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From Russian melancholy? The other day I was trying to learn some adjectives in Russian, and noticed that there seemed to be more Russian words for sad (9) than for happy (4), at least in one dictionary I checked ( bab.la ). This might be a coincidence as in other dictionaries are more words for happy than for sad. In fact, combining the words together gives us nine words for happy and ten for sad. Words for happy include: – счастливый = happy (also: fortunate, lucky, providential, blessed) – весёлый = happy (also: gay, cheery, fun, hilarious) – довольный = happy (also: glad, pleased, amused, content) – удачный = happy (also: successful, felicitous, chancy, fortunate) – благополучный = happy (also: safe, trouble-free) – ликующий = happy (also: jubilant, exultant, gleeful, elate, cookahoop, triumphant) – радостный = happy (also: jolly, joyful, joyous glad, merry, cheery, high, gleeful, frabjous) – удачливый = happy (also: lucky, successful, prosperous, fluky) – улыбч

Found this post and picked up the free Fabulo app for learning Russian. Patterns Recently I’ve been learning Serbian, Russian and Czech with free apps produced by Hallberg Ryman, who make them for quite a variety of languages for Andriod and iPhone/iPad . They are working well for me and I would definitely recommend them. They use a flashcard/SRS-based system to teach you vocabulary arranged into categories such as numbers, colours, clothing, food, etc. Within each category you learn individual words, and then see them in various sentences, which you’re tested on by filling in blanks, or by assembling sentences from a bunch of random words. One blank filling exercise involves typing the missing words – in the other you just select the words – and I find this the most difficult, especially for Russian. It is also the most useful because I have to think about spelling and the grammar. The other day I was doing a lesson on colours in Czech and in the typing exercise