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@Rüdiger and @Jose Alves
Wow! You guys made me back to italki after ages of absence. Well, not ages in fact, only about two years, but still.
It's a little bit funny to read your own texts from the past. Like that was not you, but someone absolutely different else. I still meet lots of illiterate native speakers, but now I put up with them easily. I'm just aware of their existence and that's the end of the story. Anyway, thank you for commenting.
0 votedOctober 8, 201801. Violence and criminals had existed long before the movies had been invented. So all the statements on the correlation of these aspects are totally beside the point.
2. Here is an example about the porn movies. It is proven that porn movies often are the way to get a relief from some kind of sexual tension. And a porn movie can save somebody from rape or any other sexual violence. I won't give any proofes though, I am too lazy for it. But we still should take into account that the porn is such kind of medicine which can easily turn into a poison. That is not only a question of quantity and quality, but of our pesonality as well. Anyway almost every single of us has ever seen porn movies but we hardly can say that it affected our minds in some bad way.
3. Not all the movies are created for entertainment. Some of them are so educating and even boring so only real true nerds are able to watch them.
4. After all no matter what kind of movie you are going to watch - there is something you should keep in your mind. The book is much better anyway, remember it.
0 votedJuly 18, 20160If someone always agrees with you - that is a reason to get worried about that person. He is not a friend definitely, he just wants something from you and you'd better find it out as quick as it is possible.
A true friend and partner tells you the truth. Tells you his real opinion not to offend you but to let you have a view from another point.
0 votedJuly 17, 20160Well, I am not this good at the theory... But -ВАТЬСЯ implies the verb is in continuous or simple tense. While -ТЬСЯ makes it closer to perfect tense. Thus оставаться - to be staying or to stay, останавливаться - to be stopping or to stop. Остаться - to have stayed, остановиться - to have stopped.
As for ДА НЕТ ЖЕ - ДА is a preposition here and means BUT or AND. The phrase means DEFINETELY NOT. Or NO FOR SURE. ЖЕ enforces the expression. Had it been without ЖЕ, it would mean PROBABLY NOT.
0 votedJuly 8, 20160Everyone knows common stereotypes abot Russia and Russians.
Vodka, balalaikas, nested dolls, bears, forever serious and mean people, beautiful women, GULAG and so on.
Here is something more:
1. Potatoes. Still are grown by every second Russian.
2. Most of Russians have never been anywhere abroad. Maybe the reason is that our country is big enough to travel.
3. Most of Russians do not speak English. Consider this when you are going to visit Russia, especially if your destination is not Moscow or St. Peterburg.
4. Many Russians look at foreigners like at some aliens. So to be honest they even are afraid of them a little. I mean those of Russians who do not live in big cities for sure. But they are very hospitable anyway, do not hesitate to communicate them. Sometimes I even feel that it is safer to be a foreigner here than to be a native Russian.
5. Russia has lots of different awesome attractions. That's ablutely true.
6. Cell phone line is extremely cheap here. So the land line is really rare to meet. Sometimes it is not comfortable, when you can't find any phone booth to make a call. One must always have a cell phone on oneself.
7. Vodka, beer and any other alchohol is prohibited to drink in publicy here. Though a foreigner may be forgiven for anything I suppose: our Police are Russians too.
8. Russia is supposed to be a cold land. But some of its territories aren't at all. It could be even hot all over the country in Summer. Even here, in Siberia. So if you are going to visit Russia August would be the most comfortable month I think. Not cold yet, but not hot already.
I don't even know what else I could say... Enough for the first time I think.
0 votedJuly 4, 20160
