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    Скажи или расскажи

    What's the difference between скажи and расскажи? What examples could you give of situations when you'd use them?

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    сказать - to say/tell words/phrases/sentences/facts
    рассказать - to tell a story in details

    Here is a good explanation:

    As for the differences between сказать and рассказать.
    Basically, сказать is just to say something like a word for example.
    Сказать слово/предложение

    Рассказать is to tell something, dipping into details. Like:

    Рассказать историю. Рассказать о себе

    Here is a counterpart.

    Скажи, что ты вчера делал vs. расскажи, что ты вчера делал.

    The first one is like you're just asking for general information about what the person was doing/did yesterday. And the answer would be something like:

    Сходил в кино.

    The second one implies that the asker wants to know a more detailed version of what the other pesron was doing/did yesterday. The answer would be something like that:

    Сходил в кино. Там такой фильм хороший показывали and blah blah blah.

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    Скажи, что ты вчера делал = Say [tell me! immediately!] what you were doing yesterday. (sort of a demand) ---
    Расскажи, что ты вчера делал = Tell me what you were doing yesterday. (tell me more.... in details.... if you want)
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    Sorry for the late reply, but thanks guys, you've explained it perfectly and I now know the difference.

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