Зимой и летом одним цветом.
So, a few days ago I had my first language exchange. Надежда found me online (I think from my hh.ru profile- which is a “Russian” LinkedIn for those who have never heard of it), and we decided to meet in the Starbucks near Юго-Западная. She is the same age as me, and has studied English for 1 year already. Надежда is learning English because she plans to work abroad at an international company. We were at Starbucks for around 2 hours. She wanted to learn Modal Verbs and practice reported speech. As a native speaker of English that has never taken a linguistics course, I have never even heard of these terms, so I had to do a bit of research beforehand.
Anyways, we went through a bunch of English exercises for about an hour and then we switched to Russian. I practiced using the prefixes над- и под-. Going over them together was actually very helpful! I think it was a successful language exchange and meeting was helpful for both of us. We even live on the same Соко́льническая ли́ния, which is very convenient. We made homework for each other, and our next meeting is this Thursday, and I hope we both can progress in our language learning!
Funny thing is, the next day I went to class, the teacher asked us to solve a Russian riddle! It was the same one that Надежда told me the day before, and I was the only one that knew the answer:
“Зимой и летом одним цветом.”
Ответ: Ёлка
моя pусская тетрадь 