#studying russian

[jaxi-the-dragonborn]

BIRTHDAY TIME LETS GOOOOOOOOO

#yk what i am doing today? #studying russian

[captnbukys]

Someone can explain me the difference between prepositions of time like на, в, через, за or without preposition and when to use them ?!

PLS I NEED HELP FOR MY EXAM

#Russian #Russian study #studying Russian #exams #teaching Russian

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

Leonid Pasternak (1862-1945) "The Night Before the Exam" (1895) Oil on canvas Post-Impressionism Located in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

#paintings #art #artwork #genre painting #genre scene #leonid pasternak #oil on canvas #fine art #post impressionism #post impressionist art #musée d'orsay #musee d'orsay #museum #art gallery #russian artist #exams #school #studying #test #tests #horror #terror #fear #interior #clothing #clothes #1890s #late 1800s #late 19th century #1k

[frenchiepal]

love that i have more time for language learning and reading now 💫

#i realised i really needed a break <3 #this semester was one of the most stressful ones and i neglected french and russian #and swedish🤕 #studyblr #langblr #aesthetic #study aesthetic #study inspiration #studying english literature #studying linguistics #studyspo #academia #dark academia #currently reading temeraire in french!

[eyes-of-nine]

they're so childhood friends to lovers bodyguard au coded to me 😌✨ (they have killed so so many people)

#oh how i missed doing a good ol fashioned leyendecker study #and hey look IT'S THE SILLIES<3 #<- tho my lore knowledge has not improved since last time I posted about them I have in fact gotten slightly better at russian #anyways someone plss appreciate the fact that I edited all the serifs to make the font fit nicer ywy #why are cyrillic fonts so ...ehhh #and if anyone feels like summarising over 100 comic issues in my dms i would sell my soul and left kidney to you🥺👉👈 #I wanna talk about them sm but also I genuinely don't really know shit #it's actually super fun highly recommend #sergey razumovsky #oleg volkov #....do they have a ship name??? I'm sure they do???? oh well #plss let's appreciate oleg for being very fun to draw too #major grom #major grom plague doctor #bubble comics #Сергей Разумовский #look look I figured out how to get cyrillic symbols on mobile easily :DD #Олег Волков #майор гром #fanart #my art #mgpd

[haly-reads]

what would i do without my man dosto?

#dostoyevski #Dostoyevsky #reading #fyodor dostoyevsky x reader #dostoevksy #fyodor dostoevsky #studyblr #books #literature #russian literature #studyspo #study notes #english literature #classic literature #studyspiration #Dostoyevsky memes #classic lit memes

[jenna-louise-jamie]

real talk, yassen is insane for only sleeping 4 hours every 24 hours. baby that is not enough sleep. i know you're like peak health or whatever but that's only enough sleep to live, not thrive. how are you awake and alert everyday. whats wrong with you.

#i want to put him in a jar and shake him #i want to study him under a microscope #but for real adult humans need like a minimum of 7-9 hours of sleep to function properly #im not saying its not possible to live on 4 hours of sleep a day #but i am saying that i dont think the benefits outweigh the cons #maybe im just very defensive about getting a good amount of sleep everyday bc if i only slept 4 hours a day i would start biting people #and ripping doors off their hinges and punching holes into walls #i wanted to scream every time yassen mentioned he only sleeps 4 hours every night #russian roulette #yassen gregorovich #alex rider

[ohsalome]

The western stereotype about Ukraine and Ukrainians was created by the russiacentrism in the entire field of slavic studies. Remember Yuval Harari, who in 2019 consented to have russian edition of his book censored and even rewrote some parts, because "russia is world-leading power". So it goes: russia is a "world-leading power" and Ukraine is its backyard, a bleak suburb; something that makes no difference if it exists or not. We were invisible, hidden in the shadow of this great giant.

The origin all these stereotypes come from the history textbooks. All politicians, prior to choosing whether to send us weapons or not, were sitting their asses in Oxfords, Harwards, Cambridges, etc. And when they opened the history textbooks, they learned that russian history began at the christening of Kyiv. And what was ukrainians' place in this history? Bah, that's just some primitive tribespeople running around, who cares. That's the worldview russians taught the european politicians.

In 2014 I was approached with an apology from Karl Schlögel, one of the leading german specialists in slavic history, who told me "My whole life, I only saw Kyiv as a third biggest city of the russian empire". This is a very typical situation. You can waste your entire life telling western europeans about our culture, our authors, etc., but they would only be looking through you. We remained unseen and unheard, because there was only "big russia", and who the hell you are? You have never been here. You have 72 hours to spread your legs before great russian army and appease putin, to make everything fine again.

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- Oksana Zabuzhko, in and interview with BBC News Ukraine

#ukraine #war in ukraine #history #slavic studies #russian history #quotes #russian culture #ukrainian history

[thatstudyblrontea]

January 18, 2023

Library afternoons again. Finally. Looking forward to more productive days, studying Germanic Philology and Russian Literature, getting my student life up and running for the new year.

#studyblr #bookblr #books #study blog #book aesthetic #studyspo #studying #light academia #library #germanic philology #russian literature #uni life #uniblr #uni student #undergrad student #study inspo #study inspiration #study motivation #problematicprocrastinator

[classicliteratureprincess]

Feeling tired & unmotivated to do school assignments.

Going to read Dracula, since it seems like a fairly easy read compared to war & peace (my current read)

#book blog #book recs #booklr #dark academia #light academia #book photography #book review #classic literature #french literature #book recs classic #american literature #books & libraries #austrian literature #russian literature #english literature #old books #book quotations #books and reading #book quotes #bookworm #study aesthetic #dracula #study blog #student #studyblr #studyspo #study motivation #studying #student life #writer stuff

[mlyakotea]

hello everyone!

just joined studyblr and langblr to meet some lang lovers and generally get my ass to study, never used this app before so be patient with me i beg i have no idea what i am doing lol

speak: 🇵🇱🇬🇧

intermediate: 🇯🇵🇨🇳

basic: 🇫🇷🇧🇬

want to learn: 🇷🇺🇰🇷

let’s be study buddies !!

#langblr #studyblr #how it even works help #japanese studyblr #chinese studyblr #russian studyblr #linguistics #study blog #i need language friends or i will go insane my motivation is ZERO

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Fyodor Andreyevich Bronnikov (Russian, 1827-1902) Private baths in Pompeii, 1868

#Fyodor Andreyevich Bronnikov #art study #russian art #russian #russia #1800s #art #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #european #oil painting #fine arts #europa #mediterranean #southern europe #pompeii #cradle of civilization #private baths in pompeii 1868 #private baths in pompeii #artwork #painting

[frenchiepal]

15.1.23🕯️ late night russian study session while it's raining outside. excuse my horrific cyrillic handwriting.

#i lit candles to summon my inner russian demon #it was fruitless😔✌🏼 #studyblr #langblr #aesthetic #study aesthetic #study inspiration #studying english literature #studying linguistics #studyspo #academia

[dullard]

i have to learn to draw ush. for this thing im wanting to do. but i dont want to beacuse i have to make it into a whole study every time. for example these are my joris kerubim and atcham references.

#il probably do. not that good of one. for ush. not as much detail maybe. but also there are Two Ushes i need to learn to draw because he's- #grown enough for it to be visually significant. between OVA and s4 #undescribed #ankama give me your character ref sheets. #posts #i normally dont post these types of studies but the russian crepinjurgenites are so niceys to me

[haly-reads]

dostoyevsky was surely a master of nomenclature as well. i don't know if all editions include this, but my copy of crime and punishment (penguin) includes info on the names of the characters and their meanings. dosto's versatility is unbounded since even the names of characters match with their actions and character traits.

from raskolnikov's name, "raskolot" means to chop or split. "raskolnik" refers to religious schismatic. "razum" in razumikhin means intellect or reason. "zametit" from zametov's name means to observe. most importantly, sofya who is mentioned often as sonya, refers to wisdom.

#crime and punishment #dostoevksy #dostoyevski #russian literature #fyodor dostoevsky #art of annotating #academia #studyblr #reading #study notes #raskolnikov #sonya marmeladova #books #literature #studyspo #studyspiration

[dostoyevsky-official]

You know Mandarin??

sometime in the spring of this year i kept encountering the idea on other social media that chinese is impossible to learn for europeans, that it's too difficult, that no westerner can learn or truly understand it, and in combination with a mainland friend visiting and telling me the ancient chinese etymology of some basic characters (and the 白人饭 Lunch of Suffering meme) i got fed up/enchanted and did the extremely mentally healthy thing of teaching myself basic mandarin, through about ~april to july. at some points in may i remember coming home from work, scribbling characters in my mandarin notebook over and over, doing chores, going to sleep, and repeating the cycle. a taiwanese friend on here helped out with a lot (it's much, much easier if you have chinese friends to help you, however, i am really not about traditional, although i admit it's more beautiful) and baptized me with a chinese name.

i don't know mandarin, and at this point a lot of the characters i'd learned have faded from memory, but i insist that it's not actually difficult to learn chinese (up to a point— maybe HSK 3 or 4 is where it gets really difficult). in fact, learning chinese is really, really fun.

the difficulty lies in the fact that you have to do it every single day for at least an hour, probably for more (i spent pretty much all my free time on it, but there was something not normal going on with me then). you'd think, isn't that the case for every language? yet i don't remember doing daily french like that, and i consider some aspects of french conjugation/russian grammar much more difficult than what chinese throws at you at similar difficulty levels (good luck with motion verbs, non-slavic speakers). i found learning characters to be very, very easy. they're all distinct. if you learn them together with their etymology, looking at ancient chinese and how they developed along with associated idioms, it's endlessly rewarding. at least in the early levels, there's a bit of a system to how characters and words come together and increase in complexity—sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's cute. it's a breath of fresh air to start reading even basic sentences and idioms in a language so entirely different from anything you've experienced before. many people say speaking chinese is easier than reading/writing: in my experience, that's false. i barely started getting a grasp on the tonal system (my goal was to get to HSK 1 solely through written chinese); i remember listening to the same 2 minute audio clip of two people exchanging phone numbers for half an hour or something once before getting everything right. people say "chinese doesn't have grammar" but that's not true, because otherwise it won't be a language at all, though you don't have to learn any conjugations, declensions, etc. at HSK 1-2 you just throw a modifier/particle into a sentence and you're good to go.

the other main difficulty besides tones is that imo chinese culture is borderline impenetrable if you want to have a genuine stab at it (but for this you don't, necessarily, need to learn mandarin). you can learn HSK 1-2 in a few months or a semester, but it will take you years to genuinely understand the cultural context—there truly is no context clue or familiar idea you can latch on to, as opposed to when learning a european language/history, or even turkish, arabic, persian; there is nothing in common here, and if you guess, you'll probably wind up wrong. it all makes me think of how many journalists/experts get russia wrong: i now firmly do not believe a word of what people write about asia unless i find the author knows the language

anyway

#keep in mind of course i did not go past HSK1 #i prefer simplified but seeing what they did to 門 makes one a rabid antimaoist #you get to understand the pò èr shǒu chē reel of the little chinese girl pointing at a porsche that goes around on instagram. #i truly wish china was somehow connected to what i study bc i cannot justify spending that much time on mandarin #unfortunately the harbin russians didn't bother with chinese #smth else about this blog is that india is likewise impenetrable to me. the sheer historical and geographic scale is unbearably intimidatin #where does one even start? #ed* ^ i know the basic 101 historical outlines but i don't think that's “knowing” a place