Урок 32. Недавно позаимствованные слова из английского языка. Lesson 32. Recent Loanwords in English.

Although loanwords from English are of course particularly easy for English-speaking learners of Russian to grasp and deploy, they do need to be studied carefully. For one thing a loanword may be used in a much narrower sense than its equivalent in the language from which it is borrowed. Thus имидж means image only in the sense of character as perceived by the public; крaйм, crime, and суицид, suicide, denote not an individual action but only an organised social phenomenon.

Урок 31. Западные заимствованные слова в русском языке. Lesson 31. Western Loanwords in Russian.

A large number of words have entered Russian from non-Slavonic peoples and languages at various times in its history, for instance: from the Varangians who established the Riurikid dynasty in the ninth century (e.g. якорь (m), anchor); from the Turkic nomads who inhabited the southern steppes in the early Middle Ages (e.g. лошaдь (f ), horse); from Greek around the time of the conversion of Russia to Christianity in the tenth century (e.g. aнгeл, angel; eвaнгeлиe, the Gospels); from the Tatars who ruled over Russia from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries (e.g. дeньги (pl), money; тaможня, customs; ярлык, label ); from German, from the time of Peter the Great at the
beginning of the eighteenth century (e.g. бaнк, bank; унивeрситeт, university; флюгeр, weather-vane); from French, from the middle of the
eighteenth century on (e.g. жилeт, waistcoat; оркecтр, orchestra; пьeсa, play).