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When is it appropriate to use «алло»?
Aside from answering your personal phone, are there any other situations where it is considered appropriate to use алло when greeting someone?
I'm assuming that because алло wasn't even mentioned in ...
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word for “Formal Address”
Question is about using Вы instead of Ты. I already know serbian, so I know when you use one and when the other (Vi i Ti), what I'm interested in is, how is this form of address called in Russian?
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When is it more appropriate to use здравствуйте rather than привет?
As far as I understand, both of these mean more or less the same thing. Rosetta Stone, that introduced me to the Russian language seems to prefer здравствуйте, but it seems привет is more commonly ...
