Olga Chapligina

The article deals with the types of psychological barriers in learning a foreign language. The authors propose some strategies to overcome these barriers in learning foreign languages in universities, which may be useful to students. They are trying to find out what are the main reasons for the occurrence of psychological barriers during the study of foreign languages.

This article discusses borrowings from the Russian language. The authors give the main reasons for borrowing vocabulary from Russian, and group borrowings depending on the time of their appearance in the English language. In addition, the authors give a time periodization of the main Russian-language borrowings in English.