Russian Useful Phrases and how to pronounce them
Enjoy our collection of Russian useful phrases with native speaker audio recordings. Here are some additional links also
Other collections of Russian phrases (some with audio)
www.talkrussian.com/phrases.htm
www.masterrussian.com/blphrasebook.shtml
The Russian recordings are provided by the good people at A Taste of Russian. Each phrase is pronounced slowly first, then at normal speed.
Click on the Russian Phrase and you will hear an audio recording of the pronunciation
NB: The Russian letter о is pronounced /a/ in unstressed syllables, but is transliterated as o here. You can hear which syllables are stressed by listening to the recordings.
Key to abbreviations: inf = informal, frm = formal.
English
Русский (Russian))
Hello
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvujte)
frm Привет (Privet)
inf Алло (Allo) – on phone
How are you?
Как дела? (Kak dela?) -inf
Как ваши дела? (Kak vaši dela?)
frm Как поживаешь (Kak požyivaješ?) – inf
Как поживаете (Kak požyvajete?) – frm
Long time no see
Давно не виделись (Davno ne videlis’)
Сколько лет, сколько зим! (Skol’ko let, skol’ko zim) How many years/summers, how many winters!
My Name is….
Where are you from?
Good Night
Goodbye
Пока (Poka) – inf
До свидания (Do svidanija) – frm,
Please speak more slowly
Do you speak Russian?
Вы говорите по-русски? (Vy govorite po-russki) – frm
Ты говоришь по-русски? (Ty govoriš’ po-russki) – inf
Yes, a little
Excuse me? To Attract Attention
Excuse me? To ask someone to move
Извини! (Izvini) – inf
Извините! (Izvinite) – frm,
Thank you
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Happy Easter
* Christmas is celebrated on 7th January by Orthodox Christians.
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