CURRENT MISSION

I'm on a quest for Never-never-est with my contaminated friends

ABOUT ME

I'm an easy-going guy with lots of exciting stories to tell about languages, cultures, and travelling.

I can speak native Russian, really fluent English, good Spanish, and a bit of Portuguese.

Would be glad to help anybody with getting around Moscow and Moscow region and maybe getting a couch! :)

PHILOSOPHY

If you don't know, come to learn... If you know, come to teach.

Interests

I'm a linguistic freak and I love sociolinguistics, cross-cultural communication, and phonetics. I know lots of hilarious things about language which I will share with you!

I also like to cook and take photos of food and I'm planning to start a blog about cooking.

Always up to meeting new people, having fun, discovering new places, sampling different food!

I play harp once in a while, read Wikipedia a lot, like having different beers and wines, and going out.

• dining
• cooking
• beer
• traveling
• blogging
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:

Psychedelic rock, electronic music, jazz, indie, scottish and irish folk, rock, and a bit of punk (Gogol Bordello are my favourites!)

Literature:

Irvine Welsh, Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Ken Kesey, Viktor Pelevin, Oscar Wilde, William Golding, Don DeLillo, Joseph Heller, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Bukowski, Mikhail Veller. These are the favorite, but there are soo many books left to read.

Movies:

Terry Gilliam, Coen Brothers, Mike Leigh, Danny Boyle, Danny Schechter, Pedro Almodóvar, Alejandro Amenábar, Guy Ritchie, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Emir Kusturica

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Belgium, Egypt, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay

Countries I’ve Lived In

Argentina, Russian Federation, Spain