Podcast – Russian Made Easy Full Episodes

This is your final exam for the Russian Made Easy podcast. Review all the major vocabulary and grammar points learned throughout the series.

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Привет! And welcome to episode 29 of Russian Made Easy. In today’s podcast we’re going to master the sixth and final verb conjugation in Russian. I mentioned this at the end of the last episode: Did you figure out which one we’re missing?

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What do they mean? Well, here’s the set up. You’re watching a soap opera with some friends. Unable to wait for a commercial, you go to use the bathroom and call out to your friends, “What just happened?” Well, it turns out that the character Vadim gave a beer to John, so your friend says:

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Привет! And welcome to episode 27 of Russian Made Easy. Как дела? Всё нормально? Lots to cover today, so I’m going to jump right to it. Imagine you’ve just came home from the mall. You set your packages down on the table and your roommate asks you:

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Привет! And welcome to episode 26 of Russian Made Easy. Как дела? Всё нормально? Right to biz today. Please repeat after the speaker… Джон сказал ДА. Линда сказала НЕТ. Repeat just this part, now:

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Привет! And welcome to episode 25 of Russian Made Easy. Как у тебя дела? Всё нормально? Это очень хорошо! Did you understand what I said? Let’s look at it all word by word: Как у тебя дела? Literally: How at you things? In normal English we’d say, “How’re things with you?”

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Привет! And welcome to episode 24 of Russian Made Easy. Today we’ll be beefing up on our greetings and small talk. So let’s first start by repeating the word I opened this podcast with:

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Welcome to episode 23. I’d like to start right off the bat with a question. Please say, in Russian: This is your pizza. Did you say: Это твоя пицца. Or did you say: Это ваша пицца. That is, did you use: Твоя or Ваша? Ideally you should’ve asked: Who are we talking to? Are we…

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Welcome to episode 22 of Russian Made Easy. We’ll start today by following up on the formal forms we learned last time. And then we’ll get to today’s main topic which is adjectives.

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If you’re just joining us, please know that the episodes are cumulative. Each one builds on the material learned in all the previous episodes. Speaking of which, in that last episode, in that mid-term exam, we picked up quite a few new words and phrases, so I’d like to start by reviewing those.

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