✨✨✨LANGUAGE TREASURE BOX ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

🕯Искусство..... Art ......L'arte...
Saint Petersburg...The Hermitage...Friday 🕯

Every time you are in the Gallery, it feels like the first time , like the first awe ❤️

I wondered how we can call the architectural decision ??
💡LOGGIA 💡

A loggia is an Italian word for a covered outdoor corridor or gallery usually attached to the main residence. The space would typically incorporate architectural columns and arches into its design. 

💡Its origin is from the mid-18th century from the Italian word for "lodge." The term is somewhat antiquated and most often associated with older European buildings, such as the Royal Albert Hall, a concert hall that has loggia box seating.

So, ITALY 🇮🇹 is everywhere, ingrained in our culture and art here in Saint Petersburg!

😎BLACK AND WHITE 😎

This short post was inspired by a back and white movie 🎬 " Романс в миноре" ,1943 ,Реж. Хельмут Койтнер. I'll attach the link if you are interested.

In English,there is an array of color idioms but black ⚫️ and white are the most " elegant" 😎

✍BLACK-AND-WHITE
Meaning: it is easy to understand what is going on in a black-and-white situation.

There must be a simple, BLACK-AND-WHITE solution to your problem.

We need to think things through. It isn’t all BLACK AND WHITE

✍BLACK IS WHITE
Meaning: if we say that BLACK IS WHITE, we believe that the truth is the opposite to a real situation.
Rob would say that black is white if it helped him in his career.

🖤🤍Undoubtedly,there's charm in black and white cinema,photos,clothing,accessories and interior design. The movie unfolds the beauty of black and white as well as retells a dramatic life story ...
https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/68629/?utm_referrer=yandex.ru

✨✨✨ONLY UP BOOK CLUB ✨✨✨

💡SESSION 2 on Sunday ,7th at 12 pm 💡
🌹Alice Munro's short story "VOICES" 🌹

Друзья,собрала в маленький коллаж то,что мы уже почитали,полюбили,обсудили и посоветовали другим !

👍2 больших романа - почитали!
" State of Wonder" by Ann Patchett ( 2011) and " The Idiot" by Elif Batuman ( 2017)

👍Рассказ из сборника Лорри Мур - почитали!
👍Рассказ из сборника Эллис Манро - ЧИТАЕМ 7 апреля !

Я очень горжусь всеми участниками моего книжного клуба 🔥🔥🔥Обнимаю 🌹

✨✨✨Session 2 is done ✔️ Thank you all for an almost 2-hour meeting ❤️
✨✨✨SESSION 3 ( April,21st at 6 pm) will be dedicated to a man writer, whose name is ALAN SILLITOE 📚📖

Alan Sillitoe is one of the best writers to come out of England in the 20th century. His career is one of the best ways to show that you don’t have to have a good education to be a great writer. Alan may have become creative because he didn’t have a lot of money and his father beat him up and made his life hard. In his early twenties, when he went to Europe, his life changed in a big way. The famous poet Robert Graves and the American poet Ruth Fainlight, who later became his wife, changed the way he thought about life. Alan went on to write more than 40 novels and 12 collections of poems as a result. Alan was one of the few people who spoke out against the cruel treatment of workers in Europe’s factories. Many of his works that were praised by critics showed that he felt for workers. Many writers today think that everything Alan has written is a masterpiece.

✍The name of the story is coming very soon! Im in the middle of a choosing process😁Keep posted !

✨✨✨ONLY UP BOOK CLUB SESSION 3 📖 21 апреля в 18.00 (воскресенье)✨✨✨

✍2 stories from the collection of short stories (2005) are waiting for us this time !
Story 1 - " Uncle Ernest "
Story 2 - " Mr Rayon the school teacher"

New and Collected Stories brings together more than forty pieces of short fiction, encompassing Sillitoe's entire career, and includes several previously UNPUBLISHED stories.
It is an essential and comprehensive collection from an often-overlooked gem in the canon of modern fiction and an abiding literary voice for working-class Britain.

Приятного чтения ,друзья ❤️

✨✨✨Philarmonia ... Rahmaninov, concert *2 .... grandiose music ... a friendly environment... what can be better on Friday evening ! 🫶

Dear friends, a couple of nice idioms to share with here:

✍Drum Up
Meaning: This phrase means to increase, create or encourage support or interest in something, as a drummer might do to stir up enthusiasm.
In a Sentence: The marketing team worked hard to DRUM UP excitement for the upcoming product launch.

✍Harmonize With
Meaning: This phrase means to match or complement something well, much like harmonious notes in a piece of music.
In a Sentence: Her accessories HARMONIZED perfectly WITH the elegant simplicity of her outfit.

Let this weekend HARMONIZE with spring mood , your smile and positive thinking ❤️

🩷Напишу на русском ... душа просит🩷
Люблю свой язык. Очень.Эта любовь как безусловная любовь к ребёнку. Unconditional love!

Зная 2 иностранных языка,размышляю о том,какое звучание имеет каждый из них для меня? Как для меня звучит мой родной язык,на котором говорит иностранец, например?

Посмотрев фильм 1943г " Сестра его дворецкого" и услышав русские романсы в исполнении американской актрисы Дины Дурбин,которая их САМА спела и специально брала уроки русского языка ,чтобы их исполнить,душа опять затрепетала в умилении 🩷

Русский язык - это такая глубина! Такая сила! Такая красота в абсолюте для меня !

P.S. романсы из фильма " Калитка" и " Цыганская венгерка " ,спетые Диной Дурбин, растворяют любую злость и любую тревогу.
Я влюблена в свой РОДНОЙ РУССКИЙ ЯЗЫК 🔥🩷🔥
👇👇👇
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❄️☃️🌬April .... Saint Petersburg in April is still perfect )))

Today I remembered the post about WINTERING and I'm in the same " calender" mood of winter ❄️

Tomorrow I'm leaving for KAZAN 🚅✈️ and if you have any travel ( places to see) recommendations for me ,guys, I'll definitely appreciate your help 🤝🫶

☺️Keep warm and take care about yourselves☺️

✨✨✨ONLY UP BOOK CLUB 📖 Session 4 is coming soon !🔥STEPHEN KING 🔥
We're opening the second half of SPRING sessions with Stephen King is an award-winning writer of horror and suspense novels.  His fiction work has ranked high, and many have become box-office hit films and television series.  

😎👽Stephen King has received international acclaim for his literary works.  👽 Some of his awards and achievements include:
•    O. Henry Award
•    World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, Pet Sematary, 1983
•    National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, 2003
•    Bram Stoker Award Lifetime Achievement Award, 2005
•    National Medal of Arts, 2014

👻🔥Our literary journey is in progress and in less than 2 weeks we're meeting again.

Yours,
Yulia 📚🧡

😍ONE OF THESE DAYS I'll come back to see the most elegant and beautiful mosques 🌹
✍ Brief history :
Built in 2005 by Turks ,financed by Russia ,Saudi Arabia and Iran , it has become a global Muslim project!
Adorned by the calligraphy of the Iraqi makes it a unique object of Art!

✨I took two pictures, in the evening and at day time to compare the two images. I for one was awestruck by the inside and outside of the mosque!

ONE OF THESE DAYS ( which means " когда-нибудь в будущем " ) Kul Sharif mosque 🕌 will be caught by my photo camera again ....

No photoshop ☀️

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/best-stephen-king-movies/

💡Preparing for the BOOK CLUB SESSION 4 , I recalled some films 🎥 based on STEPHEN KING'S novels and short stories .

The list is impressively long!
Have you ever watched any ? 🤔

Interestingly enough,I've seen very few ones as horror and thrillers are not my cup of tea at all but I remembered " The green mile " ( 1999) ... It made me think 🤔 Was it a true story??🤔

"The Green Mile" is partially based on a true story.
Well, precisely speaking, the 1999 movie is based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name that was published in 1996. When it comes to the inspiration of the book, it is believed that King based his novel on a 14-year-old boy named George Stinney Jr., the youngest ever to be sentenced to death in the electric chair in the 20th century in America.

The film is emotionally charged,heart-wrenching at times. Tom Hanks is incomparable there 🔥 one of my favorite actors and he still is !

https://www.thewom.it/lifestyle/selfcare/people-pleaser

🤩" PEOPLE- PLEASER " has landed on the Italian Lexical ground too , which hardly ever surprises me 🤓

Italian is full of English words.
If you know English well, you are able to understand a half of the Italian article( or a borderline half 😀)

E.g. Potresti essere un people pleaser. Una persona che desidera essere apprezzata dagli altri ad ogni costo, così tanto da arrivare a perdere sé stessa pur di andare incontro ai desideri di chi ha intorno.
🧐desiderare- to desire
🧐arrivare - to arrive
🧐apprezzare - to appreciate
🧐una persona - a person
🧐ad ogni costo - at all costs
🧐desideri - desires,wishes

Магия!И спасибо ЛАТИНСКОМУ языку ☀️Статья прекрасна и " people- pleaser " ( человек,который угождает всем в ущерб себе самому) описывается очень занимательно.