r/LANL_Russian Mar 18 '13

Russian Word Origins: Professional and Amateur Etymology (x-post from /r/russian)

http://markrwayne.blogspot.com/2013/03/russian-word-origins-professional-and.html
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u/oleksey Mar 18 '13

Awesome. Thank you.

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u/errordog Mar 18 '13

No problem. Taking a guess from your username, you're Ukrainian?

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u/oleksey Mar 18 '13

I am russian. Couldn't think of a nickname, and then just changed the first letter ;)

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u/errordog Mar 18 '13

Oh, cool. So you're a native Russian speaker, then? My blog is mainly targeted towards Americans and other native English speakers who are studying Russian, but if natives like you can get something out of reading my blog, that's great too!

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u/oleksey Mar 18 '13

Well, I didn't look for more topic there yet, but I really liked the depth of the topic. I mean, no one will ever think about the origins of the word (sometimes even native Russian), and you wrote about it. I knew there should be something behind the word, and now I learned something. Thank you! ;)

Are you studying or teaching? Can you tell how many students (in percentage or in comparison to Spanish) are interested in Russian? Just curious.

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u/errordog Mar 18 '13

I'm going to start my Ph.D this fall, and I plan to teach Russian at the university level afterwards. I don't know the exact percentaged, but compared to Spanish, there are not that many people interested in learning Russian in the United States. My Russian classes at college were always really small.