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🇷🇺 Russian · Advanced Level 3

PART 3 · LESSON 25 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Twenty Minutes on a Platform

A platform stop in Siberia: twenty minutes, we'll make it, pine nuts, how much, three hundred a bag and smoked fish too, two bags before the train leaves, as soon as it whistles run, the conductor won't wait, we'll make it if the queue moves, take your change, it's whistling.

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THE STORY

A long platform at a station in Siberia, the train standing twenty minutes, women with bags of pine nuts and smoked fish along the carriages. Dima and Sam are friends; Sam is polite with the vendor.

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Двадцать минут. Успеем.DVA-tsat mi-NOOT. us-PYE-yem.Twenty minutes. We'll make it.
Сколько стоим?SKOL-ka sta-EEM?How long is the stop?
Кедровые орехи, почём?kid-RO-vy-ye a-RYE-khi, pa-CHOM?Pine nuts, how much?
Триста пакет, рыба копчёная тоже.TREES-ta pa-KYET, RY-ba kap-CHO-na-ya TO-zhe.Three hundred a bag, smoked fish too.
пока поезд не ушёлpa-KA PO-yest nye u-SHOLbefore the train leaves, word for word while the train has not left
Два пакета и рыбу, пока поезд не ушёл.DVA pa-KYE-ta i RY-bu, pa-KA PO-yest nye u-SHOL.Two bags and a fish, before the train leaves.
как только свистнетkak TOL-ka SVEEST-nyetas soon as it whistles
Как только свистнет, бегите.kak TOL-ka SVEEST-nyet, bye-GEE-tye.As soon as it whistles, run.
Проводник сказал, ждать не будет.pra-vad-NEEK ska-ZAL, ZHDAT nye BOO-dyet.The conductor said he won't wait.
Успеем, если очередь идёт.us-PYE-yem, YES-li O-che-ryet i-DYOT.We'll make it, if the queue moves.

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