Olga Jarrell Mar 24 ПОЛИТИК vs. ПОЛИТИКА When you hear or see the sentence “Мы говори́м о поли́тике”, do you know what we talk about: politics or a politician? 🤔The...
Olga Jarrell Jan 12, 2020 You Expect Them to Be Masculine Nouns, but They Are Not Quite a few English nouns ending in a consonant have corresponding cognates in Russian. The confusing thing is that these English nouns...
Olga Jarrell Apr 4, 2016 Words easily confused: CLASS vs. КЛАСС The word CLASS looks like a true cognate of КЛАСС, but, unfortunately, these words can act like false cognates in many usages. Even some...
Olga Jarrell Sep 21, 2015 Cognates vs. False Cognates Over the centuries, English and Russian have expanded their vocabularies by borrowing words from different languages. For that reason, we...
