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Очень по-русски

Learn Russian as Russians speak it!

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Today we'll cover a whole bunch of interesting Russian expressions: you will learn what it means to throw a stone into somebody's garden, not to have a tsar in one's head, and much more!

Continue reading here: Камень в огород.

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Today we will learn some new colloquial Russian expressions. Although they are completely different in meaning, they all have in common the fact of mentioning some parts of the body.

Continue reading here: Пяткой в грудь.

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Today I'll share with you a poster, that I recently stumbled upon on the Internet, and explain to you its double meaning.

Continue reading here: Пилить бюджет.

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In this episode of Very Much Russian Podcast, we will look into some common Russian abbreviations (as well as simple words) for which Russian people found funny and witty decryptions.

Continue reading here: Funny Russian acronym decryptions.

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Today I will share with you an interesting abbreviation that quite accurately desribes some aspects of our modern realities. And a few more expressions that come to mind in relation to that.

Continue reading here: Редко, но метко.

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In this episode we will discuss two Russian idioms (откуда ноги растут and откуда ветер дует), as well as learn one more way to wish good luck to somebody in Russian.

Continue reading here: Откуда ноги растут.

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In this first in 2021 episode, we return to the matter or lies and learn a couple of expressions that describe them.

Continue reading here: Шито белыми нитками.

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In this episode, we will learn a few Russian idioms that describe winning a victory or proving your superiority over someone.

Continue reading here: Камня на камне не оставить.

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Today we will learn two interesting colloquial Russian expressions. Both of them have two versions: one you can use among friends and the other one in more formal situations.

Continue reading here: Руки не из того места растут.

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In this episode of the Very Much Russian Podcast, we discuss two Russian phrases that are used to express extreme dissapointment.

Continue reading here: Гореть синим пламенем.