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🇷🇺 Russian · Intermediate Level 1

PART 1 · LESSON 8 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Why a Doctor

A bench on the Neva in the white night, Katya tells why she became a doctor: one day grandmother fell ill at the dacha, first we called the ambulance, then we waited two hours, then a doctor came and stayed all night, in the end she got better and I decided I'd be like him.

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THE STORY

A bench on the Neva embankment in St Petersburg, after midnight and still light, Katya and Sam alone with the river. They are a couple and say the friendly you to each other.

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стала врачомSTA-la vra-CHOMbecame a doctor, said of a woman
Почему ты стала врачом?pa-chi-MOO ty STA-la vra-CHOM?Why did you become a doctor?
Однажды бабушка заболела на даче.ad-NAZH-dy BA-bush-ka za-ba-LYE-la na DA-che.One day grandmother fell ill at the dacha.
Что было потом?SHTO BY-la pa-TOM?What happened next?
вызвали скоруюVY-zva-li SKO-ru-yucalled the ambulance, word for word the quick one
Сначала вызвали скорую, потом ждали два часа.sna-CHA-la VY-zva-li SKO-ru-yu, pa-TOM ZHDA-li DVA chi-SA.First we called the ambulance, then we waited two hours.
Сначала было страшно.sna-CHA-la BY-la STRASH-na.At first it was scary.
А потом?a pa-TOM?And then?
Потом приехал врач и остался на ночь.pa-TOM pri-YE-khal VRACH i a-STAL-sya na NOCH.Then a doctor came and stayed the night.
А в конце концов?a f kan-TSE kan-TSOF?And in the end?

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