Can-Do Statements

After this module, you can...

• Recognise a set expression instead of parsing it word by word
• Use twenty or so idioms that a native speaker actually says
• Tell an idiom that transfers from Russian from one that does not
• Read a proverb and say what it is doing in the conversation
• Avoid translating an English or Russian idiom word for word
• Judge when an idiom fits the register and when it does not