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Devils in Amber: The Baltics by Phillip Bonosky (1992).

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love those old soviet posters that are just advertising like, an activity. not some “go to mike’s hardware for the BEST deals around!” just “hey, you can learn stuff at libraries” or “consider going for a hike in the countryside” big kin

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"Teacher Well-Well and His Colorful School" by Yakov Akim, illustrated by Nikolai Ustinov (1978).

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Ice cream. Poster by Sergey Sakharov (1950s).

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решил,

что я больше не буду и не хочу

бояться

I have decided

that I will no longer be, nor do i want to be

afraid

решить (prfct) to decide, to resolve to be, to be determined to

бояться (imp) 1) to be afraid, to fear, to dread. 2) to suffer from, to be vulnerable to.

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отсоси и сдохни suck it and die

отсосать (prfct) to suck away, to draw off, suction

стохнуть (prfct) to die (of an animal), to croak, to drop dead

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Гвоздика Carnation

Маки Poppies

Флоксы Phlox

Ромашка Camomile / Daisy

Роза Rose

Георгин Dahlia

Гладиолус Gladiola

Астры Asters

Matchbox labels from Pinsk Match Factory in Belarus (1960)

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You can say a surprising amount with ~300 words

This is part of my guide on how to start learning a language more quickly. You can find the guide homepage here.

You can express yourself surprisingly flexibly when you know 300 well-chosen words (and grammar) in a language. (By “words”, I really mean lemmas, i.e. I’m counting “run” and “runs” as one word.) When trying to talk about a topic, there will probably be some key words that you don’t know, but you can ask for or look up those words and then use them for the rest of the time that you’re talking about the topic. You can see an example of how using the 300 words works.

Here’s the list of 300. I hope it’s a useful guideline and starting point for you. I may revise it, so please refer to the original post for the most up-to-date version. In addition to these general words, there will probably be some others that will be among the most useful for you (e.g. “class” if you’re a student). When you find yourself using them again and again, learn them too.

* Note: You should really think of this as a list of concepts. Your goal isn’t to translate each word to a word in your target language, but to figure out how to express that concept in your target language. In some cases, a concept may translate to multiple words (for example, I listed “you” as a concept, but in some languages there are different words for “formal you” and “informal you”). Some concepts may translate to no word at all, but rather a certain grammatical structure (for example, Russian doesn’t use the verb “have”; to say “I have a cat” in Russian, you say “at me there is a cat”).

Use a dictionary to find out how to express these concepts in your target language (for some subtleties, you’ll need to google or ask in a forum). After that, I suggest memorizing the words by making yourself a Memrise course with the words and going through the course. Learn to be able to go from the concept to the word in your target language, not the other way around; you want to be able to produce the word, not just recognize it. You should also learn how to pronounce your target language. To hear native speakers pronounce words in your target language, check out Forvo.

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This list has been translated into: Cantonese, Finnish, French, Spanish.

Version 1 of this list, which had 200 words, was translated into: Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai.

If you’d like to translate this list into another language, please feel free! :) Just include a link back to this post, and let me know when you’re done so that I can link to your list here.

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Already a lot of people have done posts on this topic, but I like it, and therefore I will also do it :)

Well, now I want to start with a rainbow:) Rainbow is always something beautifull and positive. This is one of the symbols of happiness, I think. And colors are an important part of it! 

Радуга - rainbow

We have one useful phrase to learn the colors of the rainbow: “Каждый охотник желает знать, где сидит фазан.” - Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant is sitting.

Каждый - Красный - Red

охотник - оранжевый - orange

желает - жёлтый - yellow

знать - зелёный - green

где - голубой - blue

сидит - синий - dark blue

фазан - фиолетовый - violet

In fact the rainbow consists of a huge number of colors, but the human eye can distinguish these basic 7 colors.

I’ll write the basic colors and some of their shades:

Красный - red

Алый - scarlet 

Бордовый, винный - burgundy 

Багряный, багровый - crimson 

Красно-коричневый, темно-бордовый - maroon  

Зелёный - green

Хаки - khaki  

Оливковый - olive 

Бирюзовый - turquoise

Изумрудный - emerald  

Тёмно-бирюзовый -  tealсине

Салатовый - light-green 

Изумрудно-зеленый - viridian

Оранжевый - orange

Жёлтый - yellow

Голубой - blue

Лазурный - azure

Небесно-голубой - sky blue

Синий - dark blue

Тёмно-синий -  navy blue

Фиолетовый - violet

Пурпурный - purple

Лавандовый - lavender

Сиреневый - lilac

Other, but also very important colors:

Чёрный - black

Белый - white

Белоснежный - snowy, snow-white

Серый - grey, gray

Коричневый - brown

Янтарный - amber

Шоколадный - chocolate

Розовый - pink

Коралловый - сoral

Бежевый - beige

Кремовый - cream

Золотой, золотистый - gold, golden 

Серебряный, серебристый - silver, silvery

Спасибо, и хорошего дня! Thank you and have a nice day!