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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Floor Is as It Is

The viewing with the landlord, a shoemaker's closed since summer: sixty metres and a separate entrance, what was here, a shoe repair and the man retired, the floor isn't level, the floor is as it is, a piano weighs three hundred kilos and the floor has to be levelled, that's the tenant's business, and the damp in the corner, dried out in summer, the windows replaced last year.

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THE STORY

A ground-floor shoemaker's in a courtyard off Pokrovka, a weekday afternoon in October, the landlord with the keys, Dima beside Sam. Sam and Dima are polite with the landlord, who is polite with them.

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Шестьдесят метров, отдельный вход.shiz-di-SYAT MYE-traf, at-DYEL-ny FKHOT.Sixty metres, a separate entrance.
А что здесь было?a SHTO ZDYES BY-la?What was here?
ушёл на пенсиюoo-SHOL na PYEN-si-yuretired, word for word went off onto pension
Ремонт обуви. Мастер ушёл на пенсию.ri-MONT O-boo-vi. MAS-tyer oo-SHOL na PYEN-si-yu.A shoe repair. The man retired.
Пол неровный.POL ni-ROV-ny.The floor isn't level.
Пол какой есть.POL ka-KOY YEST.The floor is as it is.
пол нужно выровнятьPOL NOOZH-na VY-rav-nyatthe floor has to be levelled
Пианино весит триста килограммов. Пол нужно выровнять.pi-a-NEE-na VYE-sit TREES-ta ki-la-GRA-maf. POL NOOZH-na VY-rav-nyat.A piano weighs three hundred kilos. The floor has to be levelled.
Это дело арендатора.E-ta DYE-la a-rin-DA-ta-ra.That's the tenant's business.
А сырость в углу?a SY-rast v oo-GLOO?And the damp in the corner?

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