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Not even Tolstoy would dare use the eyebrow-raising Russian you'll find in this wickedly humorous language guide by one of Russia's bestselling novelists today. Whether you're traveling to Russia for the first time or you are a student of the language, this indispensable book is your entree to the real and new Russian that has never been taught. You'll be armored with triple-decker curses and insults, endearments and expressions for situations ranging from high-level business meetings to show more cocktail parties to sexual encounters. Filled with words, idioms, and vulgarisms you won't learn in a classroom, plus twenty hilarious line drawings and a complete index to vital expletives, Dermo! will provide you with the uncensored answers to the questions you always wanted to know... but no translator would ever tell you! show lessTags
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This is the funniest book about a foreign language I have ever read. I guarantee that you will laugh out loud about some of the anecdotes and examples of profanity (including erotic poetry by Pushkin among others). It appears that Russian contains more "four letter words" (which are used far more frequently) than English or any other language.
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- 491.7321 — Language Other languages East Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and related East Slavic languages Dictionaries of Russian Russian - English and Old English Russian - English
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- PG2691 .T67 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian language
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