Friends We all have some friends. Some of them are since our childhood, some of them are later. I don’t know there is in English difference between “friend” and “real friend”. Russian people I see understand me. We have, for example, word «приятель» for not close friends, but “друг” for close friends. My question is: how you can call not close friend?

Hallo or Hello? Dear friends! Could you say me about this? Is it true that “Hallo” (like German) is possible in England (or not only there)? Different people say me different ways. May be it depends on region or no? Thank you for your help!

How many words do you need for communicate? My friend knows some languages very well but she thinks her Russian is not good but I think (I’m Russian) it’s very well. I am a perfectionist and I mean it doesn’t help me. For a long time I’ve learned languages for myself and thought I’ll speak when I know everything or almost everything.  Years went by and I’ve understood if you want to speak you have to speak. My friend’s husband knows two words in her native language and he communicates well with her relatives. There many comedies about it. Many of Russian people probably remember our film «Особенности национальной охоты», in which heroes communicate all night and next morning they understand that they spoke in different languages: Russian and Finnish. By the way I think Finnish grammar is too hard! And what about you? Is it true if you need you can use a few words? OR you mean we have to know languages very well before enter into conversation with somebody?