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[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Hello!
How would you say "dirty old lady" (when your not necessarily talking about somone old.. or dirty) in Russian? I mean in a case when a woman is like a generation older then her lover. (I mean, "dirty old man" is not as condemning as "old pervert", I guess). 

I hate those kinds of words and expressions (and love them), it's like food or like the swedish word "tant", we don't have quite the same words because we dont have quite the same tings (or at least we do not look at them quite the same way)! It is espacially fascinating when it comes to different words for different kinds of women - it is very context bound...;-)

So my question is really about the word "dirty" in this sence. All the words I can think of is somewhat more crude.

Amanda

Hi there

[bridget-jones-s.livejournal.com]

I am trying to learn fluent russian. Mostly by talking to my russian friends and ... er..boyfriends. Well, in lj I'm managing well, I can easily read and comment, and slang isn't a problem. But this left me completely spechless. I don't understand a word. Though it is russian. Could you please help me out there!

Proficiency Exam?

[superslayer18.livejournal.com]

I was hoping some of the more advanced non-native speakers can answer a few questions for me (or at least one major one).

I've taken 3 years worth of university-level Russian and lived in St. Petersburg for about 2 months.  I know I'm definitely nowhere near fluent, but I'm also not a beginner.  I'm also learning Chinese (currently in Beijing) so I don't have very much access to Russian things here. 

My major questions (despite that lead in) is what exam (if any) foreigners are expected to take if applying to work/whatever in Russia.  Most American universities require foreigners to take the TOEFL, for example.  I would like to know what the Russian equivalent is. 

What I'd really, REALLY like is access to a "practice" version online.  I don't want or need to take the actual exam now, but I'd like to be able to see where I would place on it if I took it today without studying (and then maybe in a few months after I review a little more again). 

The main reason is this: I'm entering Junior year at school next year and want to spend the spring abroad but haven't chosen a location yet.  I'm leaning towards Russia of course, but my school has this silly rule that if you go to Russia, all your classes must be in Russian for credit.  I'm a political science major VERY far from completing my major, so I'd need to take 4 Poli Sci classes in Russian to work this... and I don't know if 3 years was enough to discuss international law or political philosophy etc.  Have any of you had similar experiences, and if so, how did they go?  The program that I would most likely be doing if I choose Russia will be the Bard-Smolny program in St. Petersburg (damn I really want to live in Moscow though...)

Thanks!

(I should mention that I would try to look for all of this myself of course, but internet is TERRIBLE here so I'm preparing this post ahead of time and praying people can help me).