soap opera

[Alexandre Bougakov]

Hello, Benjamin,

Tuesday, October 31, 2000, 6:23:07 PM, you wrote:

BR> Is there a term for "soap opera" in Russian?  What do they callthe
BR> genre of  "Santa-Barbara" or that Mexican soap opera, [Something
BR> about] "Maria"?

"Prosto Maria".

We in Russia usualy call it "serialy" ("сериалы"), sometimes "mylo"
("мыло") - from "myl'naya opera".

Cordially,
Alexandre Bougakov <bougakov at mail.ru>
monitoring.ru


P.S. I HATE SOAP OPERAS!!!!

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