Урок 57. Нейтральный стиль. Lesson 57. The Neutral Register.

This is the norm of an educated speaker, the standard form of the language that is used for polite but not especially formal communication. It might be used in broadcasting, among colleagues at work, by educated people who do not know each other very well, by teachers to their pupils. It is the register that the foreign student as a rule first learns and which is most suitable for his or her first official or social contacts with native speakers.