For Russian Language Learners: Go Figures

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POSITIVELY NOT INTENDED FOR RUSSIAN NATIVE SPEAKERS!

Упражнение для изучающих русский язык* No.2
Числа

Перед вами - фразы с числами.
Напишите числа словами в точности так, как вы будете их произносить.

А. Его телефон - 203-14-90, а ее - 400-60-00.
Б. Он живет в доме номер 2500 по улице Бродвейной.
В. Он взял бутылку водки по 4,12 и бутылку вина по 1,02.
Г. Зафиксирован перепад температур в 0,12 градуса.
Д. План по стали перевыполнен в 1,5 раза, по чугуну - в 2,5 раза, по прокату - в 1,7 раза.
Е. У нее 2 детей, а у него 3.
Ё. Вероятность поражения оценивалась в 3/8.
Ж. Вес ребенка при рождении - 3,500.
З. Ее рост - 1,85, а его - 2,00
И. Начало занятий - в 19:00


Например:
Й. У него 4 ребенка - четыре

* Here is the translation to English to make moderators happy:
Problem for Russian language learners No.2
Below you can see the phrases with numbers.
Write down the words to replace numbers, exactly in a way you would pronounce them.
For example:

Proverbs

[philena.livejournal.com]

Greetings. My grandmother and mother are working on a translation of Jacob Gordon's Yiddish King Lear, and since Gordon's dialect of Yiddish was very heavily influenced by Russian, I have become their source in all things Russian. The most recent question involves a line, spoken by a person who has not been invited to a wedding, which my grandmother has translated from Yiddish as such:

"Well, we haven't danced with the bear."

Is there some Russian proverb involving dancing with bears?

Also, another line goes like this:

"We'll sing a Russian kharavoie, a kazotze."

I'm guessing that kharavoie is from хоровой, but what could kazotze be?

Thank you for any help you can give.

help with homework

[soidisantfille.livejournal.com]

Can someone take a look over my translations and tell me if I'm getting it right? We are supposed to be practicing genitive negation and numerals. Thanks!

( homework behind the cut... )

That old myth again

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A recent addon to our "Myths on Russian Language" section:

the babushkas (accent on the first syllable means the women; on the second, the scarf)

(Psychology Today, May-June, 1992)

In fact, neither of those meanings is true: there is no word "babUshka" meaning "the scarf" in Russian language; "the women" in Russian is "женщины"; бабушка (accent on the first syllable) means "grandma" or "granny," with the secondary, colloquial meaning "any old woman."