Karymsky Volcano. Kamchatka

🔻Kamchatka has more than 300 volcanoes, about 30 of which are active. Some erupt annually, while others erupt once every thousand years, but they are still considered active.

🔻The highest active volcano in Kamchatka is Klyuchevskaya Sopka.

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Очкарик очкарику друг, товарищ и запасные очки.
One glasses-wearer to another is a friend, a comrade, and a spare pair of glasses.


🥳Today is:
• День Очкарика!
A Glasses Wearer Day!

🔻The Russian word "очкарик" [аch-ka-riк] often carries a negative connotation, implying someone is nerdy, bookish, or socially awkward.

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Начни свой день с чего-то действительно важного 🐱!
Start your day with something truly important.

👋Приветствую!

• Действительно (adverb)
[diy-ství-til'-nа]
Really, truly, actually, indeed

🔻Its meaning emphasizes the authenticity or importance of something. It strengthens the statement it modifies.

🔻It's generally placed before the word it modifies.

🔻To strengthen an adverb:

• Это действительно важно.
This is really important.

🔻To strengthen an adjective:

• Это действительно важный вопрос.
This is a really important question.

🔻To strengthen a verb: 

• Он действительно старался.
He really tried (hard).

🔻Sometimes, действительно expresses surprise at the truth of something:

• Действительно, почему ты ещё в кровати?
Really, why are you still in bed?

🔻While often interchangeable with очень (very),  действительно carries a stronger connotation of truthfulness and significance.

❓А что действительно важно для вас по утрам😉?

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Коротко о моей памяти: вместимость 17 (семнадцать) мемов.
Briefly about my memory: the capacity is 17 memes.

😉Share your best Russian meme here!

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👋Доброе утро!

• Зажмуриться (perf.)
[zazh-mu-ri-tsa]
To shut one's eyes tightly

🔻This verb often implies a brief, involuntary action due to bright light, fear, or discomfort.

🔻More nuanced translations might include to squeeze one's eyes shut, to clamp one's eyes shut (in reaction to something).

🔻Зажмуриться doesn't take a direct object. The action is performed on the subject's own eyes.

💢Also:
• Играть в жмурки
[ig-rat' v zhmur-ki]
To play tag (with someone covering their eyes)

🔻It's a children's game where one person is blindfolded (or covers their eyes) and tries to catch the others.

🎧🗣👇 Learn the conjunction of the verb and feel the bright spring sun on your face!

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Когда тебе на работу только через 20 лет.
When you have to go to work only in 20 years.

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A new word for determined language learners:

• Русофрения
  [ru-sa-fri-ni-ya]

🤔It explains a lot.

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🧡 Foggy St Petersburg

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👋Приветствую!

🔻The Russian verbs дразнить and дразниться both relate to teasing but:

🔢 Дразнить (imperf.)
[draz-nit']
To tease (someone)

🔻This verb requires an indirect object (a noun/pronoun in Genitive case) – it's someone who is being teased:

• Не дразни меня!
Don't tease me! /Stop teasing me!

🔢 Дразниться (imperf.)
[draz-ni-tsa]
To mock, to tease

🔻This form is typically used without an object, focusing on the act of teasing itself.

🔻Despite being reflexive, дразниться doesn't necessarily mean teasing oneself. On the contrary, the emphasis is on the process of teasing.

• Хватит дразниться!
Stop mocking!

• Прекрати дразнить меня!
Stop teasing me!

📎 At a St. Petersburg gym, a young sigma boy мелкий тролль stressed out the fit girls by eating a burger right behind the glass. That's universal balance!

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🟠 Politeness Check:

Fill in the missing letters in this Russian word:  (_У_НЯ)

😏If you got the word кухня (kitchen), congrats: you're a polite person!

So, what are your results?

Please vote👇!

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