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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 1

PART 2 · LESSON 19 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The New Year Market

A tree and mandarins at the New Year market with Dima: happy coming one, happy coming what, New Year, you say it from the twentieth, happy coming one, boys, a little tree, mandarins, a tree, a small one, and three kilos of mandarins, the small ones are gone, take this one, saw a bit off, we'll take it, and on the thirty-first, the banya, like in the film.

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THE STORY

A New Year market by the metro in Sokolniki in the last week of December, snow on the trees for sale and mandarins in crates. Dima and Sam say the friendly you to each other and the polite you to the shop assistant.

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С наступающим!s na-stu-PA-yu-shchim!Happy coming one!
С наступающим чем?s na-stu-PA-yu-shchim CHEM?Happy coming what?
Новым годом. Так говорят с двадцатого.NO-vym GO-dam. TAK ga-va-RYAT z dva-TSA-ta-va.New Year. You say it from the twentieth.
А Дед Мороз, Снегурочка, оливье?a DYED ma-ROS, sni-GOO-rach-ka, a-li-VYE?And Grandfather Frost, the Snow Maiden, the Olivier salad?
С наступающим, мальчики! Ёлочку? Мандарины?s na-stu-PA-yu-shchim, MAL-chi-ki! YO-lach-ku? man-da-REE-ny?Happy coming one, boys! A little tree? Mandarins?
три кило мандариновTREE ki-LO man-da-REE-nafthree kilos of mandarins: the ending for of after a number
Ёлку, маленькую, и три кило мандаринов.YOL-ku, MA-lin-ku-yu, i TREE ki-LO man-da-REE-naf.A tree, a small one, and three kilos of mandarins.
Маленькие кончились. Берите эту, подпилите.MA-lin-ki-ye KON-chi-lis. bi-REE-tye E-tu, pad-pi-LEE-tye.The small ones are gone. Take this one, saw a bit off.
Берём. А тридцать первого баня, как в кино.bi-RYOM. a TREE-tsat PYER-va-va BA-nya, kak f ki-NO.We'll take it. And on the thirty-first, the banya, like in the film.
Как в кино! С наступающим!kak f ki-NO! s na-stu-PA-yu-shchim!Like in the film! Happy coming one!