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

Artsun Akopyan, 2020 ISBN 978-5-4498-7879-3 Created with Ridero smart publishing system 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. Artsun Akopyan is a writer and freelance translator based in Russia. 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.

The 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.

Its getting light already! Good morning! Morning!
! ! !
already(base form: ) its getting light(base form:) good, kindmorning
Is he asleep? Yes. !
he()sleeps, is sleepingyes()wake (someone)()him
Is she sleeping? Yeah. !
he()sleeps, is sleepingyes()wake (someone)()him
Is she sleeping? Yeah.

Wake her up!
? . !
sheher

Sh! Shush! Why are you shushing me?
! ! ?
sh()shushwhyyou (singular)()(you are) shushingon, in, at()meshushing me
Do not wake her up. I wont.
. .
, ! .
()wake upsleepyheadIhave woken up, am awake
Have you been awake for a long time? No.
()wake upsleepyheadIhave woken up, am awake
Have you been awake for a long time? No.

Ive just woken up.
? ..
long ago, for a long timenoonlywhat, thatjust

How long have you been awake? For an hour.
? .
how()(you) sleep(you have been) not sleeping, awakein, atflow()hourfor an hour