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Cultural Life

Explore Russian words for festivals, family, music and food. Every word comes with its script, a transliteration to help you say it, and the English meaning.

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Cultural Life 🎉

Cultural life is about **festivals, family, food, music and traditions**. In this module you will learn the key Russian words for them. Russian is written in the **Cyrillic alphabet**. Every word below is shown with its **script**, a **transliteration** in brackets to help you say it, and the **English** meaning.

Key words (1) 🗂️

Learn these four cultural words:

Match each word to its meaning

  • праздник (prazdnik)
  • семья (semya)
  • музыка (muzyka)
  • еда (eda)
  • festival
  • family
  • music
  • food

What does it mean?

What does the Russian word музыка (muzyka) mean?

  • music
  • food
  • family
  • festival

Key words (2) 🎵

Now four more words about celebrations:

Match each word to its meaning

  • танец (tanets)
  • традиция (traditsiya)
  • песня (pesnya)
  • вечеринка (vecherinka)
  • dance
  • tradition
  • song
  • party

Cultural life

Select the TWO things that are part of cultural life.

  • Celebrating festivals with family
  • Enjoying music and dance
  • Ignoring all traditions
  • Never celebrating anything

Choose the Russian word

In Russian, the word for 'family' is _____, and the word for 'music' is _____.

семья (semya) музыка (muzyka) праздник (prazdnik) еда (eda) танец (tanets) песня (pesnya)

The Cyrillic alphabet 💡

Russian is written in the **Cyrillic alphabet**. Some letters look like Latin ones but sound different: **В** is 'v', **Р** is 'r', and **Н** is 'n'. The **transliteration** in brackets shows the sound. Big celebrations bring families together with food, music and dancing.

A special day

What does the Russian word праздник (prazdnik) mean?

  • festival or holiday
  • homework
  • school
  • the weather

Cultural life in action

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One more

The Russian word for 'food' is _____, and the word for 'festival' is _____.

еда (eda) праздник (prazdnik) семья (semya) танец (tanets) музыка (muzyka) песня (pesnya)

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