In this episode of Comprehensible Russian podcast we discuss 5 most common mental traps from the book by Andre Kukla. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2, lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way to understand real Russian (TV-shows, movies, podcasts, etc). ►To ...
Aug 13, 2019•42 min•Season 1Ep. 49
What do Russians think about superstitions? How they affect us? How they affect our daily life? I collected 11 most common Russian (probably not only Russian) superstitions and want to share them with you. I am going to tell you my prospective on that as well. The lesson pack I mentioned in the episode: https://www.russianwithmax.com/product/russian-through-stories-lesson-pack/ ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Rus...
Aug 06, 2019•49 min•Season 2Ep. 48
I'm going to tell you a story of Negligence and Fire. Once upon a time, there was a guy who loved nature very much. He wanted to spend a night in woods with the best friends around, but the Great Fire decided to correct guy's plans... ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your s...
Jul 30, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 47
Greetings! In the first part of this episode I'm going to answer a question about 2 particles "-то" and "-ка". In the second part we will talk about how to not waste our thinking and increase our productivity. Let's jump in! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russ...
Jul 23, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 46
Today we discuss some thoughts from a book called "Чертоги разума. Убей в себе идиота" Андрея Курпатова. It's a cool book I started to read and just right away I faced lots of interesting ideas and fact in terms of how our thinking works and why we getting dumber. What cases destruction of thinking? Why simplification is not a good idea? Why we can't focus for a long time? Let's find out what doctor Kurpatov says... ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My...
Jul 16, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 45
What does life in a small Russian town look like? Why people think about the government? Hi there, in this episode of our Russian Podcast I'm gonna tell you about one small Russian town which I visited to meet my grandma. It's an ordinary place, where life's been frozen for years. My vlog from that town: https://youtu.be/tpT51B2Ky5c ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educat...
Jul 09, 2019•34 min•Season 1Ep. 44
Don't except me to talk about meditations and prayers, today we will talk about The only Truth! The videos I mentioned and transcripts: https://www.russianwithmax.com/43-the-only-truth/ ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way...
Jul 02, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 43
In this LIVE Russian Podcast we talk about travelling in Russia. I answer your questions and tell you about my experience. Watch video here: https://youtu.be/Vt2Huk5WjMg ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2, lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way to understand ...
Jun 28, 2019•1 hr 24 min
Привет-привет!^^ I recorded this episode sitting by the side of a big lake during my last trip up to the north from Saint-Petersburg. I came up with this podcast idea when I was talking to locals in a small northern village. I was pleasantly surprised by their openness and hospitality. I'm always glad to hear your stories! P.S. In the episode I was wrong in the beginning calling the city Приозерск, it's called Петрозаводск. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and ab...
Jun 25, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Why we always have no time for something? Is this because we really do a lot of stuff that bring us happiness? Or it's just a form of avoiding ourselves, suffering, and lack of prioritization? In today's Russian podcast I'm trying to discuss this questions with...ahem, myself as usual. However Max (the second one xD) has got some good thoughts about it and would be happy to hear your experience! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you i...
Jun 18, 2019•46 min•Season 1Ep. 41
The summer is going on. How do Russians spend summer? What do we do? What am I going to do? Let's dive into the summertime. The video I mentioned in the podcast: https://youtu.be/2E9ii1NEEiw ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on you...
Jun 11, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Приветики! As I promised in the last episode of our Russian Podcast I do a bonus recording in order to tell you what happened after I turned off my handy recorder that evening. P. S. В центре фотографии - ведро... Сначала я думал, что это ведро для чеков, которые люди могут выбросить отходя от окон, но неееет... Через 15 минут в это ведро полилась вода(!) (снова знак свыше?! ахах!) ... из кондиционера на потолке! Так что это супер-пупер функциональное ведро, а не просто элемент декора, ахахах! И...
Jun 08, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In this Episode of our Russian Podcast I share with you my thoughts on why the virtual life sucks. We want more comfort. We want ease. We tend to have things simpler and get services faster. But have we ever thought why faster is better? Do not we lose ourselves and reality in this sea of binary signals? Let's get our as**s outside and discuss it learning a few cool vocabulary words and phrases at the same time. links to the videos I mentioned: I came back to my little house in Russia: https://y...
Jun 04, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 38
No, no, no... I'm not gonna tell you about darkness, vampires, and horror films... although it sounds interesting :D Today I want to talk about my recent trip to Moscow and what I experienced being an 'technical engineer' during a preparation for Julia's summer camp. At the end we will discuss a bit such things as 'What does fear mean?" and 'How it ruins our daily life, ahah'! Let's begin! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involve...
May 28, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 37
I recently met my uncle who lives in Germany and our talks took me to this monologue. Where are we going? Who stands behind all this political crap? Does the world government exist? You will not find answers for those questions, however I invite you to virtually discuss them and of course learn a few cool and new Russian words and phrases :) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fu...
May 21, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Russian Book Club series. HQ audio version of the last episode. Video: https://youtu.be/tvH1-R8ElXQ ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2, lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way to understand real Russian (TV-shows, movies, podcasts, etc). ►To get podcast transc...
May 18, 2019•1 hr
Yes, I'm thinking to buy a bike, but... I have to get a driver license before. Today we will talk about what you need to do if you want to drive a car in Russia (and how about corruption in Russia). Let's ride! The video I mentioned: https://youtu.be/Uw_pF1yBZHU ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining word...
May 14, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Good day to you! No, unfortunately we are not going to talk about the Metallica's song today, however it is somehow related to the discussion. In this podcast I'll tell you about a couple of thing which I recently realized. They are so simple so you may want to throw something at me, but knowing a thing and total awareness of it are two different things! And it changes everything... and nothing else matters! Let's go! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). ...
May 07, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Приветики, дорогие друзья! Today my niece and I are discussing the parables you sent to me 2 weeks ago. Thank you very much for joining this activity and your wonderful stories! All 5 senders will get postcards from the cultural heart of Russia called Saint Petersburg (ahah, isn't it called megalomania?). Tons of love to you and lets get started!:) Read all these parables: https://www.russianwithmax.com/parables-in-russian-from-learners/ ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower inter...
Apr 30, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Today's episode is a common chat in Russian with Max about what recently happened and why I... HATE drinking and LOVE Moscow:) Let's jump into it and learn a few new cool words and phrases^_^ Ёжик в тумане: https://youtu.be/_Rugwd8ZNHY Video with Israel about Russian grammar: https://youtu.be/CPkQmpcJln4 ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topi...
Apr 23, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Hi all! We continue with our education topic, but today we have a guest named Julia who we are going to talk about informal education with. What is 'informal education'? Why we need changes? What problems do we find in traditional educational system? What new methods do we have and how 21-century teacher will look like? You will know from this Russian dialogue. Learn Russian, get new knowledge, and have fun! Lots of love, your Max! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediat...
Apr 16, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Hi there! I'm happy to have you here! This episode of our Slow Russian Podcast is about minimalism. We probably need 10 episodes to cover this topic, but I'll just share with you my thoughts. I hope you'll enjoy it and learn new interesting Russian words and daily expressions. I'd also glad to hear from you in the comments and... don't miss a competition (oh, sounds so serious, in fact it's more like fun writing exercise for you:) at the end of the episode. Lots of love and let's get started!:) ...
Apr 09, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Hi all! In this episode I want to discuss some 'alternative' ways of living. There are some stereotypes about the American Dream as if it's filled up with materialistic ideas and so forth, but in fact we do have the same concepts in Russia, I mean this tendency to get more, to have bigger houses, more expensive cars and so on. Communism crushed, however some people still want to build communes and they have had this idea since... 1960! Some links I promised to give you: A family went living off-...
Apr 03, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. " That was the beginning of the Anna Karenina novel by L. Tolstoy. What family problems are there in Russia? What kind of relationships do we need to cultivate? Should children live with their parents or they should leave? In this podcast we will talk about those things and of course learn a few new Russian words and expressions. Let's begin!:) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above...
Mar 26, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Привет! Yep, that's true! For 2 days I've been really depressed about a Russian book I read during my way to Tver. This book called The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and that's what I would like to discuss in this episode of our Russian Podcast. I came up with a couple thoughts about Russian classic literature in general. Let's dive into it! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through inte...
Mar 19, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 27
This time in our Comprehensible Russian Podcast I'd like to tell you about one new Russian bill called "internet isolation". They tried to block Telegram last year, but failed. What is this about? An attempt to make the Ru-net independent? Or create a new 'Great Chinese Firewall' in Russia? Let's dive into it. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversia...
Mar 12, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Hello my dearest! In this episode of our Russian Podcast I am answering a question that one of our listeners called Ricardo asked. I am going to tell you about a very famous and amazing Russian singer called Boris Grebenschikov. His music is really out of all crap what you can hear from the 5kng TV and средств массовой дебилизации today. I'm very glad to share his podcast dedicated to music from all over the world and BG's thoughts about ...the life in the very widest sense! More over his radio ...
Mar 05, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Привет, друзья! This is a HQ audio version of our last Book Club video: https://youtu.be/F9pje19bjHE Read the full text, and watch a short film here: https://www.russianwithmax.com/the-green-lamp-by-a-grin/ I also create an audibook 'The Green Lamp" with parallel text Ru-En: https://www.russianwithmax.com/product/the-green-lamp-dual-laguage-audiobook/ P.S. For all "Mastery of Russian" members there's a cool discount:) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2, lower intermediate and above)....
Mar 01, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Привет всем! "Y ou're either with us, or against us" - The slogan of the October Revolution. We had a lot of revolutions in Russia. But I'm sure we need a brand new one! Follow me and in this episode of our Russian podcast I will tell you why... and how :) Since last episode I've decided to put some "vocabulary part" in the transcripts, so you can find difficult-word translation in there. Удачи, мои дорогие!:) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal ...
Feb 26, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Привет всем! Today I want to talk about education in general. In Russia we still have the idea that if you want to succeed, you have to have a higher education. However, our life is changing, and many young people cannot find a decent job after 4-5 years of study. What is the problem? Do we really need education? What skills should we have to be successful? What was the situation in the USSR? Let's discuss it! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal ...
Feb 19, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 23
