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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Going Down the Hill

A Little Joke, read to Katya at home: why that one with the sled, because of the wind, he and Nadenka go down a hill on a sled, going down he whispers I love you Nadenka, at the bottom she doesn't know whether it was him or the wind and asks to go again all winter, he never told her, and Sam said it at the dacha, standing, with no wind.

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THE STORY

Home, an evening in Moscow, Masha asleep. Sam reads Chekhov to Katya and tells her why he chose this story; husband and wife say the friendly you.

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Почему именно этот, с санками?pa-chi-MOO EE-min-na E-tat, s SAN-ka-mi?Why that one, with the sled?
Из-за ветра. Он и Наденька едут с горы на санках.iz-za VYET-ra. ON i NA-din-ka YE-dut s ga-RY na SAN-kakh.Because of the wind. He and Nadenka go down a hill on a sled.
И?EE?And?
спускаясьspus-KA-yasgoing down: the verb turned into a while-doing word
Я люблю вас, Наденькаya lyub-LYU VAS, NA-din-kaI love you, Nadenka, in the polite you of that time
Спускаясь, он шепчет: «Я люблю вас, Наденька».spus-KA-yas, on SHEP-chet: ya lyub-LYU VAS, NA-din-ka.Going down, he whispers: "I love you, Nadenka."
А внизу?a vni-ZOO?And at the bottom?
Внизу она не знает: он или ветер? И просит ещё раз, всю зиму.vni-ZOO a-NA nye ZNA-yet: ON EE-li VYE-tyer? i PRO-sit yi-SHCHO RAS, FSYU ZEE-mu.At the bottom she doesn't know: him or the wind? And asks to go again, all winter.
И он ей так и не сказал?i on YEY TAK i nye ska-ZAL?And he never told her?
стояSTO-yastanding, the while-doing form of to stand

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