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

© Artsun Akopyan, 2020

ISBN 978-5-4498-7879-3

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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 topicsinterconnected 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 tasksare offered after each topic.

This tutorial is intended for beginningand intermediate learners of Russian.

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

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 1 to 500. Each dialogue in English is followed by its Russian translation.

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

Base forms of Russian words are included in brackets: света́ет ( света ́ть ) – 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.

“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: до ́брый ) – good, kind

у́тро – morning

“Is he asleep?”

“Yes. Wake him up!”

– Он спит?

– Да. Буди́ его́!

он – he

спит (спать) – sleeps, is sleeping

да – yes

буди́ (буди́ть) – wake (someone)

его́ (он) – him

“Is she sleeping?”

“Yeah. Wake her up!”

– Она́спит?

– Да. Буди́ её!

она́ – she

её – her

“Sh! Shush!”

“Why are you shushing me?”

– Тс! Ти́ше!

– Почему́ ты ши́каешь на меня́?

тс – sh

ти́ше (ти́хо) – shush

почему́ – why

ты – you (singular)

ши́каешь (ши́кать) – (you are) shushing

на – on, in, at

меня́ (я) – me

ши́каешь на меня́ – shushing me

“Do not wake her up.”

“I won’t.”

– Не буди́ её.

– Не бу́ду.

не – not

бу́ду (быть) – (I) will

не бу́ду – (I) will not

“Wake up, sleepyhead!”

“I’m awake.”

– Просни́сь, со́ня!

– Я просну́лся.

просни́сь (просну́ться) – wake up

со́ня – sleepyhead

я – I

просну́лся – have woken up, am awake

“Have you been awake for a long time?”

“No. I’ve just woken up.”

– Давно́просну́лся?

– Нет. Я то́лько чтопросну́лся.

давно́ – long ago, for a long time

нет – no

то́лько – only

что – what, that

то́лько что — just

“How long have you been awake?”