Short Story /365 | Learn Russian with Short Stories A1 Level

[00:00:03]Hello and welcome to my channel. Short story number 31 out of 365.

[00:00:14]ambassador and the title is ambassador.

[00:00:19]ambassador. Do you know this word?

[00:00:22]Write the translation of these words in comments.

[00:00:26]So, first we're going to write the first part and we're going to translate it to dance. Try to translate it by yourself while I'm writing it here on the board.

[00:00:40]Just a moment.

[00:01:12]Today the ambassador is going to another city.

[00:01:17]Today the ambassador is going to another city.

[00:01:22]He came to the train station in advance.

[00:01:25]He came came to the train station in advance.

[00:01:35]train station in advance.

[00:01:38]>> [clears throat] >> in advance. He came to the train station in advance.

[00:01:45]He entered his car and sat He entered his car entered his car his car Svoy. Vagon.

[00:02:03]Vagon.

[00:02:05]I sel. I sel.

[00:02:09]On zashel svoy vagon i sel.

[00:02:13]Vagoni tikha i chista.

[00:02:16]V vagone.

[00:02:18]Vagone.

[00:02:21]Tikha.

[00:02:22]Tikha.

[00:02:24]I chista.

[00:02:27]Chista.

[00:02:28]Vagone tikha i chista.

[00:02:33]Sorry.

[00:02:34]Vagone tikha i chista.

[00:02:39]On sel u okna i dostal knigu. On sel u okna.

[00:02:48]Okna.

[00:02:49]I dostal.

[00:02:53]Dostal.

[00:02:54]Knigu.

[00:02:57]Knigu.

[00:02:58]On sel u okna i dostal knigu.

[00:03:03]On sel u okna i dostal knigu.

[00:03:07]On chital vsyu dorogu. On chital.

[00:03:13]Chital vsyu dorogu.

[00:03:16]Vsyu dorogu.

[00:03:21]On chital vsyu dorogu.

[00:03:24]>> [clears throat] >> On chital vsyu dorogu. Horosho. Let's read it, translate, talk about pronunciation and grammar.

[00:03:33]Posol. Posol is um I forgot posol in English.

[00:03:41]Who Who knows the English [snorts] translation?

[00:03:45]Posol. Ambassador. Yeah.

[00:03:47]So, posol is ambassador.

[00:03:49]Here o not stressed, so pronounce it as a. Posol. had it the way gold.

[00:03:56]vessel Yeah, not stressed. We pronounce this e.

[00:04:02]So, today the ambassador goes to a different city, to another city.

[00:04:08]You had it goes by transportation, of course. the way gold gold Uh or not stressed, we pronounce this a.

[00:04:19]Voiced consonant at the end of the word, we pronounce this unvoiced there. So, de will become te.

[00:04:27]gold gold So, today the ambassador is going to a different city.

[00:04:35]on pre-show not the way gold the way gold the running he came to the train station Uh the running um earlier.

[00:04:46]literally in advance earlier on the show of the way gold is here He entered his wagon, his uh Yeah, wagon in English, right? This part of the train that is uh uh numerated.

[00:05:06]So, he entered his wagon uh and sat, and sat down. He sat.

[00:05:15]the way gold is here each Easter In the wagon, it is quiet and clean.

[00:05:22]No? Mhm.

[00:05:24]the way gold on sale or at now here I stressed So, this all will be pronounced as a because it's not stressed. It does tell clean He sat by the window, near the window, close to the window, and took out the style, took out the book.

[00:05:43]on the show of the way gold he was reading the whole trip.

[00:05:48]Literally the all road, vsyu darogu. And basically, in English we say the whole trip. On schital vsyu darogu. Horosho.

[00:05:59]Um, so, let's talk about verbs.

[00:06:04]Imperfective perfective aspect. Segodnya posol yedet, today the ambassador is going.

[00:06:11]It's present.

[00:06:13]He's going today.

[00:06:15]So, we will use imperfective here, imperfective.

[00:06:22]>> [snorts] >> Segodnya posol yedet. We can use perfective here as well.

[00:06:26]In some situations like this one.

[00:06:29]We can use perfective and imperfective.

[00:06:33]Uh, here if I would use perfective, it would be one time action in the future. Today, on segodnya payedet, today he will go to a different city.

[00:06:44]Uh, but very often we use just imperfective, uh, when we talk about future.

[00:06:51]Segodnya posol yedet, today, um, the ambassador is going.

[00:06:56]And we can use imperfective in this context as well. Perfective and imperfective, doesn't matter.

[00:07:03]Horosho. So, here we used imperfective.

[00:07:05]On prishol, he came. Here I will already used perfective. He came, perfective.

[00:07:13]Uh, to the train station in advance, uh, earlier.

[00:07:17]Or he came, he already is there.

[00:07:20]Or this action's finished, so we will use perfective. On prishol.

[00:07:26]On zashol, he entered. Again, perfective, one time action, finished action.

[00:07:32]Uh, his wagon and sat. Perfective as well, sel.

[00:07:36]Perfective.

[00:07:37]>> [clears throat] >> Uh, mhm, on sel, he sat by the window.

[00:07:41]Perfective, he's there by the window, so the action is finished done.

[00:07:47]He dostal and he took out his book.

[00:07:50]Again, perfective. His book is already is out. His It's on the table on on in his hand. So, this action is finished done.

[00:07:59]On chital vsyu dorogu. He was reading the whole trip. I'm talking about process, a period of time. So, we I will use a verb in imperfective here. Because I'm talking about a period of time.

[00:08:13]Process. So, on chital vsyu dorogu. He was reading the whole trip. Here I will use a verb in imperfective aspect. Very good. What about Uh what about cases?

[00:08:28]Segodnya posol. Posol is the subject of the sentence, so it's nominative.

[00:08:33]Ooh ooh he was uh segodnya he is going to another city, to a different city.

[00:08:40]V drugoy gorod. Here we will use accusative case. Drugoy gorod.

[00:08:45]Accusative.

[00:08:47]Accusative. Movement to a different place, different location, towards movement towards a place.

[00:08:55]So, to a different city, towards a place. Uh this is accusative case, but nothing will change here because it's masculine. Drugoy gorod, different city is masculine. Masculine accusative inanimate. Do not change. The endings will remain the same as in nominative case. Nominative case is the way you find uh words in a dictionary. Khorosho. On prishol na vokzal. He came to the train station. Again, movement towards motion to a place, movement uh towards a place. So, accusative as well.

[00:09:35]Vokzal is an accusative here, but again, nothing will change because it's masculine inanimate.

[00:09:41]Accusative.

[00:09:45]Again, movement to a place. He entered his wagon. Wagon is accusative as well.

[00:09:55]Accusative.

[00:09:57]And said, "Easy on."

[00:09:59]Wagon chicha and chista. In the wagon, it is quiet and clean. Where? In the wagon. So, shows us a place, location.

[00:10:12]We will use prepositional case. V vagone, prepositional.

[00:10:18]Prepositional case. Where? In the wagon.

[00:10:21]Shows us a location. Kharasho.

[00:10:25]On seal u akna. After u after this preposition u, by the window, near, next to, the noun will be in genitive case.

[00:10:38]So, akno became akna in genitive.

[00:10:43]Seal u akna e dostal knigu. And took out the book.

[00:10:49]Dostal knigu. Knigu here is in accusative case because it's the direct object of the verb dostal. He took out what? The book. Book is in accusative.

[00:11:00]We have an ending that is changed here from kniga to knigu in accusative case.

[00:11:07]He took out what? The book. The book is in accusative and because it's feminine, we have the ending that changed from a to u. Knigu. Kharasho. On chital syu [snorts] darogu. Syu darogu here is in accusative as well, but here it is in accusative because it shows us duration of time. Syu darogu, the whole trip, the whole road. This is why it's accusative.

[00:11:37]He was reading and the and duration of duration, time, period, we use accusative case.

[00:11:48]Now, let's read out loud each sentence. I will ask you to repeat after me. Try to imitate my pronunciation. I will give you time to repeat.

[00:12:02]The ambassador.

[00:12:38]Also, here this word will be pronounced as f.

[00:12:48]Because voiced consonant near unvoiced like here unvoiced is s and voiced is v will become unvoiced too.

[00:12:58]So, our voiced consonant near unvoiced will become unvoiced too.

[00:13:05]Will be pronounced as f.

[00:13:13]The whole road, the whole trip.

[00:13:21]Very good. Let's continue.

[00:13:26]So, he was reading the trip.

[00:13:33]in another in another on smart trail smart trail vac no in another on smart trail vac no in another on smart trail vac no Try to translate this sentence by yourself.

[00:13:58]in another on smart trail vac no private pre knows chai private pre knows pre knows chai private pre knows chai vac no with me Lisa by Leah in my link e Diddy and me vac no with me with me Lisa Lisa by Leah by Leah e my link e Diddy and me my link e Diddy and me Diddy and me Diddy and vac no with me Lisa by Leah e my link e Diddy and me >> [clears throat] >> vac no with me Lisa by Leah e my link e Diddy and me What you got show now?

[00:15:10]Let's translate and talk about pronunciation.

[00:15:13]Uh verbs aspect and cases.

[00:15:18]in another in another sometimes on smart real luck no.

[00:15:27]Or not stressed will be pronounced as ah.

[00:15:31]Sometimes [snorts] he was looking through the window. In another most material luck no. In Russian we say he was looking in the window luck no and that means through the window outside.

[00:15:43]In another most material luck no.

[00:15:47]So correction. Good next. Probably probably probably probably.

[00:15:55]Bring yours chai.

[00:15:57]Probably is like flight attendant but in the train. How do we call them in English?

[00:16:08]I don't know.

[00:16:09]I don't know. So it's like a flight attendant but train attend attendants.

[00:16:15]Train attend attendants. Probably bring yours chai brought tea.

[00:16:22]So um train attendant uh brought tea. Bring yours chai.

[00:16:29]Luck no luck no.

[00:16:32]With me Lisa by Leah e mine key dear you have me.

[00:16:38]>> [clears throat] >> Um luck no behind the window.

[00:16:43]On that part of the window with me are seen.

[00:16:48]Lisa forests. So it's plural for Leah Lisa.

[00:16:59]By Leah fields plural for poorly by Leah fields e mine key dear you have me and small villages.

[00:17:08]And small villages. Correction. So or not stressed will be pronounced as ah.

[00:17:15]Luck no by Leah.

[00:17:17]Dear you have me not is pronounced as e.

[00:17:22]Now, let's talk about verbs.

[00:17:25]So, we have smotrel after the word inogda, which means sometimes. And after the word sometimes, always we will have a verb in imperfective aspect. So, of course smotrel because it happens sometimes, right?

[00:17:42]It cannot be a verb in perfective aspect because perfective is about one-time action, finished action. But if you say inogda, sometimes, that means that it happens sometimes, not a one-time action, not a finished action. So, of course the verb will be in imperfective aspect. So, sometimes he was looking.

[00:18:04]Inogda on smotrel. So, this is the verb smotret, which is in imperfective.

[00:18:10]Provanik prinos the who? The conductor, the uh train attendant brought tea.

[00:18:19]Tea is already here on the table, so we will use perfective aspect. Prinos, perfective.

[00:18:27]Perfective. Prinos, perfective.

[00:18:31]One-time action, finished action when we have a result already.

[00:18:36]Khorosho. Za oknom vidny okay. No more verbs. Next, let's talk about cases, right?

[00:18:46]So, inogda on smotrel v okno. So, look in the mirror, in the when we look in the mirror, in the window, or through the window, it's like um it's like to a movement to a direction.

[00:19:04]So, we will use accusative case here.

[00:19:08]Uh v okno. V okno. This is accusative, but endings will not be changed because it's neuter. Neuter accusative looks like nominative. Nothing changes.

[00:19:20]Kharasho. Next. Provodnik prinos [clears throat] chai.

[00:19:24]Brought what? Tea. Direct object of the verb brought brought. Prinos. So, tea is in accusative, but because it's masculine, it's masculine inanimate, nothing will change here.

[00:19:37]Uh za knom. So, after the preposition za, and when it's about a location, the noun will be in instrumental case. So, behind the window, instrumental.

[00:19:53]Because of za, behind, and the location here, behind the window. Window will be in instrumental case. And lesa, polya, malen'kiye derevni are all in nominative because they're the subject of the sentence. They exist, so it's nominative. Nominative is uh the way you find words in um the dictionary. [clears throat] They answer to question what or who.

[00:20:19]>> [laughter] >> Kharasho.

[00:20:21]Now, let's pronounce uh sentences with me out loud. I will give you time to repeat.

[00:20:27]Inogda on smotrel v okno.

[00:20:32]Provodnik prinos chai.

[00:20:36]Za oknom vidny lesa, polya i malen'kiye derevni.

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