Russian For All Occasions: A Russian-English Dictionary of Collocations and Expressions presents 10,000 formal and informal modern Russian expressions that users are likely to encounter either in speech or writing.
The entries take the form of collocations, phrases or short sentences, and each entry is accompanied by a translation which provides the English communicative fragment corresponding most closely to the Russian original. Longer explanations are provided for phrases that learners might otherwise find difficult to interpret correctly. Entries are arranged thematically, with an alphabetical index of key Russian and English words to help users navigate the dictionary.
Russian For All Occasions is a unique resource for intermediate to advanced students of Russian. The range of ready-made and contextualised expressions presented here will help learners improve their active command of Russian.
Unit I: The Person, The Family
1. The Human Body and the Senses, The
Functioning and Malfunctioning of the Human Organism
2. Health, Minor Health
Problems, Illnesses, Hospital
3. Physical Appearance, Limbs, Movemnets,
Gestures, Physical Actions
4. Feelings and States of Mind
5. Character Traits
and Inclinations, Attitudes to People, Relations Between People
6.
Cleverness, Knowledge, Thinking, Memory
7. Patterns of Communication, Verbal
Interaction
8. Men and Women, Love, Sex, Marriage
9. Children, Families,
Relatives
10. Names and Surnames, Ages, Origins, Biographies, Addresses
11.
Death Unit II: Culture, Technology, Daily Life
12. Language, Texts,
Documents, Literature, Mass Media
13. Telephoning, Computers, The Internet
14. Daily Life, House and Home
15. Food, Cooking, Restaurants
16. Clothes and
Footwear
17. Transport
18. Sport, Hobbies, Games and Amusements
19. Art,
Music, Dance, Theatre, Cinema Unit III: Society
20. Politics, Civil Society,
Rights and Freedoms
21. State Structures, International Relations, Terrorism
22. The Armed Forces, War, Weapons
23. Demographics
24. Countries and
Peoples, Geography
25. Religion, Superstition, Folk Beliefs
26. Economics,
Money, Trade
27. Work, Wages and Salaries, Careers, At The Work Place,
Business
28. Crime, Punishment, Corruption Unit IV: The Natural World
29. The
Physical Properties of Objects
30. Heavenly Bodies, The Natural World,
Weather and Climate
31. Plants and Animals
32. Spatial Orientation and
Movement
33. Time
Shamil Khairov is Lecturer of Russian at the University of Glasgow.
John Dunn is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow.
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