Моя семья Моя семья не слишком большая, но она очень странная. У меня один брат от матери, и одна сестра от отца. Когда мы один раз били на пограничных переходах, таможеник спросил моего отца: "Сколько у вас детей?", а он ответил: "У меня двое, у женщины двое, всего трое." My family is not very big, but it's very strange. I have a brother from mother, and sister from my father. Once, when we were at the state border, customs official asked my father: "How many kids do you have" and he replied: "I have two, wife has two, three in total".

какая разница какая разница между 'в' и 'во'? Я из Сербии, и мы используем только «U», поэтому я не понимаю, когда использовать "В", а когда "ВО"

Subtitles sites Anyone knows where I can find Russian subtitles for Russian movies? Is there even such a site? I find this to be best way of language learning, at least for me, so it's sad that it can only be applied to learning english.

Formal address I'm looking for a word for "formal address". I'm pretty sure that english doesn't have word for this, or if it does it's archaic and is very difficult to find even with creative googling, as english stop using this way of addressing other ppl sometime after Shakespeare. However, russians use formal address, in same way and, I'm guessing with same frequency as serbs do, [вы, ты, or Vi, Ti in serbian] so I find it hard to believe that there is no name for this custom. Serbs call it "Persiranje" but no online translators I know of can translate it to any other language, and trying to guess the russian word considering similarities between these two languages had no effect as the only thing I found was "пересирать" which is one step away from having completely different meaning to what I'm looking for :P Sorry for long post, I sometimes can't stop typing...

Question about "bon appetite"

How exactly is this phrase used? <img title="Laughing" src="http://www.italki.com/Scripts/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/img/smiley-laughing.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" />

Is it same as Japanese "itadakimasu" that is said at the begging of meal,

or is it like serbian "Prijatno" that you might say when you walk in on someone eating, expecting him to say "merci".

I'm wondering this, cause if serbs catch you eating, and tell you: "Prijatno(=Bon Appetite)" you are expected to reply with "Hvala, izvol(i)te (=Thank you, please (join me))" which I find to be quite a mouthful when your mouth is full, and it unfortunatelly goes as far as for the person to stand in a doorway until you swallow your bite and respond, which is extra annoying. One coworker even asked me "did you not hear me" after I failed to respond at alloted time, even though I ranted about that custom for an hour day before.

So, please?