Thread: Help Needed Here

Im new to this and starting to learn Russia. I dont have a Russian Keyboard, However, I need help in pronunciations of words and how to spell them, phonetically.

First I would like to know how to say, "Hello, How are you?".

And also to say "Take care, write soon".

Thanks.

Rodd3rz

Hello, how are you?
здравствуйте, Как дела ?
Zdravstvuite, Kak dela?

All the best, write soon.
Всего наилучшего, напишите скоро.
Vsevo naeeluchshevo, napeesheete skoro.

Eh, something like that.
Just watch out for that first word.
I had problems saying it when I got started.

kwatts59, it's too official style!

Hello, how are you?
Привет, как поживаешь?
Privet, kak pozhivaesh'?

All the best, write soon.
Всего хорошего, буду ждать ответа (= I'll wait for your answer).
Vsevo horoshego, booduh zhdat' otveta.

I think the problem is not in being formal, the problem is pairing "как дела" with "здравствуйте".

Thanks for the help.

Can you split the words up in a way that I can pronounce, please?

All the help the better.

Thanks

Originally Posted by rodd3rz

Im new to this and starting to learn Russia. I dont have a Russian Keyboard, However, I need help in pronunciations of words and how to spell them, phonetically.

First I would like to know how to say, "Hello, How are you?".

And also to say "Take care, write soon".

Thanks.

Rodd3rz

Please also mind that we don't use "Как дела?" casually as a form of "hello" as you do in English. In Russian if you ask how the person is doing, most often it means you are interested in how he is doing and are willing to stop to hear about it.

Originally Posted by Ljosha

Please also mind that we don't use "Как дела?" casually as a form of "hello" as you do in English. In Russian if you ask how the person is doing, most often it means you are interested in how he is doing and are willing to stop to hear about it.

Yes, the only time I heard it was used like a formal British "how do you do" it was in a speech of 2 Caucasians, for both of whom Russian was not a native language.
- Привет, КАКДИЛА..
- КАКДИЛА... Ты Гарика вчира видил, да?

Man, it was funny...

i dunno i always see people ask each other как дела and they are like like норм or ок and people ask me all the time but i figure they dont care so i just say"good".

I was asked " как дела" not long ago by a Ukrainian girl working the cash register at a store here.

I don't mean it is unusual to ask "как дела", quite opposite, it is usual, but only if you expect to receive some form of a logical answer, however formal it would be.

I can see the slight confusion here ... of course you're right, Propp, about "How do you do" in that it doesn't need an answer except "How do you do", but the youngsters around here will be a little confused because "how do you do" is almost out of usage, it's only used really in formal situations (maybe two businessmen). We Anglophone learners always think of "как дела" as being directly equivalent to things like "How are you", "How's it going?", which do require an answer, however perfunctory, just as "как дела" does, at least for now? (Maybe they're going the same way as "How do you do" did?).
In England "Alright?" is very popular in very informal situations too.

Hiya Rod
My names Johnny ,and I too am from England (North)
I have also just started to learn Russian.
Heres my email address,maybe we can help each other learn via Emails
thosecaps@hotmail.com

Originally Posted by Propp

I don't mean it is unusual to ask "как дела", quite opposite, it is usual, but only if you expect to receive some form of a logical answer, however formal it would be.

From my experience quite often you can hear as answer just "нормально, как у тебя?" without any extra details.

Originally Posted by Propp

I don't mean it is unusual to ask "как дела", quite opposite, it is usual, but only if you expect to receive some form of a logical answer, however formal it would be.

Like when people have a question on some forum and they say "привет как дела i have a question blah blah blah..." yes then i agree it looks really stupid, because it's not supposed to be used like "what's up".