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A Spoonful of Russian - Learn Russian Online from Russian Tutor

Learn Russian language from a Russian online tutor at your own pace. Natalia teaches via Skype and other video chat services. Russian lessons are tailor-made for all students. Experience authentic Russian pronunciation, see Russian alphabet written in cursive in real time, enjoy free supplemental YouTube videos.

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BBC interviews Natalia

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2006/01/05

Hi, everyone. Добрый день. This is just a short note to let you know I haven't forgotten about my listeners and "A Spoonful of Russian' podcast will be coming back! I also wanted to share with you an interview I recently gave to a BBC reporter and producer April Peavey. It aired today, January 4th, 2006. It was a pleasure and honor to work with April. The interview is a co-production of the BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston.

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Lesson 10 - No Lesson, but rather 'Bye for Now'...

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2005/11/19

Bought a new mic, new headphones, iMac G5 - all set up to produce 'killer shows', yet this show will be the last one before I can get settled in our house. This is show#10 and the last one as far as my introductory lessons go. After almost 7,000 visitors to my site and close to 3,000 subscribers (at one point) I decided to take a sabbatical to re-evaluate the show and make some changes. Renovating of the house damaged by hurricane Katrina is another reason for the break. I would like to thank

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Microphone trouble:(

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2005/11/11

The mic I am used to is a 'gonner'. Found out today as I was getting ready to record the audio. Not only that. I also managed to sit on my Sony headphones I use for podcast production. That's quite embarassing, although the room was totally dark and the headphones were right on the chair. Anyway, Lesson#10 is pushed to the next Saturday. Hopefully, I'll be able to aquire new mic and earphones by then.....Stay tuned.

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Lesson 9 - Food

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2005/11/05

How do you feel about food?Я люблю поесть!(I love to eat!) most people will say. Whether you love it or hate it, we deal with food and talk about food every single day. That reminds me, I have to throw together PLOV (rice-based national dish of Uzbekistan) for tonight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plov) ....be right back. (Natalia making noise in her kitchen) First, let me give you a list of some popular food items in Russian: Хлеб - bread Соль - salt Сахар - sugar Яйца - eggs Икра -

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Rapid growth of the Podcast

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2005/11/04

Can you see that little red icon that looks like a bowl full of red caviar with the spoon sticking out? That's our podcast. We made it to the front page of iTunes podcast directory. On the top '100' list we are #40 or so....The number of listeners of this show more than doubled. Last week we had 600+ subscribers, now there are over 1200!Gotta get back to putting the finishing touches on my next Lesson#9. Stay tuned.....

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Unforeseen Events

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2005/10/29

My dear listeners, due to some unforeseen events there will be no class this week. No class = no homework, so don't go wild! 'See ya' next week:) Пока!

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Lesson 8 - Speaking on the Phone

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2005/10/22

Привет, дорогие слушатели. (Hi, dear listeners). Сегодня суббота, 22 октября. (Today's Saturday, Oct. 22nd.)Let's check your homework from the previous lesson#7:Exercise 7.11. Туристы летают в Мексико-Сити из Нью-Йорка ___на самолете___ .Tourists travel from New York to Mexico City (by plane).2. Люди ездят на работу ___на автобусе___ в Атланте.People go to work in Atlanta (by bus).3. Поездка в Европу ___на теплоходе___ 3 месяца.The journey to Europe (by boat) is 3 months long.4. Мы ходим

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Lesson 7 - Getting Around

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2005/10/15

Let's say you want to fly out of JFK to Scheremetyevo airport in Moscow, then take the train to Vladivostok, stopping to drive through the countryside both by car and by horseback. Or maybe you enjoy boat cruises and would love to go down the Volga river! In trying to put all of this into words, you realize that you need to use some new expressions. Here are some examples: Exercise 7.1 1. Туристы летают в Мексико-Сити из Нью-Йорка _________________________ . Tourists travel from New York to

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Lesson 6 - Don't Get Stressed About Stress and other...

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2005/10/08

Добрый день, дорогие друзья! (Hello, dear friends).Сегодня суббота, 8-ое октября. The show is still recorded at my temp 'studio' away from my home in New Orleans.In this podcast you will learn how to say the days of the week in Russian, as well as count from 1-10. You will also find out why you shouldn't get stressed over stress in Russian words. We will take a look at some simple sentence structures and word order within sentences as well....This might be the largest 'Spoonful of Russian' ever,

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RSS feed problem solved!

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2005/10/04

Many subscribers to my podcast reported errors while downloading different episodes of "A Spoonful of Russian" podcast. iTunes, iPodder (and other feed aggregators) either didn't show some files, or had one of the dialogs (or Russian songs) linked as my episode's link.I am not sure whose problem it was: Blogger or Feedburner. Once I removed all the extra mp3 and zip files iTunes picked the right mp3 file to show as an episode!Good, but I don't want to give up on the idea of providing you with extra

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Lesson 5 - Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

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2005/10/01

Sounds like cognates are the single greatest friend to folks learning Russian. However, as with most good things there are pitfalls. And these pitfalls are called 'false cognates'. A 'false cognate' is a word that shares a similar pronunciation between two languages, but means one thing in one language and something else in the other. You'd sound pretty silly if a Russian asked you what you were doing ('Что вы делаете?') and you'd answer 'Я читаю магазин' (which means 'I am reading a

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Teacher got help!

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2005/09/24

Большое спасибо to Angela, who was kind enough to create a short tutorial for me to change the banner on this site. Kudos to my multi-talanted listener!

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Lesson 4 - Alphabet and Words you Already Know

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2005/09/23

You'll be surprised how many words you would be able to recognize without studying any Russian. The words I am talking about are cognates - words borrowed from a foreign language that share a common pronunciation and meaning.The Russian version of an English word may look intimidating to you at first, but as you become familiar with the Russian characters you'll learn to recognize a cognate when you see it. 1. теннис 2. доллар 3. баскетбол 4. доктор 5. Нью-Йорк 6. Калифорния 7. бейсбол 8

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Vacation Note

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2005/09/17

Click on the title "Vacation Note" to hear my message. I have a few photos to go with my audio note. All of them were taken in Texas outside Tyler.I can't waith to get back to work on the next "A Spoonful of Russian" lesson!

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Lesson 3 - 'How are You?'

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2005/09/10

If you ask a Russian 'How are you?' (КАК ДЕЛА) you might hear more that just a simple "OK". But for starters we'll learn some simple replies. Here are the transcripts of the dialogs from our lesson. #1 (- Как дела, Эмили? - Хорошо, спасибо. ) #2 (- Как дела, Эмили? - Хорошо, спасибо. А у вас?) ("I am fine as well" - "Тоже хорошо" ) #3 (- Как дела, мам? - Так себе...) #4 (- Как дела, мам? - Ничего хорошего, Эмили...) Word/Expressions list: Provided below are the

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OT: More Post-Hurricane Photos

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2005/09/08

Driving down familiar streets, it seemed there were National Guards on every corner.....(Click for bigger version).Managed to get a shot of downtown New Orleans including shabby Superdome:

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Off Topic: Shots from the trip to New Orleans

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2005/09/06

Monday we got to go back to survey the damage hurricane Katrina brought with it. We left Houma (where we are staying now) at 4am.There was a lot of waiting in lines.....A trip that usually takes us 1 hour, lasted 4 hrs.After a long ride we started seeing the signs of Katrina's power....and that's what we saw when we got to our house:All I can say is there's gonna be a lot of work till we can move back into our home.

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Lesson 2 - Saying 'Goodbye'

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2005/09/03

How do you say 'Goodbye' in Russian? This show teaches you a couple of ways to do that. As you listen, the images below will help you visually. - Пока, Эмили. - Пока, мам. - До свидания, Эмили. - До свидания, папа. Sorry for the quality of the show's audio. Was out of town, and recording was made on my notebook. I am hoping that I'll have all my usual gear unharmed (by hurricane Katrina) when I go back to New Orleans, La. on Monday.

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Off Topic: Hurricane Kartina's Devastation

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2005/09/01

Just to keep all my listeners posted. I am using internet access through Houma Public Library at the moment. I was affraid I wouldn't be able to get the next show out to you this coming Saturday, but now I promise you it WILL happen. This is the 1st opportunity I had to get online since last Saturday. My husband and I, and our two little girls left New Orleans at 7am on Saturday and went to Houma, Louisiana, where my husband's parents live. We grabbed bare minimum of clothes, food, etc. and

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Lesson 1 - Greeting

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2005/08/26

Friends and family members greet each other with a simple "Привет". for those who want to 'Copy'+'Paste' : - Привет, Эмили. - Привет, мам. Use "Здравствуйте" with people you barely know, with much older folks (unless they are your relatives) or with government officials. - Здравствуйте, мисс Наталия. - Здравствуй, Эмили. Remember, "Practice makes perfect". Your e-mails with questions and comments are welcome. If you are brave enough, you can e-mail me an audio file with your greeting in

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