Need help with the never-ending soda guy
Hi everyone. I work with a really nice Russian guy who insists on buying me soda every day. I don't really like soda, but I'm forced to drink it because he always buys me one anyway, even when we argue over it for several minutes, and I hate wasting stuff more than I hate soda. I'm thinking maybe he really doesn't understand how much I DON'T want soda....or that if he does it would make more impact if I spoke to him in Russian (he has a hard time with English).
I need to know how to say, "I don't want any soda today." Can anyone help?
Re: Need help with the never-ending soda guy
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Originally Posted by fionuir
Hi everyone. I work with a really nice Russian guy who insists on buying me soda every day. I don't really like soda, but I'm forced to drink it because he always buys me one anyway, even when we argue over it for several minutes, and I hate wasting stuff more than I hate soda. I'm thinking maybe he really doesn't understand how much I DON'T want soda....or that if he does it would make more impact if I spoke to him in Russian (he has a hard time with English).
I need to know how to say, "I don't want any soda today." Can anyone help?
When you say "soda", you mean "plain water with some gas in it", correct? The Russian name for this is "газировка" (gazirovka), but if it has some other stuff, too, then it is "лимонад" (leemanad, "ee" as in "beetle").
Я не хочу газировки -- Yah nye hachoo gazirovki ("oo" as in "boot")
Я не хочу лимонада -- Yah nye hachoo leemanada
bold vowels are stressed.