👋 Hello, Jim and other beautiful people who are struggling with the Russian language!

🔻As you could have noticed, almost all Russian words in my posts contain:

1️⃣ a Russian word in Cyrillic 

2️⃣ [ how the word is pronounced in English written with ENGLISH letters ]  in square brackets

3️⃣ 🇬🇧 the translation into English

4️⃣ 🎧🗣⬇️ my voice message with pauses between the words in the comments to the post, which you can listen to several times to practice.

🔻So, you can both learn a written form of a Russian word and the way it's pronounced by a native speaker.

❗The exceptions are #reading_rules posts. There have been 16 posts so far. You could easily find them when you just tap on the hashtag #reading_rules. The first post with the RUSSIAN ALPHABET was published on 21 August. Let me know if you can't find it🙏.

😎 Reading is crucial for your further learning. I know it as I'm a certified language teacher. That's why I pay so much attention to the #reading_rules.

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Спали́ть (perfective)
[spalit']

Meaning:
1)to destroy with fire
2)(сolloqial) to catch someone doing something bad, not allowed or secret

😱 Нас спали́ли, бежи́м!
[ nas spalili, bizhim ]
🇬🇧 We have been noticed, run!

😎 Не пали́мся, споко́йно!
[ ni palims'a, spakojna ]
🇬🇧 Don't attract anyone's attention, calm down! (imperfective)

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen to my audio message in the comments and practice your pronunciation.

#spoken_Russian

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🔻Letters ЗЖ are read as long [ж:] [zh:]

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

по́зже (later)
попо́зже (a bit later)
езжа́й (Go. Drive. imperative)


🔻Letters ТЦ, ДЦ are read as long sound [ц:] [ts:]

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

отцы́ (fathers)
вкра́тце (in brief)
молодцы́ (attaboys/attagirls)
два́дцать (twenty)

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😋 Сы́рники:
[ syrniki ]
🇬🇧 Russian cottage cheеse pancakes / syrniki

🔸️Творо́г
[ tvorak ]
🇬🇧 сottage cheese (dry is better)

🔸️ Яйцо́
[ yajtsto ]
🇬🇧 an egg

🔸️ Мука́
[ mooka ]
🇬🇧 some flour

🔸️ Са́хар
[ sakhar ]
🇬🇧 some sugar

🔸️ Разрыхли́тель те́ста
[ razrykhlitil' testa ]
🇬🇧 baking powder

😋Прия́тного аппети́та!
[ prijatnava apitita ]
🇬🇧 Enjoy your meal!

If you'd like to try syrniki, here is the recipe in English. Sometimes I add some raisins to the dough.
Share your opinion on syrniki!

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen to my audio message in the comments to the post and practice your pronunciation.

#useful_vocabulary
#Russian_cuisine

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😅Тем вре́менем в Росси́и...
[ tem vreminim v rassiji ]
🇬🇧 Meanwhile in Russia...

I couldn't make up a caption for this video.😅
❓Who knows what's going on there?

#just_a_joke

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😍 Потряса́ющий (mаsculine)
[ patryasayuschij ]

🤩 Потряса́ющая (feminine)
[ patryasayuschаya ]

🥰 Потряса́ющее (neuter) [ patryasayuscheje ]

🔥Потряса́ющие (plural)
[ patryasayuschije ]

🇬🇧 Stunning (from the verb потрясти (to stun)

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen to my audio message in the comments and practice your pronunciation.

Have a потрясающий день! 🤗

#useful_vocabulary

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🤐 Some letters are not read:

🔸️T is not pronounced in СТН:
гру́сTно [сн] (sadly)
изве́сTно [сн] (it's well-known)
че́сTный [сн] (honest)
уча́сTник [сн] (participant)

🔸️Д is not pronounced in ЗДН:
пра́зДник [зн] (holiday)
по́зДно [зн] (late)
звёзДный [зн] (starry)

🔸️Д is not pronounced in РДЦ:
се́рДце [рц] (heart)

🔸️Л is not pronounced in ЛНЦ:
со́Лнце [нц] (sun)

🔸️В is not pronounced in ВСТВ:
здра́Вствуйте [ств] (good afternoon)
чу́Вство [ств] (feeling)

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen to my audio message in the comments and practice your reading.

#reading_rules

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Попы́тка не пы́тка!
[ papytka ni pytka ]

🔻A well known Russian proverb which literally means: a try is not a torture.

🇬🇧 trying to do something is not a disaster - if you fail, nothing bad will happen.

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen to my audio message and practice your pronunciation.

#spoken_Russian

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😈 насты́рный (masculine)
[ nastyrnyj ]

😈 насты́рное (neutral)
[ nastyrnaye ]

😈 насты́рная (feminine)
[ nastyrnaya ]

😈 насты́рные (plural)
[ nastyrnyje ]

An adjective with negative meaning: too persistent, or extremely annoying, intrusive, bothersome

😡 Ну ты и настырный!
[ nu ty i nastyrnyj ]
🇬🇧 You're so persistent! (You're more persistent than needed/allowed)

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen to my audio message in the comments to the post and practice your pronunciation.

#spoken_Russian

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👋 Доброе утро всем!

Сасы́к Сыва́ш — крупне́йшее о́зеро и солёное о́зеро на полуо́строве Крым, располо́женное ме́жду города́ми Евпато́рия и Са́ки.

🇬🇧 Sasyk Syvash is the largest lake and salt lake on the Crimean peninsula, located between the cities of Evpatoria and Saki.

#travel_around_Russia

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Г in OГО / ЕГО

🔻 Г between two vowels О (OГО) (and between Е and О - ЕГО) is read as В [v]
🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

сего́дня [иво] (today)
кого́ [аво] (whom)
его́ [йиво] (him, his)
того́ [аво] (masculine this)
э́того [ава] (masculine that)
ничего́ [иво] (nothing)
всего́ хоро́шего [иво] (all the best to...)
си́него [ива] (genetive case blue)
пе́рвого [ава] (genetive first)
второ́го [ова] (genetive second)
тре́тьего [йива] (genetive third)
моего́ [йиво] (genetive my)
твоего́ [йиво] (genetive singular your(s))
ва́шего [ива] (genetive plural/polite form your(s))
на́шего [ива] (genetive our(s))

⚠️ This rule doesn't always work.
🔻Mind the exceptions: 

🎧🗣⬇️ Can you read these words?

мно́го [ога] (a lot)
до́рого [ага] (expensively)
пого́да [аго] (weather)
догово́р [ага] (contract, agreement)
стро́го [ога] (strictly)

🎉 This is the last reading rule (20 posts with the reading rules). If you want to revise some previous ones, tap hashtag #reading_rules, please.
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🦇 Её зовут Бэтмэн.
[ yiyo zavut batman ]
🇬🇧 Her name is Batman.😂

Meet the new member of my family: Batman! A former homeless kitten. She came to our dacha to be fed. But in winter we don’t go to the dacha and she would probably die there from hunger and cold.
Show me your pets in the comments! 😻

❓У вас есть дома́шние живо́тные? Покажи́те!

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen to my audio message in the comments to this post and practice your pronunciation.

У меня́ есть ...
[ u minya yest' ]
🇬🇧 I've got ...

😻 ко́шка
[ koshka ]

😻😻 2 (две) ко́шки
[ dve koshki ]

🐶 соба́ка
[ sabaka ]

🐶🐶 2 (две) соба́ки
[ dve sabaki ]

🦜 попуга́й
[ papoogaj ]

🐹 хомя́к
[ hamyak ]

#useful_vocabulary

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Быть на одно́й волне́
[ byt' na adnoj valne ]
🇬🇧 to be on the same wavelength, to be in tune with someone

😎🌊 Мы с тобо́й на одно́й волне́.
[ my s taboj na adnoj valne ]
🇬🇧 We're on the same wavelength.

🎧🗣⬇️ Listen and practice

#useful_vocabulary

#spoken_Russian

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