Odessa hasn't been in Russian since 1917.
(Random fact: Odessa was founded by Catherine the Great and was the biggest, busiest port in Russian.)
(Random fact: Odessa was founded by Catherine the Great and was the biggest, busiest port in Russian.)
That's not how you say matryoshka.
"Mat-ree-osh-ka" is not correct, it's "Mat-ro-shka".
At around 19 mins, the lab tech says that people who go from writing Cyrillic to English often write their nines as a lower case 'g'. This is not true.
The 9 does have a curled tail, but that's how most Europeans write it. It's also how a 9 is written on every keyboard.
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