Russian communicative vocab

[Andrew Jameson]

The expression RECHEVOI ETIKET is also used and there is a textbook
bearing the title Russkii Rechevoi Etiket which has gone through several
editions. It lists essential phrases in social situations.

The Russians used to talk a lot about STRANOVEDENIE (German:
Landeskunde) and the Pushkin Institute and its predecessors produced
a series of factual publications about Russia stating the obvious things
which are often taken for granted in Russian publications intended for
a Russian audience. Genevra Gerhart's The Russian's World does a good
job in supplying cultural background information of this kind.

Andrew Jameson
ex Lancaster Uni, UK

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> From: Elena Levintova <elenalev at ix.netcom.com>
> To: SEELANGS at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
> Subject: Re: Russian communicative vocab
> Date: 24 November 1998 21:07
>
> Listening -- AUDIROWANIE; PONIMANIE RE^I NA SLUH ( audirovaniye; ponimaniye
> rechi na sluh)
> reading (comprehension) -- ^TENIE; PONIMANIE PISXMENNOGO/PE^ATNOGO/ TEKSTA
> (chteniye; ponimaniye pi'smennogo /pechatnogo/ teksta
> writing and speaking (ability) -- NAWYKI PISXMENNOJ I USTNOJ RE^I; PISXMO I
> USTNAQ RE^X (navyki pis'mennoi i ustnoi rechi; pis'mo i ustnaya rech)
> cultural competency -- KULXTURNAQ KOMPETENCIQ; FONOWYE ZNANIQ (kulturnaya
> kompetentsia; fonovyie znaniya).
>
> Mila Saskova-Pierce wrote:
>
> > >What is the right way to translate into Russian this communicative method
> > >terminology:
> > Listening; reading (comprehension); writing and speaking (ability);
> > cultural competency. "Pisanie" for one just does not seem to do it right.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Mila Saskova-Pierce
> > mzs at unlinfo.unl.edu