Quote Originally Posted by Stars
My boyfriend is currently in Russia and I called him a few times on his mobile, yet that's too expensive so I have to call the house phone there but his grandmother already picked up once and I didn't know what to say... luckily I had looked online the day before so I said this (sorry about spellingmistakes...)

"Privet, menya zavoot Iris. Gavareetye Kristjan pozhaluista."

XD I have no clue if it's understandable. I don't speak Russian at all so his grandmother must've been " " on the phone lol. I just want to say "Hi this is iris, can I talk to kristjan please?" XD I wanted to say "good evening" since I call in the evening, but... that word was much too hard to pronounce for me @_@

someone please help me out ._.
It's not very polite in Russia to say "privet" (hi) to someone who is much older than you and is not your close relative (or at least a close friend). It's better to say "zrdAstvuytye" which is always polite.
And "pazaveetye" (call), not "gavareetye" (speak).