Marina Vladimirovna Orlova

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Marina Orlowa

Marina Vladimirovna Orlova ( Russian Марина Владимировна Орлова , English transcription Orlova ; born December 10, 1980 in Arsamas , Gorky Oblast ) is a Russian English student who gained international fame as the operator of an English-language YouTube channel.

Her You Tube channel HotForWords , which has existed since 2007 , is primarily concerned with the etymology of English words and idioms.

Life

Marina Orlowa was born in 1980 in Arzamas (Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), RSFSR , Soviet Union . She studied philology at the Lobachevsky University in Nizhny Novgorod . After graduating, she briefly taught English and literature in Moscow . In an interview she stated that she had worked in a shop for two years before she was able to take part in an international exchange program as an au pair . She came to live with a family with two children in a small town near San Francisco . She found out about YouTube through a friend and published the first videos on her YouTube channel HotForWords in spring 2007 , which became the most successful subscription channel there within a year.

Orlowa lives in an apartment in Beverly Hills .

You-Tube-Channel HotForWords

Video clip production

Marina Orlowa produces five to seven content- related video clips a week , most of which deal with a single etymological dictionary entry. The clips are two to five minutes long and often, but not always, contain the following elements:

  • Recurring greetings and commendations
  • Homework for the students (often " finding synonyms ")
  • Quiz questions
  • Announcement of the winner of the "Teacher's Pet" election
  • Overlays of photographs by Marina Orlowa in the posing style of the fashion industry
  • private scenes (cuddling dog, arguing with - invisible - sister)
  • simple animations and sound recordings to match the lemma

In addition to her actual etymology clips, Marina Orlowa occasionally produces short videos in which quiz questions are resolved or user submissions are responded to. She also makes recordings of television programs in which she appears as a guest or in which she is featured on her own YouTube channel. She stylizes herself as a kind of intellectual pin-up , combining sex with education .

Web response and media echo

The videos produced by Marina Orlowa are viewed almost 10 million times a month (total number of views of all videos). Individual videos have been viewed up to 23 million times since they were published. The total number of views of all their videos in April 2012 is around 456 million. These facts make Marina Orlowa one of the most successful private video producers. Various Internet publications, but also conventional media in the USA and other countries, reported several times on Marina Orlowa. She herself appeared repeatedly as an expert on the American television show The Bill O'Reilly Factor .
In an interview, she answered the question how she manages to interest Youtube users in words, briefly and concisely:

"Everyone knows that sex sells ."

Others

Marina Orlowa produced an episode about the Soviet AK-47 assault rifle in two language versions - English and Russian.

Publications

In August 2009 Marina Orlowa published her book Hot for Words: Answers to All Your Burning Questions About Words and Their Meanings . It was published by HarperCollins, New York, ISBN 978-0-06-177631-1 .

Web links

Commons : Marina Vladimirovna Orlova  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Наталья ДЕРБЕНЕВА: Английский язык в Голливуде преподает русская блондинка. Комсомольская правда, March 19, 2010, accessed July 16, 2010 (Russian).
  2. ^ A b Anne Backhaus: YouTube phenomenon HotForWords: "Intelligence is sexy!" Spiegel, November 19, 2008, accessed July 16, 2010 .
  3. ↑ Google Trails Linguist With Lingerie, 238 million YouTube Views
  4. ↑ Marina Orlowa: AK-47. June 29, 2008, accessed July 17, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Marina Orlowa: AK-47 in russian. June 30, 2008, Retrieved July 17, 2010 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Orlova, Marina Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Orlova, Marina Vladimirovna; Орлова, Марина Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian English scholar
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Arzamas , Gorky Oblast