"Как дела?"
Translation:How are you doing?
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как дела is best thought of as "How are things" and как ты is more personal and could be thought of as "How are you"
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See this link, please: https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/3rc04a
I typed: "how do you do?" But this wasn't accepted. Still it should be the same as "how are you doing"??
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How do you do - in English is an official greeting - it is not necessary to answer it. But on question Как дела? Russians can answer in short or long form. Anyway, "How do you do" is more formal than "Как дела?" or "How are you doing?"
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What is the direct translation of дела? Is it just the verb-to do?
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"things" or "affairs". It's a noun, the plural of дело.
See the skill tips and notes: https://www.duolingo.com/skill/ru/Phrases-1
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this is obviously not correct :/ this is a language course, not UrbanDictionnary (which is great BTW, but not fitted for basic language learning)
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Thanks! Sometimes for a non-native english speaker is not simple to distinguish between accepted idiomatic expressions and... slang. If you need the same favor for italian, just whistle ;)
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How you doing is how many people speak but it should be "How are you doing?"
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Does the л in дела sound kind of like a w instead of a l or is that just my bad hearing?
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The audio is a little obscure. Hang on the L, like the double L in JELLO.
Could this possibly also be the dark/uvular L referred to in some eastern European dialects?
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Essentially, yes. A closer translation would be "What are you called?".
And even more literally, "How do they call you?" (kak "how", vas "you", zovut "they call")
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I send greetings to all russian people who used "how do you do" in this excersise! :)
"How's things?" is perfectly reasonable colloquial english, and way more direct of a translation in Britain than "How are things?", 204k hits on google.
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I don't like the older male voice ,things just sound better with a female voice.
