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Russian Languages

Russian is the most widely spoken language of Europe and the most widespread of the Slavic languages. It belongs to the Indo-European language group and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek and Latin. It is interesting to note that the modern Germanic, Romance and Celtic languages - including English, French and Irish - are also included in this group. Written examples of the language date from the 10th century onwards.

While the Russian language preserves much of its ancient synthetic-inflexion structure and a Common Slavonic word base, modern Russian also makes strong use of the international vocabulary for politics, science, and technology. As a language of great political importance in the twentieth century, Russian is one of the official languages of the United Nations. Although the international prestige of the language has waned since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian continues to be the main language used in much of Eastern Europe and northern Asia.

We have compiled a list of Russian phrases so that visitors to our website may be better able to understand the Russian language and communicate with locals more easily during your travels to Russia. Why not take a moment to memorize a few of these phrases now?

English	Russian	Pronunciation
Yes	Da	Da
No	Net	Nyet
Please	Pozhaluysta	Pazhaaloosta
Thank You	Spasibo	Spaseeba
Hello	Zdravstvuyte	Zdravstweetye
Goodbye	Do svindaniya	Da svidaaneya
Excuse me	Izvinite	Izvineetye
Where	Gde?	Gdye?
Good	Khorshiy	Khoroshee
Bad	Plokhoy	Plokhoy
Near	Blizkiy	Bleezki
Far	Daleko	Dalyeko
Cheap	Deshovyy	Deshovee
Expensive	Dorogoy	Daragoy
Open	Otkryt	Otkryt
Closed	Zakryt	Zakryt
Today	Segodnya	Sevodnya
Yesterday	Vchera	Vchera
Tomorrow	Zavtra	Zavtra
How much is?	Skolko stoit?	Skollka stowit?
What time is it?	Kotoryy chas?	Katoree chass?
I don't understand	Ya ne ponimayu	Ya ne ponimayou
One	Odin	Adeen
Two	Dva	Dva
Three	Tri	Tree
Four	Chetyre	Cheteeri
Five	Pyat	Pyat
Six	Shest	Shest
Seven	Sem	Syeem
Eight	Vosem	Vosyem
Nine	Devyat	Daayvyat
Ten	Desyat	Daysyat

Russian Languages

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