How to ask? How to say?Students of the intermediate or advanced level of Russian are the target group of this book. The manual is aimed at the development of skills enabling to understand the modern daily life in Russia: speaking etiquette, description of the appearance and character of the people, Russian holidays, communicating in a hostel, in the post office, in the library, etc. Every chapter contains grammar material based on the State standard of the first certificate level of Russian and corresponding exercises. At the end of the book there is a short chapter with some important grammar comments to systemize the learned material. A CD with texts is added.