My achievements in 2011 and special thanks to my readers!

Dear readers,
I am so happy to greet you now in 2012! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year celebration! In my next post I am going to share our celebration with you ;)

The past year was very interesting. It was challenging, but also rewarding. It was in 2011 when I started receiving more comments to my posts and now my blog gets more than 2000 visits each month. I am so grateful to all my readers! This blog wouldn't exist without you! You rock!

I'd like to share the most popular posts from 2011 with you. Some are quite logically popular, others - well, frankly speaking, I didn't quite expect them to be so interesting, but it was a good surprise. So, here's the list:

1) Social media marketing for translators, Part 1. - 212 views;
2) How do I work on my quality? - 155 views;
3) Proofreading thoughts and tips - 132 views;
4) What makes a good freelance translator, Part 3 - 131 views;
5) The Versatile Blogger award - 123 views;
6) Proofreading, editing, copy-editing and post-editing - 121 views;
7) One cool Twitter app that helps me tweet smarter - 121 views;
8) What makes a good translator? Part 2 - 115 views;
9) What makes a good translator? Part 1 - 114 views;
10) Grandfather Frost, Santa Claus and St. Nicholas - 110 views;
11) Can't help sharing (absolutely offtopic) - 108 views;

12) How can Twitter facilitate language learning - 108 views.

I'd like to ask all of my readers for a favour: could you please share your favourite posts from my blog? And why do you like those posts? Thank you in advance!

I'd also like to thank those people who helped spread the word about my blog. THANK YOU!

Special thanks to my Twitter friends! I'd like to say special thanks to Catherine Christaki (@LinguaGreca), Ewa Erdmann (@Transliteria), Aga Gordon (@acgtranslation), Jonathan Senior (@JonSenior1), Erik Hansson (@erik_hansson), Marta Chereshnovska (@Martav88), Rose Newell (@Lingocode), @babla, Marta Stelmaszak (@mstelmaszak), Samuel D. Ewans (@Samuel_D_Ewans), Paul Sulzberger (@PaulEdgar1), John Barre (@JohnBarre), Liudmila Davydova (@ldavydova), Anastasia Nuskaeva (@AnrusTranslate), Sergey Rybkin (@sergeyrybkin) and Jim Connolly (@JimConnolly) for making a considerable impact on my life and business.

I would also like to thank my Facebook fans for their valuable comments to my posts and other links I shared with them. I've been more active in Google+ lately, and I am very thankful for all comments there.

This year it was a special honour for me to be included into the list of Top 25 language twitterers and given the Versatile Blogger award. This is a great honour which gives me a strong motivation to continue doing my very best.

Blessings to all my readers! Have a fruitful, joyful, peaceful and prosperous year!

10 interesting facts about the Russian language

In my previous post I promised to follow with the interesting info about some other languages. So here are 10 facts about the Russian language which might be of interest to those who are studying it. If you would like to have this list in Russian, please contact me and I will send it to you by email. So, what do I find interesting about my native language? 1. Russian has about 500,000 words, but only 2,000-2,500 of them are used frequently. 100 most frequently used words make 20% of all written and oral speech. A high school graduate's vocabulary usually has 1,500 to 4,000 words. Those who have graduated from a higher educational institution normally have a richer vocabulary consisting of approximately 8,000 words. 2. It's compulsory for all astronauts in the international space station to learn Russian, so we can call it an international language of space :)

15 interesting facts about the English language

I prepared this list for one of my English classes. And then it dawned on me that I can share it with you, too! So here are 15 facts about the English language that I find very interesting. Hope you do, too ;) Rudyard Kipling was fired as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. His dismissal letter said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language. This isn't a kindergarten for amateur writers." No language has more synonyms than English.

Translation Forum Russia 2017: my report

A few days ago I came back from Translation Forum Russia which took place in Ufa, Bashkortostan . My daughter Delia went with me because she never visited Ufa before (neither have I) and because of the trip to the Southern Ural mountains we planned to take after the conference with a small group of colleagues. Ufa is not considered one of the primary tourist attractions of Russia, though I am convinced now that it definitely should be. Some pictures of the city (not all of the pictures are mine, some were made by the official photographer of the conference Elena Ekaterininskaya, our company CEO Fedor Kondratovich and some other colleagues): The bee is a symbol of the region as Bashkortostan produces the best honey in Russia. We saw installations shown below in different parts of the city. There were still covered because of the cold weather, but they will be full of blooming flowers as soon as the warm weather comes. The bee as we saw it That's what it

Catherine Christaki (@LinguaGreca)Jan 8, 2012, 6:47:00 PM
Congratulations for your achievements Olga, may 2012 be even more successful for you! It was a great pleasure to e-meet you in 2011, I look forward to even more nice conversations between us on Twitter :)
Olga ArakelyanJan 9, 2012, 11:43:00 AM
Thank you Catheirne! Oh yes, I am looking forward to that, too! And hopefully, we get to meet in "real" life some time :)
Olga TkachenkoJan 10, 2012, 5:37:00 AM
Wonderful and great achievements! I should be learning from you. I still haven't got a clue about how Twitter functions, apart from the fact that I managed to create an account there, and I know even less about Google+. But I'm happy that I was at least able to connect to AdSense and it even brings something like income, though the figures are very funny.
Olga ArakelyanJan 10, 2012, 11:35:00 PM
Dear Olga, thank you for your feedback! I guess we should learn from each other then, as my AdSense experience can't be called positive :(
AnonymousJan 26, 2012, 4:59:00 PM
This is the only POST I really read carefully, but your BLOG is already strongly recommended in my FB page. And nice to see you are committed to the Lord!

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