🌝Доброе утро, товарищи!

🔻In Russian, there are a few words related to 'chocolate', which can be confusing for non-native speakers:

1. Шоколад (masc.noun)
    [shy-ka-lat]
    Chocolate in general, a drink

• Тёмный шоколад
   [tyom-nyj shy-ka-lat]
   Dark chocolate

• Горячий шоколад
  [ga-rya-chiy shy-ka-lat]
  Hot chocolate

2. Шоколадный (masc.adj.)
    [shy-ka-lad-nyj]
    "chocolate" as an adjective or
dark brown colour

• Шоколадный торт
  [shy-ka-lad-nyj tort]
  A chocolate cake

• Шоколадный окрас
  [shy-ka-lad-nyj ak-ras]
  Dark-brown coat colour

3. Шоколадка
    [shy-ka-lat-ka]
    1) A chocolate bar
    2) ironically:  a tanned person, a pet with dark-brown coat

• Ух-ты! Ты прям шоколадка после отпуска!
[ukh-ty ty pryam chy-ka-lat-ka pos-le ot-pus-ka]
🇬🇧 Wow! You're like a chocolate after your vacation!

🎧🗣👇 Шоколадного понедельника всем!

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Russia is home to a vast number of people from different nationalities and faiths. Despite our differences, we treat each other with respect.

🔵However, every summer (regardless of the region in our vast and beautiful country, religion, gender, or nationality), a number of Russians traditionally divide themselves into two irreconcilably hostile categories:

Category 📝: те, кому жарко (those who are hot) with the air-conditioning off
and
Category 📝: те, кому дует (those who are drafty) with air-conditioning on.

🔵These particularly "bloody" battles unfold in air-conditioned offices.

🔵The struggle to "neutralize the icy air conditioning" against "creating an optimally cool temperature for brain function" continues until autumn, when the warring parties, breathing a sigh of relief, and unite to fight off autumnal depression, lovingly supporting each other with ginger tea and homemade pies.

❓Which category do you belong to?

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😏There are both categories Те, кому дует vs тех, кому жарко in RCR as well.

• У нас ничья.
  [u nas ni-chya]
  It's a tie.

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You could send me funny videos, memes you'd like to translate into English or your questions about Russia, Russian grammar/phrases/... .

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​​😀Всем пламенный привет!

🔻Russian adverbs 'туда' and 'оттуда' are used to indicate direction in Russian.

1⃣ Туда
     [tu-da] - there
      To there, towards that place

• Пойдём туда.
  [pay-dyom tu-da]
  Let's go there.

🔻'Туда' is used with verbs of motion, such as идти (to go, come).

2⃣ Оттуда
     [at-tu-da]
     From there, from that place,
away from there

• Я приехал оттуда.
   [ya pri-ye-khal at-tu-da]
   I came from there.

🔻'Оттуда' is used with verbs of motion, such as приезжать (to arrive).

😀 In Russian colloquial speech, there's a sarcastic phrase:

• Я бы вас (тебя) послал, да вижу вы (ты) оттуда.
[ya by vas (ti-bya) pas-lal da vi-zhy vy (tu) at-tu-da]
🇬🇧 I'd send you (to hell), but I see you've just come from there.

⚠️Mind that it is pretty offensive!

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▶️ Сюда/отсюда (Revision)

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• Скряга (скряги) (common gender)
  [skrya-ga ]
A very stingy person, a penny
pincher

🔻There are informal synonyms for 'скряга':
• Жмот (жмоты)
[zhmot] (masc.noun about a man)
• Жадина (жадины)
[zhadina] (common gender)

Examples:
• Ну ты и скряга!
   [nu ty i skrya-ga]
=
• Ну ты и жмот!
   [nu ty i zhmot]
=
• Ну ты и жадинa!
   [nu ty i zha-di-na]
=
🇬🇧You're such a penny pincher!

🎧🗣👇

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