Russian Women Speaking English: A Feedback for Gentlemen who Think

Adapting your English to her Russian (or Ukrainian)

wonderlander — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:24:51 +0000

Whether you are lucky to deal with a girl who speaks any English, or misfortunate to use a machine translator, these 5 rules would save you and your dates or correspondents a bazillion of nerve cells. The difference in grammars and lexicons may not only prevent understanding, but create quite offensive effects in interpretation. 1. One [...]

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Food shopping in Ukraine: outlets, prices, dangers

wonderlander — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:33:45 +0000

From babushkas catering to transit trains, to modern marts mushrooming over the Former Soviet Union, every vendor has his individual assortment, price and service. Welcome on a tour from extreme to cosmopolitan. Bottom feeders These “ant colonies”, overlooked by the corrupted police, are first to jump into your eyes aside a suburban road or on a street [...]

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A Russian Wife as a Natural Disaster: “Idiot Savant” on Alien Turf, or Higher Comfort – Lower Gravity

wonderlander — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:47:58 +0000

Omission & presumption of “default” routine procedures wreck more international marriages than cultural barriers do. Honest well-wishing care does not inoculate us from screwing up. “She’s a novice – you’re the boss” is but an illusion of control. Ask Joseph. ) With experience like his in Russian / Ukrainian travels, relationships and business, you won’t need [...]

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The Bride Vendetta: How to Make a Russian Girl “Kill Bill”

wonderlander — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:18:29 +0000

Read prior to speaking love, appointing visits, and getting too many women! ) Risks range from bad international record to physical revenge. Just don’t ask me to spill the sources of Insider Information translated… Homicide: Russian brides exchange “dossiers” on Western men - I’m in contact with **** ********. He texts me every day. Is there any [...]

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Army Women: Russia, Ukraine, Figures and Pictures

wonderlander — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:41:26 +0000

Parades and routines In 2007, 70 thousand women were serving and working in the Ukrainian army system. Today’s stats are 50,000. Most positions are, of course, “peaceful”. Medical service, liaison, accounting are top 3 vectors. Many women are in technical operation & maintenance, administrative and paperwork, civil connections, translation, supplies, transportation, cynology. 119 girls are studying at [...]

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Ukrainian Demographics – Men, Women, Families: Let’s Dot the I’s

wonderlander — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:42:27 +0000

2006, printed sources: Ella Libanova, Vice-Director, Institute of Demography under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Victor Smirnov, journalist Note: Ukrainian nationals, not ethnic Ukrainians, are discussed. How many children do average Ukrainian parents have? One-child families prevail. Twins barely alter the continued aftermaths of the early 90’s, when Ukrainians had to struggle through the acute [...]

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Big City Girl: Who’s the Man of her Dreams? Russian jocular classification

wonderlander — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:10:26 +0000

So different by styles, habits and characters, so alike by dreaming of love’s bliss… Here’s a gallery of most vivid female types – and their potential husbands. Call it a set of caricatures that street artists have been fudging anyplace and anytime, changing only markers, – but so far as this article is published in [...]

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Natural Dating vs. Matchmaking Brief: basic methods for men & women – advantages and disadvantages in a SWOT list

wonderlander — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:30:34 +0000

Ironically, matchmaking is the oldest way to marriage. Sage women or parents have done it since the dawn of humanity. Deliberate choice of life partner has grown into “Western” and “Russian” custom in c. XX, and still relies on social proof. Pondering on current divorce rates and the tragic vibe of known love stories, does [...]

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Virgin Village & Smalltown vs. Babylon City? Russian Brides Background Effect

wonderlander — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:10:26 +0000

To a Western man searching Russia / Ukraine for unspoiled virtue, health, high moral values, sound family background, top model beauty, unconditional love, and proper mothering of his children, - hinterland is the last area to seek a wife. Post-Soviet specifics of economy and mentality contradict American-based reasoning on the percentage of “sound” or “flawed” [...]

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Russian Women’s Professions and Roles Translated: Antipodes to Typical Western Concepts

wonderlander — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:15:42 +0000

May not different social realities, giving different meanings to similar words, prevent a viable international relationship or create tensions on the way to one. “Working girl”, for starters, is “what you’ve thought” only in the Western reading. In Russian, emphasizing work means serious attitude to life (yet not obsession with career – the very word given [...]

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