Adapting your English to her Russian (or Ukrainian)

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.

The Bride Vendetta: How to Make a Russian Girl “Kill Bill”

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…

Big City Girl: Who’s the Man of her Dreams? Russian jocular classification

So different by styles, habits and characters, so alike by dreaming of love’s bliss… Here’s a gallery of most vivid female types – and their potential husbands. Call it a set of caricatures that street artists have been fudging anyplace and anytime, changing only markers, – but so far as this article is published in urban reading, let its author refrain from remorse.

Russian Women’s Professions and Roles Translated: Antipodes to Typical Western Concepts

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).

“Less Talk, More Meaning”: Russian Women’s Reason – User’s Guide

Responding to discussion on this must-read by Master GL, here’s an overview of, errm, “Russian Woman (TM) Communicator”, from home production to foreign handling.

Beg your tolerance to my debris of radioelectronics )

• Childhood: Wired as Hi-Fidelity

The first thing that little children are taught here, is to speak truth.

Scam or Real? First visit to a Russian woman: Who Where

On comment 42 to this post at GL’s. More on scam schemes here

Hi Rob, I can imagine your confusion. This letter appears controversial as well as authentic. Here are some thoughts I got…

First, considerations natural from a woman’s viewpoint, that usually scare men.

“Bad” Body Language: the Filthiest Post on Russian Women & Western Men Interaction

Even if your could-be-bride is a fan of Mr. Bean, – mimicking his manners won’t make you her hero. In the basics of Russian cultivation, grimaces and physiological manifestations fall under certain censorship.

Which makes this post important beyond romantic contacts. However polished the stranger may be…

Slavic norms of public / interpersonal conduct allow much less natural motions than accustomed abroad (especially in America). Some may be judged as, without much exaggeration, crime against civility! And civility’s one of the first virtues which Foreign Men are given credit for.

Swear a Sure Way to Screw a Relationship with a Russian Woman

…barely awarely. Just with routine American vocabulary. I mean vulgarisms. Words stemming from the pelvic area or loo, such fu(n)kin‘ crap not worth a rat’s ass. Ain’t “anatomy discrimination”: the rest of the body is subject to non-verbal control (see the following post).

Oscar Wilde said, “A gentleman is never unintentionally rude”. A Russian joke extends: “A gentleman would always call a cat a cat, even if he’s stumbled against it and fell down.” And one more: “Surprisingly, researches have proven that blondes prefer gentlemen, too.”

3 First Mistakes in Emails and IMs to a Russian Woman

Well-bred or poorly-cultured, FSUnion’ers are snobbish about grammar, lexics and spelling. Whatever Internet forum in Russian, half arguments pinprick opponent’s language over logic. Discussions on emigration and foreign marriages produce longest threads around; and guess what was the longest off-topic I’ve seen there? Russian English-speakers bonewashing “non-BBC” English / American colloquials! Which they judged as a sign of poor education (big disgrace).

“Speak so I could see you”, Socrates said… If Shaw’s Professor Higgins lived in the Internet age, he’d regard the computer screen not as a hiding veil, but as a white handkerchief to find dirt with. Sadly enough, sometimes it can look dung instead of cozy dust.

Russian Inaccuracy and the Order of Magnitude, or Chocolate as Crime

West vs. East is the clash of Rules vs. Context. Who overdares? Eurasia.

• Exercise 1. Is there anything wrong about these statements?

1. “If I can’t rely on you with small things, how can I trust you with big things.”

Joking to a Russian woman: skating on thin ice

Discussion initiated here at GL’s

Well, in terms of Monty Python-esque samples, “Russians” and especially women are humorless.

How to Win a Beautiful Russian Woman: The Different Standard and the Art of Compliment

You find her hot and this fact is welcome in her culture. Shall you express utter admiration? Answer: No. When all the kin is bred beautiful, and smart, it’s a minefield playground!

That foreign worship of Slav looks is like Indians’ shock at White Man and his utensils. It is rather uncomfortable to be deified for what has been ordinary. On the other part, it’s rather miserable to take occasional scrap for treasures. And rather dangerous to drink “fire water” after generations of abstinence.

Safe Love with Their Ears (Do NLP & Seduction techniques work with Russian Women?)

Oh, wanna superweapon? In all plots it lacks the user warning: Strikes Back. If you won her heart, get hitched – or blacklisted, with all your aural Kama Sutra reduced to the crass definition “Brainf***er”.

Well, far before this prospect, many boys plod into the puddle just trying to sway the sword.

10 More Golden Rules for Advanced First-Time Dating International

A link to send Russian & Western online friends ;)

• 1. If something feels like offending you, it was NOT intended to.

Joseph calls it “Girfriend Rule #1”, I call it “Disclaimer”. Always mind the cultural and linguistic differences, added to individual styles!

“Forbidden Words” Top 10: Messages and Self-Descriptions Not Recommendable as to get you an “Ideal Partner”

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?

What is “Strong” – or “Real Man” – to find and attract a Real Woman?

One could say “Even If This Were the Only Book”…

10 Commandments of Dating Russian Women (marriage-wise): Ultimate Edition, Compiled, Revised, Updated & Restored

“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… )

Serious Russian Humor and its Black-Hot Star

For 1,5 hours a dry-faced Russian man with a slating voice stands amid the empty stage, sight-reading episodes of real life mixed with philosophizing. For 1,5 hours the audience laughs, moans, shrieks, gasps with laughter. Somewhere far away a woman drops the dinnermaking to listen to him on the TV channel that her husband has hopped across to stay at.

He has travelled the globe with recitals for Russian people. And got visa refusals from the USA, Egypt, even Ukraine. Though it’s at Russian folks and authorities that he mocks most. Still, some fellow-countrymen despise him for “mass back-patting propaganda”.

“Playboy” Advice & Fake Orgasms, or Is a Russian Woman a Trustworthy Guide to Russian Ladies

Guys’ eyes are valuable mirrors. But a Russian Girl ™ can bewitch any guy… not another Russian Girl ™. What may let – and make – the latter help, and whom?

New Bride Scam Art Technology Alert or Just Life? Sophisticated Gentle Goes Far

“Now All Big Smart Boys don’t let us skin them – let us milk them.” Petty pay as you play, and then… you just didn’t match. Russian men call it “Dynamo”, meaning bad-faith “consummation”. What’s ironic is that the “normal” traditional Eastern dating, or e-dating, procedure begins the same way.

The difference is in the result… and in subtlest red flags on the way, which your good auld Natalia’s there to tell.

Greater irony is that man can even feel grateful for every moment of being “used”! These Special Russian Women.™

(Or it takes a special man to choose enlightenment against despair?)

Thank a client who authorized me to tell his story on one finest Dynamo machine business for Ukraine. It looked [almost] innocent for as long as two dozen letters. But “however long a rope weaves, it comes to an end”.

Good News on IMBRA Help Your Russian Dating & Marriage Prospects

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!

Russian People and Materialism: Rich or Poor vs. High or Low

These notes address argument about Money vs. Satisfaction and City vs. Province, inspired with the question, whether Russian women are Worshipped or Depreciated at homeland, and if Western environment and Chivalry can “spoil” them. Original thread here at GL’s. Worth reading.

Russians say, “Not in money happiness is” (well, some jocularly add “but in its amount”), and right they are. Culture is what matters, – in all its meanings, including artistic sources of thought and pleasure, active folklore, patterns and manners of human relations, self-discipline, spiritual ideals and fulfilment,.. goals and values that money’s nothing more than a means for.

Cinderella Code to Russian Women’s Virtues, Expectations, Attitudes and Charms

Pick the role of “Poor Thing’s Prize” or poke into that shallow “Silver Platter To Females”, and you’ll miss a host of differences behind the axiom that

“to Western men, we are all Cinderellas by default; to Russian women, you are all Princes by default.”

It’s high time to anatomize the totem of Russian women.

Why Cooking Is Like [Oral] Sex, and Russian Wives’ Kitchen Manifesto

orks pointed, pans poised! What the matter cooking is, that it provokes so much rattle-battle?

Holidays Wishes, Miracles, New Year Gifts from your Russian Fairy “Snow Girl”: an Agency for Introductions like none have seen before!

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!

“Shocking” Statistics on Russian Women – I: Social Situation & Values

This is the overall picture that a local person can observe. A foreigner should keep in mind that “potential international brides” (women he would likely meet or notice) are a specific sampling, with their peculiarities and differences I’m trying to describe.

Miss Faithful vs Mr Chastity Belt: Why Needn’t Have Jealousy for a Russian Wife or Bride

Do Russian Women Cheat? It depends. Female adulteries need a special post, as deflections from norm. Now let’s discuss Russian cultural norms. Before an encouraging conclusion, I must address the part that some Western men interdict as treason (discrediting their reason).

Beauty, the Russian Women’s Cult: A Moral Category and Value Added

“Beauty will Save the World!” To Russian (Ukrainian) women, it’s a slogan for high personal standards, as well as demands. Beauty is a valuable asset, precious to sustain as well.

Do Never Use Machine Translation Into Russian!!!

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.

Down-to-Earth Goddesses: A Real Russian Woman Secret Oath

Behold in Awe you noble Stranger, for you’ve got the luck to be admitted to the heart of the Mystique of Russian Women!

Lady-Killing Dating Dress How: Russian Style for Western Men

A first-approximation glance from behind the Mirror of their Eyes…

Image is a big constituent of influence and initial perception in the Former Soviet Union, epitomized in face control and dress code at some corporations, restaurants and clubs… outrivalled by the censorship of Russian Women’s X-ray microscopes.

One is “seen in by clothes, seen out by intelligence” as the Russian proverb goes. This manner reflects their National Intuitiveness as well as Vanity, mixing insight with futility and logical reasons with subconscience.

Here is a bit of first-aid, safe-bet advice to hype up Western, and foremost American, performance and output in dating Russian ladies, to show important qualities of taste, choicefulness, male power, based on self-and-mutual respect… and to not offer a dramatic contrast to a girl or woman that has taken so much effort to look pin-up, especially for you.

Also useful for posting & sending photos with online dating facilities.

Normal Husbands from Hell, or Why could “Realistic” Russian Women ignore and divorce Western Men

The word-of-mouth repute of Russian Wife™ unique “consumer benefits” attract or bring out some traits in men, which Russian Women can’t bear, and strive to exclude. This is a big yet still surprising reason why Western Men and “brides” from Eastern Europe, seeking a true match, succeed so scarcely in a long time, and why so many international marriages fail early.

(Green Card hunters? Yep there are many. But suppose you want a woman of sound mind, why would she take the man just for dumping him and going on her own in an alien country – while she can wait and find a good man to love, and have all the happinesses for ever? Anti-fraud: here)

See the Top Black List gallery of male types on the international dating fair that Russian Women most frequently meet… and most aversely avoid, without even letting know what’s happened (out of a traditional, heart-felt and learnt “why-spite-a-cripple” attitude).

Do our visions of “norm” and sense of “realistic” differ?

Happy & Friendly ! ? Russian Ladies’ “Keep-the-Face” mentality

3 Key Rules of Russian Girls: Be Nice. Be Nice to Men. Be Nice to Strangers. No hypocrisy, – an attitude. Still more care and caution you should take, dealing with these beautiful Eastern women who smile so peacefully.

Rich Man and Russian Brides: Poor-Guy-Good-Girl Test Failed

Russian & Ukrainian media teem with plots of “Rich Men Disguised to Find True Love”; in reality, it’s no good way to outwit Hunter Girls and catch the Bliss Bird.

Russian Girls to Unhappy Men: A Poisonous Remedy

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!)

One in a Million: “Beauties.Ru / Jealousy.net / Surfeit.com”

Online dating is a special reality, where general laws of relationship behaviour get deflected by the special conditions. No use decrying; much use in making allowance for the “different physics”, as if when scuba-diving or walking on the Moon. Likewise for introduction services and marriage agencies.

• Navigating in the World of Opportunities

The most burning – and the most ridiculous question to ask or hear from a Russian Bride Online is, “Do you have some other man” (or “girl”, respectively). “Yes” is condemned to be a red card answer (isn’t it? ;)). “No” is a yellow card, so symbolically as yellow used to stand for lies, jealousy and cheating in the old Russian “flower language”.

So best policy is what should make the “tango rules” for BOTH e-partners (share this link with your real friends and virtual / potential lovers):

East + West > Marriage + Relationship > Psychology > Expert Counseling + Personal Secrets

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.

How could it be?

The “Russian Woman” / “Russians” brand: Geography, Philosophy, Patriotism

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?