Thanks! I'll let you know when I have tried it! There was no opportunity today since I was in meetings all day.

it-ogos phrases are too silly! This has to be real Russian, because Russian just sounds very cool and is fun to pronounce, for Swedish speakers..

The thing that makes it fun to pronounce is to totally exaggerate the consonants, or to try sound like a character from an old Soviet film.

some of this might be too advanced for my colleagues to understand though. The person who is "Russian" (in fact, he is Ukrainian-Estonian, I learned today) did not grow up there, he just knows Russian from his parents. The rest of us (two others and me) just studied it at some point.

I had an interesting surprise when I realised that my skills in Russian helped me to navigate Bulgarian software without any major problem.