HotForWords | Marina Orlova

Hello my dear students! Your trusty teacher is going to be on HBO show this winter. Stay tuned! Marina  

Confidence…what is confidence? How do you define confidence in your own words and mind without looking up its definition in a dictionary? I ‘d say it is one’s ability to say SHUT UP to your inner voice that communicates doubts and fears to us. It is being able to free-style anything, and ...

Hello my dear students!  Even though I am from Russia, I live in Los Angeles California.. which is really cool, because each year 25 million people come to Los Angeles for vacation!  That’s three times the population of New York City coming each and every year! But why do all these people ...

-Rhett, Rhett! Rhett! If you go, where shall I go?  What shall I do?  Who will pay my rent?  My car payment is due like this week, oh, and you promised me a new pair of Louboutin’s…. -Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. -Wait a minute.. a dam is an Indian coin, who […]

Hello my dear students! Many of you know how much I love oysters….I post photos of oysters almost once a week on my Facebook and I made a video recently as well. Video description: Overview of how to open or shuck a live oyster. Ingredients: Fresh oysters Instructions: Take a thick ...

If you spend any time on the net, you are sure to come upon this word… FTW.. or rather the abbreviation FTW But I actually had no idea what it meant until I researched it. And I found, as you all probably already know, that it stands for “For The Win”. You say it as […]

Some of you have likely seen and/or heard about Adidas collaborating with a queen of Performance art, Marina Abramovic, for a new Adidas commercial released to honor the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. See below: Abramovic originally produced the short performance art black and white film that ...

Did you know that jaywalking is illegal in Los Angeles? Well I was crossing the street the other day and got a ticket. And not a cheap one either. I tried to pay the cop directly but I guess you don’t do it in America.  Anyway when I was paying my jaywalking ticket and fuming […]

Most of you know me here as Hotforwords, a well-endowed girl educating her web-based audience about philology. I have been described in the press as being “a smart cookie, bright, funny, charismatic, almost intoxicating with her Russian accent and large blue sparkling eyes.”  Though I make no ...

A Casanova is a womanizer. But just who was Casanova anyway to get such reputation? In 1725 in Venice, Italy was born Giovanni Giacomo Casanova, the son of an actor. He was expelled from the seminary of Saint Cyprian for immoral behavior. And he went on to become a writer, a soldier for the ...