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PART 1 · LESSON 1 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES Free

The Email from Portland

Sam reads his parents' email to Katya in the kitchen: she writes that they land on the fifteenth, Dad writes that he has already packed, Mum says two weeks and Dad says that's too little, and Mum writes that she wants to meet you.

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Lesson 1 · The Email from Portland

Russian · 30 minutes

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The kitchen of the flat at Sokolniki at the end of August, an email from Portland open on Sam's phone. Katya and Sam are together and say the friendly you to each other.

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Что пишет твоя мама?SHTO PEE-shet tva-YA MA-ma?What does your mum write?
пятнадцатогоpyat-NAD-tsa-ta-vaon the fifteenth
Пишет, что прилетают пятнадцатого.PEE-shet, shto pri-le-TA-yut pyat-NAD-tsa-ta-va.She writes that they land on the fifteenth.
Оба? И папа?O-ba? i PA-pa?Both of them? Dad too?
Папа пишет, что уже собрал чемодан.PA-pa PEE-shet, shto u-ZHE sa-BRAL che-ma-DAN.Dad writes that he's already packed.
приедетpri-YE-dyethe will come
Папа сказал, что приедет.PA-pa ska-ZAL, shto pri-YE-dyet.Dad said he would come.
На сколько?na SKOL-ka?For how long?
Я им скажу.ya IM ska-ZHOO.I'll tell them.
Мама говорит, две недели. Папа говорит, что мало.MA-ma ga-va-REET, DVYE ne-DYE-li. PA-pa ga-va-REET, shto MA-la.Mum says two weeks. Dad says that's too little.
обо мнеa-ba MNYEabout me
А что они говорят обо мне?a SHTO a-NEE ga-va-RYAT a-ba MNYE?And what do they say about me?
Мама пишет, что хочет с тобой познакомиться.MA-ma PEE-shet, shto KHO-chet s ta-BOY pa-zna-KO-mit-sa.Mum writes that she wants to meet you.