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| INTRODUCTION |
| Yura: Привет всем, с Вами – RussianPod101.com, я – Yura. |
| Svetlana: А я – Svetlana, здравствуйте, welcome to lesson 22 of our intermediate series. Reminiscing in Russian |
| Yura: in this lesson we will learn about the declension of cardinal numbers |
| Svetlana: While talking about the things we miss |
| Yura: The conversation takes place on a bench in the park: and it is between Tanya and Semyon Petrovich |
| Svetlana: The speakers will use formal Russian because of a vast age difference |
| Yura: All right, let’s listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| Семён Петрович: Я уже 20 лет живу в Англии, но до сих пор так скучаю по России... |
| Таня: Да? А по чему именно? |
| Семён Петрович: Сложно сказать. Иногда просто хочется нашей еды, нашей атмосферы, наших людей... |
| Таня: Но в Англии же много русских магазинов, ресторанов, да и самих русских много. |
| Семён Петрович: Да, но это всё не то... Здесь даже русские – уже не русские. Наверное, у меня просто ностальгия по самой России. Вам, молодёжи, не понять... |
| Yura: Let’s listen to the conversation one time slowly. |
| Семён Петрович: Я уже 20 лет живу в Англии, но до сих пор так скучаю по России... |
| Таня: Да? А по чему именно? |
| Семён Петрович: Сложно сказать. Иногда просто хочется нашей еды, нашей атмосферы, наших людей... |
| Таня: Но в Англии же много русских магазинов, ресторанов, да и самих русских много. |
| Семён Петрович: Да, но это всё не то... Здесь даже русские – уже не русские. Наверное, у меня просто ностальгия по самой России. Вам, молодёжи, не понять... |
| Yura: Let’s listen to the conversation with English translation. |
| Семён Петрович: Я уже 20 лет живу в Англии, но до сих пор так скучаю по России... |
| Semyon Petrovich: I've been living in England for 20 years now, but I still miss Russia so much... |
| Таня: Да? А по чему именно? |
| Tanya: Really? And what exactly do you miss? |
| Семён Петрович: Сложно сказать. Иногда просто хочется нашей еды, нашей атмосферы, наших людей... |
| Semyon Petrovich: Hard to say. Sometimes you just want our food, our atmosphere, our people ... |
| Таня: Но в Англии же много русских магазинов, ресторанов, да и самих русских много. |
| Tanya: But in England, there are so many Russian stores, restaurants, and a lot of Russians themselves. |
| Семён Петрович: Да, но это всё не то... Здесь даже русские – уже не русские. Наверное, у меня просто ностальгия по самой России. Вам, молодёжи, не понять... |
| Semyon Petrovich: Yes, but it's not the same ... Here, even Russians are not Russians anymore. Perhaps I just have nostalgia for Russia itself. You, young people, wouldn't understand… |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Yura: So this guy misses Russia. |
| Svetlana: Yes, this feeling is very common among numerous Russian immigrants in different countries. |
| Yura: Were there many waves of Russian immigration? |
| Svetlana: Yes, after the Russian revolution, in the 70s and in the 90s after the collapse of the USSR |
| Yura: So what are they missing? |
| Svetlana: difficult to say the atmosphere the music..something you can’t really describe..this is what famous Russian nostalgia is all about |
| Yura: I see...some sort of mysterious Russian soul |
| Svetlana: haha, I suppose so. Well, it works out well for many artists or entrepreneurs who use this to make a lot of money. |
| Yura: Oh, I see. Well, shall we move to the vocabulary? |
| Svetlana: Ok, let’s do it. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Yura: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson |
| 1 The first word is |
| Скучать по (natural) |
| miss |
| Скучать по (slow) |
| Скучать по (natural) |
| 2 Next is |
| Именно (natural) |
| exactly |
| Именно (slow) |
| Именно (natural) |
| 3 Next is |
| наш (natural) |
| our |
| наш (slow) |
| наш (natural) |
| 4 Next is |
| Атмосфера (natural) |
| atmosphere |
| Атмосфера (slow) |
| Атмосфера (natural) |
| 5 Next is |
| сам (natural) |
| by myself |
| сам (slow) |
| сам (natural) |
| 6 Next is |
| здесь (natural) |
| here |
| здесь (slow) |
| здесь (natural) |
| 7 Next is |
| Уже (natural) |
| anymore |
| Уже (slow) |
| Уже (natural) |
| 8 Next is |
| Ностальгия (natural) |
| nostalgia |
| Ностальгия (slow) |
| Ностальгия (natural) |
| 9 Next is |
| Молодежь (natural) |
| youth |
| Молодежь (slow) |
| Молодежь (natural) |
| 10 Last is |
| Понять (natural) |
| understand |
| Понять (slow) |
| Понять (natural) |
| 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 cкучать. This verb can be translated as “miss” someone or something and is used with the preposition по and a noun in the dative case. |
| Yura: For example, ‘I miss my family very much.’ |
| Svetlana: Я очень скучаю по моей семье. Yes, that’s true. One difficult example that sometimes even native speakers struggle with is ‘I miss you’ in plural. Many people would say я скучаю по вас. But the correct way is actually Я скучаю по вам. |
| Yura: All right, the next word is easy-атмосфера- ‘atmosphere.’ |
| Svetlana: You are right, and the meaning is the same as in English. Let’s move to the next word. |
| Yura: Ok. It is very short-сам |
| Svetlana: Yes, and it means ‘myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself,ourselves, themselves.’ All in one word but with some changes according to the gender. Сам, сама, сами, само. |
| Yura: for example, ‘I will do it myself.’ |
| Svetlana: я сделаю это сам. Ok, let’s move to the next word, which is ‘nostalgia’ - ностальгия. |
| Yura: That’s a beautiful word, a little sad though. |
| Svetlana: Oh well, what can you do if you miss the good old times? У меня ностальгия по детству. |
| Yura: I have nostalgia for my childhood. I have nostalgia for my home. |
| Svetlana: у тебя ностальгия по дому. I understand. |
| Yura: enough of nostalgia, we are young so we should think about what is ahead of us, not behind. |
| Svetlana: Ok, the next word is- youth- молодёжь. Do you know the declensions? |
| Yura: Sure, молодёжь, молодёжи, молодёжи, молодёжь, молодёжью, молодёжи. |
| Svetlana: Well done, and the last word is ‘to understand’ - понять. It is a perfective verb and usually is used in the past tense- понял, поняла, поняли. For example, я понял все значения слов. |
| Yura: I understood all the meanings of the words. |
| Svetlana: Did you? |
| Yura: Sure, I think our listeners did too. So let’s see what the grammar points are for this lesson. |
Lesson focus |
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| Yura: In this lesson, we're going to learn about how to decline cardinal numbers in Russian. Yes, even cardinal numbers change their forms according to the case of the noun. |
| Svetlana: Cardinal numbers don’t have gender forms except for ‘one’ and ‘two’ - один, одна, одно, два, две. We will learn the declensions of the numbers 1,2,37, because they represent the main types of declensions and then at a couple two-digit numbers - 25 and 40. |
| Yura: Ok, let’s start with Один час-‘one hour’ |
| Svetlana: |
| Один час |
| Одного часа |
| Одному часу |
| Один час |
| Одним часом |
| Одном часе |
| Yura: The next one is Две девочки- ‘two girls’ |
| Svetlana: Две девочки |
| Двух девочек |
| Двум девочкам |
| Двух девочек |
| Двумя девочками |
| Двух девочках |
| Yura: The next one is ‘three dogs’ |
| Svetlana: Три собаки |
| Трёх собак |
| Трём собакам |
| Трёх собак |
| Тремя собаками |
| Трёх собаках |
| The number 4 would have similar declensions. |
| Yura: Ok, got it. The next one is ‘seven years’ |
| Svetlana: Семь лет |
| Семи лет |
| Семи годам |
| Семь лет |
| Семью годами |
| Семи годах |
| The numbers 5, 6, 8, 9, 10-20, 30, 40 etc will have similar declensions. |
| Yura: In the case of two-digit numbers both of them change the forms according to the case. |
| Svetlana: That is correct. |
| Двадцать пять рублей-’twenty-five rubles’ |
| Двадцати пяти рублей |
| Двадцати пяти рублям |
| Двадцать пять рублей |
| Двадцатью пятью рублями |
| Двадцати пяти рублях |
| Yura: And the last number 40, ‘forty books’ |
| Svetlana: Сорок книг |
| Сорока книг |
| Сорока книгам |
| Сорок книг |
| Сорока книгами |
| Сорока книгах |
| Yura: As you can see, it is one of the easiest declensions because it has only two forms. |
| Svetlana: For example, у меня нет сорока трёх рублей! |
| Yura: I don’t have 43 rubles! I think I got it but I need more practice. |
| Svetlana: Good for you! Okay. That is it for this lesson. |
Outro |
| Yura: Hope you enjoyed it. Then see you next time. |
| Svetlana: пока пока |
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