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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 21 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Water Through the Ceiling

Water drips from the ceiling onto a piano and the neighbour upstairs has noticed nothing: my ceiling is leaking, it's the second time, perhaps the roof, you're on the second floor, oh the tap, turn it off or I'll have to complain, I'll pay for the piano.

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THE STORY

The piano workshop in a courtyard off Chistye Prudy, a March afternoon, water dripping from the ceiling. Sam goes up to the neighbour's door. Sam and Nina Pavlovna are polite with each other, and he calls her by her name and patronymic.

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Нина Павловна, у меня течёт потолок.NEE-na PAV-lav-na, u mi-NYA ti-CHOT pa-ta-LOK.Nina Pavlovna, my ceiling is leaking.
Течёт? Я ничего не заметила.ti-CHOT? ya ni-chi-VO nye za-MYE-ti-la.Leaking? I haven't noticed anything.
это уже второй разE-ta u-ZHE fta-ROY RASthis is already the second time
Прямо на пианино. Это уже второй раз.PRYA-ma na pi-a-NEE-na. E-ta u-ZHE fta-ROY RAS.Right onto a piano. This is already the second time.
Может быть, это с крыши.MO-zhet BYT, E-ta s KRY-shi.Perhaps it's from the roof.
Вы на втором этаже, а крыша на шестом.vy na fta-ROM e-ta-ZHE, a KRY-sha na shi-STOM.You're on the second floor, and the roof is on the sixth.
Ой. Кран.OY. KRAN.Oh. The tap.
мне придётся жаловатьсяmnye pri-DYOT-sa ZHA-la-vat-saI'll have to complain, word for word to me it will come to complain
Закройте кран. А то мне придётся жаловаться.za-KROY-tye KRAN. a TO mnye pri-DYOT-sa ZHA-la-vat-sa.Turn off the tap, or I'll have to complain.
Не надо. Я закрою, а за пианино заплачу.nye NA-da. ya za-KRO-yu, a za pi-a-NEE-na za-pla-CHOO.No need. I'll turn it off and pay for the piano.