Svetlana Flemming - Colloquial Russian - The Next Step in Language Learning

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idti´ / pojtiźa po´mo];[

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to go for help

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smotre´t; za det;mi´

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to look after children

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The labour market

Exercise 11

Choose from the two alternatives in brackets (accusative or instrumental).

1 On napisaĺ kni´gu za (god / go´dom). 2 Oni´ 'ivu´t za´ (gorod /

gorodom). 3 Ona´ ves; den; provo´dit za (kni´goj, kni´gu). 4 My doĺgo sideĺi za (rabo´tu / rabo´toj). 5 Le´tom my poe´dem za (graniću / granićej). 6 Za (posle´dnee vre´mq / posle´dnim vre´menem) ona´ mno´go sdeĺala. 7 God za (god / go´dom) vse¨ ha´]e ide¨t do'd; v a´vguste. 8 Spasi´bo za (po´mo]; / po´mo];[).

Exercise 12

Translate into Russian.

1 Using personal connections is still the surest way of finding a job in Russia.

2 Unfortunately the conditions in your firm do not suit me.

3 She always liked working with people.

4 Can you start work in a week’s time?

5 With great difficulty she found a job as interpreter in a small firm.

6 You have to be very sociable and persistent if you want to be a sales manager.

7 Her best quality is her ability to work in a team.

8 My main duty in my new job is translating from English into Russian.

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In this unit you will learn:

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◗ about Russia’s demographic problems

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◗ how to form and use numerals

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◗ how to use nu'en meaning ‘to need’

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◗ about words with the roots rod, mu', 'en-, mert-, brak 8

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According to demographers the present situation in Russia is cata-5

strophic. The serious economic crisis of the 1990s led to a huge 6

reduction in the birth rate while mortality was on the increase, and 7

not only amongst the elderly. The slow increase in life expectancy 8

which began in the 1960s halted and, for the first time in 1992, the 9

number of deaths exceeded the number of births. According to 30

government forecasts the population of Russia will decrease by a 1

further eight per cent in the next decade. Russia already lags behind 2

developed countries in life expectancy. Population decline presents 3

Russia with a strategic problem. Large areas of the country are 4

already under-populated and, ultimately, there may be too few 5

Russians to retain their existing territory. It is the central regions of 6

Russia which are declining fastest. Of the major cities, only Moscow 7

is expanding, due to immigration. In many other major cities the 8

number of deaths exceeds the number of births by two or three to 9

one. The politically unstable Caucasus region is the only major area 40

of population growth.

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Demography

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Naw mu'hińa

Rezul;ta´tom demografi´heskoj revol[

ćii, proiswe´dwej v 20

stole´tii, by

ĺo groma´dnoe uveliheńie sre´dnej

prodol'i´tel;nosti 'iźni. Vo mno´gix raźvityx strańax ona´

prevy

śila 75 let, a v ne´kotoryx – 80 let. Do seredińy 60-x

godo´v Rossi´q wla o´b]im pute¨m. V 1964–65 goda´x sre´dnqq prodol'i´tel;nost; 'iźni byla´ 69,6 go´da, odna´ko v 80–90 goda´x onaśtaĺa reźko sni'a´t;sq i sosta´vila v 1995 godu´ 65 let, a prodol'i´tel;nost; 'iźni mu'hiń voob]eúpaĺa do 58 let. V

konceśtole´tiq situaćiq okazaĺas; xu´'e, hem v 60 go´dy.

Pohti´ vo vsex strańax 'eń]iny 'ivu´t doĺ;we mu'hiń. No

nigdeńet tako´go groma´dnogo razry

´ va me´'du ni´mi, kak v Rossií

– 12-14 let. |to vdvoé boĺ;we, hem v bol;winstveŕaźvityx stran.

Osnovny

é prihińy vyso´koj smeŕtnosti mu'hiń – kureńie i