'Матушка' by Татьяна Куртукова

Music/lyrics: Пётр Андреев

🔻Diminutive forms from the song:

• Матушка (obsolete noun)
<- мать
  [ma-tush-ka]
  Mother

• Берёзонька <- берёза
  [bi-ryo-zan'-ka]
  Birch tree

• Занозонька <- заноза
  [za-no-zan'-ka]
  Literally: Splinter 
  Also: Pain in the ass neck.

🔻Listen, read the text/transliteration, sing along and enjoy some Russianness 💓!

🔻Russian text is in the comments.

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😳 Доброе утро, товарищи мои!
Today we have something like this:

• Cугроб (сугробы)
  [sug-rop (sug-ro-by)]
  Snowdrift(s)

• По пояс
  [pa po-yas]
  Waist-high, waist-deep

• У нас сегодня сугробы по пояс!
[u nas si-vod-nya sug-ro-by pa po-yas]
🇬🇧 Today we have waist-deep snowdrifts!

🎧🗣👇 С понедельником всех!

#useful_vocabulary

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In the Old Slavic alphabet the letter X was called "хѣръ" 'хер' [hehr]. 

🔻Its origin is not clear enough. One of the versions refers to Greek words like χαι̃ρε [hére] (rejoice), χείρ [hir] (hand) or еven 'херувимъ' (cherub).

🔻Anyway, this is where the word “похерить” came from, meaning “to cross out something on paper with a cross.” In this meaning it was widely used in classic literature by Russian writers.

🔻Now it's gained the meaning of a low colloquial word, even an obscene one, due to its similar form to ⚠️ 'хер/хрен' (penis):

• Похерить (perfective, ⚠️low colloquial)
  [pa-khe-rit']
  Тo destroy, to spoil, to forget about something

Example:
• А он взял и похерил всю нашу работу за последнюю неделю!
[ah on vzyal i pa-khe-ril vsyu na-shu ra-bo-tu za pas-led-nyu-yu ni-de-lyu]
🇬🇧 And he has just spoilt all our work over the last week!

🎧🗣👇 Listen, practice and try to not use it in your speech!

#spoken_Russian

#brief_and_interesting

#alphabet

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• Севастополь
  [si-vas-to-pal']

🔻Sevastopol is the largest city in Crimea and a major port on the Black Sea.

🔻Due to its strategic location and the navigability of the city's harbours, Sevastopol has been an important port and naval base throughout its history.

🔻Since the city's founding in 1783 it has been a major base for Russia's Black Sea Fleet.

📎 Крым наш! 🇷🇺

📍Geoposition: Crimean Peninsula, Russia

Video by: alexey_latysh

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😏Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Размер (masc.noun) (+ genitive)
  [raz-mer]
🇬🇧 Size
Also:
• Размерчик (diminutive)
  [raz-mer-chik]

• Вот это размерчик!
  [vot e-to raz-mer-chik]
🇬🇧 What a size! (Showing a surprise)

• Мой размерчик!
  [moy raz-mer-chik]
🇬🇧 That's my (fav) size! (Showing admiration)

🎧🗣👇 Listen, practice and, ну, вы поняли😀.

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🔢🔢🔢 Красавица /A beauty:

Feminine nouns:
1. Красавица (красавицы)
[kra-sa-vi-tsa (kra-sa-vi-tsy)]

2. Красотка (красотки)
[kra-sot-ka (kra-sot-ki)]

3. Красотуля (красотули)
[kra-sa-tu-lya (kra-sa-tu-li)]

4. Очаровашка (очаровашки)
[a-cha-ra-vash-ka (a-cha-ra-vash-ki)]
From 'fascinating/charming'

5. Милашка (милашки)
[mi-lash-ka (mi-lash-ki)]
From 'cute/cutie'

• Ты просто ...(очаровашка)!
[ty pros-ta a-cha-re-vash-ka]
🇬🇧 You're just charming!

🎧🗣👇  Listen, practice and don't forget to compliment your gf/wife in Russian!

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Video: Маргарита Голубева

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

Ревнует vs завидует?

🔢 'Ревновать' means to be jealous of someone you love, you "ревнуешь" because you don't want them to be with anyone, only with you.

• Ревновать кого-то
(accusative) к тебе (dative)
(imperfective)
  [riv-na-vat' ka-vo-ta k ti-bye]
  To be jealous of someone's love for (you)

Example:
• Coбака ревнует своего хозяина к его подружке.
[sa-ba-ka riv-nu-yet sva-ye-vo kha-zya-ee-na k yi-vo pad-rush-ke]
🇬🇧 The dog is jealous of its owner's love for his girlfriend.

🔢 'Завидовать' means to "envy", like if someone has something you do not have or in better situation etc.

• Завидовать кому-то (dative case) (imperfective)
  [za-vi-da-vat']
  To envy someone

Example:
• Я завидую твоему умению петь.
[ya za-vi-du-yu tva-ye-mu u-me-ni-yu pet']
🇬🇧 I envy your ability to sing.

#tricky_words

#useful_vocabulary

#grammar_tips

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• От любви до ненависти - один шаг.
[at lyub-vi da ne-na-vis-ti a-din shak]
SLT: From love to hatred there is one step.

Origin:
A saying by Aristotle (IV BC)

Meaning:
It means one wrong action may cause someone who loved you to start hating you.

🇬🇧 There is a thin line between love and hate.

A scientific fact:
It turns out that when a person experiences hatred, the same parts of his brain turn on as when he feels the completely opposite feeling - romantic love attraction.

🎧🗣👇 Listen, practice and choose love nit hatred!

#phraseology

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😳 The future is out there...

• Игры будущего
  [ig-ry bu-du-shchi-vа]

🔻The “Games of the Future” tournament starts in Kazan.

🔻The Games of the Future is an international multi-sport event that combines sports, science and technology. A show of a new format that will combine competitions in the physical and digital dimensions - “phygital” (physical + digital), testing the skills of athletes in the real and virtual worlds.

🔻Competitions present players with physical challenges or puzzles solved using mobile apps or other digital technology, such as the use of augmented reality (AR).

🔻Phygital sports meets the main mission of the Games of the Future - to promote the development of a harmonious person. This is a new movement which creates people of the future for whom there are no boundaries between the digital and physical worlds.

Source: RT in Russian

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👋 Доброго утра всем!

• Пушистый (masc.adj.)
  [pu-shys-tyj]
  Fluffy

• Пушистик (masc.noun)
  [pu-shys-tik]
  Little furry guy, furball (often a pet's name)

• Удостоверься, что твой Пушистик получает достаточно любви!
[u-das-ta-ver'-sya, shto tvoy Pu-shys-tik pa-lu-cha-yet das-ta-ta-chna lyub-vi]
🇬🇧 Make sure your Fluffy's getting enough love.

🎧🗣👇 Listen, practice and take care of your Пушистиках!

Сheck the word ➡️ 'котик' here!

#useful_vocabulary

#adjectives

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🔢🔢🔢 Глаголы движения-1 (однонаправленные) / Verbs of motion-1 (unidirectional):

🔻Unidirectional verbs mean a definitely directed motion, or a single, completed action (in contrast to a repeated action or series of actions).

Imperfective aspect:

1. Бежать
    [bi-zhat']
    To run

2. Ехать
    [ye-khat']
    To go (by...)

3. Идти
    [id-ti]
    To go on foot, to walk

4. Лететь
    [li-tet']
    To fly, to go by plane

5. Плыть
    [plyt']
    To swim, to sail, to go by
    ship

6. Ползти
    [palz-ti]
    To crawl, to creep

• Если не можешь бежать — иди, не можешь идти — ползи, не можешь ползти — ляг и лежи по направлению к цели! (с)
[yes-li ni mo-zhesh' bi-zhat' — i-di, ni mo-zhesh' id-ti — pal-zi, ni mo-zhesh' palz-ti — lyag i li-zhi pa na-prav-le-ni-yu k tse-li]
🇬🇧 If you can’t run - walk, if you can’t walk - crawl, if you can’t crawl - lie down and lie towards the goal!

🎧🗣👇 Listen, practice and двигайтесь к своей цели!

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