin. If your Notepad++ has no this plugin, you may install it (https://itbackyard.com/install-notepad-compare-plugin/). - Any text you like. First of all, you need to create two text files: 1. Create an empty file with Notepad++ (File -> New) 2. Copy and paste the text into the file and save it as a TXT file (you can name it 1.txt, for example) 3. Create one more file, paste the same text into it and save the file with a different filename (for example, 2.txt) Now you have two files. You may keep both files open in Notepad++, but make sure you are working with the second one. We won’t touch the text in the first file, it keeps an original text for the further comparison. Do the following with the second file: 1. Open the "Replace" window (Search->Replace). 2. Make the first replacement: a. Put " the " into the "Find what" field. Make sure you’ve added spaces before and after “the”, otherwise you can accidentally replace parts of words (for example, “nevertheless”). b. Put a space into the "Replace with" field. c. Click "Replace all". 3. Repeat step 2 to replace each "a" and "an" with a space. 4. Save the file. Now the second file is ready for your exercise. Put in articles were you think it’s needed, and save the file. TIP. To make the task easier, you may replace articles not with spaces, but with some symbol or easily recognizable pattern, for example, NNN . You just put this pattern surrounded with spaces in the "Replace with" field. In this case you will certainly know where an article has to be placed, and all you will need is to choose the correct one. Now the most interesting part begins: we will compare your text with the original one. Do the following: 1. Make sure that both files are open in Notepad++, the second file next to the first one. 2. Open the comparison window (Plugins->Compare->Compare). 3. Compare your text with the original one. All differences are marked with color. Good luck!

The Hatters – Russian gypsy-folk-hardcore band Yesterday I learned about a relatively new Russian band named The Hatters. This band was founded in 2016 in Saint-Petersburg and instantly became very popular. They play the crazy mix of gypsy-rock, folk-rock and hardcore. The Hatters don’t use guitars at all, their ensemble includes a violin, an accordion, a trombone, a bass-balalaika, drums and percussion. To understand the style the band plays in, look at “Russian style” on Youtube.

Sobre meu nome O meu nome é Natália. Este nome é muito popular em Rússia. Ele descende de latina palavra e tem a mesma raiz que as palavras como "Natal", "natalício" et cetera. São diversas formas de este nome: Natália é básico e formal. Natacha é básico também e não é formal. Você pode ouvir também as formas doces: "Natáchen'ka", "Natús'a", "Natúl'a" e a forma reduzida "Náta".

Minha família Minha família é não grande. Eu tenho um marido e dois filhos. Meu filho mais velho tem cinco anos. Ele gosta de falar e fala muitos. Meu filho mais novo não fala e não vai, porque ele ainda não tem um ano. O marido tem um trabalho interessante, ele é um programador e trabalha bem. O marido não gosta de estudar, mas estuda dirigir um carro agora, porque ele gosta de passeio na nossa casa nos subúrbio. Eu não trabalho agora, porque meu filho mais novo é muito pequeno. Eu vou trabalhar logo.

What textbooks do you use to teach/learn Russian? Why?

Češi jako hrom? Dívám se na tento seriál https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH9NeXn5Mju0Jd4R2BgLKS0TDUHEBZXgI Každá série má něco jako předmluvu a doslov. A v tom doslovu se říká “Češi jako hrom”. Už po druhé slyším takový výraz, že něco (nebo někdo) je “jako hrom”. Poprvé jsem myslela, že to znamená “velký”, “obrovský”, ale teď vidím, že se mýlila. Co to znamená ve skutku?