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Как лучше всего перевести «user experience»?

В частности в этом вот отрывке текста: The display of an iOS device is at the heart of the user’s experience. Not only do people view beautiful text, graphics, and media on the display, they also physically interact with the Multi-Touch screen to…
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What kind of Russian orthography is this?

This is a screenshot from Tchaikovsky's Harmony textbook: (from page 5 of an 1897 edition — link to PDF) And here is a transcription: Ученіе объ интерваллахъ. Хотя предполагается, что приступающій къ изученію искусства музыкальнаго сочиненія,…
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Does "есть" mean to eat or to have?

I'm very new to Russian and was wondering if the word есть has different meanings? I thought it meant eat, but then noticed it was being used in different contexts. Forgive the simplicity of my question — as I said, I'm just starting out.
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Действительно ли по новым правилам слово "кофе" среднего рода?

Многие говорят, что согласно новым правилам "кофе" официально стал(о) считаться существительным среднего рода. Насколько это соответствует действительности? Если это действительно так, то когда было принято это правило, и считается ли ошибкой…
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What does "ледяная рябь канала" mean, in Blok's famous poem?

I'm very fond of A. Blok's poem bellow -- which, by the way, yesterday became 100 years old. My Russian is very limited, and this is one of the little pieces I can almost understand; this "almost" here precisely stands for the current question I…
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How can I improve my listening comprehension?

My partner's family all speak Russian, which is not my native language. I used to be in classes which helped me have regular practice at listening, but now that they are done, I'm finding myself in embarrassing situations with the family where I…
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Learning to pronounce hard R

I'm a native Russian speaker myself, but living in a English speaking country am starting to teach my pre-school daughter Russian myself at home and she is struggling with correctly pronouncing the "hard R" sound in words like in морковка Does…
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What's the plural for "пиво"?

Yesterday I visited a friend in Oxford. At some point we stopped at his favourite pub, where, as he said, was "большой выбор пив". This didn't sound right and got me thinking, but I soon realised that I have no idea what the plural form of пиво is,…
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Why "пить таблетки"?

"Пить таблетки" (literally "drink pills") is a commonly used phrase. But why is it "пить" ("drink")? Naturally, pills are solid and thus can't be "drunk" in a traditional sense. There is phrase "есть таблетки" ("eat pills"), but it's more of a…
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Idiomatic translation of "Debug"

Is there a proper idiomatic translation of "Debug" into the Russian Language? I am not sure about "наладка программы", which I found on en.bab.la
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Does “official Russian” language exist?

In the Soviet time, the speech of news-readers on radio and TV was considered a standard of the proper Russian language. The spelling in the newpapers was the standard of written language. To support editors and proof-readers, special dictionaries…
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Why is налогоплатЕльщик the correct form, and not налогоплатИльщик?

In most cases, we derive nouns in -щик from verbs. We observe the following pattern: носить - носильщик давить - давильщик морить - морильщик красить - красильщик просить - просильщик лудить - лудильщик We also have платить. So why it is…
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Are there loanwords from English where "h" is transliterated to "х" rather than "г"?

Russian doesn't have a direct equivalent to the sound of English h. But to some English speakers it seems odd that words taken into Russian from English which have an h sound are transliterated using the letter г, which sounds like English g rather…
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Is it bad if I don't bother to pronounce 'o' correctly?

When learning Russian, the most complicated thing for me has always been the pronunciation of the Russian letter 'o'. You know, it's sometimes pronounced like 'a' (as in 'Moskva'), and sometimes pronounced like 'o' (as in 'dom'), depending on the…
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What are the different ways of saying "but"?

I've been told that in Russian, there are at least two ways of saying "but." One is a, and the other is но. They both translate into the same word but (a or но?) they appear to have two somewhat different meanings, which is to say that they are used…
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