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 _____.
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 _____.
Your turn ✍️
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