🔢🔢🔢 Сидеть - 2 / to sit:

🔻Like many common verbs, сидеть has a surprising depth of meanings, extending far beyond the simple act of taking a seat:

1. Сидеть на шее
[si-det' na she-ye]
SLT: To sit on someone's neck
To live off someone / to be a burden

2. Cидеть как влитой
[si-det' kak vli-toy]
SLT: to sit like poured in
To fit perfectly / to fit like a glove

3. Cидеть как на иголках
    [si-det' kak na i-gol-kakh]
SLT: To sit as if on needles
To be on pins and needles / to be on edge

4. Cидеть сложа руки
    [si-det' slo-zha ru-ki]
SLT: To sit with folded hands
To sit idly by / to do nothing

5. Сидеть на диете
    [si-det' na di-ye-te]
SLT: To sit on a diet
To follow a diet

Когда уже час сидишь на диете и начинаешь задумываться, а нужна ли тебе та осиная талия.
When you've been on a diet for just an hour and you start wondering if you even need that wasp waist.

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▶️Сидеть - 1

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Here are some answers of Russians to the question what they would tell Americans if they had a chance to do it.

🇷🇺 + 🇺🇸 = ❓️

And I have a question in return:

❓️What would you say to the people of Russia if you had the opportunity to address them?

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In Kamchatka, a fox stole a man's phone after he had been teasing her with the gadget, pretending it was a tasty treat.

Serves him right for teasing!

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Video: telegram svodka25

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The Daddy (Папаша) of USSR submachine guns (SG), the bestseller PPSh-41.

🔻PPD-40 were popular in the military, due to their reliability and large stock of cartridges. But they were laborious and difficult to produce.

🔻Designer G.S. Shpagin: 08.26.1940 submitted a prototype of his SG to the A.С. of MMAD. In the design, he summarized the experience of the war with Finland and simplified manufacturing as much as possible.

🔻After numerous tests of prototypes, in 10.1940 comparative firing of new weapons took place: 25 PPSh-41, against 15 SG B. G. Shpitalny and several PPD-40 models.

🔻Shpitalny's weapon showed lower dispersion and greater muzzle velocity, while Shpagin's weapon bribed with simple handling, weight of 3.5 kg a technological advantage. Probably, the latter was crucial, since the production time of the PPSh-41 was 5.5 hours less than that of the PPD. In total 5 mln PPSh-41 units were produced during the GPW.

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⚓️ Today marks the anniversary of one of the most epic naval battles of the sailing era: the Battle of Chesma (1770). It was a victory forged against impossible odds!

🔻Imagine sailing 4,500 nautical miles – from the Baltic Sea, around ALL of Europe, through treacherous straits and a hostile Mediterranean swarming with enemy ships, just to reach a battle. The Ottomans literally thought it couldn't be done!

🔻But the Russian fleet, defying every expectation, did it!

🔻The outcome was catastrophic for the Ottomans:
Near total annihilation: Out of their 15 battleships, only ONE survived!
Up to 11,000 Ottoman sailors perished in the inferno.

🔻After the Battle of Chesma, the Russian fleet managed to severely disrupt Turkish communications in the Aegean Sea and establish a blockade of the Dardanelles. All of this played an important role in the conclusion of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca.

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- Я не хочу замуж!
- I don't want to get married!
- Почему?
- Why?
- Потому что я буду мыть полы и посуду, а дети будут играть и плакать!
- Because I'll be washing the floors and dishes, and the children will be playing and crying!

• Выходить замуж (за + Accus.)(about a woman, imperf.)
[vy-kha-dit' za-muzh za]
To get married (to)

• Жениться (на + Prepos.) (about a man, imperf.)
[zhy-ni-tsa na]
To marry someone

Demography is in danger!

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• День Семьи, Любви и Верности
The Day of Family, Love and Fidelity

🤍 This bright holiday, celebrated on July 8th, is a symbol of the eternal values upon which Russian society is built: love, devotion, and the unbreakable bonds of family.

💙 Its history is rooted in ancient times and is inextricably linked with the lives of the Orthodox saints - the Holy Prince Peter and Princess Fevronia of Murom.

❤ It was their marital life, full of trials, mutual respect, and deep fidelity, that became a model of an ideal marriage. Peter and Fevronia, who lived in the 13th century, exemplified through their lives a sincere and self-sacrificing love that was able to overcome any obstacles. They are considered the patrons of marriage and family in Russia.

𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒆, 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒚, 𝒎𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝒂𝒏𝒅, 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆, 𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔. 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒗𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓!
𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒚!

𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 💓

Taste the world!

Блюдо 🆚️ Тарелка

🔢 Блюдо (блюда) (neut.noun)
[blyu-da (blyu-da)]
1) Most commonly refers to the food itself: A dish(es):

• Моё любимое блюдо - это борщ.
My favourite dish is borshch.

2) Less commonly, it can refer to a general container for food (which can include a plate):

• Положи рыбу на это блюдо.
Put the fish on this plate.

🔢 Тарелка (тарелки) (femin.noun)
[ta-rel-ka (ta-rel-ki)]
A plate(s)

• Тарелка с кусочком торта
А plate with a piece of cake (on it)

🔻This is an individual eating utensil.

😉Which dish is your favourite?

#AI
#useful_vocabulary
#tricky_words

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Is it a hint that the wind is changing?

• Намёк (намёки) (masc.noun)
[na-myok (na-myo-ki)]
It can be a hint, a gentle warning, a sarcastic dig, a playful suggestion, or a serious veiled message.

• Вы понимаете намёки?
Do you understand hints?

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Fist fights: Brutal entertainment or character forging?

🔻Fist fights in Russia were held back in pagan times. First mentioned by Nestor 1068 in the "ПВЛ".

🔻They were specially preparing for the battles, and in the outback of the Pskov region there is still a rite of "breaking", a ritual dance before the battle, the movements of the dancer resemble a bear.

🔻The fights were held Стенка на стенку (literally: wall to wall) the participants lined up in two ranks and converged in a fist fight. There were also individual self-on-self fights, including court fights.

🔻The battles were fought in squares, on ice in winter. You could punch with your fist, but you could do leg sweeps. Those who fell and were wounded with bleeding were forbidden to be beaten. Children were the first to converge WtW, then teen. and finally adults.

🔻 Residents of the city and neighboring villages participated in such battles, which were common on  such holidays as Maslenitsa.

Video: Partisan

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Yuri Gagarin with his wife Valentina and daughter Galina, 1963

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The Most Adorable Dance-Off!

🔻Our trail cameras at the Nizhne-Svirsky Nature Reserve just captured a truly heartwarming and unique moment!

🔻Two playful bear cubs were filmed performing an incredibly synchronized scratch routine against a tree. Standing perfectly side-by-side, they moved with such harmony, it was like watching a perfectly choreographed dance number - a real "dancing duo" in the wild!

🔻Reserve staff noted that this is the first time such a charming and coordinated display has ever been captured on camera within the reserve!

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🎁 Wow, can you believe it? Today, on July 8th, learn RCRussian channel officially turns two years old!

🔻Just 2 years ago, this whole idea started with a mere 18 subscribers and a deep desire to share my knowledge and love for Russia, despite the growing russophobia worldwide!

🔻Now, we've grown to an incredible 6000+! And I am truly thrilled to have all of you - people who share a genuine love and respect for Russia and the Russian language! (Totally unrelated to cat videos, by the way!🐱)

❤️And speaking of feedback, I cannot thank you enough for your likes and comments. It's really important for me to feel that what I create is useful and interesting to you all!

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