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The Personal Correspondence Guide Book is a free online resource intended for those
English speakers who have or would like to have pen pals, friends or a soul mate from
Russia. It consists of about 400 thematically grouped words and phrases given in
English, Russian, and transliteration variant written in Latin letters.
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The Online Russian Language Center
Personal Correspondence: About
Introduction
About content
Entries presentation
PDF files
Additional options
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Introduction
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This English-Russian Personal Correspondence Guide Book was compiled especially for
those English speakers who are seeking friendship, love or marriage in Russia or in
other Russian speaking countries and want to use their partner's native language in
correspondence. Currently, numerous international matchmaking or dating companies can
offer you only their expensive translation services. But we are happy to give you a
remarkable opportunity to create a simple letter in Russian without other people's
help for free.
The English-Russian Personal Correspondence Guide Book is extremely
helpful in writing one's personal ad or ad reply as well. Though many of Russian
ladies and gentlemen who wish to find a soul mate abroad can speak and write English,
they will really appreciate your attempts to use their native language and will pay
their special attention to your message for sure. So, it may increase the quantity of
persons who will possibly answer you.
If you already have a Russian friend or a partner,
this Personal Correspondence Guide Book may be very helpful for you too. Your special
one will really enjoy the letter from you written in her/his native language.
This real attempt to be closer to her/him will speak louder than words written in a
foreign language!
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The Personal Correspondence Guide Book consists of about 400 thematically grouped
words, phrases, and sentences. Categories covered in the Guide Book include
biographical particulars, such as name, age, marital status, physical data, education,
interests, etc.; various etiquette formulas - congratulation, compliment, apology,
for example. The intuitively clear hierarchical menu allows finding any entry of
interest in a few seconds. On some pages of the Guide Book one can come across the
notes, which supply with useful additional information. Besides, at the end of the
Guide Book there given the samples of personal ad and ad reply both in English and
in Russian translation.
Note: use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 (or newer).
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| Entries presentation |
Each entry is presented in three variants: English original, Russian equivalent
written in Cyrillic, and transliteration variant written in Latin letters. To view
Russian texts correctly, please check russification of your computer.
The majority of
phrases can belong both to man and woman - those phrases are given in dark gray color
font. However, some phrases in Russian language can belong either only to man or only
to woman. You'll find such expressions in the Guide Book colored in blue and red
correspondingly.
For example:
| I am American. |
Я американец.
Я американка. |
ya ah-meh-ree-KA-nehts.
ya ah-meh-ree-KAHN-ka. |
The peculiarities of the Russian personal pronouns caused the necessity of mentioning two
variants of some words within a sentence: as a rule the word before a slash is related to
informal style, after a slash - to more polite, formal style.
For example:
| How old are you? |
Сколько тебе/вам лет?
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Skol'ko tebe/vam let?
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| PDF files
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You can download and print out the PDF formatted version of the online Personal
Correspondence Guide Book. The printable copy is available for download under the
content menu of the Guide Book and readable with
Adobe Acrobat Reader.[download free version]
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Ask a phrase - for your convenience this option is placed in
the headline of every section and subsection of the Guid Book. If
you didn't find the phrase you were searching for, feel free to ask for help in the Forum.
Words combining - the Guid Book frequently represents a kind
of tool for sentence constructing. You are offered to choose either
beginning of the phrase or its continuation at your desire.
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| To enter the Personal Correspondence Guide Book, please select a category of your interest and click go:
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| Your comments and proposals are welcome at comments@learningrussian.com |
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