Dirty Russian: Everyday Slang from

Erin Coyne · Igor Fisun

Aug 2009 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

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Next time you’re traveling or just chattin’ in Russia with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

• Cool slang
• Funny insults
• Explicit sex terms
• Raw swear words

Dirty Russian teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Russia:

What's up?
kak de-LA?

I really gotta piss.
mnye O-chen NA-do pos-SAT.

Damn, you fine!
blin, nu ti i shi-KAR-nii!

Let's have an orgy.
da-VAI u-STRO-im OR-gi-yu.

This is crappy vodka.
d-ta VOD-ka khre-NO-va-ya.

Let's go get hammered.
poi-DYOM bukh-NYOM.

I'm gonna own you, bitch!
ya te-BYA VI-ye-blyu!

Ratings and reviews

The pronunciation is incorrect frequently, but if you can read Russian characters you'll be able to fix them

Entertaining

awesome book

About the author

Erin Coyne holds various degrees in Russian-related fields from Fordham University, Georgetown University, and UC Berkeley, where she is currently making depressingly slow progress on a PhD in Slavic Linguistics while teaching Russian classes on the side. In a former life, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer and later worked as an NGO program director which, for better or for worse, exiled her to nearly ten long years in the former Soviet Union. Her interests include yoga, long, alcohol-fueled train rides through Eastern Europe, and TV. Lots and lots of TV. In addition to English and Russian, Erin speaks six other languages with varying degrees of success.

Igor Fisun is a native of Kiev, Ukraine, which, in moments of nationalist pride, he prefers to spell "Kyiv." He is a former student of Kiev PTU, where he quickly abandoned all interest in ever holding down a real job and instead embarked upon a career in freelance engraving. His native languages are Russian and Ukrainian, and he hopes someday to learn English well enough to talk his way out of a traffic ticket. His interests include cooking, Japanese art, cheap wine, and pissing people off on internet forums. He is ridiculously proud of his orchid collection.