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What Subjects Should I Avoid In A Russian Conversation? Posted by on Nov 2, 2017

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Once you’ve learned enough Russian to have a conversation with a native speaker, you need to think beyond what you can say about what you should say. Let us look at several common “taboo” subjects and see how they are treated by Russian speakers. I will mostly base my observations on what I saw in…

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