Did you know building a snowman is a full-body workout? ⛄️💪

🔻Fitness trainers say that just one hour of sculpting a snowman can replace a proper gym session! It engages all your major muscle groups — arms, shoulders, and core — with constant bending, squatting, pushing, and lifting.

🔻And in the cold, you burn calories even faster thanks to thermogenesis: up to 300 calories in an hour of snowy fun!🔥

This is my favourite kind of January workout! How about yours?

🔻Лепить снеговика

#brief_and_interesting

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Дегустация селёдки под шубой прошла успешно.
The herring under a fur coat tasting was a success.

#holidays

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👋Доброе утро!
У нас снег🌨, а у вас?

#NonLinguisticPost
#morning
#just_cats

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• Зажраться (perf.)
[za-zhra-tsa]
🔸Conjugation

🔻This slang verb means to pig out, to become insufferably spoiled, arrogant, or fussy due to excessive food, comfort, wealth, or success.

🔻The prefix ЗА- in this verb indicates the beginning and completion of a process leading to a negative, excessive state.

• Жрать (vulgar: to eat/devour) metaphorically suggests greedily consuming comforts.
• ЗАжраться = to have gone too far in that consumption and to have become stuck in the resulting bad state (arrogance, spoiled behaviour).

🔻Think of the prefix ЗА- as marking the point of crossing over into a negative condition (and staying there):

• Зазнаться (perf.)
[za-zna-tsa]
To become conceited

• Зазвездиться (slang, perf.)
[za-zviz-di-tsa]
To get a big head from fame

Наш кот совсем зажрался!
Our cat is living the high life! = Our cat has it too good! = Our cat has become totally spoiled!

#prefixes
#spoken_Russian
#verbs

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Together, a Russian figure skater and a Chinese virtuoso give birth to something beautiful!

⛸️ At the fabulous RT ice rink in Shanghai, Olympic champion Alina Zagitova skated to the live accompaniment of the famous Chinese virtuoso pianist Lan Lan.

⛸️ On New Year's Eve, the figure skater's performance was broadcast on China's national television.

Video: Маргарита Симоньян

#Russian_culture
#brief_and_interesting

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Единственный вид динозавров, доживший до наших дней — креслоцараптор.
The only species of dinosaur that has survived to the present day is the Sofascratchus.

🗝
Креслоцараптор is a playful, invented Russian word that describes a pet (especially a cat) that relentlessly scratches armchairs.

• Кресло
[kres-la]
An armchair

• Царап(ать)
[tsa-ra-pat']
To scratch

• -тор = a suffix from Latin typically used for agents or devices (like терминатор / terminator)

#memes

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Ну и фто ты мне сделаешь, кожаный?
Well, what are you going to do to me, leatherskin?

Фто = што = чё = чо = что (what)

#spoken_Russian

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👋Приветствую, товарищи!
That's how things are going on in my city today❄️. Let's stay PAWsitive!

Maybe we'll be dug out in some time:)

#just_cats
#morning
#NonLinguisticPost

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В сеть утекли кадры, как русские подпольно ускоряют «замедленный» YouTube.
Footage has leaked online showing how Russians are secretly speeding up a "slowed-down" YouTube.

🔸 Ускорить (perf.)
[oo-sko-rit']
=
🔸Ускорять (imperf.)
[oo-ska-ryat']
To speed up, to accelerate, to make (something) faster:

• Ускорить процесс
To speed up a process (and it's now running faster).

🔻It comes from the feminine noun скорость (speed, pace) or adjective скорый (fast, quick)

Its antonym:

🔸Замедлить (perf.)
[za-med-lit']
=
🔸Замедлять (imperf.)
[za-mid-lyat']
To slow down, to decelerate, to make (something) slower:

• Замедлить ход событий
To slow down the course of events

🔻It comes from the adjective медленный (slow)

#verbs
#useful_vocabulary

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Тренер: "Просто делай, что можешь."
Я делаю, что могу...
Coach: "Just do what you can."
I'm doing what I can...


🔸Мочь (imperf.)
Can, be able (to )

The Present Tense:
Я могу (I can...)
Ты можешь (you, singular)
Он/она/оно может (he/she/it)
Мы можем (we)
вы/Вы можете (you: plural, polite)
Они могут (they)

#holidays
#verbs
#grammar_tips
#useful_vocabulary

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Winter's Little Singers: 10 Surprising Facts About Bullfinches!

• Снегирь (снегири) (masc.noun)
[sni-geer' (sni-gi-ree)]

🎄That famous red chest? It's a male-only fashion statement! Females sport a lovely, subtler brown plumage.
🎄They're lightweights! An adult bullfinch weighs no more than 30 grams.
🎄Chicks look like mini-adults from the start, except for one thing: their "black cap" grows in later. They're born without it!
🎄Surprisingly tame, they can be quite trusting of humans and are known to be easily tamed.
🎄They're talented mimics! Some bullfinches can learn and whistle several quite complex melodies.
🎄The males are traditionalists when it comes to nesting: building the home is solely the female's prerogative.
🎄Their biggest health risk? Obesity. These birds have absolutely no sense of moderation when it comes to food!
🎄Not all of them are snowbirds! Only the populations from the far north migrate south for winter. Many others stay put year-round.
🎄Sadly, in captivity, bullfinches have a shorter lifespan than in the wild.
🎄Unlike many birds, they are fiercely loyal parents. In the face of danger, they will not abandon their nest and will fight to protect it.

📍 Where do they live in Russia?
Bullfinches are found throughout the forest zone of Russia – from the western borders all the way to Kamchatka and Sakhalin in the east.

Have you ever seen these beauties?

#factfile
#Russiannature

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Это всё мандарины!
It's all because of the tangerines!

🥳Today we celebrate:

• Международный Разгрузочный День
International Fasting Day

Ну вы поняли:)

🖼It's common for Russian to use 'e' instead of 'ё', as it often is clear for us what is meant.

#holidays

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Глупые салатики, что же вы наделали?
Stupid little salads, what have you done?

• Салатик (салатики) (masc., dimin.noun)
[sa-la-tik (sa-la-ti-ki)]

From:

• Салат (салаты) (masc.noun)
[sa-lat (sa-la-ty)]
A salad(s)

#useful_vocabulary

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Шёл шестой день новогодних праздников в России...
It was the sixth day of the New Year holidays in Russia...

👋Доброе утро!
У нас как-то так.
А вы как 👍😴❤😁...?

🔻Ordinal numerals

#morning
#holidays
#revision

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Иностранец всю жизнь учит русский язык.
Русские: мб в пт но хз
A foreigner has been learning Russian his/her whole life.
Russians are like: ...

❗️Can you decipher мб в пт но хз?

Share your ideas in the comments👍

🗝 МБ for Может Быть:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/learnRCRussian/4384

ПТ for ПяТница:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/learnRCRussian/890

ХЗ for Хрен (его) Знает:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/learnRCRussian/3082

#Russian_riddle
#spoken_Russian
#learnRussian

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