вдоль улицы
“вдоль улицы” (vdol ulitsy) — along the street in Russian. Phrase, level B1. My gulyayem vdol ulitsy — "we walk along the street" — vdol, the along. In a live sentence: “Мы гуляем вдоль улицы” — We walk along the street. Written with the characters в, д, о, л, ь, у, л, и, ц, ы. A word from the everyday Russian course, level B1.
In short
| Written in Russian | вдоль улицы |
| Read in Latin letters | vdol ulitsy |
| Translation | along the street |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | B1 |
Why it looks that way
My gulyayem vdol ulitsy — "we walk along the street" — vdol, the along.
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.
- Мы гуляем вдоль улицыMy gulyaem vdol ulitsyWe walk along the street
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 “along the street” in Russian?
«вдоль улицы», read “vdol ulitsy”. In a live sentence: “Мы гуляем вдоль улицы” — We walk along the street. Phrase, level B1; written with the characters в, д, о, л, ь, у, л, и, ц, ы.
How is “вдоль улицы” written in Latin letters?
vdol ulitsy. 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?
My gulyayem vdol ulitsy — "we walk along the street" — vdol, the along. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.