When I travel to a country with a language I’m unfamiliar with, I try to make sure I have some key phrases down. For a while, I had tried Rosetta Stone which, in addition to being expensive, didn’t emphasize the types of words I wanted to learn quickly. I can …
Read More »Cake in the Ass. and Other Russian Tidbits
Reporters arriving at Sochi have been tweeting astonishing photos of the conditions in their hotel rooms. View from the Wing linked to quite a few of them. But there are a few things that I’ve seen on twitter that have made me go, “Ah, you haven’t been to Russia before!” …
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