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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Yes or No

What the neighbour wanted all along: you're busy of course, not today, there's a piano nobody has touched since my husband, you mean you'd like me to tune it, I'm not asking and don't want to trouble you, Nina Pavlovna do you want it yes or no, yes but it can't be tuned any more, everything can be tuned, tomorrow at eleven.

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THE STORY

The piano workshop off Chistye Prudy, a quiet afternoon in May, Nina Pavlovna in the doorway. She and Sam are polite with each other, and he calls her by her name and patronymic.

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Вы заняты, конечно.vy ZA-nya-ty, ka-NYESH-na.You're busy, of course.
Сегодня нет, Нина Павловна.si-VOD-nya NYET, NEE-na PAV-lav-na.Not today, Nina Pavlovna.
У меня пианино. После мужа его никто не трогал.u mi-NYA pi-a-NEE-na. POS-lye MOO-zha yi-VO nik-TO nye TRO-gal.I have a piano. Nobody has touched it since my husband.
то естьTO YESTyou mean, word for word that is
То есть вы хотите, чтобы я его настроил?TO YEST vy kha-TEE-tye, SHTO-by ya yi-VO na-STRO-il?You mean you'd like me to tune it?
Я не прошу. Не хочу вас беспокоить.ya nye pra-SHOO. nye kha-CHOO vas bis-pa-KO-it.I'm not asking. I don't want to trouble you.
Нина Павловна, вы хотите: да или нет?NEE-na PAV-lav-na, vy kha-TEE-tye: DA EE-li NYET?Nina Pavlovna, do you want it: yes or no?
Да. Но его уже не настроить.DA. no yi-VO u-ZHE nye na-STRO-it.Yes. But it can't be tuned any more.
Всё можно настроить. Завтра в одиннадцать.VSYO MOZH-na na-STRO-it. ZAF-tra v a-DEE-na-tsat.Everything can be tuned. Tomorrow at eleven.