Russian Made Easy Podcast 5.pdf

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Episode #5

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Welcome to odcast !"# $efore doing our revie%, let&s add one ne% occupation%hich is 'ind of a cognate# isten and repeat:

*+-.

/NOTE: 0&ve chosen to notsound out the Russian %ords in these transcriptsusing English letters# 0f 1ou&d li'e to 2e a2le to read Russian (it can 2e learned in

3ust a fe% da1s) 0&ll include a lin' at the 2ottom of this transcript to m1 course onreading Russian#4
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One more time: *+-.

5o %hat 'ind of occupation is an *+-.6 Well, %hen the police arrest asuspect in the 7#5#, the1 must inform him that he has the right to remain silent,

and that he has the right to hire an *+-.#

To put it another %a1: The person 1ou hire to represent 1ou in court is called1our *+-.#

5o *+-. is the Russian %ord for la%1er# 0t sounds li'e advocate, %hich is%hat a la%1er is, right6 8e&s an advocatefor 1our rights and 1our side of thestor1# 9ust note ho% the emphasis is on the end of the %ord# *+;ad is a la%1er#

?@ AA B *+-.#

Clright, no% let&s do some revie%#What Russian %ord do %e use to greet people6D*+.+GH.IJ

5a1: =1 name is Keorge#?IL@ M+G. *#

Cs' someone:Cnd %hat&s 1our name6; -- M+G.6

5a1: This is m1 dad# 8e&s a la%1er#P. QH AA# L B *+-.#

Tr1 sa1ing: =1 dad is an Cmerican, whereasm1 mom is an English%oman#?H AA B QIS-LI, Q@ QQ B LUVSL-#

This is m1 friend# 8e&s an Custralian#P. QH *GU# L B +.VSI#

This is m1 female friend# 5he is an Cmerican#P. Q@ A*GU# L B QIS-L-#

Clright, in this podcast %e&ll 2e learning t%o Xuestion %ords# 8ere&s the first one#Repeat after the spea'er:


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One more time:.

0magine 0&m sho%ing m1 Russian friend Natasha some photos of m1 friends andfamil1 on Face2oo'# Yan 1ou get the meaning of


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(`lad) (pointing to a girl) ; -. [.6

5ee ho% he used ^ah^ to set up a contrasting Xuestion6 The actual literalmeaning of ^a^ in this context is along the lines of: Having processed what you

just said, I'd now like to ask the following:

0 don&t mean to ma'e a 2ig deal out of such a little %ord, 2ut 1ou&ll hear it all thetime, so 0 3ust %ant 1ou to reall1 grasp it# 5o as' 1our friend:

Who is this6 bour mom, 1es6. [.6


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Then 7ncle Toli' pours a clear liXuid into 1our shotglass# Cs' him##

PH,


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us S-

0 call that 'ind of mnemonic device a o%erhrase and the1&re a great tool forXuic'l1 memoriing a ton of %ords# When 0 %as first learning Russian 0 made ao%erhrase for 3ust a2out ever1 ne% %ord 0 learned# 0t&s amaing ho% much

1ou can remem2er that %a1# Cnd 0 use those same ones in our RussianCccelerator videos, along %ith funn1 pictures to reall1 drive home each phrase#The visual part is reall1 important, and it&s a limitation of an audioBonl1 format#$ecause 1ou reall1 %ant to associate an image %ith each o%erhrase####thathelps to ma'e it memora2le# These 'inds of mnemonic devices are used 21 allmemor1 experts and advanced language students# Cs' an1one %ho&s learned and or jrd language Xuic'l1, and the1&ll admit the1 used these 'inds ofmemora2le phrases to help them recall %ords#

Clright, let&s get 2ac' to our lesson toda1# 5o###pretend 1our Russian friend is

sho%ing 1ou a picture of himself sitting in a restaurant across from t%o men%earing suits# oint to the older man in the picture and as'###

Who is that6. [.6

8o% %ill 1our friend repl1:This is m1 la%1er#P. QH *+-.#

Then point to the other man and as'###Cnd %ho is this6; -. [.6

8e ans%ers:This is m1 friend avel# 8e is a 2usinessman#P. QH *GU k+IV# L B SMLIQIL#

Then point to the 2ottle of alcohol in the photo and as'###

What&s this6. [.6

isten to his ans%er:P. +S-S#

Cnd so, %ith that ^. [.6^ Xuestion, %e learned another eas1 %ord# We sa1


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^%his'e1^ and Russian it&s ^vees'1^, %ith a ^v^ sound# isten###

+S-S

9ust one last ne% %ord to cover toda1, and 1ou pro2a2l1 alread1 'no% it# $ut 0

3ust need to ma'e sure# Tr1 sa1ing:LI.

That 2eginning sound is li'e from the middle of the %ord ^onion#^ That transition#Onion###NbET###

0f 1ou 'no% the meaning of this %ord sa1, ; ###0 'no% it#0f 1ou don&t, then sa1 ]< 0 don&t 'no% it#

5o, and ]< are opposites#

means bE5 and ]< means No#

et&s %or' %ith it a little 2it# 0magine sho%ing a picture of 1our friend _evin to1our Russian girlfriend# 5he as's:

P. L6

Tell her: No, this is _evin#]I.# P. [+SL#

5he as's: 0s he a 2usinessman6L B SMLIQIL6

Tell her: No, he&s an engineer#]I.# L B SLILI#

Not that 1ou could ever mista'e one for the other, 2ut point to the filled shotglassin front of 1ou and as'###

What is this6 `od'a. [.6 *-6

8o% %ill the person tell 1ou:No# This is %his'e1#]I.# P. +S-S#

5o, practice as'ing these Xuestions as 1ou go a2out 1our da1#


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0n the next episode %e&ll learn ho% to order food and drin's####certainl1 a usefulthing to 'no%###and %e&ll learn ho% to develop fluenc1 in Russian# bes, even2eginners should 2e %or'ing to%ards fluenc1 right from the start# Cnd 0&ll sho%1ou ho%, in the next episode# =ean%hile, head over to Russian=adeEas1#com

for toda1&s do%nloads#

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