речь идёт о
“речь идёт о” (rech idyot o) — we are talking about in Russian. Phrase, level B1. Rech idyot o tvoyom budushchem — "we are talking about your future" — the matter at hand, not the words; rech here works like delo, the business; it asks o chyom, about what. In a live sentence: “Речь идёт о твоём будущем” — We are talking about your future. Written with the characters р, е, ч, ь, и, д, ё, т, о.
In short
| Written in Russian | речь идёт о |
| Read in Latin letters | rech idyot o |
| Translation | we are talking about |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
Rech idyot o tvoyom budushchem — "we are talking about your future" — the matter at hand, not the words; rech here works like delo, the business; it asks o chyom, about what.
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Речь идёт о твоём будущемRech idyot o tvoyom budushchemWe are talking about your future
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “we are talking about” in Russian?
«речь идёт о», read “rech idyot o”. In a live sentence: “Речь идёт о твоём будущем” — We are talking about your future. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters р, е, ч, ь, и, д, ё, т, о.
How is “речь идёт о” written in Latin letters?
rech idyot o. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Rech idyot o tvoyom budushchem — "we are talking about your future" — the matter at hand, not the words; rech here works like delo, the business; it asks o chyom, about what. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.