The skill of fluent speaking at the beginning of learning any language seems, if not unattainable, then certainly requires a lot of effort, which often scares off beginning polyglots who are not used to hearing their own voice speaking another language. However, you need to speak English from the very beginning of studying, and this section will help you get off to an easy start. Video files with text and audio tracks will help you not only remember how individual phrases are constructed, but also how they are pronounced.
Dialogues in English are presented in different thematic aspects: in this section there are both elementary questions that students answer at the very beginning of learning the language, and individual situations that will be useful in cases where you are learning a language solely for travel. You can play out the situations presented either alone or in pairs.
Anyone who attended English classes at school knows where learning it begins: just with acquaintance. This is done not only because the teacher needs to get to know the students as soon as possible, but also because information about oneself rarely affects lexical blocks unknown to the beginner. Of course, the need for a full introduction in the case of communication with a native speaker may not arise, however, you will already be able to briefly talk about yourself, listing the most important points of your biography.
For those who study English on their own, dialogue, for example, will be very useful. – the interlocutors meet for the first time, ask each other’s names. Of course, the speech is slowed down and made as clear as possible (in spoken English it will probably be more difficult), but a beginner can already listen to how to get acquainted and repeat after the participants in the video.
Another, no less important question is? - an obligatory part of any acquaintance, especially abroad. Of course, you can’t go into a detailed description of the cultural aspects and traditions of your country yet, but you can learn how to clarify the nationality of your interlocutor and even the homeland of his accent!
And, of course, how can one live without observing the rules of politeness in the life of your interlocutor and his close people? Study these dialogues, and you won’t even notice how your confidence in your own knowledge of a foreign language will greatly increase!
Stepping outside the classroom (and comfort zone) can introduce yourself to a more challenging environment than meeting one person to interact with. Even if you are still at the Beginner level, you may find yourself in a situation in which you will need to ask questions, for example: or about the building you need (in the place of “Holiday Inn” you can put anything: a train station, a shopping center, a hotel). By the way, these dialogues can be modified by adding prepositions of place and direction that you already know: using them regularly will help you remember them faster!
Perhaps the most common question for tourists abroad who are desperately looking for someone to ask for advice is: When this question is asked, communication can be said to have begun as the speakers have established the language of conversation.
Of course, when you find yourself in a situation that requires language proficiency at a sufficient level to exchange information (as a rule, this applies to those moments when you come to a restaurant or even a simple store abroad), you have to use not only the passive use of language through speech patterns, but also active - you have to listen to your interlocutor and understand his answer. However, there are two very important points at work here:
There is good news: if your interlocutor sees that you have problems with language, he may start to monitor himself and use simpler vocabulary, or even sign language. In a word, communication will still take place, even if you fail to understand what exactly was answered.
Of course, to consolidate the material, you need to repeat it not just once, but several times, but you still shouldn’t sit endlessly on one dialogue. Over time, you can even think about composing your own dialogues - let the form remain the same, but the content changes slightly. This will help you consolidate the grammatical structures you have learned and get on the path to independently composing colloquial phrases in a foreign language.
To compose a dialogue in English yourself, you should first of all imagine its structure, draw some analogy with your everyday dialogue in your native language.
1) Any dialogue begins with a greeting. What it will be depends on who you talk to. If this is an official or official (your boss, teacher, city mayor, just a stranger), then it is better to use a construction similar to the Russian “Good afternoon/evening” or the neutral “Hello” - “Hello” . If you are talking with a friend or another person close to you, you can use free and emotionally charged greetings, such as: “Hi!”, “How do you do?”, “Hey, What’s up?”.
(Note: in informal dialogues, the greeting phrase often includes questions such as: “what's new, how are you?” It will sound something like this: - Hi, what's going on? – Not much (or Thanks, I'm ok ).
2) The response is constructed in a similar way. We respond to a strict greeting with the polite and dry phrase “Hello, pleased to meet you.” (Hello, nice to see you)
(Note: if you already know the person, then add a title:
Mister + name (to a man) Missis (to a married woman)
Miss – (to a young girl)) We respond to a friendly greeting in an unobtrusive manner so that the dialogue looks as natural and relaxed as possible.
3) Now let’s decide on the purpose of our conversation. Let's look at examples:
A) Invitation
— for friends: — How about the cinema? (How about a movie?) - What are your plans on Monday? Do you want to go to the cinema? (What are your plans for Monday? Do you want to go to the movies?) Pretty universal questions. The answer is also simple. –Sounds nice, let's go. (Sounds tempting, let's go) or Sorry, I'm busy on Monday. We will do it next time. (Sorry, I'm busy on Monday. We'll do it another time)
(Note: you can add an introductory sentence before questions or requests, for example: I know, you like watching films. I'm sure there is something interesting right now - I know, you like watching films. I'm sure there is something really interesting that is being shown in the cinema now)
- official
Would you like to + verb (Would you like to + verb)?
Would you mind... (Do you mind)?
B) Request
(Note: We actively use the word “please” and “excuse me” (excuse me, i’m sorry), regardless of the type of dialogue, this is a sign of your good upbringing).
-friendly: Can you bring this book for me, please? (Can you get this book for me?)
-official: Could you help me, please? (Could you help me?)
Would you mind (verb +ing) opening the window? (Could you open the window?)
Could I bother you to find me a book? (Sorry to bother you, could I ask you to find me a book?)
B) Request for information
-with friends:
Tell me about... (tell me)
What do you thing about…? (what do you think about…)
-with officials
Could you tell me (could you tell)
What is your opinion on the problem of…? (What is your opinion on the problem?)
Question words for writing sentences in order to find out information about an object of interest: Where (where?) When (when?) How (how?) How long (how long) How many (how much (for a countable)) How much (how much for an uncountable, for example, money, time) Which (which of) Which (that).
Don't forget to thank your interlocutor for the information received.
Thank you a lot (Thank you very much)
My gratitude (My gratitude)
If necessary, you can express your personal opinion using the following phrases:
Pesonally, I believe (I believe)
From my standpoint (from my point of view)
As for me (as for me)
4) Farewell
Friendly farewell:
- Can I help you?
— Yes, I need to go to Pushkinskaya Street.
— You have to go straight on Tverskaya Street to the monument to Pushkin.
- Thank you.
- I can help you?
- Yes, I need to go to Pushkinskaya Street.
— You need to go straight along Tverskaya Street to the Pushkin monument.
- Thank you.
It's always interesting to talk with a good friend. Especially about food.
You came to a restaurant and the waiter came to you.
Greetings my dears.
Let's start today with a question for you. Where can you start developing your child’s spoken language?
But it's true! After all, at the beginning of his journey, your baby’s vocabulary for free conversation is at its lowest level - not to say that it does not exist at all. And it’s not always possible to talk “not freely” either. So what's the solution? And the solution is this: dialogues for children in English.
Surprisingly, this technique found a response in the hearts of both children and their parents. The secret here is simple: you can read or listen to simple dialogues - at first I would even recommend mini-dialogues - analyze individual words and phrases in them and tell them. Read them with translation, listen to them in audio and learn.
Today I'll give you a few different options, on different topics and varying in difficulty.
Speech practice for preschool age is distinguished by its simplicity and theme. It is easiest for such young children to remember what surrounds them: colors, animals, family, etc. Let's start, perhaps, with the “Greeting” and “Introduction” dialogues. For example:
-Hi.(Hello/Good morning/Good afternoon/Good evening)
-Hi.
-What is your name?
-My name is Maria. And yours?
-My name is Diana.
-Hello . (Hello/Good morning/Good afternoon/Good evening)
-Hello.
-What is your name?
-My name is Maria. And you?
-My name is Diana.
This is the easiest option to start with. You can develop the conversation further, for example, like this:
-How old are you?
-I am five years old. And how old are you?
-I am six years old.
-How old are you?
-I am five years old. And how old are you?
-I am six years old.
-Do you speak English?
-Yes, I do. Do you speak English?
- Yes, I do.
-Do you speak English?
-Yes. A do you speak English?
- Yes.
You can also use this addition:
-Where are you from?
-I am from Moscow. And you?
-I am from London.
-Where are you from?
-I am from Moscow. And you?
-I'm from London.
This is the most basic thing you can do with your baby today.
But here are the options, for example, for 2nd grade on the topic of family:
-How many family members do you have?
-I have 4 family members. A mother, a father, me and my older sister. And you?
-I have a father, a mother. I do not have any sisters or brothers.
-This is my mother Tanya and this is my father Vadim. My sister is Olya. She goes to school already.
-My mother’s name is Alina, my father’s name is Nikita.
-How many family members do you have?
-We are a party of four . Mom, dad, me and my older sister. How many of you are there?
-I have a mom and dad. I have neither sisters nor brothers.
-This is my mother Tanya and this is my father Vadim. My sister Olya. She already goes to school.
My mom's name is Alina, my dad's name is Nikita.
For 3rd grade students, you can combine dialogue and play " I can see something blue..." For example:
-I can see something red...
-It’s an apple. It's a towel. It's a shoe.
-I can see something green...
-It's a flower. It's a coat.
-I can see something yellow...
-It's a ball.
-I can see something red...
-This Apple. This is a towel. This is a shoe.
-I can see something green...
-This is a flower . This is a coat.
-I can see something yellow...
-This is a ball.
Talking about animals will help you quickly learn the necessary vocabulary.
-Do you have a pet?
-Yes, I have a rat. His name is Bonny. Do you have a pet?
-I already have two dogs and a fish.
-What are their names?
-My dogs" names are Dilly and Tisha, and my fish is called Loopy.
-Do you have a pet?
-I have a rat. His name is Bonnie. Do you have a pet?
-I already have two dogs and a fish.
-What are their names?
My dogs' names are Dilly and Tisha, and my fish's name is Loopy.
A good subject option is a hobby. For example:
-Do you like football?
-Yes, I do. My favorite football team is Barcelona. And you?
-I don't. I like basketball and tennis. What about reading?
-I like reading. I read several books per week. And do you like reading?
-I don't. I like watching films. My favorite films are “Harry Potter” and “Star Wars”.
-Do you like football?
-Yes. My favorite football team Barcelona. And you?
-I don't. I love basketball and tennis. How about reading?
-I like to read. I read several books a week. Do you like to read?
-Me not. I like watching films . My favorite films are Harry Potter and Star Wars.
In addition to the previous, you can add the following:
-How did you spend your summer?
-We went to the sea. The town was beautiful and the sea was very warm. And you?
-I was in the village with my grandparents. We played football with my brother and swam in the lake.
-How did you spend your summer?
-We went to the sea. The city is beautiful and the sea is very warm. And you?
-I was in the village with grandparents. We played football with my brother and swam in the lake.
For 5th grade students who already have a good vocabulary base, you can combine all these dialogues and cover all these topics one by one: greetings, dating, family, animals, hobbies, etc.
What I want to say finally, my dears, is that with the help of such mini-conversations, your kids can quickly learn new words and also get rid of the fear of talking. I can give you some advice:
I recommend that all children and their parents take this course from Lingualeo « For the little ones» . This online course - in a playful and very enjoyable form - will captivate your child and make him ask you “And I also want to play English”. My daughter still likes it)), although we purchased it quite a while ago.
That's all, my dears. I hope that these materials will help you in learning the language. Moreover, you can get even more materials by subscribing to my blog newsletter. Improve your English with my help every day.
Everyone knows that you can learn English for different purposes. Someone needs to master business correspondence, someone wants to read books written in English in the original, someone wants to understand by ear the famous songs of their favorite groups, sometimes skills in translating specialized literature are required. In all these cases, direct communication skills may not be needed. But a huge number of people learn English precisely in order to communicate in it with friends, partners or with people on tourist trips abroad. In this case, the most important means for developing communication skills is a variety of dialogues in English.
As one respected university English teacher used to say when he had his students repeat the same phrases over and over again, “Unprepared speech is well-prepared speech.” This phrase, paradoxical at first glance, actually has a certain practical meaning. If you are not a native speaker, in any situation of spontaneous communication it is important for you to have in your memory a set of well-learned clichés on various topics. In this case, you will not think about composing each sentence, but all your attention will focus on the meaning of what you are talking about. That is why, when practicing communication skills, the teacher gives the task not only to read and translate dialogues on various topics, but also to memorize them.
As a rule, dialogues are composed on certain topics. Typically, dialogues in English for beginners are an introduction dialogue, a conversation about the weather (a universal means of maintaining a conversation), a conversation in a cafe, a dialogue in a store, a conversation about plans for the weekend, etc.
In any case, it is important to remember that dialogue is not just a set of phrases like “question and answer”, but also a reaction to the information of the interlocutor, and an emotional component of one degree or another. Therefore, when learning dialogues in English, audio accompaniment plays a very important role. Listening to dialogues, you not only remember phrases, but also copy the intonation pattern, which is especially important in dialogical speech.
Today we will present to your attention dialogues in English with translation, the full versions of which you can see. In this case, the dialogues will be accompanied by exercises, a detailed dictionary and grammatical explanations.
So, any communication begins with a relationship.
Hello, how are you?
Fine, thanks. And you?
Great! My name is Lima.
I am Emily. It's nice to meet you.
It's nice to meet you, too.
Are you from New York?
Yes, I am. Where are you from?
I am from here, from Bedford.
Oh, great. Can we be friends?
Hi, how are you?
OK, thank you! And you?
Amazing! My name is Lima.
I'm Emily. Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you too.
Are you from New York?
Yes. Where are you from?
I'm from here, from Bedford.
ABOUT! Wonderful. Can we be friends?
Certainly.
As you know, if you need to start a conversation with a stranger, the topic of weather will be a win-win option. This topic is international, politically correct and universal for any circle. This topic is especially popular among residents of the UK. And this is not surprising, because this country is known for its changeable weather. Therefore, a few phrases about the weather that acquaintances exchange when meeting are often just a form of greeting, and not at all a way to get some information.
Hello, Martin, lovely day, isn't it?
Absolutely wonderful - warm and clear. What's the weather forecast for tomorrow? Do you know?
Yes, it says it will be a bit cloudy in the morning. But the day will be bright and sunny.
How nice. A perfect day for an outing. I promised my family a barbecue, you know.
Great! I hope you'll enjoy it.
Hi Tom
Hello Martin, beautiful day, isn't it?
Absolutely wonderful - warm and clear. What's the forecast for tomorrow? Do not you know?
Yes, I know, they say it will be a little cloudy in the morning. But the day will be clear and sunny.
How good. A great day for a country walk. I promised my family a barbecue, you know.
Great! I hope you will enjoy.
Dialogues in a cafe or restaurant are often used in educational materials and phrase books. Having learned the basic phrases from such a dialogue, you will be able to apply this knowledge on a trip abroad. In addition, some structures and so-called politeness phrases will be useful to you in other speech situations.
Jerry: Let's go for a walk.
Lima: Have you got any ideas where we can go?
Jerry: Yes, I have. Let's go to the restaurant.
Lima: Ok. Let's go.
Waiter: Good evening. What can I do for you? What would you like to order?
Jerry: Have you got mashed potatoes?
Waiter: Yes, we have.
Jerry: Have you got any juice?
Waiter: Apple juice, tomato juice and orange juice.
Jerry: Give us orange juice, please. Have you got any ice-cream?
Waiter: Yes, we have vanilla ice-cream, chocolate ice-cream and ice-cream with topping.
Jerry: Give us one vanilla ice-cream and one chocolate ice-cream.
W: Anything else?
Jerry: That's all. Thank you.
Jerry: Let's go for a walk.
Do you have any ideas where we can go?
Jerry: Yes. Let's go to a restaurant.
Lima: Ok. Let's go to.
Waiter: Good evening. What can I do for you? What would you like to order?
Jerry: Do you have mashed potatoes?
Waiter: Yes.
Jerry: Do you have any juice?
Waiter: Apple juice, tomato juice and orange juice.
Jerry: Give us some orange juice, please. Do you have any ice cream?
Waiter: Yes. We have vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream and topping ice cream.
Jerry: Give us one vanilla ice cream and one chocolate ice cream.
Waiter: Anything else?
Jerry: That's all. Thank you.
Another popular topic for dialogues is store dialogues in English:
Emily: Hey Lima. Let's go shopping.
Lima: Hi, Em. Let's go!
Salesgirl: Good morning! Can I help you?
Emily: Good morning! What is the price of this dress?
Salesgirl: It costs one thousand dollars.
Emily: Oh, it’s a very expensive dress.
Lima: Let's go to another store.
Lima: Look at these jeans. I like them.
Salesman: Can I help you?
Lima: Can you tell me what the price of those jeans is?
Salesman: Yes. The jeans cost three hundred dollars.
Lima: Ok, I’ll take those jeans and this T-shirt.
How about a nice dress for my friend?
Salesman: This dress is very popular this season.
Emily: Ok, I'll take it. Thank you very much.
Salesman: You are welcome.
Emilia: Hello, Lima. Let's go shopping.
Lima: Hello, Em. Let's go to!
Saleswoman: Good morning! Can I help you?
Emilia Good morning! What is the price of this dress?
Saleswoman: It costs one thousand dollars.
Emilia: Oh, this is a very expensive dress.
Lima: Let's go to another store.
Lima: Look at these jeans. I like them.
Seller: Can I help you?
Lima: Can you tell me what the price of those jeans is?
Seller: Yes. Jeans cost three hundred dollars.
Lima: Okay, I'll take those jeans and that T-shirt.
How about a nice dress for my friend?
Seller: This dress is very popular this season.
Emilia: Okay, I'll take it. Thank you very much.
Seller: Please.
Dialogue between friends in English is a very frequent guest in all teaching aids. You can discuss a wide variety of topics - school affairs, family relationships, plans for the future. Such dialogues provide a lot of scope for imagination. After all, taking some ready-made audio dialogue in English as a basis, you can always “customize” it to suit yourself. And when you talk about your own experience and emotions, the material is remembered much easier.
Lima: So, have you decided where would you like to go on next holiday?
Emily: I think that I will go to my grandparents as usual. I will help them about the house.
And what about you?
Lima: I think that I will go to the seaside with my friends. Will you go with us?
Emily: What will you do there?
Lima: If the weather is fine, we will swim all the time. And I think we will go to an aqua park and maybe we will visit some excursions.
Emily: Oh, great. I think that I will join you.
Lima: Ok, I will call you.
Lima: Well, have you decided where you would like to go for your next vacation?
Emilia: I think I'll go to my grandparents, as always. I will help them around the house. What about you?
Lima: I think I'll go to the sea with my friends. Will you come with us?
Emilia: What will you do there?
Lima: If the weather is good, we will swim all the time. And I think we'll go to the water park and maybe attend some excursions.
Emilia: Oh great. I think I'll join you.
Lima: Okay, I'll call you.
We offer you a couple of colloquial phrases on one of the most common hotel topics.
I need the cheapest room in this hotel. How much is it?
We have 2 numbers. The price is 10 dollars pro night.
It`s not cheap. Sorry.
I need the cheapest room in this hotel. How much does it cost?
We have two such numbers. The price is $10.
It is not cheap. Sorry.
Business topics have become a separate subtopic in English. Today there are many courses in this profile, on online platforms there are special reference materials and entire intensive courses on this profile. We offer a short conversation about business in English:
Good morning! May I talk to Mr. Johns?
Good morning! Mr. Johns is busy at the moment. Do you mind leaving the message for him, please?
No, I don"t. It is Mr.Saimon. I"m calling to confirm our meeting.
Yes, Mr. Johns asked me to confirm!
Thank you very much for information!
Good morning! Can I hear Mr. Jones?
Good morning! Mr Jones is busy at the moment. Maybe you can leave him a message?
No thanks. This is Mr Simon. I'm calling to confirm our meeting.
Yes, Mr. Jones asked me to confirm!
Thank you very much for the information!
As noted earlier, memorizing dialogues is the key to successful communication in English. The more speech clichés you learn, the easier it will be for you to formulate your thoughts in a spontaneous conversation. If you have an interlocutor or you are learning English in a group, learning and speaking the dialogue is not a problem. Moreover, teachers usually add a creative component to the task - based on the dialogue in the textbook, compose, learn and tell your own version. However, if you are learning English on your own, not having a conversation partner makes the task somewhat more difficult. But, as you know, there are no hopeless situations. Listening to English dialogues online is the most effective method of learning. As a rule, repeated listening helps to learn all the necessary phrases, and at the same time reproduce them with the correct intonation.
An online tutorial can just become a kind of lifesaver in such a situation. Texts and dialogues (dialogues in English) on the site are voiced by professional speakers. You can choose the most comfortable method of learning for yourself - relying only on the audio version, or relying on the English or Russian version of the texts.
It wouldn’t hurt even a person far from the literary field to know how to compose a dialogue. For students, schoolchildren studying the Russian language course, and aspiring authors, this skill is simply necessary. Another situation: your child asks for help with homework. Suppose he is tasked with composing the dialogue “A Book in Our Lives” or something similar. The semantic component of the task does not cause any difficulties. But there are serious doubts about the characters’ lines, and the lines themselves were somehow not built very consistently.
In such a case, you should know how to compose a dialogue in Russian on a given topic. In this short article we will try to analyze the concept of dialogue, the basic principles of its construction and features of punctuation.
The concept of dialogue refers to the process of mutual communication. Replies during it are interspersed with response phrases with a constant change in the roles of listener and speaker. The communicative feature of dialogue is unity in expression, perception of thoughts and reaction to them, reflected in its structure. That is, the composition of the dialogue is the interconnected remarks of the interlocutors.
Without knowing how to write dialogue, a new writer is doomed to failure. After all, this literary form is one of the most common in works of art.
Each time it occurs in a specific situation, when each of the participants is alternately a listener or a speaker. Each of the dialogue lines can be considered a speech act - an action that implies a certain result.
Its main features are determined by purposefulness, moderation and adherence to certain rules. The purposefulness of speech influence refers to the hidden or explicit goals of any of the participants in the dialogue. We can talk about a message, a question, advice, an order, a command or an apology.
To achieve their own goals, the interlocutors alternately implement certain intentions, the purpose of which is to induce the other side to specific actions of a verbal nature. Inviting information is expressed either directly in the form of an imperative verb, or like: “Could you?” etc.
In case of non-compliance with these rules, a violation of mutual understanding occurs. An example would be the speech of one of the interlocutors, which is incomprehensible to the other (with a predominance of unknown terminology or unclear articulation).
At the beginning of the dialogue, a greeting is implied and quite often the question is asked about the possibility of the conversation itself: “Can I talk to you?”, “May I distract you?” etc. Next, most often there are questions about business, health and life in general (most often this refers to informal conversations). You should use these rules if, for example, you need to compose a dialogue between friends. After this, messages about the immediate purpose of the conversation usually arrive.
The topic is subject to further development. How to create a dialogue that will look logical and natural? Its structure involves the speaker's information being presented in portions, interspersed with remarks from the interlocutor expressing his reaction. At some point, the latter may seize the initiative in the conversation.
The end of the conversation consists of final phrases of a generalizing nature and, as a rule, is accompanied by so-called etiquette phrases, followed by farewell.
Ideally, each topic of dialogue should be developed before moving on to the next. If any of the interlocutors does not support the topic, this is a sign of a lack of interest in it or in trying to end the dialogue as a whole.
When building speech behavior, both interlocutors are required to have understanding, a certain ability to penetrate the thoughts and mood of the other, to grasp his motives. Without all this, successful communication is impossible. Dialogue techniques involve different communication models with a variety of means for expressing ideas, feelings and thoughts, as well as mastering tactical communication skills.
According to general rules, each question posed requires its own answer. An incentive response is expected in the form of a word or action. Narration involves response communication in the form of a counter-remark or focused attention.
The latter term refers to such an absence of speech when the listener, with the help of non-verbal signs (gestures, interjections, facial expressions), makes it clear that the speech is heard and understood.
To compose a dialogue in writing, you need to know the basic rules for its proper construction. So, let's look at the basic rules by which you can compose a dialogue of 4 lines or more. Both the simplest and quite confusing with a complex plot.
Many authors use it in their works of art. Dialogue differs from direct speech in the absence of quotation marks and a new paragraph for each remark. If a remark is given in quotation marks, then most often it is implied that this is the hero’s thought. All this is written according to fairly strict rules, which are described below.
When composing dialogue, it is very important to use punctuation marks correctly. But first, a little on the topic of terminology:
A line is a phrase spoken by the characters out loud or to themselves.
Sometimes you can do without the words of the author - usually when the conversation consists of replicas of only two people (for example, you have a task - to compose a dialogue with a friend). In this case, each statement is preceded by a dash and followed by a space. At the end of a phrase there is a period, an ellipsis, an exclamation point or a question mark.
When each remark is accompanied by the words of the author, the situation is a little more complicated: the period should be replaced with a comma (the remaining characters remain in their places), then a space, a dash and again a space should be added. After which the author’s words are given (exclusively in small letters).
Sometimes the author’s words can be placed before the replica. If at the very beginning of the dialogue they are not highlighted in a separate paragraph, a colon is placed after them, and the replica begins on a new line. In the same way, the next (response) replica should begin on a new line.
Composing a dialogue in Russian is not the easiest task. The most difficult case is when the author's words are placed inside a replica. This grammatical construction is most often accompanied by errors, especially among novice authors. This is due to a large number of options, two main of which: the sentence is broken by the words of the author, or these very words are placed between adjacent sentences.
In both cases, the beginning of the remark is exactly the same as in example with with the author’s words after it (a dash, a space, the remark itself, again a space, a dash, another space and the author’s words written in small letters). The further part is already different. If the author’s words are intended to be placed inside one whole sentence, a comma is required after these words and the further remark continues with a small letter after the dash. If it is decided to place the author’s words between two separate sentences, the first of them should end with a period. And after the obligatory dash, the next remark is written with a capital letter.
Sometimes there is an option (rather rarely) when there are two attributive verbs in the author’s words. In the same way, they can be located before or after the replica, and everything together represents a single structure, written on a separate line. In this case, the second part of direct speech begins with a colon and a dash.
In works of literature you can sometimes find even more complex constructions, but we won’t go into them now.
Having mastered the basic rules of construction, you can similarly, for example, compose a language, etc.
Let's move on from punctuation directly to the content of dialogues. The advice of experienced writers is to minimize both lines and the words of the author. You should remove all unnecessary descriptions and phrases that do not carry any useful information, as well as unnecessary embellishments (this applies not only to dialogue). Of course, the final choice remains with the author. It is important that at the same time he does not lose his sense of proportion.
Too long continuous dialogues are highly discouraged. This unnecessarily drags out the story. After all, it is understood that the characters are having a conversation in real time, and the plot of the work as a whole must develop much faster. If a lengthy dialogue is necessary, it should be diluted with a description of the emotions of the characters and any accompanying actions.
Phrases that do not carry information useful for the development of the plot can clog up any dialogue. It should sound as natural as possible. The use of complex sentences or those expressions that are never found in colloquial speech is highly discouraged (of course, unless the author’s intention suggests otherwise).
The easiest way to check the naturalness of the composed lines is by reading the dialogue out loud. All the extra long pieces along with pretentious words will inevitably hurt the ear. At the same time, it is much more difficult to check their presence with your eyes. This rule applies in the same way to any text, not just dialogue.
Another common mistake is the excess of attributive words or the monotony of their use. If possible, you should remove as many author’s comments as possible like: he said, she answered, etc. This should definitely be done in cases where it is already clear which of the characters the line belongs to.
Attributive verbs should not be repeated, their sameness hurts the ear. Sometimes you can replace them with phrases describing the actions of the characters followed by a remark. The Russian language has a huge number of synonyms for the verb said, colored in a variety of emotional shades.
Attribution should not be mixed with the main text. In the absence of an attributive (or replacing it) word, the dialogue turns into ordinary text and is formatted separately from the replica.
By adhering to the rules we have outlined, you can easily compose any dialogue.
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