I found a recipe that I'd like to try, but Google is not proving helpful with the translation of one ingredient. Its a Czech recipe and the written ingredient is "cukru krupice", which translates to "semolina sugar" on Google. Is this just plain, old, granulated white sugar, or something different?

If it helps, the recipe is for Nepeceny dort.

So at my university there's a a large batch of Russian students coming over for the foreign exchange program at my pre-college school (yes I'm still a teen and have only gotten some college credits as a result of advanced classes, not actually enrolled in college yet) and in fact there are already over 30 students here as the result of the previous semesters enrollments in the program. So having become friends with multiple, I have been learning so much Russian.

With my dad as as serving in the military, his tasks will be taking him into Europe for the next decade (well something to that effect was what I heard) for trips back and forth back home in Canada and the US into Europe so a good number of times during the next 8 -12 years or so and as a result I'll probably be taken along the side as he's sent to different European countries. In fact I already just learned his next assignment is int the Czech Republic, a Slavic speaking country and next year Poland and Belarus are among the revealed places so far. All Slavic speaking countries.

So I ask out of curiosity. Will learning Russian far beyond what I already know help make it much easier to learn Czech and other Slavic languages? Especially since I have actual native foreign speakers in my school who I meet daily? On the flip side (just because I'm curious) how would it go for Serbs and other Slavic peoples learning Russian? Bonus question is the already mutual intelligibility between people from Russians and other countries who never learned any foreign language (including English)? Like would simple stuff like asking for change in money and directions to the bathroom be smoothly communicated at a bar between people from these various countries and Russians?

I’ll give the list of names and their countries: 🇷🇺:

-Semyon Vladimirovich Lebedev

-Petr Petrovich Petrov

-Lewis Andreevich Makarov (Half American so got an American first name)

-Dmitry Yakovlevich Rykov

🇵🇱:

-Wiktor Paweł Zimnowodny

-Zdzisława Maria Piekiełko

🇺🇦:

-Anton Nikolaevich Shevchenko

-Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molyboha

🇷🇸:

-Sergei Nikitich Cesarovic

🇨🇿:

-Euward Bogomil Svoboda

If you have issues please write them in the comments, I’ll be happy to hear them

For context: I’m also slavic btw

I made this thread earlier this month.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ancientrome/comments/1bed6er/why_do_romance_languages_have_so_strong/

Be sure to read it because the OP is very necessary as context to this new question.

So while the correlation to Slavic languages and Greek is quite murky unlike Romance languages and the Western Roman Empire in tandem with Catholicism....... Am I alone in seeing that so much of modern Eastern Orthodoxy today is in the former Eastern half of the Roman Empire and the later Byzantine empire? Is it mere coincidence or is there actually a direct connection?

I mean even countries that were never Eastern Orthodox during the time of the Roman Empire often had strong trading connections with the Eastern half as seen with Russia's history.

So how valid is this observation of mine?

Why do so many place names in Slavic countries start with 'Po'? Polska, Podlaskie, Podolia, Polotsk, Podolsk, etc, etc.

I’m an American of Bosnian-Serb blood and I was wondering what Slavs born in Slavic counties think of us are we just weird slavaboos, brothers, or no real opinion.

Hi, I'm writing an essay for my class related to Slavic paganism, Christianisation etc. I wanted to ask if any of you remember learning in history class (or any other class) anything on ancient Slavs, their religion and beliefs or rather just history after Christianisation? As a Pole born in the early 2000s, I don't recall learning any of it, so I'm looking for some other experiences across different Slavic countries. Thanks in advance!!

I see many illustrations of early slavic clothing (and its ornaments) on the internet but no actual archeological findings to back them up. Are these clothes based on surviving stonework and ceramic plates? Or maybe based on medieval slavic clothing that survived? And when did slavic embroidery take form we know today?

Bonus unrelated question: Is there a book about Proto-Slavic language? I'd love to read about it but I cant find anything on the topic. Anything slavic related, really. Why are there no books about slavs?!

My professor announced that we will be traveling to Europe next Easter break as part of our Western history class. So I'm learning Polish now but I'm a bit worried that outside of this trip I won't find much use for it afterwards. So I ask (and hope) if learning Polish would at least help me learn Russian and other Slavic languages? Would the same apply in reverse for Russians, Ukrainians, and other Eastern Europeans/Slavic countries in regards to learning Polish?

Were you into video games? Which consoles did you grow up with? Did you have a playstation or a nintendo Ds? How about a Nintendo wii? Which games and consoles were popular during your childhood?

What shows/movies did you watch?

What toys were popular during your childhood? (Legos, Action Figures... etc.)

What was school like?

I heard that Eastern Europe grew up a lot differently than the rest of Europe and the US

Hi it’s seem impossible to find Slavic boxing in English can you post the objectively and personal best of Slavic boxing films?

I tried posting in the Glagolitic sub but I couldn’t. Thanks if anyone can help!!

i need it for a meme B)

So tell my why do I tear when I hear old Russian war songs? I started tearing, I never cry even when life is fisting me, but something about these songs makes want to burst into tears, like seriously If I had a dime for every time I cried since I was born I'd have 2 dollars.

I was listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeleGQFfbrs

I must've been a Soviets Soldier in my past life.

Do you know some cool and true slavic quotes and life lessons? (Thanks in advance)

I'm researching my genealogy (at least trying to) and I'm suspecting my grandfather may have been adopted, potentially born overseas. I was told he's Czechoslovakian in origin, but I haven't found any evidence yet. Just that my Ancestry shows some eastern European/Russian on that side, and many of my DNA matches come back 80-90% eastern European/Russian. No one I've messaged knows anything about international adoptions happening yet, does anyone here know?

Hi, I am working on a project for college on Slavic culture, if you are interested in Slavic culture could you please take a minute to fill out this short survey? I would be grateful :]

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecI8SLSGveLvif6hkH1BiHChbZ_nJzw2vad9I1h4VSEEMJhw/viewform?usp=sf_link

So I am 12.5% Eastern European (Czech, to be specific). Does this make me Slav enough to squat?

I live near Romanians and one the female member has been teaching Romanians for free at a building because my town has enough Romanians that there is the official Church of their country has a local building here (apparently a national one where everything is done in Romanian and all books are in that language, etc).

Their eldest Aunt is a very warm person and has told me to feel free to go to the local boarding building to learn lessons despite not being Romanian or a member of their national Church and she even agreed to do a few private lessons to me because (well I guess its partly because a few time I just helped a few members of the community out of the blue in different situations, though the girl is a pretty warm person herself in an Audrey Hepburn charming sortaway).

So I am gonna go ahead take the offer because I have nothing else to do in my free time and I admit I never took another language before. In fact I was gonna order some Dutch CDs to learn the language my fav celeb Audrey Hepburn but I decided to shelf that plan after receiving the next door neighbor's offer.

So TIL Romanian is a Romance Language. So does that mean knowing it would make French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and a whole other bunch of obscure language I just learned today from across Europe much easier to learn?

In addition reading on Wiki the language has a strong Slavic influence esp in word count. Enough I seen a few Redditors calling if a hybrid of Russian and Italian. So does that mean learning the language would put me a step up in learning Russian and Polish and other Eastern European languages and Balkan tongues such as Serbian?

Last but not lest a few posts online not just here in reddit but various blogs and forums, etc says Romanian is the one Romance Language today that is closest to Latin after Sardinian and some other old languages across Italy before the Unification. So would it be a building block for getting into Latin?

I know Aleksander is Sasha, Maria is Mashka, Mikhail is Misha... What's the nickname for Elisey and its variations with the suffixes?

There's another Slavic subreddit, /For_Slavs. Except unlike this one, it's literally filled with Slavic Neo-Nazis. Look at the posts and comments, you'll see I'm right. How do I report that subreddit?