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[o1ega.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone!

I am Russian native speaker and learn English. Practice in talk is necessary to me.
If you need practice in Russian - call to me.

I offer to you:
1)
We are talking about 10 minutes in Russian. I am correcting you mistakes. And then, we talking 10 minutes in English. You are correcting my English mistakes.

OR
2)
I am talking in English and you are talking in Russian. And we are correcting each other mistakes.

For example:
I: Hi
You: Привет, как дела?
I: Thank fine. You know in Russian, in real life, we are not use "как дела" in welcome speech.
Etc

Send to me your Skype name
Of call me: o1ega_ru

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Всем привет!

Я коренной житель России и учу английский. Мне нужна практика разговорной речи. Если Вам нужна практика в русском звоните мне – пообщаемся.

Я предлагаю:

1)
Мы общаемся 10 минут на русском. Я исправляю твои ошибки. Потом общаемся на английском. Ты исправляешь мои.

или
2) Я говорю на английском, а ты говоришь на русском. И мы исправляем ошибки друг-друга.

Оставляй Skype контакт
Или звони: o1ega_ru

Comments

[gailochka.livejournal.com]

I would say (I'm Russian) people do say "как дела?" in Russian but it's more like a real question, not just a greeting as "how are you?" in English (American). It took me a while to realize that when a person says "how are you" to me in the States, I don't have to think what to answer, and how I really am - I just need to say "fine", and it means we exchanged greetings :) In Russian, if you say "как дела?" be prepared to listen to how things are :) It may still be a brief answer though, but sort of more "real" (not just a standard answer but the person will briefly evaluate how his/her things are), like the person may say "так себе" (fair), "нормально" (normal), "ничего" (literally - "nothing", but means "neutral"). Another thing I noticed, in Russian if you answer "good" or "fine" people may ask you what happened :) cause it's not such a standard answer in Russian.

[eavanmoore.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. I do use it as a real question, and answer it as one, but I know that a lot of other people don't.

[gailochka.livejournal.com]

Giving it a second thought, maybe it can be used as sort of a greeting (not a real question-answer in details). "Привет, как дела?" - "Спасибо, хорошо. А у тебя?" - "Нормально"...
Hm, it's interesting to reflect on my own language :)

[o1ega.livejournal.com]

Ага, в точку. На английском что-то пока плохо получается ясно формулировать свои мысли.

Ну и на русском ингода тоже )

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your contribution. However, I have to remind that the working language of this community is English. It is OK to post in Russian occasionally but then you are expected to provide a translation. Please follow the rules. Thank you.

[o1ega.livejournal.com]

ok
take into consideration

[kunaifusu.livejournal.com]

Why, of course, and the answers like "Пока не родила" or "Кверху каком!" are the real answers to this real question. It might be a real question in some social environment but many people say this just as a greeting, same way some people could actually mean "Let you be in good health!" when say "Здраствуйте!" while others don't.