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Hello Pakpoom,

thank you for your question!

"Я забронировал ваш номер" means that you have booked his/her own room. When you talk about a hotel it's better to say "у вас".

Kind Regards,

Evgeniia

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can i say Я забронировал "Ваша(your)" номер instead of "у вас" (your). is it grammaly correct?

Hello Timothy,

Thank you 😄

Elena

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Anna and Eric are so cute. I think I am addicted to this series. I hope to see more of their lessons.

Hi Nour,

Thank you for your positive feedback!

Let us know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Cristiane

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This was so clear guys

I really thank you 😊

Hello Jorge Escalante,

Right. "Я хотела бы...." is feminine form.

Masculine will be - "Я хотел бы...."

Elena

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Я хотела бы забронировать номер на одного человека - This is a sentence said in the feminine form? So if I wanted to say it in the masculine form it would be Я хотел бы забронировать номер на одного человек? ... Any help would be appreciated, Спасибо! :)

Hello Droek,

It's just a question of translation. Anya is closer to English Ann. But of course, you can use Anya in English, as well as Ann in Russian language.

Elena

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How can 'Аня' be Ann? (in example 2; Аня любит яблоки)

Isn't 'я' always the 'ia' sound? Is Ann not Анн?

Second question, if I'm allowed.

How can I type Russian letters the best and easiest way?

Hello Steve Price,

Thank you for sharing your experience! :)

Elena

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I have stayed in hotels in Europe and here I America. In my experience the hotels in Europe have more compact rooms which are, none-the-less quite comfortable. Both the ones in Hamburg and London had , fortunately baths in the room. Pensions or the rooms in homes that could be rented with a small breakfast included were at least comfortable. Americans, used to big spacious rooms in our motor hotels, find the European ones small and "cramped". I, for my part, liked the European rooms just fine. Except for having to show passports and other papers, check in is basically the same.It's a sign of respect to learn the language of the country where you are going if you can.

Hello Joshua

Thank you for your comment :smile:

Elena

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Privet if your lucky its written in both Russian and English . Rare but becoming more common today or they ask what lang spoken and written ? You can point at chart now in many places what you read and speak . I have found many ladies that speak and write several lang including English better then I can . Lucky for us we can learn here and not sweat this and I found that many hotels in Russia and Ukraine gave me much better deal to book many days in a row . Very big saving to me .

Hi Bill,

You are welcome. :smile:

Elena

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Ohhh ok, now I understand. Thanks for clarifying! :)

Hello Bill.

You gave 2 words.

First one is "zaregistriravatsya" - "to check in".

Second one is "zabraniravat`" - "to book" (not to "check in")

Elena

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Ok in my RussianPod101 training I think I've heard 3 ways to say "check in" as in a hotel room and as with the last section I commented on, I doubt I will spell them correctly but am confident you'll know what I'm talking about. I also have not learned cyrillic yet. Ok the first one I learned was za-ray-ges-tri-ru-witia menya pozalusta, The next one was close to register but I can't remember it. Last we have zah-bra-ne-ra-vat. I think the one like register was ray-ge-stan maybe or something close to that. Anyway can you help me understand the difference and also which is the most commonly used one?

Thanks!

Hi Canakkale,

This is totally up to you!

It depends if you have the time to learn these new words or not, for example.

I would recommend to learn it though.

Thank you for your comment!

Cheers,

Mélanie

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One question about vocabulary section. At the vocabulary extension there are phrases that contain new verbs and even words that is available in the context of the lesson. Should we also memorise them?