Beginner talk about Vozvrashcheniye

[johngorentz.livejournal.com]

These numbered sentences are for the end of a ten week, one-evening-a-week class in conversational Russian, for people who didn't necessarily know anything of the language when they started.   We're each supposed to give a brief presentation tonight.   They go with a Powerpoint presentation that contains screen shots from the movie Vozvrashcheniye.   Our instructor helped me with some of it -- she prefers that I mostly use words that we used in class -- even if it doesn't make the best Russian -- and not introduce too many others.  This is not too hard a restriction in that I don't know too much anyway, though I have picked up a few things elsewhere that I didn't learn in this class.   I also got some help yesterday from a young man originally from Russia.  He made a lot of what seemed to me to be good suggestions, often prefacing his remarks about my attempts with, "That's not Russian."  

I picked these things to say about the film, not because it provides the best synopsis, but because they're things that allow me to use some of the vocabulary we had in class.   But then, it turns out some of the things can't really be said very well with what we've learned. 

Anyhow, suggestions or comments would be welcome.  I'm especially struggling with #8.   I thought my co-worker suggested something like "их отец не ожидaнно возврaшеницa" to say something like, "their father suddenly returned."   But I must not have been writing things down carefully enough, because I don't find anything like those last two words by googling or otherwise.   (Those are both words we didn't use in our class, but I thought using a form of the  title of the film would be OK.)

1. вечерем, после ужина, я и моя жена любим смотреть русские фильмы по Netflix или на YouTube
2. Мои любимые фильмы: Возвращение (2003)
3. Это первый русский фильмы которыи мы посмотрели
4. Я думаю, что это самый хороший фильмы
5. здесь вы видите два брата, Иван i Андрей
6. они живут с мамой и бабушкой
7. братья никогда не знали их отца.
8. их отец после этого приходит. [I suspect this doesn’t make sense.  See above.]
9. никто ни знает откуда он приехал.
10. Братя ни знают что он здесь делает.
11. отец везёт Ивана и Андрея на рыбалку и кемпинг.
12. отец учит Андрея как заказывать еду и как платить за неё
13. Иван не хочет кушать. Он говорит: “я не хочу есть”. [My coworker says you'd never say "не хочет кушать."  But my instructor had pointed out that кушать is a word that people in class would understand.]
14. Иван играет хлебом
15. Отец приказывает ему есть [кушать] за 30 секунд.
16. Иван не делает его.
17. Отец хочет что вы Иван сказал, «да, папа», но Иван говорит только «да»
18. Эта история плохо закончится

Quick question regarding careers.

[xxblackxsatinxx.livejournal.com]

My teacher wrote down in my book what the jobs were, but I can't read her hand writing she was writing so fast.

So, if I say my mom works for the government... it's Моя мама работает в... (and I can't make out the word she used for government.)

And my dad... would be.. Папа работал в Министер све Оборо.. (I can't make out the rest of the word Оборо? Minister of Defense)

Спасибо!

Russian for a very beginner (American)

[gailochka.livejournal.com]

Dear friends,
could use your advice!

I would like to give a friend, who is American, some hints for studying very basic Russian. He already knows some words and phrases - and for real progress he would need a simple tool to learn more.

I just searched books in a book store - but they offer sort of more "serious" stuff for more advanced students... And we would need something really basic and fun.

Maybe you know something online?
Thanks.

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[upthera44.livejournal.com]

In the movie "Sluzhebnyj roman" they call the main female character (the boss) something like a "мымра". I can't find this word in the dictionary. What are they calling her?