Russia the Beautiful

One of the first questions guests have when planning to go to Russia is how to say "Hello". Unhappily, the answer is "Здравствуйте" (pronounced... hmmm, something like Zdravst-voo-tye). The bold guest will make several brave attempts at popular pronunciation before asking the local, "Isn't there

  The following article is a contributed article written by Eugenia Vlasova. As a journalist, linguist, and copy writer, she writes for her own blog called ProperRussian, which serves as a resource filled site that may even help you get speaking Russian faster than ever before. Check it out if you