{"id":156,"date":"2008-08-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/?p=156"},"modified":"2014-07-16T18:12:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T18:12:52","slug":"dictionary-must-have-%d1%82%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%8b%d0%b9-%d1%81%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%8c-%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%be-%d1%8f%d0%b7%d1%8b%d0%ba%d0%b0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/russian\/dictionary-must-have-%d1%82%d0%be%d0%bb%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b2%d1%8b%d0%b9-%d1%81%d0%bb%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b0%d1%80%d1%8c-%d1%80%d1%83%d1%81%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%be-%d1%8f%d0%b7%d1%8b%d0%ba%d0%b0\/","title":{"rendered":"Dictionary Must-Have: \u0422\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0421\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430\u0440\u044c \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u042f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wisdom is meant to be shared with others. No piece of advice given to me proved to be so wise in regards to learning Russian as the one I am about to share with you today. Back in the days when I was biding my time in Sweden after studying one semester in Saint Petersburg and before heading out into the wild unknown in Siberia, I managed to spend an entire week attending classes in Russian Language at Gothenburg University\u2019s Department of Slavic Languages. (Little did I know back then that I was to receive my Bachelor from that very same department roughly three years later without attending any more classes, but that\u2019s a whole other story!) The professor who taught Russian grammar told us this during our first class: \u201cIf you\u2019re only going to buy one book about Russian language while in Russia, let it be a \u00ab\u0442\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u044c \u0440\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong><\/a> [Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Language], and I bet you\u2019ll never regret it.\u201d I put his words to the test as soon as I arrived in Omsk and the first thing I aquired at the book store was a big green dictionary of some 940 pages by \u0421. \u0418. \u041e<\/span>\u0436\u0435\u0433\u043e\u0432<\/strong> and \u041d. \u042e. \u0428\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430<\/strong> for 220 rubles. It proved to come in handy so often that I brought it with me back home to Sweden, and bought yet another one just like it when I moved to Yekaterinburg, this time black and for 10 rubles less. If you\u2019re going to Russia, be it for a short period of time or to study a couple of months at a Russian university, it is now also my most wise advice for you to bring one of these babies back home with you.<\/p>\n

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Don\u2019t loose hope as you get lost in the prolific literature directed at Russophiles; though constructive reading as Helen Yakobson\u2019s \u201cConversational Russian\u201d<\/a>, Insight Guide\u2019s \u201cRussia\u201d, \u201cColloquial Russian: The Complete Course for Beginners\u201d<\/a>, Michael Bunyon\u2019s \u201cLife In Russia\u201d and Culture Smart\u2019s \u201cRussia: Customs & Etiquette\u201d may be, it\u2019s the book in the background that takes the beneficial cake: the green \u00ab\u0422\u043e\u043b\u043a\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u044c \u0440\u0443<\/span>\u0441\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0430<\/span>\u00bb<\/strong> [\u2019Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Language\u2019]!<\/em><\/div>\n


\nWell, some of you might be wondering, those of you whom I failed to convince so easily; what\u2019s so great about this dictionary? Can it really be anymore useful than my ordinary bilingual lexicon (be it English-Russian or Korean-Russian)? Let me tell you a little bit more about the structure of this dictionary, and just why I find it so brilliant and versatile whenever working with a new text in Russian and translating its unfamiliar words. First of all it gives an explanation of every Russian word in Russian. Thus you will often learn a couple of words even when looking up just one single word. It contains all the usual good stuff of the bilingual lexicon \u2013 it\u2019ll tell you on what vowel the stress is, if the stress moves as the word changes in different cases, or, when it comes to verbs, how to conjugate it correctly, plus what part of speech it is, and its gender (if you\u2019re dealing with a noun that is). But in addition to all this it will also often give you idioms and customary phrases using the word in question.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of things you can find in the article for the word \u00ab\u043b\u044e\u0431\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [love]:<\/p>\n

\u041b\u042e\u0411\u041e<\/span>\u0412\u042c, \u043b\u044e\u0431\u0432\u0438<\/span>, \u0442\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438<\/span>\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043f\u0430\u0434\u0435<\/span>\u0436.<\/em> \u043b\u044e\u0431\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044c\u044e, \u0436\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0440\u043e\u0434.<\/em> 1. \u0413\u043b\u0443\u0431\u043e<\/span>\u043a\u043e\u0435 \u044d\u043c\u043e\u0446\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0432\u043b\u0435\u0447\u0435<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435, \u0441\u0438<\/span>\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0434\u0435<\/span>\u0447\u043d\u043e\u0435 \u0447\u0443<\/span>\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e. <\/strong>[LOVE, love\u2019s, instrumental case.<\/em> with love, feminine gender.<\/em> 1. Deep emotional inclination, strong heartfel (alt. deep)<\/em> feeling.]<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0412\u044b<\/span>\u0439\u0442\u0438 \u0437\u0430<\/span>\u043c\u0443\u0436 \u043f\u043e \u043b\u044e\u0431\u0432\u0438<\/span> (\u0437\u0430 \u043b\u044e\u0431\u0438<\/span>\u043c\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u043a\u0430)\u00bb<\/strong> [Marry (about a woman)<\/em> someone because of love (marry a man you love)].<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u041b\u044e\u0431\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044c \u0443\u0448\u043b\u0430<\/span>, \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0448\u043b\u0430<\/span>, \u0443\u0433\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u043b\u0430\u00bb<\/strong> [Love went away, passed away (is over)<\/em>, burned out].<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0421\u0442\u0440\u0430<\/span>\u0441\u0442\u043d\u0430\u044f, \u0432\u0437\u0430\u0438<\/span>\u043c\u043d\u0430\u044f, \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043e\u0442\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0442\u043d\u0430\u044f, \u043f\u043b\u0430\u0442\u043e\u043d\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f, \u0440\u043e\u043c\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0430\u044f \u043b\u044e\u0431\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044c\u00bb<\/strong> [Passionate, mutual, unrequited, Platonic, romantic love].<\/p>\n

\u00ab\u0421\u043e\u0432\u0435<\/span>\u0442 \u0434\u0430 \u043b\u044e\u0431\u043e<\/span>\u0432\u044c!\u00bb (\u0440\u0430\u0437\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e<\/span>\u0440\u043d\u0430\u044f \u0440\u0435\u0447\u044c) \u2013 \u043f\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043b\u0430<\/span>\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0431\u043b\u0430\u0433\u043e\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0443<\/span>\u0447\u0438\u044f \u0432\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043f\u0430<\/span>\u044e\u0449\u0438\u043c \u0432 \u0431\u0440\u0430\u043a.<\/strong> [Literally \u201cAdvice and love!\u201d<\/em>, but usually translated as \u201cMay you live happily!\u201d<\/em>, informal speech \u2013 wish of prosperity to the newlyweds].<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re not going to Russia anytime soon, or you\u2019re just worried you won\u2019t have enough room in your suitcase for all the vodka needed to bring back as gifts for relatives if you use up two pounds on a book, don\u2019t despair \u2013 you can look words up in the same fashion online. I\u2019ll give you two good links that are good to bookmark. The first one, \u00ab\u0411\u043e\u043b\u044c\u0448\u043e<\/span>\u0439 \u042d\u043d\u0446\u0438\u043a\u043b\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0434\u0438<\/span>\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0430<\/span>\u0440\u044c\u00bb <\/strong><\/a> [Big Encyclopedic Dictionary], is very much like the paper version \u2013 just write the word you\u2019re looking for and it\u2019ll find it. \u00ab\u0421\u043b\u043e\u0432\u043e\u043f\u0435<\/span>\u0434\u0438\u044f\u00bb <\/strong><\/a> [\u2018Slovopedia\u2019] is a little more \u2018upscale\u2019 in that it combines more dictionaries together, and will give you a more detailed description than you ever really need of any word that you\u2019re looking for an explanation to. I always go for the last link first, but whenever that gets too confusing, I find my refuge in the first one. Or you can always go to good old faithful \u2013 the Russian Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wisdom is meant to be shared with others. No piece of advice given to me proved to be so wise in regards to learning Russian as the one I am about to share with you today. Back in the days when I was biding my time in Sweden after studying one semester in Saint Petersburg…<\/p>\n

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