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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Just a small question about the slightly different hues of meaning in the following two sentences:

Я встретился с другом.
Я встретил друга.

The latter is more of a spontaneous, informal meeting, while the former has more of a "We planned this out, set the time, the place to meet, here we are/were" meaning, right?

As for the verb сказать, I keep on trying to say "What should I say to her?" or... "What I'm saying is that..." Well, for the first one I guess you can avoid the present tense by saying должен сказать, but as for the next one, is there anyway that I can use сказать as like, Я скажу and not have it be in the future tense?

And is the genetive plural for ухо = уш?

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[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity, what's up with the Хватит Путина thing that's going on today, apparently?

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[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

A random question: how do you say 'chocolate chips' in Russian? I have to prepare a recipe in Russian for my homework assignment and I can't figure out how to translate that one ingredient.

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[quem98.livejournal.com]

I know this is a bit of a silly request, but could I possibly enlist a native Russian speaker to chat with me in Russian over IM or ICQ?
All I ask is that you don't filter your speech and that you actually correct me when I make mistakes.

I'd be forever grateful... and buy you a cookie. ():-)

Yes I realise this is a fairly selfish post... so some question that could benefit the greater population of this list.

зато and хотя... I know they're technically synonyms, but is there any difference in their usage?