It's easy enough for me to point out the mistakes Russians typically make in English but I am having a hard time pinpointing the mistakes English speakers typically make in Russian (and the Internet has been pretty useless here).

I am looking for the most common errors (besides not declining words or using the wrong case ending).

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Yeah, sovershenii vs nesoversheni vid...

Yeah, sovershenii vs nesoversheni vid...

that's why it's a pain in the ass ;)

No.

ah, yes, 'pisat'

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Yeah sure, mine I KNOW well, but I don't know if all my typical mistakes are all that typical to other English speakers writing in Russian.

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Is that a typical mistake? Or is that just some cute freaking thing one person does? :)

Like

- Oh, there's another restaurant! Alex, what is 'pektopa'? How do you read it in Russian?
- That's 'restoran'.
- Okay, sure I understand it's a restaurant. But how does that 'pektopa' sound in Russian?

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Another common one:

"(За) Ваше здововье" vs "На здоровье"

а также

Fourteen days vs. Две недели
48 hours vs. двое суток

И у немцев то же самое :)

"fortnight" sounds better

Точно, это я писал об английском языке, а думал о немецком ))

LOL... It took me a while to get that one! "Cop" = "мусор" ))

don't laugh too hard!!! :)

Sorry, Chris, but I just had to laugh... lol ))

во дворе - inside the area near the house - backyard or the common area behind the high-rise, including the playground.
на дворе - on the surface/territory of the mentioned above area (those expressions are frequently mixed)
на улице - on the street

уборная vs. туалет - the same in many cases. The first is old-stylish. This word is used for the tiring house - the actors room, but it is the high style.
аэропорт vs. аэродром - the first is a real airport, the second is mainly a landing strip
штанишки vs. трусы - the second goes directly on the naked butt, the first is the second layer.
мячики vs. яйца - the first have nothing to do with the testicles. The second is bingo.

VCNG123, борщ действительно называется borscht - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borscht.

You probably know not to use "пойдем выйдем" then... Unless you want to get into trouble lol ;)

+++аэродром =/= a facility for military aircraft.

The link may be given by anyone... this doesn'n make any sense (wiki is no final authority)... all I'm saying is that there is no T in russian. And Borsh with T sounds awkward. Comprendes?

А Вы в курсе, что babushka - это платок? Справляйтесь в толковых словарях английского.

the "shch" sound is notoriously difficult for English-speakers to learn to pronounce, hence "Borsht" and Khrushshev (pronounced "Kroost-chyOv" by most). No point in going to war over such things, is there?

Вы сказали, что нейтив сослался на английский толковый словарь. Его можно понять, даже если Вам не очень хочется это делать. Borscht - одно из таких слов. На самом деле большинство слов при заимствовании коверкаются, и зачастую не только по произношению, но и по даже смыслу. Отсюда и "ложные друзья переводчика", и сложности при изучении языка, и многое другое. Неужели Вы не уловили намек на это из моего замечания?

Some time ago I translated pretty much of a spoken English (the guy was from Finland). He had troubles even with my name, not borscht. I told him my short name - Sasha. For six months he never pronounced it properly - It was either "Sasa" or something between "Schascha" and "Shasha". No matter how hard we both tried to make him pronounce this thing properly :) I mean, he's just never had to pronounce this combination of sounds, neither in English, nor in Finnish. I don't think that's really a problem.

"(За) Ваше здововье" vs "На здоровье"

Наверное, просто не существует ни одного иностранца, который это правильно-то говорит. А все фильмы...

А еще один иностранец выучил фразу "будем поглядеть" и всё время ею щеголял.

Ещё для коллекции: red dog - красная собака (instead of рыжая).

it depends. One guy from N. Carolina who studies Russian told me he was fond of his KASHKA (it sounded like кашка). It turned out to be his КОШКА.

и так для смеха (так как это был единичный случай), один знакомый иностранец рассказал, что как-то в магазине попросил "собака сок", а хотел яблочного :)

I don't think any of us have that one down. I have been making mistakes with that for the last 9 years. :)

But "собака сок" I really don't get. Fruedian slip?

Грузин, гуляя по Москве, подходит к ларьку, где продают воду и спрашивает продавщицу:
- У вас воды есть?
- Не воды, а вода.
- Ну налей стакан вода.
- Не вода, а воды.
- Эээ, женшина, ты тут вода торгуешь или грамматиком?

My modest input: some foreigners have problems with colloquial Russian words like "идет", "давай". My boss once couldn't understand why we say "idiot/идиот" all the time. This "идиот" turned out to be "идет" (expression of consent). :-)

I know what you mean about шурин and деверь... I never knew what of of these really meant, since my extended family wasn't err... too extended. I simply didn't have any use for these words. I still don't know what золовка means... and too lazy to google. ;)