Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary: Most Common Russian Words & Phrases For Traveling, Business And Daily Speaking


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Most common Russian words & phrases along with some basic information about Russia and the Russian language - all in 1 book. Russian Phrasebook & Dictionary is targeted to beginners and intermediate learners alike. It features the most common Russian phrases (organized by topics for your convenience) and 1000 most common Russian words (in alphabetical order) used in daily speech, including slang. All words come with stress marks, Latinized transliteration, and an English translation. This book gives you an introduction to the Russian language covering the Russian alphabet and pronunciation rules, and a comparison of Russian grammar with English which will help you understand how Russian is structured and what words “do” within a Russian phrase. Coupled with the list of basic vocabulary and Russian phrasebook – it has everything you need to get on your feet fast when learning Russian for business or pleasure. Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken Slavic language with roughly 300 million speakers (8th most-spoken language in the world). Russian is the “lingua franca” of the CIS countries. The lack of basic Russian vocabulary is the number 1 reason why people are hesitant to speak Russian when visiting a Russian-speaking country. In fact, there are actually not so many words used in daily life! Knowing just 1000 most common Russian words, you will feel reassured in various situations – in a taxi, in a cafe, in a meeting with friends or colleagues – in any daily conversation. If you are planning to develop your business or study in a CIS country, communicate with your Russian-speaking colleagues or friends, and understand spoken Russian on the streets and in the media, get yourself equipped with this handy Russian language guide and never "get lost in the conversation" again! TIP: Need this book in a different format? Check ExpressRussian.com website!




A Frequency Dictionary of Russian


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A Frequency Dictionary of Russian is an invaluable tool for all learners of Russian, providing a list of the 5,000 most frequently used words in the language and the 300 most frequent multiword constructions. The dictionary is based on data from a 150-million-word internet corpus taken from more than 75,000 webpages and covering a range of text types from news and journalistic articles, research papers, administrative texts and fiction. All entries in the rank frequency list feature the English equivalent, a sample sentence with English translation, a part of speech indication, indication of stress for polysyllabic words and information on inflection for irregular forms. The dictionary also contains twenty-six thematically organised and frequency-ranked lists of words on a variety of topics, such as food and drink, travel, and sports and leisure. A Frequency Dictionary of Russian enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way. It is also a rich resource for language teaching, research, curriculum design, and materials development. Former CD content is now available to access at www.routledge.com/9780415521420 as support material. Designed for use by corpus and computational linguists it provides the full text in a format that researchers can process and turn into suitable lists for their own research purposes.




Foreign Language Proficiency in Higher Education


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This volume comprises of chapters that deal with language proficiency relating to a wide range of language program issues including curriculum, assessment, learners and instructors, and skill development. The chapters cover various aspects of a broad-based proficiency initiative, focusing on numerous aspects of foreign language learning, including how skills develop, how assessments can inform curriculum, how learners and instructors view proficiency and proficiency assessment, and how individual use of technology furthers language learning. The concluding chapter points the way forward for issues and questions that need to be addressed.




Russian English Frequency Dictionary - Essential Vocabulary


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This book contains 95% of all daily spoken Russian and 85% of all daily written Russian texts. Essential Modern Russian Vocabulary for Students and Learners - With the Essentials of Russian Grammar! The fastest way to acquire a base vocabulary for practical spoken and written Russian! 2nd Edition Updates Added 2500 Russian to English word usage example sentences Added International Phonetic Alphabet entries so you'll always now how to pronounce words the right way Fixed general errors and typo's Scientific research has shown that in day to day speech, you only use about 1.000 words a day. The 1000 most common words in Russian account for 95% of all daily conversational Russian. The 2.500 most used words account for 85% of all daily written RU. The Essential Russian- English Word Frequency Dictionary 2.500 words and verbs give you a list of the most useful words to build your Russian vocabulary fast. These high frequency Russian words are a great tool for beginners and intermediate students. This mini dictionary for learners is an invaluable tool if you want to teach yourself Russian. It contains the 2500 most common words and the 520 most common verbs in Russian. Learn only the most important and most used words & verbs to quickly gain a practical knowledge of spoken and written Russian. This Russian frequency dictionary is perfect for beginners and intermediate students of teenage or adult age. It is less suitable for kids and children. Learning from a Russian vocabulary list is a great way to learn Russian fast. -Contains Cyrillic script, Roman script and the International Phonetic Alphabet to help you with pronunciation. -Contains all the Essential Russian Grammar for quick studying. -Words ordered on frequency of usage & alphabetical order. -Words sorted by Part of Speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.) More fun facts on language learning and vocabulary: - The first 25 words are used in 33% of all everyday writing - The top 100 words make up 50% of all student and adult writing - Top 500 words make up around 70% of all everyday text. It has been advised to first learn the first 1000 most common words before you start speaking a new language. The facts aforementioned seem to confirm this. That is why we created a list of the most used 2500 Russian words, and 421 most common verbs. With these words, you are able to cover 85% of the Russian language in text (enough to discover the meaning of unknown words through context), and 95% of all of the in day-to-day spoken situations. It is therefore a rational move to prioritize learning the words and verbs that you are likely to use and hear the most often. Frequency dictionaries and word lists are a good starting point, and can produce the quickest results. The most common Russian words & verbs list will give you a good grasp on the Russian language in a short amount of time. The word frequency is based on analysis of Russian subtitles. Scientific research has shown that subtitles are the best source of a practical, spoken frequency dictionary in any language. Subtitles correlate to both spoken and written Russian. The product is unique and the best way to understand and speak Russian quick, because other frequency dictionaries base themselves on written text. Invest in this dictionary now, and amaze yourself and your friends and family how quick you'll be fluent in Russian.




Russian Learners' Dictionary


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This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities. There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list. A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal purposes. The list takes you from a beginner's core vocabulary through to postgraduate level.




2000 Most Common Russian Words in Context


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Have you been trying to learn Russian and simply can't find the way to expand your vocabulary? Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don't really understand? Are you looking for a way to learn the language quicker without taking shortcuts? If you answered "Yes!" to at least one of those previous questions, then this book is for you! We've compiled the 2000 Most Common Words in Russian, a list of terms that will expand your vocabulary to levels previously unseen. Did you know that -- according to an important study -- learning the top two thousand (2000) most frequently used words will enable you to understand up to 84% of all non-fiction and 86.1% of fiction literature and 92.7% of oral speech? Those are amazing stats, and this book will take you even further than those numbers! In this book: A detailed introduction with tips and tricks on how to improve your learning A list of 2000 of the most common words in Russian and their translations An example sentence for each word - in both Russian and English Finally, a conclusion to make sure you've learned and supply you with a final list of tips Don't look any further, we've got what you need right here! In fact, we're ready to turn you into a Russian speaker... are you ready to become one?