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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Make yourself + adj

Can you make yourself understood in Russian?

Does it ask whether you understand in Russian?
  

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Hi To me, it's the other way around: when you speak Russian, do they understand what you say? Are you able to communicate in Russian? Anonymous Does it ask whether you understand in Russian?

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To me, it's the other way around: when you speak Russian, do they understand what you say? Are you able to communicate in Russian?
AnonymousDoes it ask whether you understand in Russian?
This should be: "... understand in Russian?"
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AnonymousCan you make yourself understood in Russian?Does it ask whether you understand in Russian?

It asks if a Russian could understand if you spoke to him in that language. It says nothing to the ability to understand, but one would assume that you can understand Russian yourself.