Russian and TOK

Perception

• Words such as boyfriend and girlfriend
• How they speak of animals

Translating Issues

• Must learn a whole new alphabet. (Difficult letters; р,в,ш,щ,м,т)
• Certain names are not of the gender they seem to represent. (Ex. Саша, Коля)
• Grammar is mixed up when translating from Russian to English

Untranslatable Words

• Cannot translate the word "is"
• Тоска cannot be translated into English properly

Language History

• Cyrillic Alphabet
• E, C, O
• Ё, Э, Й
• К, Д, Ф, Г, В, К

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