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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 1

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Little Words

On air again in February, Marina and Sam: is an old piano worth tuning, it is, old after all doesn't mean bad, and how old is yours, a hundred and ten, older than the house it stands in, surely not, exactly so, the house moved, the piano didn't, you do know how to make people laugh, it's all the little words.

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THE STORY

The radio studio on the ninth floor, a February evening, Sam's second broadcast with Marina, the microphones live. Sam and Marina are polite with each other, on air and off.

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Стоит ли настраивать старое пианино?STO-it li na-STRA-i-vat STA-ra-ye pi-a-NEE-na?Is an old piano worth tuning?
Стоит. Старое ведь не значит плохое.STO-it. STA-ra-ye VYET nye ZNA-chit pla-KHO-ye.It is. Old after all doesn't mean bad.
А вашему-то сколько лет?a VA-she-mu-ta SKOL-ka LYET?And how old is yours?
Сто десять. Старше дома, в котором стоит.STO DYE-syat. STAR-she DO-ma, f ka-TO-ram sta-EET.A hundred and ten. It's older than the house it stands in.
Да ну!da NOO!Surely not!
Вот именно: дом переехал, а пианино нет.VOT EE-men-na: DOM pi-ri-YE-khal, a pi-a-NEE-na NYET.Exactly so: the house moved, the piano didn't.
Ну и умеете же вы смешить людей.NOO i u-MYE-ye-tye zhe vy smi-SHEET lyu-DYEY.You do know how to make people laugh.
Это всё маленькие слова. Маша-то их понимает.E-ta FSYO MA-len-ki-ye sla-VA. MA-sha-ta EEKH pa-ni-MA-yet.It's all the little words. Masha, for one, understands them.