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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 21 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Old Master

In the last workshop of the old Moscow piano factory, Pavel Sergeyevich tells the camera his story: at seventeen they put me on soundboards, they say ten thousand a year, then they closed the factory, pianos are brought here from all over Moscow, and the work fears the master.

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THE STORY

The last workshop of the former Moscow piano factory, where Pavel Sergeyevich, eighty, still works; Dima films and Sam asks. Sam and the master say the polite you to each other; Dima and Sam are friends.

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Павел Сергеевич, с самого начала.PA-vyel sir-GYE-ye-vich, s SA-ma-va na-CHA-la.Pavel Sergeyevich, from the beginning.
Меня поставили на деки.mi-NYA pa-STA-vi-li na DYE-kithey put me on soundboards: me first, then put in the plural, and nobody is named
В семнадцать меня поставили на деки.f sim-NAT-sat mi-NYA pa-STA-vi-li na DYE-ki.At seventeen they put me on soundboards.
Сколько делали в год?SKOL-ka DYE-la-li v GOT?How many did they make a year?
Говорят, тысяч десять. Потом фабрику закрыли.ga-va-RYAT, TY-syach DYE-syat. pa-TOM FA-bri-ku za-KRY-li.They say ten thousand or so. Then they closed the factory.
А эта мастерская?a E-ta mas-tir-SKA-ya?And this workshop?
Её мне оставили. Привозят со всей Москвы.ye-YO mnye a-STA-vi-li. pri-VO-zyat sa FSYEY mask-VY.They left it to me. They bring them from all over Moscow.
Дело мастера боится.DYE-la MAS-tye-ra ba-EET-sa.The work fears the master.
Посмотрим, боится ли меня.pa-SMO-trim, ba-EET-sa li mi-NYA.Let's see whether it fears me.