Sessions 6,7
Без пословицы не проживешь. One cannot live without a proverb.
A great way to improve your understanding of the Russian culture, people and history is to study Russian proverbs and sayings. Not only will you discover the words of wisdom accumulated by Russian folk since as early as the 12th century, but you will also increase your Russian vocabulary and catch on some rhymes used in proverbs. Russian proverbs, sayings and quotes will teach you many apt observations made by Russian people, translated from ancient written sources, and borrowed from literature works.
Here's what some great Russian writers said about пословицы:
«Меткий и образный русский язык особенно богат пословицами. Их тысячи, десятки тысяч! Как на крыльях, они перелетают из века в век, от одного поколения к другому, и не видна та безграничная даль, куда устремляет свой полет эта крылатая мудрость… Различны эпохи, породившие пословицы. Необозримо многообразие человеческих отношений, которые запечатлелись в чеканных народных изречениях и афоризмах. Из бездны времен дошли до нас в этих сгустках разума и знания жизни радость и страдания людские, смех и слезы, любовь и гнев, вера и безверие, правда и кривда, честность и обман, трудолюбие и лень, красота истин и уродство предрассудков.» | Precise and descriptive, Russian language is particularly rich in proverbs. There are thousands, tens of thousands of them! As on the wings, they fly through the ages, from one generation to another, and one cannot see the boundless distance, where this winged wisdom directs its flight... Proverbs come from various epochs. Diversity of human relationships reflected in these chiseled folk sayings and aphorisms is immense. From the abyss of time, in these clumps of mind and knowledge of life, have come to us joy and human suffering, laughter and tears, love and anger, faith and disbelief, fairness and wickedness, honesty and deceit, diligence and laziness, beauty of truth, and ugliness of prejudice. |
