"How are you, Tim?"
Translation:Как дела, Тим?
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как ты is more like how are you feeling and you would ask a sick person how they're feeling whereas как дела would be like asking your friends or family 'how's it going?'.
So in this case, both Ты как and Как дела should both be accepted, because depending on the context, "how are you" can take the meaning of "how do you feel" and "how is it going".
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Чаще всего взаимозаменяемы. Но спрашивая "как дела?", нужно быть готовым выслушать историю, не всегда короткую )))
The short i ( и краткое "й") is never stressed and the i can be stressed or not, for example the word мой, wich means "my", ( male, singular, like my boyfriend) is stressed in the "O" and the word мои, wich means "my" ( plural, like my sisters or my brothers) is stressed in the i.
If you're not so good with russian yet, you better say "Dewa" instead of "dela" so it will be more accurate and it won't cause an explosion of your interlocutor's ears
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So why do I clearly hear the л in the native speaker's answer? Sounds like DELa not Dewa or deWA. Also why are there varied stressed accents on this word?
Russian is my native and usually when we are talking, the letter "l" usually doesn't sound as it should, so you better pronounce it like "w".
I must correct myself and give you guys a hint to sound more Russian if you are new to the language. Say "w" instead of "l" where the consonant letter "Л" is not "soft". Soft consonant are before "е, ё, и, ю, я" vowels. In other cases (where Л is soft, say L). It applies for the native Engish speakers only to sound more russian. "Лето" - Leto. "Лучше" = Wuchshe. "Прокладка" = Prokwadka and so on.
i believe it is the same word, just that дела́ has a pronunciation indicator to let you know which syllable is stressed :)
But Tim is a dog; he doesn't understand Russian! lol! https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/11700806 :D
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Is there a problem with the accent in "de'la" (genitive singular)? Should this be "dela'" (nominative plural)
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В вопросе "Как дела?" подразумеваются воообще все, что с человеком происходит, все дела (мн. число) - работа, семья, здоровье и т.д. Фраза "не твое дело" - подразумевает, что именно вот это одно конкретное дело (ед. число) - тебя не касается.
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Is there anyone here who is a native russian speaker, or is very well fluent in russian? If so, do you think the courses on Doulingo are acurate and are actually useful for everyday conversations?
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The words how как, are you ты , and Tim тим are not anywhere in your sentence. Your sentence basically says We have some affair. The easiest way to say it is как дела Тим? Literally How is business, Tim. Means how are you doing Tim.