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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 17 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Not in Front of the Child

Picking up Masha at Galina Petrovna's: you said the pancake word in front of the child, sorry, habit, in the band, fine, here we don't say that, and dough, money is money, a car is a car, and very, not terribly, Mum, he talks like all Moscow, exactly, let him talk better than Moscow, yes, Galina Petrovna, very good, Galina Petrovna.

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THE STORY

Galina Petrovna's flat near Sokolniki on a December evening, Masha asleep in the next room while Sam and Katya pick her up. Sam says the friendly you to Galina Petrovna now but still calls her by name and patronymic; Katya calls her Mum.

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Сэм, ты сказал «блин» при ребёнке.SEM, ty ska-ZAL BLEEN pri ri-BYON-kye.Sam, you said the pancake word in front of the child.
Прости, Галина Петровна. Привычка.pras-TEE, ga-LEE-na pi-TROV-na. pri-VYCH-ka.Sorry, Galina Petrovna. Habit.
В группе можно. Здесь так не говорят.v GROO-pye MOZH-na. ZDYES tak nye ga-va-RYAT.In the band, fine. Here, we don't say that.
А «бабки»?a BAP-ki?And dough?
Деньги это деньги. И «очень», а не «жутко».DYEN-gi E-ta DYEN-gi. i O-chen, a nye ZHOOT-ka.Money is money. And very, not terribly.
Мам, он говорит как вся Москва.MAM, on ga-va-REET kak FSYA mask-VA.Mum, he talks like all Moscow.
Пусть говоритPOOST ga-va-REETlet him talk: the little word for let, then the verb
Вот именно. Пусть говорит лучше Москвы.VOT EE-min-na. POOST ga-va-REET LOOCH-she mask-VY.Exactly. Let him talk better than Moscow.
Да, Галина Петровна. Очень хорошо, Галина Петровна.DA, ga-LEE-na pi-TROV-na. O-chen kha-ra-SHO, ga-LEE-na pi-TROV-na.Yes, Galina Petrovna. Very good, Galina Petrovna.