At the very end of 2024, Boris Iomdin and his co-authors (Irina Levontina, Alexey Shmelev, Elena Shmeleva) published not just a book, but a real treasure chest!
The collection "36 Candlesticks" invites readers to look at language as a game board. You can't even imagine how many exciting games you always have with you, you don't need cards, chips, or dice. At worst, paper and a pen.
You will have to guess the meanings of very old and very new words, get acquainted with funny phraseological units from other languages, play charades, hat and contact... you can't list it all! One thing is absolutely certain: you can open this book for a second on a random page and wake up in half an hour.
At the fair, Boris will present his book and play several linguistic games with the audience under mysterious names: "A Crook in Literature Class", "Guessing Powders" and "Literary Masquerade". It is best to play these games with the whole family, children and adults, and for the games you will only need a good mood and an interest in the language!
Boris Iomdin is a linguist and author of dictionaries. Until 2022, he worked alternately in Moscow and Israel. He is engaged in scientific research, teaches at universities and schools, creates and reads courses for children and adults: for example, "Harry Potter and the Secret of Languages" and "Why We Understand Each Other" in Stradarium and an audio course for children "What We Know About Languages and What Languages Know About Us" in Arzamas. He has been running a Telegram channel for three years. Learned a new word.
Since 2023, Boris Iomdin has lived in Berlin, teaching linguistics at the Lyceum 2 in Schöneberg and at the Clavis Schule in Prenzlauerberg, where he also regularly hosts family hat tournaments.