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🇷🇺 Russian · Intermediate Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 4 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Five Hours in the Hermitage

The end of a day on Nevsky Prospekt and in the Hermitage: we walked for three hours and never sat down, we stood in the queue for an hour, but we saw the Rembrandts, you can't see everything, how long were we in there, five hours, my feet hurt, did you eat anything, one pirozhok, let's go and have dinner.

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THE STORY

The steps of the Hermitage in St Petersburg at closing time, after a day that began on Nevsky Prospekt. Katya and Sam are a couple and say the friendly you to each other.

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ни разу не селиni RA-zu nye SYE-linot once sat down
Мы гуляли три часа и ни разу не сели.my gu-LYA-li TREE chi-SA i ni RA-zu nye SYE-li.We walked for three hours and never sat down.
Мы стояли в очереди час.my sta-YA-li v O-che-re-di CHAS.We stood in the queue for an hour.
Но мы посмотрели Рембрандта.no my pa-smat-RYE-li REM-brand-ta.But we saw the Rembrandts.
Не всё. Всё посмотреть нельзя.nye FSYO. FSYO pa-smat-RYET nyel-ZYA.Not everything. You can't see everything.
Сколько мы были в Эрмитаже?SKOL-ka my BY-li v er-mi-TA-zhe?How long were we in the Hermitage?
Мы дошли до Невы.my da-SHLEE da nye-VY.We got as far as the Neva.
Я ничего не ел.ya ni-chi-VO nye YEL.I haven't eaten anything.
Пять часов. Ноги болят.PYAT chi-SOF. NO-gi ba-LYAT.Five hours. My feet hurt.
Ты что-нибудь ела?ty SHTO-ni-BOOT YE-la?Did you eat anything?

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