On 17 November 2016, the Russian Center under the Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies took part in all-Russian Little Russian Bear competition in Russian arranged for students of the department of the Russian language. The participants of the competitions who learn Russian as a foreign language did a number of tests in it.
Little Russian Bear competition is very popular in Russia. It always contains hard but interesting tasks to be done. They make participants of the contest think, take original decisions and help to identify issues students learning Russian face.
Recently, they started to include tasks for those who learn the Russian language abroad into the competition, which proves that it is getting more and more popular in foreign countries. North Corean residents have always been interested in Russian and its good command shown by students of Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies proves the fact.
Students were interested in analyzing the tasks carefully with the help of specialists in teaching methods and they got a lot of interesting information on Russian idioms.
A lot of questions were asked about making such traditional Russian dishes as varenniki or grenki. The students wanted to know in what way short Russian names like Luda, Mila, Sasha and Shura correspond to their full versions and that was a sort of unexpected question.
