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

A re 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 . 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 intermediate learners 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.

A rtsun 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.

T he dialogues are numbered from to . 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: ( ) 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., ). In English, dialogues are surrounded by quotation marks: ABC. In Russian, every new line of a dialogue starts with a dash: ABC.

I ts getting light already! Good morning! Morning! ! ! ! already (base form: ) its getting light (base form: ) good, kind morning I s he asleep? Yes. I ts getting light already! Good morning! Morning! ! ! ! already (base form: ) its getting light (base form: ) good, kind morning I s he asleep? Yes.

Wake him up! ? . ! he () sleeps, is sleeping yes () wake (someone) () him

I s she sleeping? Yeah. Wake her up! ? . ! she her S h! Shush! Why are you shushing me? ! ! ? sh () shush why you (singular) () (you are) shushing on, in, at () me shushing me D o not wake her up . I wont. . not () (I) will (I) will not W ake up, sleepyhead ! Im awake. , ! . () wake up sleepyhead I have woken up, am awake H ave you been awake for a long time? No. () wake up sleepyhead I have woken up, am awake