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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 20 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Nine of Us to Irkutsk

The ticket window at Yaroslavsky station: nine tickets to Irkutsk, please, how many adults, eight adults and a child, three months old, the child travels free, without a berth, two compartments for four and one lower berth, the sixteenth of August, at twenty-three fifty, how many days is the journey, almost four, you arrive on the morning of the fourth day.

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THE STORY

The ticket hall at Yaroslavsky station on a weekday in August, Sam at the window with Dima, the family's passports in a folder. Sam and Dima are polite with the ticket clerk, who is polite with them; Sam and Dima say the friendly you to each other.

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Девять билетов до Иркутска, пожалуйста.DYE-vyat bi-LYE-taf da ir-KOOT-ska, pa-ZHA-lus-ta.Nine tickets to Irkutsk, please.
Сколько взрослых?SKOL-ka VZROS-lykh?How many adults?
Восемь взрослых и ребёнок, три месяца.VO-sim VZROS-lykh i ri-BYO-nak, TREE MYE-sya-tsa.Eight adults and a child, three months old.
Ребёнок едет бесплатно, без места.ri-BYO-nak YE-dit bis-PLAT-na, byez MYES-ta.The child travels free, without a berth.
Нас девятеро.nas DYE-vi-ti-ra.There are nine of us.
на четверыхna chit-vi-RYKHfor four people: the people-number after the for word
Два купе на четверых и одно нижнее место.DVA ku-PE na chit-vi-RYKH i ad-NO NEEZH-ni-ye MYES-ta.Two compartments for four and one lower berth.
Шестнадцатого августа, в двадцать три пятьдесят.shis-NAT-tsa-ta-va AV-gus-ta, v DVAT-tsat TREE pi-di-SYAT.The sixteenth of August, at twenty-three fifty.
Сколько дней ехать?SKOL-ka DNYEY YE-khat?How many days is the journey?
утром четвёртого дняOO-tram chit-VYOR-ta-va DNYAon the morning of the fourth day

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