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INTRODUCTION
Yura: Привет всем, с Вами – RussianPod101.com, я – Yura.
Svetlana: А я – Svetlana, здравствуйте, welcome to Intermediate Season 1, Lesson 14 - Are You Feeling Depressed in Russia?
Yura: In this lesson we will learn about impersonal verbs.
Svetlana: the conversation takes place at the university…
Yura: and it is between two fellow students…
Svetlana: The speakers are about the same age so the conversation will be in informal Russian.
Yura: All right, let’s listen to the conversation.
DIALOGUE
Коля Привет, ты чего такая грустная? Ты чем-то расстроена?
Инна Нет, просто настроения нет...
Коля И давно это у тебя?
Инна Уже несколько дней. Не хочется никого видеть, нет аппетита, не хочется ничего делать...
Коля Это похоже на депрессию. Я могу тебе чем-нибудь помочь?
Инна Да. Уйди, пожалуйста.
Yura: Let’s listen to the conversation one time slowly.
Коля Привет, ты чего такая грустная? Ты чем-то расстроена?
Инна Нет, просто настроения нет...
Коля И давно это у тебя?
Инна Уже несколько дней. Не хочется никого видеть, нет аппетита, не хочется ничего делать...
Коля Это похоже на депрессию. Я могу тебе чем-нибудь помочь?
Инна Да. Уйди, пожалуйста.
Yura: Let’s listen to the conversation with English translation.
Коля Привет, ты чего такая грустная? Ты чем-то расстроена?
Yura: Hey, why are you so sad? Are you upset about something?
Инна Нет, просто настроения нет...
Yura: No, just in a bad mood...
Коля И давно это у тебя?
Yura: How long have you been like this?
Инна Уже несколько дней. Не хочется никого видеть, нет аппетита, не хочется ничего делать...
Yura: Several days already. I don't want to see anyone, have no appetite, don't want to do anything ...
Коля Это похоже на депрессию. Я могу тебе чем-нибудь помочь?
Yura: It looks like depression. Can I do anything to help?
Инна Да. Уйди, пожалуйста.
Yura: Yes. Go away, please.
POST CONVERSATION BANTER
Yura: Hmm, seems Inna is not feeling very well. She has depression.
Svetlana: yes, you are right. Depression is one of the most frequent mental diseases nowadays and of course Russians can’t avoid it either.
Yura: you are right. Are there many people in Russia who suffer from the depression?
Svetlana: I am not really sure, but I think many people might be depressed at some point in their lives. Cold weather and harsh economic conditions might trigger depression very easily.
Yura: right, you guys live in such a cold country!
Svetlana: well, it is not only cold, some places where it is not that cold, like Saint-Petersburg, don’t have any sun in winter and it gets dark around three o’clock so I guess this darkness all the time is more depressing than cold. And of course the harsh economic situation worsens people’s mood as well.
Yura: I remember many people in Moscow were kind of mad all the time.
Svetlana: There you go. I guess this was their way to deal with all these emotions
Yura: it makes me feel sad. Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson.
VOCAB LIST
Yura: The first word is
Svetlana: грустный [natural native speed]
Yura: sad
Svetlana: грустный [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: грустный [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: Расстроенный [natural native speed]
Yura: Upset
Svetlana: Расстроенный [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: Расстроенный [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: просто [natural native speed]
Yura: simply, just
Svetlana: просто [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: просто [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: Настроение [natural native speed]
Yura: Mood
Svetlana: Настроение [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: Настроение [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: давно [natural native speed]
Yura: Long time
Svetlana: давно [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: давно [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: Хочется [natural native speed]
Yura: Want
Svetlana: Хочется [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: Хочется [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: аппетит [natural native speed]
Yura: appetite
Svetlana: аппетит [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: аппетит [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: Похоже на [natural native speed]
Yura: Looks like
Svetlana: Похоже на [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: Похоже на [natural native speed]
Yura: Next is...
Svetlana: депрессия [natural native speed]
Yura: Depression
Svetlana: депрессия [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: депрессия [natural native speed]
Yura: Last is
Svetlana: уйти [natural native speed]
Yura: Go away, get away
Svetlana: уйти [slowly - broken down by syllable]
Svetlana: уйти [natural native speed]
VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE
Yura: Let's have a closer look at the usage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson.
Svetlana: The first word is расстроенный, which means ‘upset,’ it is a participle. It also changes according to the noun’s declension.
Yura: can I give an example?
Svetlana: sure, go ahead
Yura: ‘an upset girl’ Расстроенная девочка
Svetlana: perfect! The next word is very simple and it is translated in fact simply, just- the word is просто.
Yura: This adverb is frequently used and its place in the sentence is relatively flexible.
Svetlana: Я просто пришел посмотреть. I just came to take a look.
Yura: Great, let’s move to the next word.
Svetlana: the next word is in the title of this lesson - ‘mood’ - настроение. Usually we say...
Yura: I am in a good mood.
Svetlana: У меня хорошее настроение.
Yura: I am in a bad mood.
Svetlana: У меня плохое настроение.
Yura: Ok, so the next word is…
Svetlana: Давно.This adverb means a long time ago. For example, Я давно не был дома.
Yura: ‘I have not been home for a long time.’ Ok, good. The next word is хочется…“I want…”
Svetlana: It means ‘want’ but the subject is in the dative case. For example, мне хочется пить. ‘I want to drink.’
Svetlana: у меня депрессия.
Yura: this word seems easy, so let’s move to the last one.
Svetlana: ok, the last one is the verb уйти which means ‘go away.’ Мне уйти?
Yura: ‘Shall I go away?’
Svetlana: Now let's go to grammar.

Lesson focus

Yura: In this lesson, we’re going to learn how to use the verb “to be” and impersonal verbs.
Svetlana: These verbs are frequently used to express someone’s mood or feelings, which is exactly our focus in this lesson.
Yura: All right, let’s talk about impersonal verbs. Impersonal verbs are the verbs that denote actions or states that happen by themselves, without any active actor.
Svetlana: They have two main functions: First, they denote the mood, the state of mind or human health- Знобить-
Yura: ‘to shiver’
Svetlana: Тошнить - ‘feel like puking’
Yura: Нездоровиться- ‘feel sick’
Svetlana: Хотеться-want, ‘feel like doing something’
Yura: Взгрустнуться- ‘feel sad.’ As you can see, some translations in English are not exactly impersonal so you should just remember those verbs. Some examples, Мне хочется мороженого.
Yura: ‘I feel like eating ice-cream.’
Svetlana: Его тошнит от молока.
Yura: ‘he feels like puking after drinking milk.’ As you might have noticed, in these sentences there is no subject; the pronouns are used in the dative case.
Svetlana: right, the second function of impersonal verbs is to denote the state of nature. For example, Светать-
Yura: to dawn (Ask Yura - ‘to dawn’)
Svetlana: Рассветать- ‘it dawened’
Yura: Холодать- ‘to get chilly’
Svetlana: Вечереть- ‘to grow dark.’ And as we learned in our previous lesson, many impersonal verbs are reflexive verbs formed from personal verbs. не читается – ‘one can’t read’
Yura: спится- ‘one can go to sleep’
Svetlana: не верится- ‘one can’t believe’
Yura: живётся – ‘one can live’
Svetlana: просто не верится, что мои внуки уже пойдут в университет в этом году!
Yura: ‘I just can’t believe my grandchildren are starting university this year!’ All right. What are the forms of impersonal verbs?
Svetlana: Impersonal verbs have infinitives and the forms only in the third person in singular. Let’s talk about the verb “Знобить” meaning “to shiver” For example, Знобить / Знобит / Знобило. Okay, that's all for this lesson.

Outro

Svetlana: Listeners, do you know the powerful secret behind rapid progress?
Yura: Using the entire system.
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Yura: Then see you next time, everyone!
Svetlana: пока пока!

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