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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 10 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Not That I'm Complaining

Signing day in the courtyard, the keys in Sam's pocket and the neighbour on the bench: so you're the new one, a musician, a piano tuner, a workshop, I'm not saying anything but the shoemaker was quiet, my windows are right above you, not that I'm complaining, I'll work from ten to seven, some people, as it were, sleep till eleven, then from eleven, Nina Pavlovna, I didn't ask for anything.

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THE STORY

The courtyard off Pokrovka on signing day, late October, the landlord gone with his copy of the lease and Nina Pavlovna, seventy, on the bench under her own window. Sam and she are polite with each other and call each other by name and patronymic.

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Значит, вы новый? Музыкант?ZNA-chit, vy NO-vy? moo-zy-KANT?So you're the new one? A musician?
Настройщик пианино. Мастерская.na-STROY-shchik pi-a-NEE-na. mas-tyer-SKA-ya.A piano tuner. A workshop.
я ничего не говорю, ноya ni-chi-VO nye ga-va-RYU, noI'm not saying anything, but: the first hedge
Я ничего не говорю, но сапожник был тихий.ya ni-chi-VO nye ga-va-RYU, no sa-POZH-nik byl TEE-khiy.I'm not saying anything, but the shoemaker was quiet.
не то чтобы я жаловаласьnye TO SHTO-by ya ZHA-la-va-lasnot that I'm complaining: the second hedge, said by a woman
Мои окна прямо над вами. Не то чтобы я жаловалась.ma-EE OK-na PRYA-ma nad VA-mi. nye TO SHTO-by ya ZHA-la-va-las.My windows are right above you. Not that I'm complaining.
Я буду работать с десяти до семи.ya BOO-doo ra-BO-tat s di-si-TEE da si-MEE.I'll work from ten to seven.
Ну... Некоторые, так сказать, спят до одиннадцати.NOO... NYE-ka-ta-ry-ye, TAK ska-ZAT, SPYAT da a-DEEN-nat-tsa-ti.Well. Some people, as it were, sleep till eleven.
Тогда с одиннадцати, Нина Павловна.tag-DA s a-DEEN-nat-tsa-ti, NEE-na PAV-lav-na.Then from eleven, Nina Pavlovna.
Я ничего не просила.ya ni-chi-VO nye pra-SEE-la.I didn't ask for anything.