Love the Russian way.
Since the beginning of this year I have learned with my children how to say ‘I love you’ in several different languages. This was the first time we had tried a language where the written version included symbols/letters I had no idea how to pronounce. We watched a you tube video so we could hear the sounds in each word. I enjoyed trying to perfect the Russian way of expressing love.
The Russian language fills each syllable with richness and heartfelt meaning. It’s almost as if I can hear Sean Connery speaking them himself to Tatiana Romanova. Er, come to think of it I don’t think any Bond ever whispered those words to his love interest.
Я тебя люблю.
pronounced yah tee-BYAH lyoo-BLYOO
I love you.
From Australia with love.
Image from: here.
Free Little Words 
How cool this is – and a great project to do with your children. BTW – the piece I wrote yesterday ‘a heart’ was inspired by you – i forgot i had this little copper heart and when I saw the green cutouts on your post, I thought aha!
Big boy really enjoys learning little snippets of other languages. He will say I love you in German sometimes instead of English as he learns it at school.
You inspire me daily. Going to repost your poem here today.
Oh you are so sweet – xx
Cool & Colourful…
I would love to visit there. I’ve been informed it’s even more beautiful as Christmas time.
Wow it’s cool to know those sounds come from those letters/symbols!! Great idea!!
It was a little like doing tongue twisters but I find other languages very intriguing.
Hey, that’s Tivoli gardens–in my (current) adopted CPH. It was lovely at Christmas time!
CPH? Excuse my ignorance.
Copenhagen. Sorry, just laziness on my part!
Thanks for the clarification. I had allsorts of acronym meanings going on in my brain.
Does that mean the image isn’t of somewhere in Russia? I didn’t validate the source.
It’s the Russian Palace at Tivoli. Unless it’s an exact replica of somewhere in Russia! If you go back into my archives, I have a photo from a Christmas post in December taken almost in the same spot, but with blue hearts (they changed colors). That’s why I recognized it immediately. It’s very pretty!