Reports Cards
I will be sending out the quarterly report cards soon!
If you are already a member of the site, you will get a report card automatically.
If you haven’t signed up yet, do so here.. it’s painless and will allow you to not only receive all future cards, but you will also be able to comment here and request words as well!
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This is my Favorite Class
Do you grade on a curve?
Because I just started class last week, so I know I wont be able to compete with those whom have been on since the beginning.
Of course, I could end up being voted the most improved student after the next semester this way!
I know you are a very busy woman, what with all the television appearances and the almost-daily philology lessons on youtube.com, but would you be so kind as to give us all a date of when you will post the report cards. It would be greatly appreciated, I’m sure, by all of your viewers to know.
Thanks for all the lessons,
desolation06
Sorry, I got to fix this real fast. The last sentence was supposed to be this:
“It would be greatly appreciated, I’m sure, if you were to let all of your viewers know.”
I look forward to future lessons!
Sincerely,
desolation06
Dear Marina
Yesterday a saw your russian explanation about Molotov Cocktail with legend in english. Well, I’m brazilian and love this site but my english is not good to understant all that you say. Then, I would like know if it’s possible to insert english legend on all diary hotforwords. So people around the world could follow well hotforwords explanations and improve english. You would become the most sensual, sexy and intelligent teacher of the world.
I wish I had a teacher as hot as you when I was in high school
i have a request
were does the word hookie come from
I wanna request a word!
its fuck you.why is it so bad???
isn’t ‘fuck you’ two words?
Salve Marina
I would like to request the word Butterfly.
I assume its simple but i have little
experiance in the art of philology. I would
Truly appreciate a video or even a reply
Thanks Marina!
Your dear student,
Mike
Expressionism,
Look for the movies “Flutter by” and “Butterfly” — they were posted around April 1 — I hope you learn more about butterflies
You look sexy all the time … you’re the best teacher
My Dear Marina,
Where does the Word Russia come from, what does it mean?
It comes from the name of the original settlers of the area, a tribe called the Rus.
Marina;;thanxs fer tha joy u given me here in life ya i have learned so much watchin ur videos had a small party this weekend with my old Navy Seal team we were talkin bout kids and ther use of english they were amaze at my internet and texting using tht shorthand than someone stated a subject and i corrected him hehe he asked how u know tht so i showed him my awsome teacher and we ended up watching 15 of ur videos her a huge hit in my small circle of friends and my best studies come from you thanxs may all ur dreams be full-filled fer u have fill mine LOVE and KISSES Lt.Com August Van Suchtelen US Navy Seal -retired
you look very sexy all the time
What Russian words have made it into the English language?
you are so beautifull and smart woman, if my teacher that inglish class to be at you my inglish to be good.
I’d like to request the word comicbook.
Great site.
Richard Vasseur
http://www.jazmaonline.com
great lessons ! You could almost double for my spanish teacher back when I was 14. 34 yrs later she still looks enticing there’s a word for you . . entice . . thanks marina . . . . need me to stay after class and clap your . . erasers together?
Marina, you look great.
Can you tell me the origins of the word ” AIR” as it has been used in Classical music as the title to songs/instrumental musical pieces? Thank you
nlsmafia2008
I’d like to request this word: Zombie, Vampire, Goul, Werewolf (or just -were part) and Ubiquitous too.
I like the reportcard idea of JD, I thought that I’d had to fill out a sort of exam actually.. but cheers for the idea.
Peace..
She already did werewolf, ghoul is an arabic word I believe and I requested zombie and vampire too, hopefully since we both requested them, she’ll do a video on it
She did werewolf already?
I thought I read the section where she lists words already requested. Now I’m doubting myself. Oh well, heh.
Yeah, would be interesting to hear where the word Zombie and/or Vampire originated from. I could go out researching myself - but then again, HotForWords would have one less show to entertain me/us with.
report cards….great idea!
i love your channel!!
kisses!!…………
will you marry me hot for words?…i just know your the one..lol……love your channel…keep the good work up..
how do i apply for extra credit?
wow
it would be cool 
never the homework was so fun 
The report card system could be automated, say for instance like a Java applet. I know in many online colleges they do something like this to test one’s aptitude at a certain subject.
The answers could be multiple choice. However, many people may grab the dictionary to look up words and for a test, that would be cheating. This kind of ruins the idea of posting a top score, as everyone might be in the same place, unless you add a timer for each question; put a time limit on the different questions, thus giving the individual little time to thumb through the dictionary.
set up two profiles. get on one just to get the questions, and it doesn’t matter if you answer them. go look them up. then go to your real profile and get an A. the timed idea is still to easy to get around. im not trying to bash your idea, just trying to help you perfect it.
I missed my homework, can someone fill me in please?
What do we have to do to have to stay after class?
Report cads = fun & interesting project for you, HFW; it’s also another way to substantiate your whole show. For me, however, as one who never indends to do too well in this ‘class’, imagine what little horrors will be created every time I receive a little something reminding me that I’m not doing as well as…oh, well.
Again, a really cool video. This is one of my first comments, I like your videos because I like getting a chance to learn new and interesting words, and finding out where they started is always pretty cool as well. In that line, I will also be looking forward to your book! That all being said I have a word that I saw a while back that I am curious to the origins of.
The word is “wilkin” which I do believe means the sky. I was just curious about the entomology of that particular word. Keep up the great work!
I am in the same team of blackwolf!
I don’t ever want to pass this class (unless the teacher is change)
Then I guess we are the first two who are sitting in the very front of the class, take the best notes possible, doing the homework, and studying every inch of video (if you know what I mean), and still praying to fail this course. GIVE ME AN “F”!!!!! But I agree, if the teacher changes or there is a substitute, I’M PLAYING “HOOKIE” (there is a word for ya!).
Hey Marina, since you teach a class, you are sending out a report card, and I know that “F” stands for FAIL, what do the other letters of a grade stand for? Hell, if you want, you can make up your own meanings using the letter grades. Also, you should use the song “HOT FOR TEACHER” on your videos. Sorry that is the television production in me!!!!
Luvs
Great reference to the Country Joe MacDonald “Fish Cheer!”
When I was in public school, they didn’t use “F” for a regular letter grade. So the only way to get an “F” was to fail at a course that had been designated pass/fail only such as driver ed (in K-12 these courses were extremely rare). Our grades were typically only A through E and I will admit that I received a few “E” grades, especially in penmanship.
(”F!”) gimme a “U” (”U!”) gimme a “C” (”C!”) etc. etc.
*slips Teacher a shiny apple.
since we are on the subject of phrases. i want to know where did the phrase “eat your heart out” come from? did it have anything to do with st valentines day or is it more sinister and macabre than that? i would really appreciate your welcomed knowledge my dear teacher.
HI MARINA:
My Marina says “Priviet.” Many years ago, before I met my wife, I was dating a woman from Britain who would tell me that I was “the bees knees.” What the hell does this mean?
It’s the same as “cat’s pajama’s”.
Pretty Cool.
haha both of those phrases are on the movie the school of rock
I like the idiom “the whole nine yards”
+5 Thanks again.
Hi Marina
Idioms are fascinating and fun.
Americans say “dressed to the nines” or “dressed to kill”.
What are comparable expressions in Russian?
It would be great if you did a lesson like, “When English speakers say Drunk as a Skunk, a Russian might say (the literal translation).”
Idiomatic language is regional in the USA. When I have travelled to different parts of the country, I have heard expressions that made no sense to me except for the context, and even then I wasn’t exactly sure what the speaker was expressing, but I was embarrassed to ask.
Have you ever heard someone say, “You are the cat’s meow!”
“You are the cat’s meow” means the same thing as “You are the cat’s whiskers.”
This cat and mouse game may have you behaving like a scaredy fat cat on a hot tin roof fighting with some dogs. I’ll have the last laugh and be grinning like a Cheshire cat, because the cat got your tongue? I don’t mean to pry, since we know curiosity killed the cat. That cat doesn’t have a cat’s chance in hell to survive. Cat’s have nine lives, though, so maybe he’ll be looking like the cat who got the cream after all. I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag now, but it’s raining cats and dogs. If I don’t get inside I’m going to look like something the cat dragged in. Don’t be a scaredy cat. After all you are like a cat among the pigeons. There may be more than one way to skin a cat, but that doesn’t help because there isn’t room in here to swing a cat! So let’s just wait and see which way the cat jumps up.
Anyway, as they say, when the cat’s away, the mice will play (no offense to Marina’s mouse Arnold, who is playing whether the cat is here or not).
My report card for HotForWords has to be 5 stars, and for you Marina you get a ten. Chief
I think it would be cool if the report cards were based on actual performance.
Maybe, you could post an exam or something?
I know you’re super busy…
If only you had a twin who could help…
Wait a minute, you do…
Or is she still upset at you for cursing?
Hi Marina.I like that idea.! that would be fun.but you would have to have some sort of computor program to grade them all,it would take you months if you were to review all of them yourself.I cant wait.Bye
P.S.Im going to do some research,but i think you have the largest class room in the world?
Marina,
I pray I fail the course, just so I can take this class all over again! And again. And again…etc!!!
Luvs
How about thingamajig.
How about the origins of the Name Bugs Bunny, I have heard some references, of my good Bunny friend, to being flush with cash, or as we all know from gangster flicks “crazy” or bugsy. What I want to knoe is where the “1st adult cartoon” Charactor got his name?
Thanks and keep spreading the word
BV
Bugs got his name because the guys who created him were said to be crazy or bugsy. or it could be becuase the name of the building he was created in was called “Termite Terrace”. Termites=bugs. thats what i always heard