😳 Are you sure you took me to the Maldives?

🌊 Мо́ре
[ mor'e ]
🇬🇧 the sea

😍 Пойдём на мо́рE.
[ pajdyom na mor'e ]
🇬🇧 Let's go to the sea (for a swim).

😥 Э́тим ле́том я не купа́лась/купа́лся в мо́рE.
[ etim letam ya ni kupalas'/kupalsya v mor'e ]
🇬🇧 This summer I (f/m⬆️) didn't swim in the sea.


✅ Ждать у мо́рЯ пого́ды. (a phraseological unit)
[ zhdat' u morya pagody ]
🇬🇧 literally: to wait for good weather by the sea. To wait for pie in the sky.

🔻Literally, this means waiting by the sea until good weather comes in order to swim. But it's completely meaningless, because the weather will not change by waiting.

✊ Не жди у мо́ря пого́ды. Де́йствуй!
[ ni zhdi u morya pagody. Dejstvuj ]
🇬🇧 Don't waste your time. Do something!

🎧🗣⬇️

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🔻Voiced and voiceless consonants-3

[б] — [п]
[в] — [ф]
[г] — [к]
[д] — [т]
[ж] — [ш]
[з] — [c]

2️⃣ Before a voiced consonant, the voiceless consonant becomes voiced.

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

анекдо́т[гд] (anecdote)
рюкза́к[гз] (backpack)
футбо́л[дб] (football )
сда́ча[зд] (change)
с дру́гом[зд] (with a friend)


❗but this rule doesn't work when a voiceless consonant is followed by letter 'В'. In this case a voiceless consonant remains voiceless :

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

квас[кв] (kvas-Russian drink)
кварти́ра[кв] (flat)
отве́т[тв] (reply)
твой[тв] (your)
Шве́ция[шв] (Sweden)
свет[св] (light)
свой[св] (one's own)

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🍦Мясно́е эскимо́
[ misnoye iskimo ]
🇬🇧 literally: meat ice cream, stick meat bar

😉 Who's brave enough to try it?

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🤯 Понеде́льник - день тяжёлый.
[ panidel'nik den' tizholyj ]
🇬🇧 Monday is a a hard day. That Monday morning feeling!

#useful_vocabulary

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Today (August, 28) is the Day of Pouted Lips!

👄 Наду́ть гу́бы
[ nadut' guby ]
🇬🇧 pout lips, turn pouty, get offended, become angry

😂👌You know whom you can congratulate on this special day!

#useful_vocabulary

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🙃В Москве́ тести́руют но́вого ро́бота-доста́вщика в ви́де Колобка́
🔻Предполага́ется, что ро́бот смо́жет перевози́ть ме́лкие посы́лки, докуме́нты и проду́кты.

🇬🇧 In Moscow a new delivery robot in the form of Kolobok (a well-known character of old Russian fairy tales) is being tested.
🔻It's assumed that the robot will be able to deliver small parcels, documents and products.

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До́брое! (You can sometimes omit the word у́тро)

😁 Улыба́йся! (imperative, singular form)
[ ulybajsya ]
🇬🇧 Smile!

😁😊 Улыба́йтесь! (imperative, plural or polite form)
[ ulybajtes' ]
🇬🇧 Smile!

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✅ Stressed vowel "A" is read like [ a ] in 'car'.

☑ Unstressed vowel 'А' is pronounced less clearly.

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

бана́н (banana)
тала́нт (talent)
стака́н (glass)
ма́ма (mother)
па́па (father)
кра́ска (paint)
па́пка (folder)
анана́с (pineapple)
бараба́н (drum)
каранда́ш (pencil)
капита́н (captain)
калькуля́тор (calculator)

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🙄 Cтереоти́пы
[ stereotype ]
🇬🇧 Stereotypes

❓Каки́е ещё стереоти́пы  о ру́сских вы зна́ете?
🇬🇧 What other stereotypes about the Russians do you know?

#just_a_joke

Video by: crazyrussiandad

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Доброе утро! 👋

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🙄 висе́ть [ viset' ] to hang

🔻я вишу́ [ ya vishu ]
I hang
🔻ты виси́шь [ ty visish ]
you hang
🔻он(а/o) виси́т [ on/ana/ano visit ]
(s)he/it hangs
🔻Вы висите [ vy visite ]
you hang
🔻Мы виси́м [ my visim ]
we hang
🔻Они́ вися́т [ ani visyat ]
they hang

🛁 Полоте́нце виси́т в ва́нной.
[ palatenzte visit v vannoj ]
🇬🇧 The towel's hanging on the rack in the bathroom.

🧥👎 Э́та ку́ртка на вас виси́т.
[ eta kurtka na vas visit ]
🇬🇧 That jacket hangs on you (it doesn't fit you, it's too big).

💣 Наш прое́кт виси́т на волоске́.
[ nash prajekt visit na valaske ]
🇬🇧 Our project is hanging by a thread.

🎧🗣⬇️

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👻 быть подве́шенном состоя́нии
[ byt' v podveshennam sastayaniji ]
🇬🇧 to be up in the air, in limbo, be indefinite

An extreme date🔥😬

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✅ Stressed vowel "O" is read like [ o ] in 'August'.

☑ Unstressed "O" is pronounced like unstressed "A".

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

окно́ [акно́] (window)
молоко́ [малако́] (milk)
Москва́ [Масква́] (Moscow)
молоде́ц [малад′е́ц] (atta boy/girl)
пого́да [паго́да] (weather)
у́тро [у́тра] (morning)
ско́лько [ско́л′ка] (how many/much)
отли́чно [атли́чна] (great)

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🖥 Мой компью́тер зави́с.
[ moj kampyuter zavis ]
🇬🇧 My computer has been frozen/stuck.

🔻In spoken Russian the shorter word комп [ komp ] instead of компьютер is used.

#useful_vocabulary

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Джинсы _❓_ на верёвке.

Choose the correct answer over there ⬇️

Доброе утро!👋😊

🥰 Залипа́тельное ви́део
[ zalipatil'naje vidio ]
🇬🇧 an addictive/satisfying video

🤩 Зали́пнуть на
[ zalipnut' na]
🇬🇧 to get stuck into/on something

😍 Я зали́п(ла) на э́то ви́део.
[ ya zalip(la) na eto vidio ]
🇬🇧 I got stuck into this video.

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Ч Т О
[ shto ]
🇬🇧 what, that

🔻Most Russians pronounce soft 'ч', that's why 'чё' [ сho ] is prevalent.

🔻However, 'чо' [ сho ] is used in some Eastern dialects (and is coherently used by, say, Shukshin).

🔻Actually чё(чо) is the result of the omission of the -ег- syllable in 'чего'. So it's a relaxed pronunciation of 'чего', rather than 'что'.

🔻Same as with 'сегодня' [ sivodnya ] today -> 'сёдня' [ syodnya ]

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Vowel Яя [ya]

🔻Vowel 'Я' consists of two sounds [й]+[а] (j+a). The [й] sound makes the previous consonant sound soft 'дя' [д'а]. So this way 'Я' is read when it is stressed.

🔻 When 'Я' is unstressed, it's usually read like [йи] or ['и].

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

мя́ч [м′а] –  (ball) мячи́ [м′и] (balls)

я́хта [йа] (yatch) – язы́к [йи](language/tongue)

я́рко [йа] (brightly) – янва́рь [йи]( January)

я́года [йа] (berry) – япо́нский [йи] язы́к [йи] (Japanese language)

ноя́брь [йа] (November)
 – за́яц [йи] (hare)

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🌷 У́лица Бесконе́чное Ле́то
[ ulizta biskanechnaye leta ]
🇬🇧 Endless Summer Street

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Is this Russian a daredevil?😳

😎 Безба́шенный
[ bizbashennyj ]
🇬🇧 (adjective) Daredevil, crazy, a real hothead, a person who does unreasonably risky tricks

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