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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 2 · LESSON 16 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Axe Porridge

Baba Valya tells the axe porridge over the stove and Sam tells it back: a soldier walking home asks for food, neither bread nor salt, he'll cook porridge from an axe, tastes it, just needs salt, she brings salt, groats and butter, they eat, and the axe, not done yet, he'll finish it on the road, a cheat or a cook, both, like every guest.

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THE STORY

Baba Valya's kitchen at the dacha, a pot of buckwheat on the stove, Sam stirring. Sam is polite with Baba Valya; she speaks to him as to a grandson.

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Шёл солдат домой и попросил поесть.SHOL sal-DAT da-MOY i pa-pra-SEEL pa-YEST.A soldier was walking home and asked for food.
Ни хлеба, ни солиni KHLYE-ba, ni SO-lineither bread nor salt
Ни хлеба, ни соли, говорит.ni KHLYE-ba, ni SO-li, ga-va-REET.Neither bread nor salt, she says.
А солдат: сварю кашу из топора!a sal-DAT: sva-RYU KA-shu is ta-pa-RA!And the soldier: I'll cook porridge from an axe!
Варит, пробует: хороша! Только соли бы.VA-rit, PRO-bu-yet: kha-ra-SHA! TOL-ka SO-li by.He cooks, tastes: good! Just needs salt.
Она несёт соль, потом крупу, потом масло.a-NA ni-SYOT SOL, pa-TOM kru-POO, pa-TOM MAS-la.She brings salt, then groats, then butter.
Съели, а старуха: а топор?SYE-li, a sta-ROO-kha: a ta-POR?They ate, and the old woman: and the axe?
Ещё не готов, говорит. Доварю в дороге.ye-SHCHO nye ga-TOF, ga-va-REET. da-va-RYU v da-RO-gye.Not done, he says. I'll finish it on the road.
То ли плут, то ли повар.TO li PLOOT, TO li PO-var.A cheat, or maybe a cook.
И то, и другое, как всякий гость.i TO, i dru-GO-ye, kak FSYA-kiy GOST.Both, like every guest.