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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 24 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

It Can't Not Play

Igor cuts the sound of the documentary at the studio: forty minutes of pianos and where's the music, it's a film, not a concert, a gun on the wall has to fire, so the piano has to play at the end, it can't not play, one can't help smiling, cut it that way.

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THE STORY

The small recording studio where Dima works, late on a weekday evening, the film on the screen and Igor at the desk. Igor says the friendly you to Sam and Sam says the polite you to Igor; Dima and Sam are friends.

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Сорок минут пианино. Где музыка?SO-rak mi-NOOT pi-a-NEE-na. GDYE MOO-zy-ka?Forty minutes of pianos. Where's the music?
Это фильм, а не концерт.E-ta FEELM, a nye kan-TSERT.It's a film, not a concert.
Чехов: ружьё на стене должно выстрелить.CHE-khaf: ruzh-YO na stye-NYE dalzh-NO VY-stri-lit.Chekhov: a gun on the wall has to fire.
Значит, пианино должно сыграть в конце.ZNA-chit, pi-a-NEE-na dalzh-NO sy-GRAT f kan-TSE.So the piano has to play at the end.
не может не сыгратьnye MO-zhet nye sy-GRATcan't not play: two nots make a strong must
Оно не может не сыграть.a-NO nye MO-zhet nye sy-GRAT.It can't not play.
Не могу не согласиться.nye ma-GOO nye sa-gla-SEET-sa.I can't but agree.
Сэм играет, баба Валя слушает. Конец.SEM i-GRA-yet, BA-ba VA-lya SLOO-sha-yet. ka-NYETS.Sam plays, Baba Valya listens. The end.
И нельзя не улыбнуться.i nyel-ZYA nye u-lyb-NOOT-sa.And one can't help smiling.
я не мог не улыбнутьсяya nye MOK nye u-lyb-NOOT-saI couldn't help smiling, word for word I not could not smile

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