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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 3 · LESSON 27 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Wrong Staircase

Sam's own story at the reading club: tonight no Chekhov, a fifth floor with no lift and a grand piano, six movers, no sooner had they got it up than a shout from above, wrong entrance, no sooner had they brought it down than the neighbour came out, up again, lovely, can you tune it, a lift would have ruined that story.

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THE STORY

The reading club at the library near the Arbat on a Thursday in autumn, Lev Borisovich in his chair and Lena in the front row. Sam says the polite you to Lev Borisovich and the friendly you to Lena.

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Сегодня без Чехова. Ваша история.si-VOD-nya byes CHE-kha-va. VA-sha is-TO-ri-ya.Tonight no Chekhov. Your own story.
Пятый этаж, лифта нет, и рояль.PYA-ty e-TASH, LEEF-ta NYET, i ra-YAL.Fifth floor, no lift, and a grand piano.
Сколько грузчиков?SKOL-ka GROOS-chi-kaf?How many movers?
только подняли, какTOL-ka pod-NYA-li, kakno sooner had they got it up than: only, the past, then as
Шестеро. Только подняли, как кричат: не тот подъезд!SHES-ti-ra. TOL-ka pod-NYA-li, kak kri-CHAT: nye TOT pad-YEST!Six. No sooner had they got it up than a shout: wrong entrance!
Не успели спустить, как вышла соседка: мой!nye us-PYE-li spus-TEET, kak VYSH-la sa-SYET-ka: MOY!No sooner had they got it down than the neighbour came out: mine!
Значит, опять наверх?ZNA-chit, a-PYAT na-VYERKH?So, up again?
Опять. А она: прелесть! Настроить можете?a-PYAT. a a-NA: PRYE-lyest! na-STRO-it MO-zhe-tye?Again. And she: lovely! Can you tune it?
Лифт испортил бы эту историю.LEEFT is-POR-til by E-tu is-TO-ri-yu.A lift would have ruined that story.