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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 23 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Like a Barrel

A piano from a village club in Sam's workshop off Chistye Prudy, Katya with lunch and Dima with the camera: it looks as if it stood in the rain, it sounds like a barrel, in a month it will sing like a nightingale, every piano is like a patient, now you talk like a doctor, I'm married to one.

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THE STORY

Sam's piano workshop off Chistye Prudy on a weekday at noon, an old upright from a village club in the middle of the floor; Dima is filming and Katya has brought lunch. All three are friends and say the friendly you.

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Он будто под дождём стоял.on BOOT-ta pad dazh-DYOM sta-YAL.It looks as if it stood in the rain.
Стоял у печки. Звучит как бочка.sta-YAL u PYECH-ki. zvu-CHEET kak BOCH-ka.It stood by a stove. It sounds like a barrel.
Скажи ещё раз: как бочка.ska-ZHEE yi-SHO RAS: kak BOCH-ka.Say that again: like a barrel.
запоёт соловьёмza-pa-YOT sa-lav-YOMit will sing like a nightingale: the bird takes the ending for by means of
Как бочка. Через месяц запоёт соловьём.kak BOCH-ka. CHE-ryez MYE-syats za-pa-YOT sa-lav-YOM.Like a barrel. In a month it will sing like a nightingale.
Ты про каждое так говоришь.ty pro KAZH-da-ye tak ga-va-REESH.You say that about every one.
Каждое пианино как пациент. Сначала слушаешь.KAZH-da-ye pi-a-NEE-na kak pa-tsi-YENT. sna-CHA-la SLOO-sha-yesh.Every piano is like a patient. First you listen.
Теперь ты говоришь как врач.ti-PYER ty ga-va-REESH kak VRACH.Now you talk like a doctor.
Я на враче женат. Дима, обед!ya na vra-CHE zhe-NAT. DEE-ma, a-BYET!I'm married to a doctor. Dima, lunch!