Whether you are lucky to deal with a girl who speaks any English, or misfortunate to use a machine translator, these 5 rules would save you and your dates or correspondents a bazillion of nerve cells. The difference in grammars and lexicons may not only prevent understanding, but create quite offensive effects in interpretation.
Read prior to speaking love, appointing visits, and getting too many women! ) Risks range from bad international record to physical revenge. Just don’t ask me to spill the sources of Insider Information translated…
May not different social realities, giving different meanings to similar words, prevent a viable international relationship or create tensions on the way to one.
“Working girl”, for starters, is “what you’ve thought” only in the Western reading. In Russian, emphasizing work means serious attitude to life (yet not obsession with career - the very word given some negative connotation since the Russian Empire, and much stronger in the Soviet Union).
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A link to send Russian & Western online friends ;)
Joseph calls it “Girfriend Rule #1”, I call it “Disclaimer”. Always mind the cultural and linguistic differences, added to individual styles!
These innocent phrases in a profile, email, talk (yours or hers) – resemble customary markers of “Co-Dependency” infection (as opposed to wholesome Mutual Treasuring). Keep cool, as you present yourself or hear that woman doing so! Are they mere figures of speech, or configurations of thinking?
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“Needless for those who’ve understood, useless for those who won’t”…
As the faith, so the reward… World is Mirror, life is what we make & let done with it… He who thinks prostitutes, gets prostitutes. He who thinks noble, gets the noble.
People seem to savor new recipes of food for thought: self-toothed out of mineral tablets, or squeezed, extracted and served with a straw in an occasion-specific glass. So may I entertain you with one more cocktail of playful spirits.
Chefs promise trouble if the vessel is not cleaned. Right. Enroll to this school of international dating, get blacklisted from heaven with virgin angels, and keep spitting into decent people’s borscht. Or listen to Aunt Natalia and take a chance… )
Honestly, we Russian Women hail the US law on men’s police record disclosure. Just look with our eyes, like you can. In fact, it puts American daters a body ahead ALL other nationals! Read the rest of this entry »
Jingle Bells! Time for making dreams & pleasant wishes come true for all good boys and girls. A special gift from Father Frost & Snow Maiden: a Place to Meet and Match, made Honest, Safe and Smart for you by Natalia and Joseph!
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I MUST publish this letter. It arrived consisting of 4 texts, Spanish = English = Russian = French. (What a spectacular Global Casanova Software!) The English text was a fair reflection of the Spanish original, and the Russian one was derived from English. Now, if we assume the Russian woman addressee doesn’t know any foreign language well,.. - you’d better see a reverse translation of what she has to read.
“There are no mistakes in life, just feedback”. Let us better feed by our gains! Here’s a time-saving and all-round efficient algorithm to manage the “Embarrass of Abundance“ (or “Paralysis of Choice”) in 5 steps and a single universal test.
Before penetrating into the curves and crinkles of face-reading, let’s linger on 3 most disputed Russian-Brides-Online photo issues concerning “Is-She-Real-and-Good”. Read the rest of this entry »
When you are broken-hearted, angry or annoyed at women, disappointed with your marriage or unsatisfied with other things in life, it fancies so sweet to find consolation at the breast of some kind, patient, lively, thoughtful, interested, understanding beauty who believes in true love like you believe you do. And here we are the “Russian women” grown as Soothers, Healers and Supporters. What a promising prospect for an acute or chronic injured one… a prospect leading to nowhere… at best.
(DISCLAIMER: What I am hereinafter telling to a “sore” man, is vice versa applicable to “sore” women one can often meet among Russian brides, - with the only difference that women fancy hanging all their problems on a “strong shoulder” that a real gentleman is so longing to provide. And “baggage” is a red flag problem with a woman just like with a man. GL please drop me the link to your post quoting Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lecture to his fiancée!)
Here he comes, passionate, intelligent and confident. We chat hours away, and then I see his inner boy. His shining armour is like chocolate’s foil to the teeth of some “bunny girl”. He’s about swording down princesses he takes for witches. Starving for human connection, orphaned from feminine care… And once again I turn Aunt AskNatalia.Ru to help one more soul rather than seek for the soul mate for myself. )
Thus began my e-counseling practice in psychology. Many times I felt blessed with friendship to a missioned professional analyst / therapist / coach lady I mention here and there as Dr. Tamara… as well as with my Ukrainian / Russian origin.
These Men have learnt stabbing their male rivals, juggling with big money, playing chess with the world, - yet feel lost at managing their personal lives. Yes, business and relationships are different disciplines, though not as incomparable as we are taught to think. But indeed, how should one operate in the world where definitions have fused?
“Manly” and “womanly” - “Western” and “Eastern” - “traditional” and “modern” - we are just too much alike… even though so different.
Luckily, Russian Women are seasoned soul-divers. ) Moreover, today’s generation of brides has been learning Men largely by foreign examples of. Which means, checking themselves through the eyes of foreign men - prevalently Western European and American.
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“Where Have All the Young Girls Gone?” Another time you lose connection corresponding or communicating with your Russian (East European) Web date, love or bride, - check this. It may be “nothing personal” or a “personal nothing“.
SHORT-TERM ABSENCE
The Digital Divide: Sit Back - No Setback
First thing to remember: Software Can Suck; Hardware Can Suck; Internet providers, cell phone operators suck; and when they can, they would - especially in Eastern Europe. Even most computer-savvy Russian girls online experience technical problems frequently… and face much man / woman misunderstanding caused by trifle bugs and differences.
How does a “Russian” woman communicate online?
Find it out by her activity hours (meaning HER time zone). But never write “She’s too Web active” or “She’s too scarce online” on your red flags.
Should I parenthesize “Russian” everywhere on this blog? Any Russian-bride-savvy knows this indication concerns several, mostly Eastern European, countries of the Former Soviet Union (FSU): Belarus, Russia, Ukraine (kin Slavonic / Slavic nations), to some extent the Baltic region (West-wise), Georgia and Kazakhstan (East-wise). What stands behind the “brand name” then? Read the rest of this entry »
