Curiosity... and help!!

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How would you say "In Memory of [name]" in russian? D:

also, I took Russian my senior year of high school, but I got sick and missed a lot of it because when I came back, no one would help me. And I couldn't stay after for help because I had to stay after at my Trade school until 3:30 three days a week for Cosmetology and go figure, the other days my Russian teacher wasn't available. So, I was wondering...

What are some good books for learning russian? I'd love to start all over. My hold on the language is wonderful. I picked up on the Cyrillic in less than a month and I memorized it rather quickly. I heard that the "For Dummies" books for Russian are very good, and when I was at my friends college last weekend we looked at the used book section but didn't have much on the language itself. Any recommendations would be great!

Thank you for and to anyone who can help with the books (or sites! I know of Master Russian.. any others? :D) and/or translation! And I'm sorry if I babbled >_>;;

Money Slang

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I have an analysis to do on slang for my linguistics class. In short, I want the focus of my project to be Russian slang terms for money. I already know of баксы and бабки, but I need more. What are some slang terms you know of? Slang phrases are also welcome. If you could reply with a few terms and short descriptions of what they mean and when they would be used, that would be great.

Also, when the words штука and лимон are used to signify amounts ("one thousand" and "one million", respectively), does it only apply to money? Or could one use them to speak of an amount of other objects (e.g. "Я прочитал штуку страниц", "В этом городе живет лимон человек")?

Stress on words

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Здравствуйте!

I wanted to know if there’s a Russian–English dictionary online that marks the stress in Russian words. Lingvo.ru comes close to being exactly what I need, but it never marks the stress, and so I’m afraid I’ll subvocalize and start pronouncing the words wrong.

Does anyone know of any good sites for this, or should I just use my paper dictionary?

one last try

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ok, i'm still learning how to use livejournal. i meant to post this yesterday (and in fact thought i did), but if anyone would still like to comment on this, i'd appreciate it! the presentation is over, but i'd like to know what was wrong or what i should've said instead (for next time!)

a little help!
hi there whoever reads this!
i have a presentation to give tomorrow and i have just a few questions. any help at all will be greatly appreciated!
1. what is the intransitive verb "to found" (ex. this was founded in 1910)in russian
2. the intransitive verb "to be transfered" (ex. they were transfered to moscow) in russian
3. translation for "sleeping beauty" in russian
4. how to say "such ballets include..blah blah blah" or "such dancers include..." in russian
5. the russian translation for "fouettes en tournant" (or the english translation for that matter)
6. would you put "good and evil" in instrumental case after "между" (i'm trying to say "between good and evil"
7. when tchaikovsky wrote "swan lake"?
ok, thanks again for any help!
sincerely,
tawnyb

hi there again!
if anyone has the time to look at this and let me know if something is horribly wrong or could be better, i'd greatly appreciate it. this is just what i plan on saying...but as always i'm sure i'll forget a few things here and there!

Первый русский балет (основал?) в 1738 г. Его звал "Имперский Балет" до ранного 20ого века. Сейчас этого театр зовут "Марийнский Театр". М.Т.- очень большой, зелёный, и красивый театр недалеко от Николского Собора. Там, известный хореограф, которого зовут Мариос Петипа, поставил ревизии известных балетов и первоначальных балетов. Таковие балеты включают: "Джизелла", "le corsaire", "Лебедное Обзеро", "Реймонда", "Щёлкунчик", и "Дон Кихотей". Много известных артистов балета и балерин в истории балета приготовились в Имперском Театре. Но во время "Холодной Войны" несколько балерины и артисты балета (переводил?) в Москву или не вернулись из Европы.

Большой Театр (основал) в 1776 г. В 18ого века были два типы театров: большой и малий. Только балеты и оперы выступили в больших театрых и драмы и комедии выступили в малих театрых. Они думают что балеты и оперы были дворянскее чем драмы и комедии, поэтому балеты и оперы выступили в Больших Театрых.

Лебедное Обзеро:
Пётр Тчайковский написал Л.О. В Европе, балет выступает в 3 действии и 4 явлении, но в России балет выступает в 4 действии и 4 явлении. Тчайковский основывал балет на немецком легенде. 1ый перформанс был в 4ого марта 1877ого г. В легенде, принсесса Одета и принц Сигфрид влюбляются друг с другом, но злой колдун делает Одетой лебедь. Потом, Сигфрид влюбляется с чёрным лебедем. Её зовут Одайл. Одайл работает с колдуном. (В первоначальном рассказе, Одайл не лебедь, а злая дочь колдуна.) В конце, всё хорошо потому что Сигфрид находит Одету и её спасал. Мне понравилась Л.О. потому что в 2ом действии-4 танци. Венецианский танец, венгерский танец, мазурка, и испанский танец. Я любила испанский танец потому что был очень красивый и думала что это был как танец (между добром и злом). Я тоже любила 3 действие. В 3ем действии Одайл выступает известные 32 fouettes en tournant. Это удивительно!

ok that's all. thanks again for any help or comments! thank you!

Земфира - Итоги

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this is a screencap from the beginning of Zemfira's music video for Итоги (Results):



my question is about how she wrote the И's like regular English I's. is this common/acceptable in Russian handwriting? i have a feeling my Russian teacher might mark me off if i wrote like that. i just noticed it and was curious. do any of you native speakers/writers of Russian here--or students for that matter--write your И's this way?