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🇷🇺 Russian · Fluency Level 3

PART 1 · LESSON 5 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

The Cake

The bakery: a cake for Saturday for a ninetieth, what do we write, Dear Baba Valya, on a cake the full name, happy jubilee ninety years, a nine and a zero instead of ninety candles, she'll say she's not a number, pick-up at ten.

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THE STORY

A bakery near Sokolniki, the order book open on the counter. Sam says the polite you to the shop assistant, and she to him.

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Мне нужен торт на субботу, на девяностолетие.mnye NOO-zhen TORT na su-BO-tu, na di-vi-na-sta-LYE-ti-ye.I need a cake for Saturday, for a ninetieth.
Что пишем?SHTO PEE-shem?What do we write?
Дорогая баба Валя.da-ra-GA-ya BA-ba VA-lya.Dear Baba Valya.
Дорогая Валентина Ивановна.da-ra-GA-ya va-lyen-TEE-na i-VA-nav-naDear Valentina Ivanovna
На торте пишут полное имя: Дорогая Валентина Ивановна.na TOR-tye PEE-shut POL-na-ye EE-mya: da-ra-GA-ya va-lyen-TEE-na i-VA-nav-na.On a cake you write the full name: Dear Valentina Ivanovna.
И: С юбилеем, девяносто лет.i: s yu-bi-LYE-yem, di-vi-NO-sta LYET.And: happy jubilee, ninety years.
Девяносто свечей не поместится. Есть девятка и ноль.di-vi-NO-sta svi-CHEY nye pa-MYES-ti-tsa. YEST di-VYAT-ka i NOL.Ninety candles won't fit. We have a nine and a zero.
Она скажет, что она не число.a-NA SKA-zhet, shto a-NA nye chis-LO.She'll say she's not a number.
Все так говорят. Забирать в субботу в десять.FSYE tak ga-va-RYAT. za-bi-RAT f su-BO-tu v DYE-syat.They all say that. Pick-up on Saturday at ten.