рассказать о себе
“рассказать о себе” (rasskazat o sebe) — to tell about oneself in Russian. Phrase, level A2. Rasskazhi o sebe korotko — "tell about yourself briefly" — o plus the location form of yourself. In a live sentence: “Расскажи о себе коротко” — Tell about yourself briefly. Written with the characters р, а, с, с, к, а, з, а, т, ь, о, с… A word from the everyday Russian course, level A2.
In short
| Written in Russian | рассказать о себе |
| Read in Latin letters | rasskazat o sebe |
| Translation | to tell about oneself |
| Part of speech | phrase |
| Level | A2 |
Why it looks that way
Rasskazhi o sebe korotko — "tell about yourself briefly" — o plus the location form of yourself.
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- Расскажи о себе короткоRasskazhi o sebe korotkoTell about yourself briefly
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “to tell about oneself” in Russian?
«рассказать о себе», read “rasskazat o sebe”. In a live sentence: “Расскажи о себе коротко” — Tell about yourself briefly. Phrase, level A2; written with the characters р, а, с, с, к, а, з, а, т, ь, о, с…
How is “рассказать о себе” written in Latin letters?
rasskazat o sebe. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Rasskazhi o sebe korotko — "tell about yourself briefly" — o plus the location form of yourself. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.