CAT-II Study Guide: Russian Cursive

(alphabet, numbers, days/months, new vocabulary & expressions)

Russian Cursive:
Upper & Words that start with a given letter
Character Lower Case
 Russian printed & hand-writing (cursive) letters: http://designveryeasy.com/download/Graffiti-Alphabet-Letters-Russia-150061

Learn and practice to write Russian cursive and words:

http://www.RussianforEveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

Print out and use Russian cursive practice sheets to practice Russian cursive writing (PDF is available on our
course page): https://lingualift.com/ru/files/docs/russian-writing-cursive.pdf

Converting between Russian Print and Cursive in One Step:

http://www.stevemorse.org/russian/cyrprintcurs.html?style=letters&font=cursive&casing=lower&type=normal&l
eftposition=16&rightposition=16&russian=%u043A%u043E%u0442%20%u043F%u0440%u0438%u0448%u043
5%u043B%20%u0434%u043E%u043C%u043E%u0439&maxLines=10&imagesPerLine=50

1. Russian words and their meaning.

IMPORTANT: To succeed on Assignment-2 and CAT-II, you need to practice translation and
pronunciation BOTH ways: RussianEnglish AND English Russian!

No. Russian English

1 car, automobile
2 loaf, bread, baguette
3 a mitten, glove
4 vine
5 in
6 pear
7 year
8 melon
9 smoke
10 porcupine
11 blackberry (blackberries)
12 food
13 spruce, fir (tree)
14 Christmas tree
15 , hedgehog
16 beetle
17 lock
18 castle
19 caviar
20 and
21 from
22 yogurt
23 iodine
24 strawberries
25 club
26 lemon
27 raspberry (raspberries)
28 good girl/boy; well done!
29 well done
30 mat, floor-mat; mat/checkmate (chess); swear
31 sock
32 socks
33 vegetable
34 vegetables
35 exchange
36 pepper, paprika
37 dress
38 fish
39 soup
40 chair, stool
41 table
42 cake
43 there
44 here
45 where
46 toilet, bathroom, restroom

47 Mens room

48 Ladies room

49 fishing rod
50 hurrah, hurray (cheers)
51 fruit
52 fruits
53 flag
54 needles (leaves of a conifer tree like a pine)
55 choir, chorus
56 number, numeral, digit
57 numbers, numerals, digits
58 ! Shut up (quiet, silence)!
59 on tiptoe
60 chicken
61 cup, mug
62 tea, chai
63 date (of the month); digit; number
64 cap, hat
65 ! Shut up!
66 brush
67 puppy
68 entry, entrance
69 congress, convention, conference
70 departure
71 screen, display
72 echo
73 skirt
74 apple
75 ? How?
76 ? How much/many?
77 ? Where (location)?
78 ? Where (direction)?
79 ? What/which?
80 week
81 days of the week
82 Monday
83 Tuesday
84 Wednesday
85 Thursday
86 Friday
87 Saturday
/; Sunday; the Resurrection of Christ (Big Russian Orthodox
88
Holiday)
89 now
90 month
91 months
92 January
93 February
94 March
95 April
96 May
97 June
98 July
99 August
100 September
101 October
102 November
103 December

2. Numbers ():

No. No. No. No.

0 ()
1 11 10

2 12 20 21

3 13 30 34

4 14 40 42

5 15 50 59

6 16 60 67

7 17 70 73

8 18 80 85

9 19 90 96

10 20 100 148

3. Days of the week ( )

Days of the Week Gender

Monday masculine
Tuesday masculine
Wednesday feminine
Thursday masculine
Friday feminine
Saturday feminine
Sunday neuter

4. Months ()

Month Gender
 January masculine
February masculine
March masculine
April masculine
May masculine
June masculine
July masculine
August masculine
September masculine
October masculine
November masculine
December masculine

5. Some Simple Conversational Questions & Answers

Question/Answer Translation Formality Addressing

? What is your name? Informal One
? What is your name? Formal One
? What are your names? In(formal) Many
? How old are you? Informal One
? How old are you? Formal One
? How old are you? In(formal) Many
(). I am nineteen. In(formal) One
? Where are you from? Informal One
? Where are you from? Formal One
? Where are you from? In(formal) Many
(). I am from India (Russia) In(formal) One
? Where do you live? Informal One
? Where do you live? Formal One
(). I live in Deli (Moscow)/ In(formal) One
? Are you a student (male)? Informal One
? Are you a student (female)? Informal One
? Are you studying or working? Informal One
(). I am studying (working). In(formal) One

Where do you study? Informal One
()?

I study at the Vellore University In(formal) One
.
! Good girl (boy)! Well done! In(formal) One
! Well done! In(formal) Many
 ()? Where are you going (flying)? Informal One
() . I am going (flying) to Moscow. In(formal) One
( ). And I (I also). too. In(formal) One

Let's exchange phone numbers. Informal One
.
! (!) Come on! (O.k.!) Informal One
! See you soon! In(formal) One or Many
! Good luck! In(formal) One or many
, ? Excuse me, can I come in? In(formal) One or many
() ? Where is the toilet (here)? In(formal) One or many
. Over there.
! Repetition is the mother of learning. Popular proverb
? What day (of the week) is today?
. . Wednesday. Today is Wednesday.
? What day (of the week) is tomorrow?
. . Thursday. Tomorrow is Thursday.
? What day was yesterday?
.
Tuesday. Yesterday was Tuesday.
.
? What month is it now?
. . September. It is September now.
, Today is Monday, twenty sixth of
. September.
? What is the date today?
. Today is the second of October.
? What is the date tomorrow?
. Tomorrow is the third of October.
? What was the date yesterday?
. Yesterday was the first of October.

I strongly recommended to repeat/refresh what you learned in the first third of the course:

Quiz-1 Study Guide and Quiz-2 Study Guide, which are available at our course page.

Resources:
1. Translit.net (http://translit.net/).
- You can type Russian words using your English key-board, and you will get it in Russian. For example, you type
"privet" in the box on the screen, and it will appear in the box as "".
- You can also see the Russian alphabet above the box and the keys for Russian letters.
- In order to use Russian key-board for typing, click on the button " " in the left upper corner of
the screen (white text, orange background).

2. Translate.Yandex.com (https://translate.yandex.com/) allows you to get two-way English-Russian translation,

word pronunciation (click on the small speaker icon) and "On-screen Russian keyboard" (click on the small icon).