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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 3 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Told in the Present

Fat and Thin at the reading club: tell it first as to a friend, a man is standing at the station and sees a friend, the thin one says Misha and the fat one says Porfiry, then only your excellency, now read us the end, it's not the place that makes the man but the man the place.

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THE STORY

Thursday at the reading club near the Arbat. Lev Borisovich asks Sam to tell Fat and Thin in his own words before he reads the end; the two of them say the polite you.

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Сначала расскажите, как другу.sna-CHA-la ras-ska-ZHEE-tye, kak DROO-gu.First tell it, as to a friend.
стоит человекsta-EET chi-la-VYEKa man is standing, the verb first, as a story begins
Стоит человек на вокзале и видит друга.sta-EET chi-la-VYEK na vak-ZA-lye i VEE-dit DROO-ga.A man is standing at the station and sees a friend.
«Стоит», «видит»: в настоящем.sta-EET, VEE-dit: v na-sta-YA-shchem."Is standing", "sees": in the present.
Тонкий говорит: «Миша!» А толстый: «Порфирий!»TON-kiy ga-va-REET: MEE-sha! a TOL-sty: par-FEE-riy!The thin one says: "Misha!" And the fat one: "Porfiry!"
А что говорит тонкий потом?a SHTO ga-va-REET TON-kiy pa-TOM?And what does the thin one say then?
Сначала ничего. Потом только «ваше превосходительство».sna-CHA-la ni-chi-VO. pa-TOM TOL-ka VA-she pri-vas-kha-DEE-tel-stva.At first nothing. Then only "your excellency".
Теперь прочитайте нам конец.ti-PYER pra-chi-TAY-tye nam ka-NYETS.Now read us the end.
Не место красит человекаnye MYES-ta KRA-sit chi-la-VYE-kait's not the place that makes the man, word for word not the place colours the man
Не место красит человека, а человек место.nye MYES-ta KRA-sit chi-la-VYE-ka, a chi-la-VYEK MYES-ta.It's not the place that makes the man, but the man the place.