The dialogues are famously unnatural: “Do you want to go to the restaurant at 7 PM or 8 PM?” – fine. But the constant formality ( вы only, never ты ) and lack of slang or contractions makes you sound like a polite 1950s textbook. Real Russians will smile and switch to English.
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