Время мультфильма! Cartoon time! In addition to the previous New Year post let’s watch one more episode of Russian cartoon “Nu, pogodi!”.

Previous episodes of cartoon:

• 01 City and Beach
• 02 Funfair in the night

Before watching:

• check cartoon vocabulary (pdf);

While watching try to understand what heroes say, also pay attention on what is written here and there. To check your answers feel free to send me a mail or leave a comment to this post. I hope you’ll enjoy!

Song from this cartoon

Good evening, Dear listeners! Добрый вечер, дорогие слушатели!

 

 Episode 14 - Happy New Year: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Today is already the last day of the year. How do Russians celebrate this holiday?

Usually New Year is a family holiday with tables full of different tasty things and champagne. President of Russia addresses nation before clock strikes 12 and then a lot of fireworks and bottles of champagne burst out into celebrations which now officially lasts almost 10 days.

For children it’s a magical day - they can find their presents under the New Year Tree. Sometimes Дед Мороз / Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Claus, we call him Father Frost) and Снегурочка / Snegurochka (Ded Moroz’s granddaughter) come to houses and give away gifts after children sing them a song or recite poems about winter and New Year.

Let’s learn some phrases which we use to congratulate each other:

• C наступающим НовымГодом! [S nas-too-pa-yu-schim Novym Godom!] Happy coming New Year!
• С Новым Годом! [S Novym Godom!]Happy New Year!
• С наступающим Рождеством ! [S nas-too-pa-yu-schim Rozh-dest-vom! ] Merry coming Christmas! P.S. Russians celebrate Christmas on 6th-7th of January night (Julian calendar)
• C Рождеством [Христовым]! [S Rozh-dest-vom [Khris-to-vym]!] Merry Christmas!
• Со Старым Новым Годом! [So Starym Novym Godom!] Happy Old New Year! Yeah, it sounds strange but we do celebrate it too on 13th of January – New Year by Old Style (Julian calendar). It’s not an official holiday but a good chance to have a small gathering again.

Common phrases which can be said for any holiday (we took it in Episode 4 – Victory day):

• С наступающим праздником! Happy coming holiday!
• С праздником! Happy Holiday!
• Поздравляем! Congratulations! (plural, from a group of people)
• Поздравляю! Congratulations! (singular)

The most famous Russian New Year song is “V lesy rodilas yolochka” (A small fir-tree was born in the forest). Every Russian young and adult knows it. That’s all for today, now let’s sing a song and see you already in New Year 2009!

Удачи! И с наступающим Новым Годом! Пока!

В лесу родилась ёлочка / V lesu rodilas yolochka

(lyrics by Raisa Adamovna Kudashyova, music by Leonid Karlovich Bekman)

Useful links:

• New Year’s Day (wiki)
• Old New Year (wiki)
• The most popular New Year movie: Ирония судьбы (Irony of Fate, wiki)

Всем привет!

Just few pictures left. Today we will take them all:

“Русская баня” [russkaya banya] = Russian banya (traditional Russian steam bath, more details in Wikipedia). “Русская” = Russian (feminine, adjective).

“Бассейн” [bassein] = swimming pool.

“Сауна” [sauna] = sauna.

“Тренажерный зал” [trenazhernyi zal] = gym, exercise room. “Тренажерный” (masculine, adjective) = training. “Зал” = hall, room.

“Опасная зона” [opasnaya zona] = dangerous area, dangerous zone. “Опасная” (feminine, adjective) = dangerous. “Зона” = zone.

“Стоп-кран” (usually in trains) [stop-kran] = emergency brake valve. “Стоп” = stop.

“Добро пожаловать!” [dobro pozhalovat] = Welcome!

“Нулевой километр автодорог Удмуртской республики” [nulevoi kilometr avtodorog udmurtskoy respubliki] = Zero kilometer of highways of Udmurt Republic. “Автодорога” [avtodoroga] = highway (there it’s used in plural in Genetive case. “Удмуртская” [udmurtskaya] = Udmurt (feminine, adjective, in picture used in Genetive case). “Республика” [respublika] = republic (in picture used in Genetive case).

Photo-report is fully complete now. See you soon in episodes! Пока-пока

Всем привет!
Today I will show you some pictures which can help you to find pharmacy, hair-stylist’s or post office in Russia:

“Стоматологический кабинет” [stomatologichesky kabinet] = dental office or dental room.

“Режим работы” [rezhim raboty] = work schedule, working hours. “Работа” [rabota] noun = work (on the picture it’s used in Genetive case).

And then you can see abbreviation of week days:

Пн - “Понедельник” [ponedelnik] = Monday

Вт - “Вторник” [vtornik] = Tuesday

Ср - “Среда” [sreda] = Wednesday

Чт - “Четверг” [chetverg] = Thursday

Пт - “Пятница” [pyatnitsa] = Friday

Сб - “Суббота” [subbota] = Saturday

Вс - “Воскресенье” [voskresenie] =Sunday

In Russia week days are from Monday to Friday and weekend is on Saturday and Sunday.

Here they also provide dentist services: “Стоматология” [stomatologiya] = dentistry.

And in case you need to check your watch or clock you can visit “Ремонт часов” [remont chasov] = clock hospital. “Ремонт” means “repair”.  “Часы” [chasy] always plural = watch or clock (here it’s used in Genetive case).

“Парикмахерская” [parikmakherskaya] = hair stylist’s, hairdressing saloon, barbershop.

“Гостиница” [gostinitsa] = hotel

“Центральная” [tsentral'naya] = central (feminine gender)

“Аптечный пункт” [aptechny punkt] = chemist’s shop, pharmacy

“Аптека” [apteka] = pharmacy

“Почта России” [pochta rossii] = Russian post. “Почта” [pochta] = post. “Россия” [rossiya] = Russia (used in Genetive case).

“Касса” [kassa] = ticket office.

Very hard to read, it’s written “Милиция” [militsiya] = militia, police.

Keep in touch! To be continued…

Привет!

You can meet at least 3 different letters “M” in Russia. Let’s get aquianted with them:

“Метро” [metro] = metro

Very famous “M” - Mac Donalds

And the last “M” means “мужской” [muzhskoy] adjective = the men’s (toilet).

By the way “Ж” means “женский” [zhensky] adjective = the lady’s (toilet).

To be continued…