The Word's Worth

Which Russian verb do you use to work badly? How do you ride into heaven? It's all in a day's work.

Borshch - is it Russian, Ukrainian, or Polish? Will language tell us? I dive back in time to find out.

Would you want to be урод? In 1254 you would have been happy to be урод. Now - not so much.

You know how you sometimes wish your language had a foreign word in it? I want выборщик.

What do стоить and стоять have in common? Not much - oh, except for one very important thing.

Is it worth reading? How much does it cost? It's nothing. All this for the price of one word: стоить.

Getting Russian prepositions and cases right is my life's goal. Judging by "c" I've got a long way to go.

Russians not only like to go fast, they like to talk about going fast.

Whoever names fruit cultivars in Russia should get a lifetime achievement award.

Watch День Радио, learn Russian, and laugh your head off. Win-win-win.