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🇷🇺 Russian · Beginner Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Where Are You From?

At the kitchen table Galina Petrovna asks where Sam is from: from America, from Portland, do you understand Russian, a little, I speak English, and you, mum speaks well, you speak well.

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THE STORY

The kitchen table of the flat near Sokolniki, after the pancakes. Galina Petrovna asks the questions and Sam says the polite you to her; Katya, his friend, cuts in now and then.

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Сэм, вы откуда?SEM, VY at-KOO-da?Sam, where are you from?
Ты откуда?TY at-KOO-da?Where are you from?
из Америкиiz a-MYE-ri-kifrom America
Я из Америки. Из Портленда.YA iz a-MYE-ri-ki. is PORT-len-da.I'm from America. From Portland.
Я из Москвы.YA iz mask-VY.I'm from Moscow.
А по-русски вы понимаете?a pa-ROOS-ki VY pa-ni-MA-ye-tye?And do you understand Russian?
по-английскиpa-an-GLEE-skiin English
Немного. Я говорю по-английски. А вы?nem-NO-ga. YA ga-va-RYU pa-an-GLEE-ski. a VY?A little. I speak English. And you?
Тоже немного.TO-zhe nem-NO-ga.A little too.
А мама хорошо говорит!a MA-ma kha-ra-SHO ga-va-REET!But mum speaks well!

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