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🇷🇺 Russian · Beginner Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Baba Zina

A gate in the village near Suzdal, where Baba Zina meets Baba Valya after forty years and asks about Sam: is it you, it's me, forty years, who's this, your grandson, no, this is Sam, how old are you, I'm thirty, I'm eighty-three, Valya's eighty-two, you're the older one, come in.

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THE STORY

A wooden gate in the village near Suzdal, a June afternoon; Baba Zina, eighty-three, has come out to see who is on the road. The two old friends say the friendly you to each other; Baba Zina says it to Sam too, and he answers her politely.

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Валя! Это ты?VA-lya! E-ta TY?Valya! Is it you?
Это я, Зина. Сорок лет!E-ta YA, ZEE-na. SO-rak LYET!It's me, Zina. Forty years!
А это кто? Твой внук?a E-ta KTO? TVOY VNOOK?And who's this? Your grandson?
Нет, это Сэм. Он американец.NYET, E-ta SEM. on a-me-ri-KA-nets.No, this is Sam. He's American.
Американец! Сколько тебе лет, Сэм?a-me-ri-KA-nets! SKOL-ka te-BYE LYET, SEM?An American! How old are you, Sam?
Ей восемьдесят два года.YEY VO-sem-de-syat DVA GO-da.She's eighty-two.
Ему тридцать один год.ye-MOO TRID-tsat a-DEEN GOT.He's thirty-one.
Мне тридцать лет.MNYE TRID-tsat LYET.I'm thirty.
Вале восемьдесят дваVA-lye VO-sem-de-syat DVAValya is eighty-two, word for word to Valya
Мне восемьдесят три, а Вале восемьдесят два.MNYE VO-sem-de-syat TREE, a VA-lye VO-sem-de-syat DVA.I'm eighty-three, Valya's eighty-two.

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