#Russian abc

[learning-russian0]

АБВГДейка 😊 Russian alphabet with English transliterations and phonetic examples based on English sounds

АБВГДейка 😊 Russian alphabet with English transliterations and phonetic examples based on English sounds

Аа – a as in father Бб – b as in bat Вв – v as in vet Гг – g as in go Дд – d as in dog Ее – ye as in yes Ёё – yo as in yogurt Жж – zh like the s in measure Зз – z as in zebra Ии – ee as in see Йй – y as in boy Кк – k as in kite Лл – l as in lamp Мм – m as in man Нн – n as in net Оо – o as in or (stressed); a as in about (unstressed) Пп – p as in pen Рр – r (rolled, like in Spanish) Сс – s as in sun Тт – t as in top Уу – oo as in moon Фф – f as in fun Хх – kh as in loch (Scottish "loch") Цц – ts as in cats Чч – ch as in chess Шш – sh as in shut Щщ – shch as in fresh cheese Ъъ – Hard sign (no sound; makes the preceding consonant hard) Ыы – i as in ill (but deeper, slightly guttural) Ьь – Soft sign (no sound; makes the preceding consonant soft) Ээ – e as in met Юю – yu as in universe Яя – ya as in yard

Notes:

Russian vowels Е, Ё, Ю, Я modify the pronunciation of the preceding consonant, making it soft.

The hard (Ъ) and soft (Ь) signs do not have independent sounds but influence the preceding consonants.

[bryverros]

i think i miss the pornstache actually

[vanmarkus]

I was wondering the same about gerrard calling him buck that one time - and also the "godspeed, diaz"? Did he accidentally care for a second? Was he...worried?

yeah we are dangerously circling the edge of "Gerrard is an actual human being who feels responsible for the people serving under him and about saving lives" territory, which we'll probably see more of after this whole accident with Buck in 8x01, if what Tim said is anything to go by...

and frankly, i just don't know if the fandom is ready to find out that dickhead bigots are actual humans...

[secretsofthewilde]

Thinking about how Pamela Rabe was told that her character in Bay of Fires was written specifically for and inspired by her, and she just made a joke about not knowing how to feel about the giant pet pig -- but absolutely no comment about being cast as another lesbian born in Russia????

[macgoogles]

(911 on FOX 2018-)

A little bit from my tick tok

[stars-inthe-sky]

#no lie i fully expect them to end the show with something like this #maybe its not even tommy maybe they last another 7 years and there's someone else #they just keep cycling #cycling cycling cycling #leave him on the hamster wheel right until the end (via @alchemistc)

the funniest thing all time forever would be for buck to go through another break up in the final episode of 9-1-1 and end up staying later than everyone else post-shift at some hook and ladder bar, solemnly drinking a beer, only to look up and see tommy across the room. tommy, feeling eyes on him, tilts his head up and finds buck staring at him immediately. buck gets that squinty eyed, auspicious smile on his face and waves. tommy nods and gets up, moving over several tables to sit with him. final shot.

[wine-porn]

Riviera Blossoms

Have you ever drank a Chardonnay at 65° or 70°? Have you ever waved off the ice-bucket to a bewildered waiter, “Nah… we’re good.” Have you ever said, “Do you have one not in the fridge?” I know I harp on this a bit much but LOTS of chard NEEDS to be enjoyed at low-room-temp or hi-cellar. It’s an amazing experience which will blow your mind. The fruit and buttery body comes through so much better…

[infiniteglitterfall]

OMG, COULD EVERYONE PLEASE STOP IMMEDIATELY BELIEVING AND REPEATING DISINFORMATION?!

Sorry, I just. Was just on Twitter, and I snapped.

I literally haven't seen one true statement about Israel on social media in MONTHS.

It's gotten to the point that I'm seriously considering starting a sideblog fact-checking all of it.

PLEASE STOP BEING GARFIELD I AM BEGGING ALL OF YOU

BE NERMAL FOR FUCK'S SAKE.

I've written at least one really long post about fact-checking things before. I have another saved as a draft somewhere.

But all you really have to do at this point is GO LOOK AT AN ACTUAL NEWS SOURCE.

What do I mean by an Actual News Source?

An actual news source will tell you where it's getting its information.

Basically: Wikipedia rules apply at all times. Citation. Fucking. Needed.

Except with news articles, I don't mean a detailed footnote.

I mean, if they say, "Rosco Flubberish reported seeing a pig fly across Whatever Place. 'It was a flying pig,' he said," they're fine.

If they say, "Sources close to the President reported that the Department of Farmland Creatures launched a pig into the air this afternoon," they're fine.

If they say, "There have also been reports that pigs flew," they are purely making shit up.

Just check CNN or something. CNN checks their shit, and they're very quick on the draw.

NBC has been very reliable too, in my experience. So have ABC, Newsweek, the Jerusalem Post, the Guardian, the New York Times, the AP, PBS, the Washington Post, and Reuters.

You can break through most paywalls by putting archive.is or 12ft.io before the https:// of the URL. Or just go to either of those sites and paste the URL in the box.

Nobody is perfect. I've seen some articles from all of the above that were accurate, but left things out that I personally thought were important.

Journalists are humans, humans fuck up.

(Also, NONE OF THIS APPLIES TO OPINION PIECES ON ANY TOPIC. Opinion pieces are exactly that: opinions. They don't seem to be fact-checked anywhere, as far as I can tell. They range from super-accurate and informative to complete nonsense.)

(Surprisingly unreliable sources in my experience: Democracy Now, Jacobin, Workers World Party. The latter two act like news sites but are basically running nothing but opinion pieces; Democracy Now can do important deep dives, but I've also seen news coverage from it that was wildly misinformed in that same way.

On the flip side, Slate and the Atlantic are largely opinion -- the Atlantic more than Slate, maybe -- but they often have really well-researched analysis of political situations. Ditto Teen Vogue, and sometimes Vox.)

You don't have to read CNN or the NYT or whateverfor fun. You don't have to make it one of your news sources.

Just. Do a quick check on Google News before you assume anything is true, and then run it through a bullshit filter as described above.

You are being actively lied to, all the time. So am I. We all are.

And people will believe and repeat literally anything that sounds about right.

That's just human nature.

That is WHY none of us are immune to propaganda.

if you want my personal shortlist of Bad Sources, as in Sources That Consistently Publish Absolute Falsehoods:

Any and all state-owned or state-controlled media. For example:

Al Jazeera is owned by the Qatari government, and so are a bunch of other news sites.

Mehr News, the Tehran Times, Al-Quds TV, and Al-Alam are owned by the dictatorship of Iran.

Oops. Looks like every form of broadcast Iranian news media is owned by the dictatorship of Iran, which has a monopoly.

Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, Palestinian News and Info Agency, and Al-Hayat Al-Jadida are owned by the government of Palestine (the Palestinian Authority)

Al-Aqsa TV and Felesteen are owned by Hamas.

TASS / Russia News Agency, Russia Today, and a fuckton of others are owned by the Russian government.

State Media Monitor seems to do a pretty great job of tracking and listing these things. Check out your own country there!

I specifically listed those ones because some of them (especially Al Jazeera, Mehr News, and TASS) are sites I've seen come up frequently on Tumblr, or in my attempts to fact-check what people are saying here and on Twitter. The rest are just more examples from the same governments.

Al Jazeera deserves special notice because it's become a very popular leftist news source. Believe me, I used to read it all the time too.

It can be reliable and accurate sometimes. But:

It consistently tweets things that are unsourced, never appear anywhere else, and that would be big news you'd expect it to follow up on if they were true. It seems to be following a strategy of "tweet every rumor you hear in case it's true, so you can get the scoop."

It also does this with its liveblogs of the war. And ALL its coverage of the war at this point is liveblogs. So things that are verifiably true will run right next to things that are complete hearsay, but are too long to just tweet.

This is especially dangerous because as far as I can tell, Al Jazeera doesn't delete anything that turns out to be false.

I've also seen regular news articles in Al Jazeera, on multiple topics, that veer from Absolutely True Statements to Wildly Exaggerated Numbers and Speculation. Stuff you wouldn't expect a source on, like statistics or descriptions. And there's no way to tell the difference unless you already know a topic really well, or are fact-checking them while you read.

One especially terrible example, from Gazan activist Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib:

Al Jazeera has never posted or published a correction.

Alkhatib has also blamed it for destabilizing the region, although he's exaggerating about it being Hamas's official propaganda outlet:

TL;DR: If you see a Tumblr post making any kind of factual news statement without a link, at this point you need to assume it is absolutely not true. And either scroll on past, or go check Google News.

If there IS a link, you need to click through to see what it's from and what it actually says.

(Honestly, you need to do that with Wikipedia too. I've repeatedly clicked through on citations that absolutely did not say what the article implied they did.)

And pro tip: on mobile, you can just smack a button to sort Google's news results by most recent, and it helps A LOT. There's gotta be a way to do the same on desktop, but if there is, it's not immediately visible, which sucks.

[fortheb0ys]

FORGET ABOUT CHOOSING ABC

LISTEN VIRGIN (OR UNEXPERIMCED)ANDREI NOLAN , BULKY MALE READER AND SAFEWORD aka Andrei dont know that is shouldnt hurt

like fucking Andrei(for the first time) in doggy or just from behind as he hides his face in pillow. And reader being like"damn this guy is very good streached because it goes so fucking smooth" but in reality Andrei just never have a long time relactionship and think that anal must hurt (+ANDREI HAVE SWOLLEN HOLE AND YOU WONT CHANGE MY MIND) and that our favorite russian decided to shut the fuckup and hide his face while he litelary cries . And then reader grabs his chin for little sloppy kisses and see Andreis face covered in tears. And stoping all actions with his huge ass dick to comfort andrei when he confess that it Hurts so fucking much. And getting dingdong out and giving Andrei best aftercare of his life(and eating him out) and explaining to him what safeword and why its so important

I WILL RUN EXTRA MILE JUST TO GIVE MY SWEET BOY AFTERCARE, fuck fucking , aftercare is the best part , just like my tentacles>🐙🐙🐙

I dont believe in sleep, i believe in being horny tentacle monster

I'd feel so bad😭 Just smother him in kisses. Tell him he did good, that you can always try another day. Run a bath for his sore muscles and treat him like a doll.

I feel like he'd be a bit scared to try again and you'll have to be patient with him. You never push though. If he gets hurt again, you could never forgive yourself.

For the first while, he has to face you. You have to see if he's in any discomfort. The once painful look replaced with one of pure pleasure. Andrei had no idea how it went from feeling like he was being ripped in half to what felt like pure heaven.

He definitely takes cock like a champ with some practice🙏

[slackville]

60 years ago today, June 27, 1964, the final episode of The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show (known as Rocky & His Friends during the first two seasons and as The Bullwinkle Show for the last three seasons) aired.

It originally aired from November 19, 1959, to June 27, 1964, on the ABC and NBC television networks. Produced by Jay Ward Productions, the series is structured as a variety show, with the main feature being the serialized adventures of the two title characters, the anthropomorphic moose Bullwinkle and flying squirrel Rocky. The main adversaries in most of their adventures are the Russian-like spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. Supporting segments include Dudley Do-Right (a parody of old-time melodrama), Peabody's Improbable History (a dog and his pet boy Sherman traveling through time), and Fractured Fairy Tales (classic fairy tales retold in comic fashion), among others.

Rocky & Bullwinkle is known for quality writing and wry humor. Mixing puns, cultural and topical satire, and self-referential humor, it appealed to adults as well as children. It was also one of the first cartoons whose animation was outsourced; storyboards were shipped to Gamma Productions, a Mexican studio also employed by Total Television. The art has a choppy, unpolished look and the animation is extremely limited even by television animation standards at the time. Yet the series has long been held in high esteem by those who have seen it; some critics described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.

The show was shuffled around several times (airing in afternoon, prime time, and Saturday morning time slots), but was influential to other animated series from The Simpsons to Rocko's Modern Life. Segments from the series were later recycled in the Hoppity Hooper show.

There have been numerous feature film adaptations of the series' various segments, such as the 2000 film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle which blended live-action and computer animation and the 1999 live-action film Dudley Do-Right, which both received poor reviews and were financially unsuccessful. By contrast, an animated feature film adaptation of the "Peabody's Improbable History" segment, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, was released to good reviews in 2014.

Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show were ranked the sixth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time by TV Guide.

source:

Classic Retrovision Milestones (fb)

[sovietpostcards]

ABC (Alphabet) postcard set (1996)

Vintage set of 30 postcards. Artist A. Vasilyev. Each has the letter on it and a picture of something that begins with the letter. The back of the cards is blank. The set had 33 cards originally (each letter of the Russian alphabet), but 3 are missing: Ж, Х, Ы.

Size 10 × 15 cm

Very rare. One the cards (А) is wrinkled - see the last picture. Other cards are in good condition. The set cover has a bent corner.

Price $40 + $11 shipping

Message me! Other items in my shop. I combine shipping. How to buy.

[eugenedebs1920]

When we look back at dictatorships, whether in fascist regimes, communist states, autocratic rule, and totalitarianism, ect. the philosophy’s don’t have all that much in common. One thing they do have in common is a “great leader” or an “emperor”, and more so nowadays a “strongman” who lords over the population with ”an iron fist”, a fancy way of saying they oppress thier people.

Let’s look at WWII. What did Germany’s leader (I heard we weren’t supposed to use the H word but you know who I’m referring to) and the emperor of Japan share in similarities? Not much, if anything at all. After Pearl Harbor America declared war with Japan and as a result of the treaty between Japan and Germany, Germany declared war with America (DUMB!!). What did germanys leader and the emperor of Japan have in common? Did they share any common ground other than the leader was almighty and the subjects were expendable? No. What they had in common is their oppressive rule and the fact that the free countries condemned their style of governance. So whether you have any similarities or not, as an oppressive regime, your only allies are other oppressive regimes. The idiom, your enemies, enemy, is your friend.

Fast forward to now and we don’t have the same style of fascism and dictatorships, in the more developed countries, as back then. Hence it’s not the same kind of harsh oppressive system. More of a soft autocracy. Orban in Hungary and Erdogan in Turkey are a prime example of the “soft autocracy”. Russia is an authoritarian state. Their sham government is a front for the pleasing of the world but, Putin rules Russia as a dictator.

The last thing these authoritarians want is their people to get any wild ideas of individual freedom and liberty. We did screw Russia over good after WWII, and I promise they didn’t forget, but beyond that, they want any democracy to fail. They don’t want their people to see that it is possible to have a thriving free nation. Who is the most power, wealthiest, freest nation on the planet? The United States of America.

China, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, North Korea, they would LOVE to see us destroy ourselves. All that they can do without invoking a military conflict, they will to undermine us, make us seem as if our system of government is feeble, flawed, corrupted, they will, and are. They want to rule over their citizens with fear and divisiveness. Making the population too scared to rise up against them.

This is why, in particular, Russia has been caught meddling in elections all throughout Europe and here in America. It is also why it’s so troubling that Republicans, and Trump in particular, are so keen on people such as Orban and not willing to help a democracy like Ukraine. Trump and Putin being “friends” is not a good thing. Trump is the easiest person to manipulate! All you have to do is complement him or offer him money and he’ll do whatever you want. Orban is an authoritarian! Why is he going and having private meetings with Trump directly after he met with Putin. This isn’t a Sherlock Holmes mystery here! It’s pretty damn easy to see!

Long story shorter than it could be. Russia will be putting out all kinds of misinformation and deepfakes, false stories and made up articles. Check the source! Despite what Trump says, because he only says it due to them being critical of him and covering him appropriately, the established sources, your NBC’s, CBS, ABC, CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, ect. these are credible sources. Are they corporate money making organizations? Yes. Does the press situation in this country need an overhaul? Yes. But these aren’t fake news (I had to laugh while typing that because that’s LITERALLY what Trump calls them) their flawed news but they aren’t social media deepfake, made up, complete fabrications to throw our democracy into turmoil. They will tell you the story as it is happening. The first step in autocratic rule is to limit information to what suits your narrative. Thats why Trump calls them fake. I can’t believe I’m sticking up for the media so much right now but , for reals!…

Check your sources. Know that their is forces that want to see us fail. Want us to be angry and rioting and questioning if democracy works. It does. Trump is a Russian asset, that’s why all this nonsense is amplified the way it is. In 248 years, 60 presidential elections, only the three involving Trump has this whole fraud, stolen election, noncitizen voting bullsh*t ever came up. Just Trump being a traitor. Don’t let the country’s most notorious conman con ya.

[secretsofthewilde]

Please let season 2 have more scenes with Magda... please 🙏

[linghxr]

5 years of linghxr 🎂

Today marks 5 years of linghxr! Well, technically Tumblr notified me of my blog’s anniversary 2 days ago. But I didn’t make my first post until July 12th, so I’ve decided to celebrate today instead.

I started learning Mandarin Chinese as a little kid attending weekend Chinese school, and I also took it in high school. I got 认真 about it in college after realizing my Chinese wasn’t even good enough to test out of the 1st year Chinese course. I spent all my free time studying the Chinese Grammar Wiki and successfully placed into 2nd year Chinese!

I started this blog the following summer as I tried not to forget everything before the 3rd year Chinese course, while also studying Russian. Over the past 5-6 years, I have…

…read 3 webnovels and 1 book

…watched 17 cdramas and 25 seasons of variety/reality shows

…posted 282 times on this blog

…made 8313 flashcards in Anki

07/20/24 The contest is closed, and I have contacted the winner.

To give back to the langblr community, I am gifting winner’s choice of prize from two resources/platforms I have used myself. They are both digital to make this more accessible.

Prizes

The lucky winner can pick one of these options:

Option 1 - iTalki gift card for $60 of iTalki credits

Option 2 - Pleco Pro Bundle worth $59.99 (see under the cut for bundle content)

Requirements to enter

To enter, all you need to do is like, reblog, or comment on this post. You can do more than one if you like, but please don’t spam the post. Feel free to vote in the poll too, but that’s just for fun 😄

You have one week (until next Friday, July 19th) to enter. Shortly after, I will select a winner at random and message them to coordinate details (make sure your Tumblr settings allow me to message you). If there is no response after 48 hours, I will select someone else. If you are under 18, please get parent or guardian permission.

Thank you for 5 wonderful years of blogging!

Via Pleco, the pro bundle includes:

Our more expensive bundle includes almost every "feature" add-on plus 6 different dictionaries; two English-to-Chinese ones (one smaller one with Pinyin and one larger one without), the massive ABC Chinese-to-English, the bidirectional Oxford Chinese Dictionary, the small-but-example-rich Tuttle Chinese-English, and (to stretch your reading skills a bit) the Chinese-to-Chinese Guifan dictionary.

Bundle contents:

ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary ($19.99)

ABC English-Chinese Dictionary ($9.99)

Xiandai Hanyu Guifan Cidian ($29.99)

New Century English-Chinese Dictionary ($29.99)

Oxford Chinese Dictionary ($19.99)

Tuttle Learner's Chinese-English Dictionary ($9.99)

Enhanced Handwriting Recognizer ($9.99)

Optical Character Recognizer ($9.99)

"Qiang" Mandarin Male Text-to-Speech ($9.99)

Mandarin Audio (male) ($4.99)

Mandarin Audio (female) ($4.99)

Flashcard System ($9.99)

Document Reader ($9.99)

[antifainternational]

Kita is an antifascist in Belarus who was among a dozen people whose homes were raided by police in March 2022. Kita’s trial took place in November 2022 and despite her attorneys making it obvious what a sham of a case the police & prosecutors had cobbled together, the judge still found her guilty and sentenced her to 31 months in prison. More details about Kita's story here.

You can write to Kita (in Belarussian or Russian only) here: Cherenkova Kristina Aleksandrovna SIZO-3, ul. Knizhnaya 1A, Gomel, BELARUS You can also write to Kita in English here (ABC Belarus will translate and forward your message).

You can contribute to support Kita’s legal defence and her family here: Paypal: a.charankova@gmail.com Bank Transfer: Bank Santander IBAN PL 70 1090 1098 0000 0001 3288 5405 (€) PL 64 1090 1098 0000 0001 3725 7206 (US$) PL 1090 1098 0000 0001 4761 8177 (PLN) SWIFT: WBKPPLPP Anastasiya Charankova