Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Russian - печь!



Let's start with. I know this post in juvenile. It's immature. It's kid like. But you know what? So what! You try to learn Russian. It's hard. It's odd and so confusing. So to say the least anyway we can make it more fun we will try. So today, it started with one innocent word... Oven.
But do you know what oven is in Russian. Well when Dima said it we about died of laughter. It really isn't that funny. Even saying bitch in English isn't funny but when your Russian teacher says bitch with a p and tells you it means oven. When you are with a bunch of littles you laugh. They laugh. The laughter keeps going and then you have to explain why the word is so funny.
From there is leads to learning what choir is in Russian.
xop.
hor. <--- Yes, I know that is not how you spell that word
So Rosie leads the xop at church and when you tell someone you are a hor leader it's just funny. She coaches the xop.
 From there is just got real bad...

смелый- brave--- smelly
хор- choir -- hor
печь- oven- peetch
факел- torch- fuhkiel

Please go to Google translate and type in :
torch choir oven

And tell me you didn't snicker. 


Now say all four fast together. Today has been the best Russian day ever.

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