Podcast Ep. 24 Vid. 1
Can you spot our new verb from this lesson?
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My gosh! Do you guys know that your refrigerator isn’t working?
Вчера работал. (We’ll learn this form in Ep. #25)
It was working yesterday.
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Podcast Ep. 24 Vid. 2
When friends greet each other what do they say?
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Привет Нил!
Хлеб?
Bread?
Конечно…
Of course…
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Podcast Ep. 24 Vid. 3
Here’s another clip from that Russian TV show called LONDONGRAD. Can you translate it?
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Боря, как твои дела?
Boria, how’re things with you?
У меня всё хорошо. Кушаю. Как у тебя? Всё получилось?
At me all good. I’m eating. How (are things) at you? Did everything work out?
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Podcast Ep. 24 Vid. 4
Here’s a clip from a popular Russian comedy called “Сваты” (Matchmakers).
1)Can you translate the whole thing?
2) Listen for a diminutive form of “dochka” (daughter)
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Hello, daughter! Well, how’re you guys there? (дочечка is a the diminutive form of ДОЧКА / daughter).
Всё нормально, Мам.
Everything’s fine, Mom.
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Podcast Ep. 24 Vid. 5
How would you translate was Jin says here?
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It’s ready. Everything is working.
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Podcast Ep. 24 Vid. 6
All I want you to do here is count the “нормально”s. (He’s explaining that, before his wife left him he’d come home, ask how’re things, and she’d say, “Fine…”)
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that is, up to the moment of your breakup, you and her had…eh…everything was normal?
Да, да, конечно! Конечно! Я прихожу домой, ну я спрашиваю, “Как дела?” Она говорит, “Нормально.” Ну, я там…как..что…Нормально! Она всё “Нормально.”.н– Вот.
Yes, yes, of course! Of course! I come home, well and I ask, “How’re things?” She says, “Fine.” Well, I’m like, (mumbling)…Fine. She’s all, “Fine.”
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