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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 6 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Supposedly

The Chameleon at the reading club: whose dog is it and that's the whole story, a dog bit a goldsmith and a policeman comes, kill it, but someone says the dog is supposedly the general's, then the goldsmith is to blame and supposedly teased it himself, he changes about five times, and at the end the dog is supposedly the general's brother's.

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THE STORY

Thursday at the reading club near the Arbat. Sam retells The Chameleon before he reads it; he and Lev Borisovich say the polite you.

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Чья собака? Вот и весь рассказ.CHYA sa-BA-ka? VOT i VYES ras-SKAS.Whose dog is it? That's the whole story.
Собака укусила ювелира. Идёт полицейский.sa-BA-ka u-ku-SEE-la yu-vi-LEE-ra. i-DYOT pa-li-TSEY-skiy.A dog bit a goldsmith. A policeman comes.
И полицейский говорит...i pa-li-TSEY-skiy ga-va-REET...And the policeman says...
собака, мол, генеральскаяsa-BA-ka, MOL, gi-ni-RAL-ska-yathe dog, supposedly, is the general's
Убить! А кто-то говорит: собака, мол, генеральская.u-BEET! a KTO-ta ga-va-REET: sa-BA-ka, MOL, gi-ni-RAL-ska-ya.Kill it! But someone says: the dog, supposedly, is the general's.
А полицейский?a pa-li-TSEY-skiy?And the policeman?
дескать, сам дразнилDYES-kat, SAM draz-NEELsupposedly he teased it himself: the second marker, two syllables
Тогда виноват ювелир: дескать, сам дразнил.tag-DA vi-na-VAT yu-vi-LEER: DYES-kat, SAM draz-NEEL.Then the goldsmith is to blame: supposedly he teased it himself.
Сколько раз он меняется?SKOL-ka RAS on mi-NYA-yet-sya?How many times does he change?
Раз пять. В конце собака будто брата генерала.RAS PYAT. f kan-TSE sa-BA-ka BOOT-ta BRA-ta gi-ni-RA-la.About five. At the end the dog is supposedly the general's brother's.