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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 18 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

An Elephant in a China Shop

A rehearsal that goes wrong in the basement: stop, what was that, a solo, that was an elephant in a china shop, and I'm a cow on ice, I know, don't say it, I've said it a million times, listen to each other, we haven't rehearsed properly for a hundred years, a hundred years is one week, one week, Tolik, from the top, and don't rush.

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THE STORY

The basement rehearsal room near Sokolniki on a December evening, the band two weeks from a gig and playing badly. Lyokha, Nastya, Tolik and Sam all say the friendly you to each other.

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Стоп! Что это было?STOP! SHTO E-ta BY-la?Stop! What was that?
Соло?SO-la?A solo?
слон в посудной лавкеSLON f pa-SOOD-nay LAF-kyean elephant in a china shop, word for word in a dish shop
Это был слон в посудной лавке.E-ta byl SLON f pa-SOOD-nay LAF-kye.That was an elephant in a china shop.
А я корова на льду, знаю, не говори.a YA ka-RO-va na LDOO, ZNA-yu, nye ga-va-REE.And I'm a cow on ice, I know, don't say it.
слушайте друг другаSLOO-shay-tye DROOK DROO-galisten to each other, to more than one friend: friend, friend's
Я миллион раз говорил: слушайте друг друга.ya mi-li-ON RAS ga-va-REEL: SLOO-shay-tye DROOK DROO-ga.I've said it a million times: listen to each other.
Я умираю. Перерыв?ya u-mi-RA-yu. pi-ri-RYF?I'm dying. A break?
Мы сто лет нормально не репетировали.my STO LYET nar-MAL-na nye ri-pi-TEE-ra-va-li.We haven't rehearsed properly for a hundred years.
Сто лет это одна неделя.STO LYET E-ta ad-NA ni-DYE-lya.A hundred years is one week.

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