Spoken Russian Conversation Practice. 500 Mini-Dialogues for Beginners

Spoken Russian Conversation Practice. 500 Mini-Dialogues for Beginners
Artsun Akopyan

Are you trying to learn Russian? The illustrated book “Spoken Russian Conversation Practice: 500 Mini-Dialogues for Beginners” allows you to greatly expand your active vocabulary. It consists of 500 short dialogues on everyday topics interconnected by meaning and contains about 1,800 commonly used Russian words, word forms and word combinations. This tutorial is intended for beginning and intermediate learners of Russian. Teachers of Russian can use this manual to create game situations.

Spoken Russian Conversation Practice

500 Mini-Dialogues for Beginners

Artsun Akopyan

© Artsun Akopyan, 2020

ISBN 978-5-4498-7879-3

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Introduction

Are you trying to learn Russian? The illustrated book “SpokenRussian Conversation Practice: 500 Mini-Dialogues for Beginners” allows you to greatly expand your active vocabulary. It consists of 500 short dialogues on everyday topics interconnected by meaning and contains about 1,800 commonly used Russian words, word forms and word combinations. A list containing the new words along with their transcription and translation into English follows each dialogue. To reinforce learning, revision tasks are offered after each topic.

This tutorial is intended for beginning and intermediatelearners of Russian.

Teachers of Russian can use this manual to create game situations so students can practice language constructions in a more emotional and effective way.

About the Author

Artsun Akopyan is a writer and freelance translator based in Russia. He worked at a high school teaching Russian and at a university teaching English. His publications include books for English language learners, short stories and articles, translations of fiction and nonfiction books from English into Russian.

Conventions Used in This Tutorial

The dialogues are numbered from 1 to 500. Each dialogue in English is followed by its Russian translation.

New Russian words in dialogues are highlighted in bold and translated into English below the Russian version.

Base forms of Russian words are included in brackets: света́ет (света́ть) – it is getting light.

The accent is marked by the sign ́ over the stressed vowel. The accent mark is not used in the Revision sections. If you want to look up a Russian word in an online dictionary, use the base form without the accent mark (e.g., светать).

In English, dialogues are surrounded by quotation marks:

“ABC”.

In Russian, every new line of a dialogue starts with a dash:

– ABC.

Waking Up (Пробужде́ние)

1

“It’s getting light already! Good morning!”

“Morning!”

– Уже́ света́ет! До́брое у́тро!

– До́брое!

уже́ – already

света́ет (base form: светать) – it’s getting light

до́брое (base form: до́брый) – good, kind

у́тро – morning

2

“Is he asleep?”

“Yes. Wake him up!”

– Он спит?

– Да. Буди́его́!

он – he

спит (спать) – sleeps, is sleeping

да – yes

буди́ (буди́ть) – wake (someone)

его́ (он) – him

3

“Is she sleeping?”

“Yeah. Wake her up!”

– Она́ спит?

– Да. Буди́ её!

она́ – she

её – her