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[bagpiper.livejournal.com]

I hope this isn't annoying, but I am totally -er- fresh to the Russian language. I am planning on posting questions for vocabulary every once in awhile to this community. I hope no one gets annoyed about it...

Will someone tell me how to say the days of the week and the months of the year in Russian? I ask that you tell me the way the words are actually written in Russian, and also how to pronounce them in English... Please.
Thank you so much for your help in advance- I hope I don't sound lame...

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[nale.livejournal.com]

Russian week starts on Monday, and days of the week begin with a small letter. :-) So:

Monday - понедельник [pan'idel'n'ik]
Tuesday - вторник [ftorn'ik]
Wednesday - среда [sr'ida]
Thursday - четверг [tchitv'erk]
Friday - пятница [p'atn'itsa]
Saturday - суббота [subota]
Sunday - воскресенье [vaskr'is'enje]

Bold=stressed. '=the preceding consonant is soft

[bagpiper.livejournal.com]

Thank YOU!!!

[nale.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. :-)

And one more thing: in Russia 01/03/2004 means March, 3 2004, etc. We put the date before the month - Date/Month/Year.

[kyty3ob.livejournal.com]

Not sure 01/03/2004 means March, 3 2004 in any system .-)))

Anyhow, most common way of writing date is: 01.03.04 - means March 1-st 2004

[nale.livejournal.com]

True. 8-)))) That's what happens when one (me) tries to give advice at two a.m.

Thanks a lot for the correction! :-)

[nale.livejournal.com]

Now, months. :-)

January - январь [jinvar']
February - февраль [fivral']
March - март [mart]
April - апрель [apr'el']
May - май [maj]
June - июнь [ijun']
July - июль [ijul']
August - август [avgust]
September - сентябрь [sin't'abr']
October - октябрь [akt'abr']
November - ноябрь [najabr']
December - декабрь [dikabr']

Good luck with those ending with -брь. :-) Tough ones when it comes to pronunciation, I guess.