Business Russian

[fox-c.livejournal.com]

Are there any websites that focus on vocabulary specifically relating to business and finance? I'm needing to do quite a bit of work in Russian and it would be very helpful to have a dictionary (virtual or printed) that focuses on this kind of vocabularly specifically. Unfortunately most of my language experience in Russian has been in daily situations and literature, so I'm terrified of making a huge faux pas by using completely inappropriate language. Any websites or books that focus on the structure of professional Russian language would be helpful as well.

Thank you!

Comments

[kav2k.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should buy some good electronic dictionary like Lingvo? But if you are interested in methods that are free, you still can use Lingvo Online, which provides the same results without limitations (it seems) through a web-form (http://www.lingvo.ru/lingvo/).

But Lingvo as a standalone software is very practical and should satisfy your needs, including various specialized vocabularies. Quotation from site:

Электронный словарь на CD включает в себя толковые англо–русские словари из серии Economicus:

Финансовый менеджмент
Финансовые рынки
Бухгалтерский учет и аудит
Менеджмент и экономика труда
Маркетинг и торговля

[russian-bob.livejournal.com]

This is funny - you can not trust to any dictionary!
Just to test how that Lingvo works, I typed the first financial thing which came on my mind: "tax break"
The translation was: "нарушение налогового обязательства" - which could be translated back to English as "failure to pay taxes" or "violation of the tax obligations"
The actual meaning of "tax break" is more like "освобождение от налогового облажения" or "послабление в налогооблажении".

[kav2k.livejournal.com]

Ok, ok, neither my Lingvo 9.0 could translate that. Sorry.

[farkash.livejournal.com]

I suppose this one is better
http://www.multitran.ru/

[fox-c.livejournal.com]

Yeah and the stuff I'm working with (structured finance) is even more complicated than that! I think perhaps I may have to find a class specifically on business Russian might be the best idea. But then again I just need the basics (knowing how to set up a meeting, terms for the various levels of management, contractual terms, etc).

Still, if anyone has any other suggestions, I'm open to them.

[wolk-off.livejournal.com]

Обложения, not облажения. It has nothing to do with облажаться (slang for "to fail miserably".)

[russian-bob.livejournal.com]

Oops, I just облажался. ;)