Скорая помощь!

[wolfie-18.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't really need help THAT quickly, but I was wondering if people could check my essays, see what's wrong with them. I don't know why, but I just feel like they're too English, it's hard for me to write a paper that feels Russian. Uvy, what to do?

( Um. Actually, three essays. But they're small! )

Russian slang dictionary

[swix.livejournal.com]

Dear community readers and participants,

We’d like to introduce online dictionary of Russian contemporary slang – Slovonovo.
It focuses on various types of nonstandard Russian, such as criminal argot, youth and junkies slang, army jargon etc.
You may also add your own definitions and rate the exsting ones.

Any suggestions regarding Slovonovo would be appreciated.
We hope you’ll find Slovonovo useful for studying contemporary Russian.

I need help with translating some words.

[tinceiri.livejournal.com]

Hello learn_russian,

I have been studying Russian for about two weeks. I've been doing it through the Pimsleur method which has been sufficient for now, but I'm only on Unit 13. One major problem I've had with using these language tapes is that they're pretty imprecise in explaining how I should write words down in an alphabet that's completely foreign to me. That's something that I'm not unfamiliar with; I've studied Japanese a bit, and I know that I need to write this stuff down in its native alphabet.

Now, I have gone ahead and I've studied a bit of the Cyrillic alphabet. The thing is, however, is that I haven't had a lot of practice in writing words down and I've only memorized about half of it. I've been writing down a few words over and over again to get the basic jist of the pronounciation system in Russian, but I don't really know how to reference certain words. The biggest problem that I have is that I don't understand the context in which some of these words are being used.

If it is okay, I would like to request some sort of translation for some of these words. I've tried to look some of them up through a dictionary but when I get multiple results back I'm not sure which ones to use. So, here's a list of words I'd like to request:

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