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Learn Russian with RussianPod101.com. While vacationing in Russia, you have been able to communicate with the Russian natives pretty well. Of course, you have used mostly formal Russian…so when you hide your friend’s car keys because you feel like being a little goofy, he says in Russian, “Hey. Stop joking. I need my keys. Where are they?” You are confused because you don’t understand one of the words he spoke to you. You don’t understand what he told you to stop doing. You ask in Russian, “What was that word you told me to stop doing?” He explains the Russian word ‘joking’ and that you probably haven’t learned it because your Russian was learned in a classroom and teachers don’t teach some Russian informal words. Because this has turned into a Russian vocabulary lesson and vocabulary is anything but goofy, you give his keys back. You then ask him in Russian, “What else do I need to know that my teacher’s decided to keep from me?” And they thought they could keep this stuff from me…

Learning Russian with RussianPod 101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn Russian. In this Russian All About lesson, we will teach you five Russian words that your teacher will never teach you: not because they are bad, they are just informal and are only used with your close Russian friends that you know you can goof off with. When you’re finished being goofy in Russian, come back to RussianPod101.com for more fantastic lessons. Leave us a message while you’re there!


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This entry was posted on Monday, March 15th, 2010 at 6:30 pm and is filed under All About . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “All About #6 - Five Words Your Teacher Will Never Teach You”

RussianPod101.com says:

The word “тормозить” is also often used in its noun form, “тормоз”, which describes a slow, sluggish person. For example:

Он такой тормоз - he is such a slowcoach!

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RussianLearner43489174 says:

That is a useful word. How do I say somebody is really, really, fast?

Thank you for another incredible lesson.

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Oksana says:

You can say “быстрый, как пуля”, fast like a bullet (just like in English). But that is not a phrase to describe the way a person thinks or works, but just the way he moves.
To describe a bright, sharp, quick-witted person, we usually use the word “сообразительный”. And a person who does everything in a quick and efficient way can be called “расторопный”.
There`s another very popular word you can use about a fussy person, the one who does everything quickly but messy, tries to do a lot but the result is poor: “суетливый”. I wish this word wasn`t so popular in Russia :D

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RussianLearner43489174 says:

Wow! That was a quick reply. You are truly расторопный

I’m sure I will have many more questions, but I just can’t think of them that quickly. :mad:

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Jack D. Palmer says:

Russianpod is great. One thing I would like to see is to be able to use the audio on all of the words in my word bank. If I open up one full page and want to listen to the words I can only listen to about half of the words on the page and the rest will not respond to the audio. I am pleased and use
Russianpod everyday.

I especially like the way the lessons are given in Russian and then translated. It really helps

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