Comments on: Dirty Russian

By: Karyn Dubravetz

Karyn Dubravetz — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:15:01 +0000

Wow – good attention to detail! Thanks for the tip!

By: Evgeniya

Evgeniya — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:17:12 +0000

There is a mistake in the book. Pay attention to the following sentence:

Where can I buy a felt banya hat around here?
Где тут можно купить чапку?

Actually not чапку, but шапку, because hat means шапка, шляпа. There is such a word as чапка in Russian, which implies to a national Polish cap, but it has nothing in common with Russian banya. No one will understand you if you say in Russian чапка для бани. It is called шапка для бани or банная шапка.

By: Karyn Dubravetz

Karyn Dubravetz — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:32:40 +0000

haha did you notice the acknowledgements? something about coffee – i loved that and wanted to include it in my post, but had to trim the fat. Nice blog, by the way!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:21:09 +0000

I got this book for Christmas and I love it… it’s hilarious, even though I probably won’t actually use most the expressions in it

By: Karyn Dubravetz

Karyn Dubravetz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:50:42 +0000

Right – I think it’s fun to read, and it’s good to be able to recognize the terminology when you hear it. I don’t necessarily advocate going around speaking like this!! (I don’t say most of these things in English.) Plus, unless you are really fluent (sometimes even then) slang just doesn’t sound right coming from a foreign speaker. One of my coworkers occasionally tells me how he is “working with his ass off”. Just sounds silly.

By: pup

pup — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:19:54 +0000

I wouldn’t, if I were you, get too addicted to Dirty Russian. You’d be running the risk of sounding very impolite. It’s a good idea though to get the knack of spoken Russian and words like “чувачёк”, “пупсик”, ” детка”. I’m sure you’ll amaze your Russian listeners and make them grin.
Честно признаться, я бы тоже почитал эту книжицу.

By: Karyn Dubravetz

Karyn Dubravetz — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:41:19 +0000

Yeah – it is fun! Hope you enjoy!
(And thanks for the comment!)

By: kris sandoval

kris sandoval — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:27:04 +0000

actually this looks like a great book for laughs, everyone wants to know how to say dirty or what not things in different languages! Lol I will be picking this up from the bookstore. thx for the review “DC” see ya on twitter!

much respect,

kris aka @clubsnork