Study Russian

You could easily recognise russian outside of Russia. It's the guy who asks in McDonalds "Potato free". it's not because he's greedy or smth. "French fries" in russian is картошка фри . фри here is a loanword but not from english - and many people just don't have an idea they should translate it as "fries". =)

I remember my first impression: american guy was totally shocked by very first sms he recieved from russian friend. It was with latin letters but just some abrakadabra. So, what is pecular about sms language? Text message in english could contain 180 signs, but in russian it has a limit of 70 signs per sms. This was a primary reason why russian use latin letters in sms quite often. Words are transliterated as it is but probably this matches will make it easier for you. Note: do not try to read letters in combinations, as long as in russian all letters are pronounced. For example kh would be кх, not x (as it sounds in english) 1) ж is zh , z and asterix 2) ч is ch and 4 3) ь is b or ' 4) ш is sh , w 5) е is equal to ё 6) щ is sh, sch 7) ц is c, sc, ts 8) з is z, 3 (digit) 9) я is ja, ya 10) ю is ju, yu 11) ы is bl, y, i 12) й - j, y,i 13) г is g and r (resembles russian letter) 14) д is d and g Here are several examples of such phrases: Privet, ya to4no n...

Recently I've shown how slang loanwords are composed in russian and here is a list of 12 common russian loanwords. For your convenience I've marked roots. За логин иться - to log in Пуш ить - to push, especially project or people За пост ить - to send a post Менедж ить - to manage (by the way, the word manager has 2 spellings in russian - манагер and менеджер(formal)) Гам ать - to play a computer game. Sound a in г а мать is a variant of reading "game. За бук ировать - to book somethig, mostly about hotel room Шопп иться -to go shopp ing За зип овать - to compress someting is winzip Раз лоч ить - to un lock especially about unlocking device for usage with another operator За лоч ить - to lock (computer) Монитор ить - to monitor smth За комит ить - to commit

Время завтрака. Жена мужу: - Уверена, что ты забыл какой день сегодня? - Глупости, я прекрасно помню какой сегодня день, - ответил муж и свалил на работу. В 10:30 раздался входной звонок. Когда жена открыла дверь, то увидела возле порога большой букет красных роз. В 13:00 снова раздался звонок. На этот раз это была коробка ее любимого бельгийского шоколада. В 15:00 это было шикарное, дизайновское платье. Жена еле дождалась мужа: - О! Дорогой! Сначала цветы, потом шоколад, потом платье! Это самый счастливый День Воздушно-Десантных Войск в моей жизни!...

The funny thing about russians is that you can almost undoubdfully recognise them by the way they name boss. It is because russian will try to call your patron "chief" or even "chef" due to linguistic coinscidence. This is simply because the word шеф (pronounced just as "chef") means "patron" in russian. Simple explanation but how funny it sounds!

Most Russian study English at schools, colleges, universities. All them have common learning schedule and learn the same things. All them think alike - nothing personal, it's simply a cultural thing. As a result Russian have very similar gapes in English language knowledge. Terms Russian people knows less usually have several distant meanings in Russian language and are business-oriented. Here are the list of these words with links on translation into Russian. issue , claim , charge , lead , reference , mean , rate , due , further , supply , deal , account , feature , remain , gain , amount , fit , particular , facility , term accourding to Free Online Dictionary data