International Mother Language Day

By Alexandre Rafalovitch, on February 21st, 2007

Сегодня – Международный день родного языка. Мой родной язык – Русский! Я горд моим родным языком даже если я не использую его каждый день.

Today – 21st of February – is the International Mother Language Day. My mother language is Russian! I am proud of my mother language, even if I do not get to . . . → Read More: International Mother Language Day

3 comments   General Education, Language Acquisition, Russian, Spanish

On translated poetry and the power of internet

By Alexandre Rafalovitch, on January 24th, 2007

I am not into poetry. This could be easily explained by the fact that we had to learn by heart very long, very boring poems about hapless peasants in the Russian literature class. But there was one short piece of poetry that I really liked. It was a translation by Marshak, who was often said . . . → Read More: On translated poetry and the power of internet

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