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Обратная связь или фидбек?

Фи́дбек is one of the neologisms recently borrowed from English and very often replaces the traditional Russian equivalents of the...

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"Tweeting" in Russian: Я твичу, ты твитишь, они твитят...

Here is another verb and related words that Russian borrowed from English due to increased global social networking. Тви́ттер - назва́ние...

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How to Say in Russian "to Be Good At "?

Some internet memes could be so misleading especially for language students. This American pop culture meme is recognized by many of us...

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14 New Internet Slang Verbs That Are Already in the Dictionaries

A few years ago, when typing in the Microsoft Word Document, these words were immediately underlined red. The spellcheck didn't recognize...

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Word of the Day: БЕЗЛИМИТИЩЕ

Almost every Russian who watches TV once in a while is familiar with the word безлими́тище. It is frequently used in advertisements of...

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Words of the day: ИМЕЙЛ

The word ИМЕЙЛ is officially in the Russian dictionaries. 😃 Even though we can use the Russian analog ЭЛЕКТРО́ННАЯ ПО́ЧТА or ЭЛЕКТРОННОЕ...

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Should Russian borrow this Halloween word already?

How difficult could it be to translate one short phrase into Russian? However, when you attempt to translate a completely foreign concept...