Skip to content
fluentbyear
🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Baba Valya's Table

In the dacha kitchen Baba Valya counts for the wedding: how many people, forty or forty-five, twenty-five chairs short, shall I bring chairs from the neighbours, no, Vova, and ten kilos of cucumbers, where do forty guests sleep, in the hayloft like in my day, let me help, you'll help if you don't get in the way.

Audio instruction: English

Report a problem with this lesson

This lesson needs a subscription.

The first 2 lessons of each level are free. One subscription unlocks every other lesson, in the app and on the website.

See the plans

Already subscribed? Sign in. Or listen to lesson 1 for free.

THE STORY

The dacha kitchen in June, a notebook and a pencil on the oilcloth. Katya and Sam are friends; Sam is polite with Baba Valya, who says the friendly you to him.

Flashcards

The words and phrases of this lesson, one card each. Best after you’ve listened.

Create your account.

Create a free account and confirm your email to keep the cards you like and the decks you make.

Already have an account? Sign in

Words and phrases

The lesson is for your ears. Open this afterwards, to see what you learned.
Сколько человек?SKOL-ka chi-la-VYEK?How many people?
Сорок, бабушка. Может, сорок пять.SO-rak, BA-bush-ka. MO-zhet, SO-rak PYAT.Forty, Granny. Maybe forty-five.
двадцати пяти стульевdva-tsa-TEE pi-TEE STOO-lyeftwenty-five chairs, all in the of-form after not enough
Не хватает двадцати пяти стульев.nye khva-TA-yet dva-tsa-TEE pi-TEE STOO-lyef.Twenty-five chairs short.
Принести стулья от соседей?pri-nis-TEE STOO-lya at sa-SYE-dyey?Shall I bring chairs from the neighbours?
десять килограммов огурцовDYE-syat ki-la-GRAM-maf a-gur-TSOFten kilos of cucumbers
Нет, Вова. И десять килограммов огурцов.NYET, VO-va. i DYE-syat ki-la-GRAM-maf a-gur-TSOF.No, Vova. And ten kilos of cucumbers.
А где спят сорок гостей?a GDYE SPYAT SO-rak gas-TYEY?And where do forty guests sleep?
На сеновале, как в моё время.na si-na-VA-lye, kak v ma-YO VRYE-mya.In the hayloft, like in my day.
Давайте я помогу.da-VAY-tye ya pa-ma-GOO.Let me help.

1 more card in this lesson. Subscribe to see and study them all. See the plans. Already subscribed? Sign in.