Free fun long vowel color worksheets

What language skills can be developed in preschoolers?

No grammar, spelling, etc., of course. A child of preschool age can:

• perceive speech by ear,
• speak myself,
• read (together with the parent, and then study / look at the book on their own if it interests them).

That is, the child will master all the same English language skills as Russian at this age.

By the way, you don't have to worry too much about "speaking" and the correct pronunciation of English sounds. It is we, adults, who are rebuilding our articulatory apparatus after the Russian sounds familiar to us. And the child will learn the correct pronunciation of much faster.

To develop this skill it is best to sing songs and learn Nursery Rhymes with an English speaker: childish “monkeyness” and unique children's hearing will do the trick. If there are still some shortcomings, then just correct the baby, but without any complicated explanations.

We invite you to understand the English sounds yourself. Read articles:

• Sounds /ɜː/, /ɒ/, /ɔː/,
• Sounds /æ/, /ʌ/, /a:/,
• Sounds /d-t/, /z-s/.

How to teach English with children from the very beginning: 5 concrete ways

1. Watch cartoons in English with your child. Do you think he will understand? You are mistaken 🙂 Children at this age have an incredible linguistic intuition. They may not understand the words, but the emotions in the voices of the characters and on their painted “faces” will help them, the music will help them, etc. You will be surprised, but after watching the cartoon, he may begin to repeat the words from it, sing songs.

Also use special Russian cartoons to learn the language. The list of cartoon sites is here.

2. “Learn” English words and phrases with him (the first word is in quotation marks for a reason). These are not lessons or training sessions. This is your daily communication with your child, during which you speak English vocabulary to him.

- Mom, look - a car!
- Yes, indeed a machine. Do you know how it would be in English? car! This is a car.

General rules:

• Words must be used in the context of the situation : during lunch we talk about food, during a walk around the zoo - about animals, etc.
• Accordingly, we master only those words that are associated with the current life of the child : family, colors, clothes, animals, fruits, etc.
• Any word should be immediately reinforced in a visual way : for the word “dog” it is a toy, a picture / photograph or a shaggy and barking dog next to you 🙂

Such a visual image will help to easily learn new words

One more thing: so that the child immediately “masters” English grammar (again in quotation marks), tell him whole phrases. After all, if you tell him individual words, he will repeat the words, and if you tell him whole sentences, he will use sentences.

– Dog!
– This is a dog!

Also, to learn new words, you can use various games, handouts (coloring books, tasks, etc.), which will give the child great pleasure! Games and free sites can be found here .

3. Learn children's songs and rhymes with him. You can find them on the sites below (or search in Yandex and Google). It is best to present the verse to the child in the form of a small “staging”, because many rhymes have a certain plot under them and are easily played out (live or on puppets).

The kid can ask to translate the verse into Russian - you translate, and then again you act out the “staging” in front of him. The main rule: DO NOT ask the child to repeat after you. Your the task is to interest him in this incomprehensible language . Many children can at first just listen and listen and listen, and then suddenly start “scribbling” these verses by heart 🙂

Stages of working on a verse:

• sounds in words, intonation, rhythm).
• Then you train to read it expressively and think over a visual support for the child: a performance with toys, some kind of dance . .. in general, turn on your imagination!
• Now you can submit your work to the court of the baby. After that, discuss the performance with the child: what he understood, what moment he liked the most.
• Then invite your child to “join” your play and prepare a joint act for other family members. But for this, the baby will have to learn this rhyme (so motivation will appear).
• You can also find (or invent) a finger or gesture game based on this rhyme. Then you can periodically offer the child to play it in any suitable situations (of course, if he wants to).

4. Read books in English with your child. You can start when he already knows individual words. Simple plots will be quite clear to children, and pictures will explain the incomprehensible.

If any book really interests him, he will take it on his own and look at it, study it (this will create motivation to learn to read). In addition, the child will “photograph” the words with his eyes and remember their appearance. It turns out your task is to get him interested in reading .

Systematic teaching of reading begins only at the age of 4-5 according to the principle from simple to complex:

• silent “e”, without letter combinations th, ch, ph. And even better, the child already knows these words by ear.
• To learn the English alphabet, use songs and online games (they are below).
• If you decide to tell your child about how English letters are read , then in no case do not “dump” all the reading rules on the child at once. For example, if you are talking about the letter “a”, then first give the child words where this letter stands for the sound / æ / - cat, dad, etc. Then we go to the next letters - b, c, d, etc., for which we also take only one type of reading. And only on the second round we talk about the next type.

An amazing website will help you teach your child to read www.starfall. com . For example, go to this section and learn to read words with a short sound / a / (æ) with your baby. Each sound is pronounced in a cheerful children's voice and is accompanied by an explanatory animation. Just a find!

Where can I find books to read in English:

• www.childrenslibrary.org - a catalog of electronic books with a convenient search: on the left, select the age, and on the top - the language (English, of course).
• www.oxfordowl.co.uk - Some of the e-books on this site are also available for free, plus there are tips for parents and exercises for kids to learn to read.
• www.storynory.com - Audiobooks (mostly fairy tales) read by professional narrators. Listening to audio recordings will help to accustom the melody of the language.
• More useful websites can be found below.

And remember that still e-book can not be compared with the real , which you can touch and then leaf through with enthusiasm. Therefore, be sure to buy some colorful English books for your library!

5. Play fun games with your baby! And he will not even notice that you are teaching him something during this game. When the child is very young, organize joint games. An older “student” can be offered online games to learn English. Below you will find a list of both.

Learning English words for kids - games

The classic way to learn new vocabulary - vocabulary cards (i.e. word + translation + picture). By the way, our blog has a whole “book” of cards with sets of words.

Example vocabulary cards from Lingualeo. The full list is here.

But it will be even better if you create them together with baby . Pick up pictures together, stick them to pieces of paper or cardboard, etc. Then, already during the preparation for the “games in English”, the child will learn something. What to do next with the cards? Here are some options:

1. Cards can be used to play mime. First, you say an English word to the baby (and show it on the card), and the child must depict this word with gestures. Then you can play “reverse” pantomime - the child (or you) depicts an animal, an action, an object that he pulled out, and the rest of the participants guess.

2. Show me game. Place several cards in front of the child, and then name one word from this list - the child must touch the desired card.

3. “Yes-No game”. You show cards and say the words right or wrong (showing a hippopotamus, say "tiger"). The child answers "Yes" or "No".

– Is it a tiger? – No!!!

4. Game “What’s missing”. Lay out a row of cards (4-5 pieces). Look at them with your baby and pronounce the words. The child closes his eyes, and you remove one word. Tell me what's missing?

5. Game “Jump to…”. You lay out the cards in a vertical row on the floor and give the child the task of jumping to a word (perfect if the baby is bored).

These are just a few of the card mechanics. By turning on the fantasy, you can come up with even more variations of games. And we will go further. What other games can I use?

1. Gallows is a classic word game. But personally, the terrible image of the gallows scares me very much, so I suggest leaving it. For example, you can do it like this online game: draw a mouse, and next to it, start drawing a cat. When the cat is ready, the mouse has lost 🙂

An online game created in the Hangman style uses the image of a mouse hunting for cheese

you know the rules).

3. Game like “City” (name the word starting with the last letter of the previous one), but with any other English words. This way you can “remake” any word game (look for them on the Internet - you will find a million ideas).

4. Another great type of game is finger games. View examples here.

5. Game “Is it . …?”. You are gradually drawing some object, and the child is trying to guess it. For example, draw half a circle, and the child wonders:

- Is it a ball? Is it the Sun?
– No, (keep drawing)
– Is it an apple?
– Yes! 🙂

6. Another version of the game “Is it. …?” - a card with a hole. Cut a hole in a piece of fabric (or a sheet of paper) and put it on a vocabulary card. Move the hole in the picture, and the child guesses what is hidden there.

7. Magic bag. You put various objects in a bag, and the baby takes them out and names them. An even more interesting option: he puts his hand into the bag and guesses the contents by touch.

8. Game “Touch your …nose, leg, hand…” (generally body parts).

“Touch your mouth,” you say, and the baby touches his mouth.

9. Games will help children learn the colors of English easily. For example, you give him objects of different colors and ask him to find and select from them things of a certain color (by the way, the same task may concern words that begin with some letter, etc.).

10. Another example of playing with colors is “Find something…. in the room".

“Find something red in the room!”, and the child looks for something of the specified color.

11. How to learn verbs. Perform some action with the baby and say what exactly you are doing:

– “Fly! We are flying,” and pretend to be flying.
– “Let’s sing! We are singing!” and hold an imaginary microphone in your hands.
– “Jump! Jump!” and jump around the room merrily.

Don't forget about role-playing games. For example, play "shop" . The task of the child is to buy products from an English-speaking saleswoman (that's you). Before that, you remember the words and phrases that will be useful to him in the store, and then the child plays out this situation. Such a game can be cranked out with any fictitious conditions.

And be sure to act out plays, fairy tales etc. For example, invite your child to make a video or film! The girls will definitely be delighted. 🙂

Useful sites. Learning English from scratch for kids: games, alphabet, videos, printouts

When your child is older, you can invite him to play online games. Particularly when you need free time to do chores around the house.

www.vocabulary.co.il

This site has already been mentioned above when talking about the game "Gallows". It has a huge number of online word games. For example, game Whack a mole helps in a fun way to repeat the alphabet : you need to hit the letters with a hammer and collect the correct sequence of the alphabet.

Aiming and hitting the right letter with a hammer

Or the game Word paths, where children have to collect words from available letters with a certain vowel sound. As you can see, the games are designed for different ages, which means that the site will help your children for many years.

www.eslgamesplus.com

Another great online games site for kids. For example, this game, where hidden behind emoticons:

1. verb,
2. picture for this verb.

The task is to combine. With each attempt, the words are voiced. Playing is a pleasure.

Game Pirate Waters Board Game also deserves special attention . First, choose a topic that is already known to the child (for example, parts of the body). Then you throw the dice (to do this, click on the image of the cube) and walk along the board. You are asked a question and you choose an answer. If it is given correctly, you roll the dice again.

If you hit a pirate, start over. In this case, the child will repeat the correct construction several times while playing through the game. The only drawback is that there is no voice acting for the correct answer (which would develop listening skills). Therefore, advice: for the first time, play together with the child in order to:

1. help him figure out the conditions of the game (then you won’t drag him by the ears),
2. teach him to pronounce the correct answer on his own every time (so that the constructions are deposited in memory).

www.mes-english.com

This site has printouts (+ the ability to make your own worksheets), videos, and games. Let's focus on the games. For example, there is a great online vocabulary game here. First, we go to the Vocabulary column and listen-memorize the words. Then we go to the Question and answer section and listen to the question and answer:

– What’s this?
- It's a Lion!

And then in the Question only column, where you and your baby already need to answer.

supersimplelearning.com

This site also has cartoons, songs and games. For example, interactive games for the alphabet , which are suitable for beginners. Choose a set of letters and a level (Level 1 first).

Next, click on a letter (for example, “a”) and listen to the pronunciation of this letter (or rather, the sound, of course, but kids don’t need to know such difficulties) and the word that begins with it. All this action is supplied with a cheerful picture.

The voice acting and animation of the game are simply excellent!

At the next level, you are asked to choose a letter from the word you heard. At the third level - only by sound.

learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org

Another super helpful site (no wonder it's the British Council). For example, word games where you need to match a word and a picture. Or the Trolley Dash game , where you need to quickly buy all the products from the shopping list (verified: very addictive!)

www.

A large number of tasks (online and for download). For example, here you need to watch videos and fill in the gaps with the right words (for older kids).

www.thewiggles.com.au

The site again has videos, games, and downloads. For example, there is a game where you need to insert a missing letter into a word, but here you need to assemble a puzzle.

Choose which letter is missing from the word? By the way, the animation is accompanied by meowing 🙂

www.cambridgeenglish.org

Activities and games on this site are:

• under Learning English => Parents and Children => Activities for children
• and in the Games and social media section.

For example, is the game Shop & Drop where you have to put exactly what the customer wants into the cart. There are also cartoons and songs on the site.

www.abc.net.

This interactive site also has games, as well as cartoons (in the Watch section) and coloring pages for download (in the Make section).

By the way, we also have a wonderful course for the smallest on Lingualeo.

These resources will help you save money on buying coloring books and activity books. A printer and paper is all you need.

buggyandbuddy.com

Awesome site full of crafts, experiments and ideas for anyone with toddlers. For example, in the Free Printables section, you can find all kinds of materials for printing: coloring books, worksheets with interesting tasks etc.

www.abcteach.com

A site where you can create all kinds of worksheets yourself or download existing ones (cards, crosswords and much more) . Need to register. There are paid and free accounts with different features.

www.englishforkids.ru

A Russian-language site and a real treasure trove of for parents and teachers: useful articles and tips, games, downloads… For example, in the Fairy Tales section there are texts of Russian fairy tales in English.

www.enchantedlearning.com

There are also all kinds of materials for children here: rhymes, tasks, coloring pages ... For example, in the Books to print section there are amazing coloring pages (link is an example of blue coloring pages). You need to register to download.

busyteacher.org

The resource has a huge number of worksheets in the Worksheets => Vocabulary section.

bogglesworldesl.com

There are also many handouts that can be downloaded in doc format.

In principle, on most of the previous sites you can find cartoons in English. But the fastest way is to look for them in youtube . There are an infinite number of special channels:

• ABCkidTV – Nursery Rhymes: a channel with famous abc songs,
• Super Simple Songs: another channel with children's songs,
• Teremok Baby: there is an English subsection for children - Meow Meow,
• KidsTV123,
• Kids TV - Nursery Rhymes And Children's Songs.

And others (there are a lot of them). YouTube itself will recommend similar channels to you (look on the right), so choose from them to your taste 🙂

By the way, while preparing the article, I found a rather interesting cartoon “Entertaining lessons of R. Saakayants”. True, the cartoon is suitable for older children, because it has a lot of theory.

Also I advise you to use thematic groups in social networks , for example, Vkontakte. All the most interesting things are concentrated in them! For example, the Elementary English group or English for children and parents. By the way, in the latter I found a link to the article 200 (!!!) useful sites (plus those that we reviewed today).

Important rules in the end: learning English from scratch on your own free of charge for children

After we have all the necessary tools in our hands, I propose to reiterate the most important theoretical points:

• Learning a language starts with listening and repeating. Therefore, any theory is inappropriate for preschoolers and younger students. Only constant speech practice in the form of dialogues, stories, dramatizations.
• No abstract concepts! Children should only be given what they can “touch”: words, letters (not sounds!).
• Pay attention to the child's abilities. Does he like to sing? Sing songs in English! Paint? Work with special coloring pages! Count? Mathematics in English - why not!
• Children should not be bored! If the child is still not interested, do not force him. Your job is to interest.
• Learn only what surrounds the child : family members, body parts, animals, colors... And present everything in context.
• Children must “photograph” whole words (like hieroglyphs). No need to learn letters with them separately from words.
• You need to constantly work with your child: even great successes can be forgotten if you give your child a break for a month.
• Set a positive example. Don't forget about your English. If you haven't registered with Lingualeo yet, please do so. If you have not practiced for a long time, feed the lion cub right now! 🙂

And one more thing: don't forget your native language . First of all, the child must be fluent in Russian, and only then - in a foreign language. After all, a baby is a blank slate, and no language is given to him from birth.

Ukrainian lessons / Sudo Null IT News0001

Don't stop reading, it won't be about politics. Language as it is. Brief notes for a quick start in understanding Ukrainian, and at the end a bit of programming, so that it’s not completely offtopic.

Several remarkable features of the Ukrainian language.

1. Vocative case.

This category dear to the heart was in the common progenitor of all Slavic languages, but now it has remained rudimentary. Although it is understandable to the native speaker of modern Russian, take the appeal "Friend!". The vocative case is familiar to us from the Bible (“Our Father!”, “To the doctor, heal yourself!”), Which is not surprising, since Church Slavonic is the Solunsky dialect of Old Bulgarian.
Examples:

- Galya, come!
- Volodymyr Volodymyrovich!
- Irino Stepanivno!

In modern Russian, the plural of the genitive case is often used as a vocative: “Mish, a Mish! "Sorry, Nastya, I'm busy." However, you cannot refer to more than one individual in this way, but in Ukrainian it is possible (see point 4).
UPD. - some linguists believe that this is the seventh Russian case.

2. Formation of the future tense without auxiliary words.

The science of linguistics teaches us that languages ​​at the dawn of their origin used only the present tense of verbs (“what I see, I sing about”). Even now, the present tense is sometimes used to convey the past in the presentation of events: “I run out into the street, he rushes at me ...”, and this is not only accepted in Russian.

Then, when it was necessary to form the past and the future, as auxiliary words in many languages ​​(in any case, Indo-European), they began to use one of the most common verbs - "to be", "to go", "to have", "to do". The latter in this capacity lost their main semantic meaning and became auxiliary, so constructions like I had had and How do you do became possible in English. According to this model, tenses are formed in French, I won’t say about others.

What is interesting is that in Russian and Ukrainian education of the future took different paths. In Russian - through the verb "to be": "Stop, I will shoot!". And in Ukrainian - through the verb to have, "mother" in Ukrainian. An interesting metamorphosis then took place with the latter - it turned into a suffix:

"I need to go, I'll go" - "may go" - "timu" (compare with English I have to go!)
Accordingly, I will beat (I will beat, I will beat), I will shoot (here you understood everything and stopped), I will work (I will do, work) and so on.

3. “Dog” in Ukrainian is… a dog. Only masculine

“The great dog came” — “The big dog came”

4. The union “OR” and the particle “LI” sound the same in Ukrainian — “CHI”.

But if the use of “CHI” as a conjunction does not differ from Russian, then everything is much more interesting with the particle - it is placed in front of the entire sentence — Do you feel like drinking coffee, comrades?
"Panove" - ​​the same vocative, plural, see paragraph 1

UPD. There is another option OR - ABO

5. Dative case.

The dative case suffix in Ukrainian is much more spreading than in Russian.

“Taras Shevchenko was 13 years old” — Taras Shevchenko was then 13 years old (yes, MALE neuter surnames are also declined in Ukrainian) - Say hello to the old fuck. (Sergey Zhadan, Big Mac).

"Vitannya" - hello, greeting, there is also a single-root "welcome", which shows a common root with Russian, however, it already means "congratulations".

Done with grammar (well, in general), it's time to do phonetics and spelling.

6. My great-aunt, who left the USSR in 1925 at the age of three for France, said, laughing, that she writes letters in “phonetic Russian”. This kada is both heard and written. On the one hand, all phonetic alphabets were created in order to convey pronunciation as accurately as possible. Unlike syllabic (syllabic) and other writing systems (by the way, did you know that all the alphabets used in the world today originated from Phoenician? With the exception of only Japanese, and they arose as a simplified alternative to hieroglyphic writing). On the other hand, the language is changing all the time and much faster than spelling reforms are being undertaken, which are difficult and extremely costly. So recently, Kazakhstan refused to switch to the Latin alphabet (and then it seemed to agree again?). As a result, we have a wide range of alphabets that, in terms of phonetic accuracy, are close or far from the principle of "as it sounds ..."

At one extreme, and this is not my opinion, but the well-known polyglot and simultaneous interpreter Dmitry Petrov (by the way, he advised the authorities of Kazakhstan on the transition to the Latin alphabet), there is French. If in the pronunciation and spelling of the word "MERCI" the number of sounds and letters is equal (MERCI), then "BOKU" has TWICE more letters in the letter - BEAUCOUP. Thank you very much for this way of writing words!

At the other extreme, apparently, is Belarusian:

Ukrainian (this is my personal opinion) occupies an intermediate position between Russian and Belarusian - the spelling rules in it are simpler than in Russian, but not as literal as in the third of East Slavic languages:

• There is no doubling of consonants in borrowed words, so as not to fool the learners (students, that is) - it is correct to write “communist, collective” and so on, although these words are not in trend now,
• The rule for "YES" allows only one option - always with a soft sign!
• In Ukrainian, the prefix WITHOUT in front of a deaf consonant is not stunned (that is, it does not turn into a DEMON), compare WITHOUT MIDDLE (directly) - UNOBSTRUCTED. Before the revolution and the last spelling reform, by the way, they wrote in Russian like that.

7. Alphabet. The Ukrainian alphabet has a couple of additional letters

"І" - reads like the Russian "I"
"Ї" - reads like the Russian "YI", is not used often, but is present in the name of the capital - KIEV, the mother of Russian cities

and the three letters of the Cyrillic alphabet are not used at all - Y, Ъ and Y. Instead of Yo, the combination IO is put, instead of a solid the sign is an apostrophe ("HALF" - flame), as in pre-revolutionary Russian, and the free letter I, thanks to the Latin І, is read just like Y.

Accordingly, "E" is read as "E", and the inverted "Є" is read as "E".

8. One of the very nice properties of Ukrainian is the doubling of consonant sounds, and almost always with a soft second sound.

- VESILLA (wedding)
— BAGATTIA (bonfire)
- FACE (face)
— ACCESSORIES (accessories)
— OZBROYENNYA (armament)

Everything is read as if there is a soft sign between double consonants.

In Russian, doubling is almost always found in the root or on the border of the prefix with the root (rejection, underdress, half-liter), and not with all letters (double Ch does not seem to occur at all?), And it sounds hard.

9. Finally, let's check the harmony with algebra.

Everyone admits that Ukrainian is a smooth, melodious, flowing language, very beautiful to the ear. In order not to state this unfounded, or else we will slide into conversations about who is the ancestor of whom, and who is better, conducted a small analysis on 2 translations of the same work by Stanislav Lem.

The remarkable science fiction writer and great thinker Stanislav Lem at the end of his life wrote with bitterness that he was little known to the English-speaking world. In the world pantheon of philosophers and writers, he clearly occupies an inappropriately modest place. But we, the speakers of close East Slavic languages, should be grateful for his Polishness, since the magnificent pun that his works are full of is beautifully translated into both Russian and Ukrainian. And even better in Ukrainian.

Composition - "Powrót z gwiazd".

Polish sounds rude to our ears (West Slavic languages, dissonance).

It's already better in Russian - "Return from the Stars".

In Ukrainian - just a song: "Turn from the stars"

Let's develop mathematically precise criteria for the beauty and smoothness of speech (here is a smiley). The first thing that comes to mind is the ratio of vowels and consonants. Quite smooth-sounding speech (what is the closest Russian analogue of English fluent?), apparently, is arranged in such a way that consonants alternate (interleave) with vowels and can be poured without hesitation, as in a folk song:

Samasadikyasadilasamabudu watering
She used to love to love herself to forget

That is, criterion number 1 is the ratio of vowels and consonants and the number of consonants in a row, on which the flow of speech stumbles. The same applies to word boundaries.

Next, it will be interesting to analyze the ratio of voiced and deaf sounds (this is their own characteristic, some come in pairs, some go by themselves
B - P
V - F
G - X
D - T
W - W
Z - S
and besides, there are voiced without a pair of LMNR, and deaf without a pair of KTsChShch).

And also take an interest in the relative number of soft and hard sounds - this is determined by the following vowel, all vowels come in pairs, one of which softens the previous consonant, the other does not
A - Z
E - E
I - S
O - Yo
U - Yu

The ratio of vowels and consonants - Ukrainian quite slightly outweighs in favor of vowels

The number of voiced and voiceless consonants - there are more voiced consonants in Russian

The number of hard and soft consonants - and more soft ones in Russian

defines the beauty of speech!

At the boundaries of words, two consonants are also more common in Russian

Appendix - a small dictionary

1) WORDS - IMAGINARY FRIENDS OF THE TRANSLATOR (similar to the English MAGAZINE):

DRUZHINA - WIFE (from the word FRIEND, by the way! In our country, only VRAZHINA is formed according to the same principle)))
CHOLOVIK - HUSBAND (and a person will be LYUDINA, as the only one from PEOPLE, it is logical)
WEEK - SUNDAY (WEEK will be THIS)
NAME - SURNAME (nothing offensive. Actually the "nickname" - PRIZVISKO)
BRACUVATI - not to be enough, not to get it.
VESELKA - rainbow (is it boring?)
HOUR - TIME (and the Russian HOUR will be YEAR - and not necessarily dashing)

2) Words directly borrowed from other languages ​​and most likely familiar

CRAVATKA - TIE (French CRAVATE)
DACH - ROOF (German DACH)
RESHTA - EVERYTHING ELSE (English THE REST) ​​
MUR - WALL (MUR French. Interestingly, the Russian “walled up (demons)” - from the same place?)
MAPA - MAP (MAP!)
SENS - SENSE (SENS English)
KOMA - Comma (COMMA English) (the author's school nickname, by the way)

In Western Ukraine, the cologne (eau de Cologne) is called "Colonska water", but this is not the all-Ukrainian norm. By the way, YAR in the same territories - SPRING. Remember, what else is wheat, except for winter?

3) Old Slavonic words

POSADA - Position (remember Sergiev, Pavlovsky, etc.)
MITO - customs duty, a word of the same root as "publican". The ordeal, which is the only thing left of this root in modern Russian, therefore, means problems with the tax))

4) The names of the months, all of natural, so to speak, origin (in Russian everything is Latinized, and even bears the imprint of the pre-Christian calendar, from September to December!)

1 Sichen
2 Lutium
3 Berezen
4 Kviten
5 Traven
6 Cherven
7 Lipen
8 Serpen
9 Veresen
10 Zhovten
11 Falling leaves
12 Breast

EXAMPLE. There is no escape from taxes, as they strongly suggest to us here and have almost already inspired, so let's analyze the Ukrainian version of VAT

MPE - DEPOSIT TO DATE DATE

In the words:

DEPOSIT - this is the old Slavonic TAX (paragraph 3 above)
DODANU - “I have a business lunch, you didn’t give me compote!” - everything is clear, isn't it?
This, by the way, is far from the only example of the fact that many things that sound colloquial in Russian, or deliberately wrong, are actually normative in Ukrainian, and native speakers of Russian, apparently, subconsciously feel this.

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