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Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1 Ukraine. Talking About The Motherland AgainLet me introduce you to the Ukrainian writer Valentina Oseeva and to present a fragment from her book "Vasyok Trubachov and His Friends. A magic word, filled with humanism and love for her native country, for Ukraine, passionately proclaiming peace, understanding and brotherhood between people - that is what Valentina Oseeva's work is like.Words that are not part of the minimum vocabulary of the level C1беспризорный homeless;бич whip;будка hutвенок wreath;вскидывать / вскинуть toss;вышитый embroidered;задорный perky cheerful playfulизумительный amazing, stupendousкартуз cap with a viso (old word)r;клевер clover;корень - rootкрынка а tall clay vessel with a wide neck for milk;кувшинка water lilyлако...
2022-04-0806 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1-B2 Ukraine. Talking About The Motherland AgainLet me introduce you to the Ukrainian writer Valentina Oseeva and to present a fragment from her book "Vasyok Trubachov and His Friends.A magic word, filled with humanism and love for her native country, for Ukraine, passionately proclaiming peace, understanding and brotherhood between people - that is what Valentina Oseeva's work is like.Words that are not part of the minimum vocabulary of this levelбеспризорный homeless;венок wreath;выпрямляться / выпрямиться straighten up;вышитый embroidered;говор accent;загорелый sun-baked;корзина basket;коса braid;корень - rootлуг meadowовёс oats;певучий sonorous;пучок bundle;приёмник here: reception centre;проповедовать proclaim;пшеница buckwheat;пушистый fluffy;стадо heard;
2022-04-0806 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1-C1 With freedom's seed the desert sowing...Free transcript and assignments for this podcast on patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/63778900Читаем стихотворение Пушкина о свободе и анализируем его.Словарь стихотворенияразбудить awaiken, arouse, погремушка rattle, пастись graze, сеятель sower, семя sed, живительный life'giving, честь honour, стричь shear, бич whip, безвинный innocent, клич cry, пустынный desert, дар gift, бразды furrow& порабощать enslave, наследство inheritance, ярмо yoke, благой good, стадо flockСловарь анализа стихотворенияссы́лка exil, унизи́тельно humiliating, переме́на change, разочарова́ние disappointment, сдава́ться / сда́ться surrender, give up, путь m. way, запреща́ть / запрети́ть prohibit.
2022-03-1404 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. We've all received some education...I bet your Russian teacher hasn't taught you the game of "Fool"yet. It is your loss! This is the most popular card game in Russia. Learn vocabulary and fight with your Russian friends.You can fight even with a Russian teacher, with me, for example https://teach.italki.com/teacher/804453Download to the card game lesson at Patreon for free https://www.patreon.com/posts/nas-vsekh-uchili-55400921?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshareДержу пари, ваш учитель русского языка ещё вас не научил игре в "дурака". А зря! Это самая популярная карточная игра в России. Выучите лексику и сразитесь с вашими русскими друзьями в гостях, на даче или онлайн!Загрузите бесплатно на урок игры в карты на Патреоне.
2021-08-0601 minRussian Language: Real BreakthroughA2-B1. We've all received some education...I bet your Russian teacher hasn't taught you the game of "Fool"yet. It is your loss! This is the most popular card game in Russia. Learn vocabulary and fight with your Russian friends.You can fight even with a Russian teacher, with me, for example https://teach.italki.com/teacher/804453Download to the card game lesson at Patreon for free https://www.patreon.com/posts/nas-vsekh-uchili-55400921?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshareДержу пари, ваш учитель русского языка ещё вас не научил игре в "дурака". А зря! Это самая популярная карточная игра в России. Выучите лексику и сразитесь с вашими русскими друзьями в гостях, на даче или онлайн!Загрузите бесплатно урок игры в карты на Патреоне.
2021-08-0601 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1. Young farmerWhat are the first words that Russian students learn in English? Goat, hen, cow, horse, kitten, bee, pig and piglet. But do you know these words in Russian? If not, I will help to fill the gaps in your knowledge.Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://teach.italki.com/teacher/804453You can also download scripts with vocabulary and pictures for FREE here https://www.patreon.com/yulia_stepanova This funny story will help us...
2021-07-2106 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Young farmer What are the first words that Russian students learn in English? Goat, hen, cow, horse, kitten, bee, pig and piglet. But do you know these words in Russian? If not, I will help you fill the gaps in your knowledge. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki Yulia Stepanova Italki TeacherYou can also download scripts of this podcast with vocabulary and pictures for FREE here https://www.patreon.com/yulia_stepanova This story is about a Russian teenager who breeds goats...
2021-07-2104 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1-B2. RU-EN Mishka's porridge. Adapted story of N.NossovI present you a funny story by Nossov how two boys cooked porridge. Sparkling humor, a huge number of dialogues will help you sound natural and joke in everyday conversations with your Russian friends.Grammar: verbs лить pour (water), сыпать pour (cereals), класть put with prefixes.You will "see" these verbs in the lesson thanks to a lot of illustrations. We also pour (нальём or насыпем) water or cereal into a mug, pour (выльем or высыпем) it out of a mug, add (дольём or досыпем) it to a mug, pour (перельём or пересыпем) it from one mug to another , this is how we will train grammar during the lesson!Learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and ex...
2021-06-2327 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C2. RU-FR K. Simonov. A la veille de la victoire.Écoutez un poème puissant de Konstantin Simonov écrit à la veille de la fin de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en Europe.Vérifiez votre compréhension de l'écoute avec la traduction française parallèle dans son intégralité et ligne par ligne.Simonov était un écrivain et un correspondant de guerre et un poète qui a marché toute la guerre aux côtés des soldats soviétique.!!! Cette poésie se compose de 53 mots, 14 (26%) d'entre eux sont en cas instrumental!Apprenez encore plus (sur le sujet, le vocabulaire et des exercices) e...
2021-05-0502 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C2. 露和 K. Simonov. On The Eve Of Victory. RU-JPヨーロッパで第二次世界大戦の終わりの前夜に書かれたコンスタンチン・シーモノフの絶大な詩に耳を傾けてください。シーモノフはこの戦争を作家、詩人、記者として、ソビエトの兵士と一緒に経験しました。あなたのリスニング理解を完全かつ行ごとに並列した日本語翻訳で確認してください。!!! この詩は53の単語から成っています、それらの14の単語（26％）は造格です！Italkiで私のレッスンを予約することにより、語彙や演習で、トピックスなどについてさらに多くを学びます。https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanovaレッスンの文法：形容詞と形動詞造格、"тот, что/кто"、"та, что/кто"、"то, что"。***Не той, что из сказок, не той, что с пелёнок,Не той, что была по учебникам пройдена,А той, что пылала в глазах воспалённых,А той, что рыдала, – запомнил я Родину.И вижу её, накануне победы,Не каменной, бронзовой, славой увенчанной,А очи проплакавшей, идя сквозь беды,Всё снесшей, всё вынесшей русскою женщиной.
2021-05-0502 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C2. RU-EN Konstantin Simonov. On The Eve Of Victory.Listen to a powerful poem of Konstantin Simonov, written on the eve of the end of World War II in Europe.Simonov is a Soviet author and a war poet.Check your listening understanding with parallel English translation in full and line by line.!!! This poetry consists from 53 words, 14 (26%) of them are in instrumental case!Learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanovaGrammar: Instrumental case of Adjectives and Participles, "тот, что", "та, что", "то, что" in all cases.Не той, что из сказок, не той, что с пелёнок,Не той, что была по учебникам пройдена,А той, что пылала в глазах воспалённых,А той, что рыдала, – запомнил я Родину.И вижу её, накануне победы,Не каменной, бронзовой, славой увенчанной,А очи проплакавшей, идя сквозь беды,Всё снесшей, всё вынесшей русскою женщиной.
2021-05-0302 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. RU-EN Pyotr Chaadaev: Between the Love of Fatherland and the Love of Truth.A lesson about patriotism with parallel translation Russian-English.Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanovaGrammar: Genitive Cases of Nouns and Adjectives, который, Proverbs etc.
2021-03-0609 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Russian - English. A.Tolstoy. The Christmas Tree. Parallel translation RU-ENA fragment from the book "Детство Никиты" (Nikita's Childhood) by Alexey Tolstoy with parallel Russian-English translation.After 17:57 - the same story only in English.Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to practice new words and grammar.Enjoy listening and practicing two languages - Russian and English!
2021-02-2627 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Russian - Italian. A.Tolstoy. The Christmas Tree. Traduzione parallela RU-ITA fragment from the book "Детство Никиты" by Alexey Tolstoy with parallel Russian-Italian translation in collaboration with https://www.ispeakitaliano.it/blog/Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to practice new words and grammar.Enjoy listening and practicing two languages - Russian and Italian!
2021-02-1619 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughA2-B1. New Year's celebrationA fragment from the book "Снег идёт" 1949 by Lyubov Voronkova, adapted for A2-B1 level with vocabulary* and even sounds that illustrate words like трещать, звонить, скрипеть, вздыхать. A story about how a family celebrated New Year in the village.Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to practice new words and grammar.New Year's tree decorating and waiting for the New Year is a great occasion to practice the words ставить, класть, вешать, висеть, ложиться, лечь, etc.С Рождеством и Новым годом, любители русского языка!*The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B1.Часть 1. Part 1баранки bagelблестящий shining, bright; brilliantбусы beadsветка branchгустой dense, bushyдоставать / достать get, take outизба peasant's log h...
2020-12-2514 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Blue CupA story written by the best Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar. Adapted for B2-C1 level.The podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B2.Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension,One day little Svetlana and her father took offense at her mother and went wherever they wanted… A kind lyrical story tells how much they saw during this long day and how wonderfully it ended. This story is about how the family should not ho...
2020-12-1916 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1-B2. Blue CupA story written by the best Soviet children's writer Arkady Gaidar. Adapted for B1-B2 level.The podcast with vocabulary. The vocabulary contains words that are not included in the minimum vocabulary of level B1.Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, One day little Svetlana and her father took offense at her mother and went wherever they wanted… A kind lyrical story tells how much they saw during this long day and how wonderfully it ended. This story is about how the family should not hol...
2020-12-1214 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. In Search Of Russian Treasures. Marjorie Post and J.DavisBook a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about an adventure of an American in Soviet Union. Fans of history will find in the lesson Stalin, Roosevelt, and art lost to the Russians but saved by Marjorie Post and her husband, the American Ambassador in the USSR, Joseph Davis. Using Google Maps, we will walk around Hillwood Museum, where we will look for Faberge eggs and the wedding crown of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.We will practice the active participles of the present and past tense, prepositions, and also translate...
2020-10-2914 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1. In Search Of Russian Treasures. Marjorie Post and J.DavisBook a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about an adventure of an American in Soviet Union. Fans of history will find in the lesson Stalin, Roosevelt, and art lost to the Russians but saved by Marjorie Post and her husband, the American Ambassador in the USSR, Joseph Davis. Using Google Maps, we will walk around Hillwood Museum, where we will look for Faberge eggs and the wedding crown of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.We will practice the suffixes -ательный, -ительный, prepositions, который, vocabulary of the lesson and also translate into Russian short notes fro...
2020-10-2913 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughAll levels. Try to listen to the end and don't laugh! Easy Interviews with Putin and other Russians.Try to listen to the end and don't laugh! Four short interviews, one of them with Vladimir Putin.
I use this NON-political interview with Putin in the first lesson to determine your level of the Russian language.
Of course, this is not accurate, but it often turns out to be true.
• If you don't understand the first, second and last questions, and also Putin's answer about the Mars, but you understand the rest pretty well, you are B1 student.
• If you understand all, but not the answer about the Mars, your are B2 student.
• If you...
2020-10-1311 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1. Clown And His CatsHis shows are sold out weeks ahead, with about 300 people packing into the hall twice a day every weekend. “Once I found a hungry little kitten, and he became my first stage partner. He sat inside a giant toffee, and whenever I unwrapped it, he’d jump out and stride boldly around the stage with his tail held high. And he could do somersaults and jump through a hoop and walk on his hind legs and meow very loudly whenever he was hungry,” Kuklachev said. Listen to the story of the world's kindest clown who performs with cats. More than t...
2020-10-0212 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Clown and his cats.His shows are sold out weeks ahead, with about 300 people packing into the hall twice a day every weekend.“Once I found a hungry little kitten, and he became my first stage partner. He sat inside a giant toffee, and whenever I unwrapped it, he’d jump out and stride boldly around the stage with his tail held high. And he could do somersaults and jump through a hoop and walk on his hind legs and meow very loudly whenever he was hungry,” Kuklachev said.Listen to the story of the world's kindest clown who performs with cats...
2020-10-0212 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Richard Sorge: Soviet Master SpyAudio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova • Find out about a love story of a Japanese girl Hanako Ishii and Richard Sorge, a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. • If you like to disc...
2020-09-2214 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Park "Fili" in MoscowListen to a story about Park Fili in Moscow, a park that is connected to names of Peter the Great, Elisabeth II, Kutuzov and Russian painters and writers like Repin, Turgenev, Tolstoy and others.Now it is one of the best parks in Moscow where you can walk, do sports, climb in Panda Park and many other things. Book a lesson at http://italki.com/yulia.stepanova to check your listening comprehension, to speak about your favourite parks and train new vocabulary and grammar.Use funny caricatures of an artist A.Tsap to re...
2020-09-1909 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Alexandre Maltsev. The First Russian Male Synchronised Swimmer.Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanovaSynchronised swimming is a sport in which Russia has a dominant place. Russian girls win almost all competitions thanks to their perfect synchronyzation, beauty and difficult tricks. But what about men? Until a few years ago this was a sport only for women. I am presenting an interesting topic to d...
2020-09-1909 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B2-C1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanovaAndrei Mironov is a great soviet actor. This lesson is based on his humorous stand-up show. In this lesson we will discuss all the different things you’ve learned in the past (perhaps, chess, skating, music, languages etc.). What is your opinion on forcing children to study things they do no...
2020-09-1806 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1. Alexandre Maltsev. The First Russian Male Synchronised Swimmer. Audio file of a lesson for a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a B1 Level. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova Synchronised swimming is a sport in which Russia has a dominant place. Russian girls win almost all competitions thanks to their perfect synchronyzation, beauty and difficult tricks. But what about men? Until a few years ago this was a sport only for women. I am presenting an interesting topic to discuss stereotypes in sports. You wi...
2020-09-1808 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB2-C1. Natalia Vodyanova. Beautiful philanthropist. Listen to a story about Russian model, mother of 5 children, and philanthropist Natalia Vodyanova. Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki. https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova We will discuss the life of Natalia and will train numerous words with the meaning "to marry" – замуж, замужем, жениться, пожениться, and also не замужем, не женат, and разводиться to divorce, быть в разводе.Finally you will know how to use them correctly. We will discuss marriage traditions in Tsarist Russia, in Soviet Union and now. We will study and analyse a graph with the number of marriages and divorces in the URSS and nowadays Russia and we will think
2020-09-1308 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughB1-B2. Natalia Vodyanova. Beautiful philanthropistListen to a story about Russian model, mother of 5 children, and philanthropist Natalia Vodyanova.Check your listening comprehension and learn even more (on the topic, with vocabulary and exercises) by booking a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanovaWe will discuss the life of Natalia and will train numerous words with the meaning "to marry" - замуж, замужем, жениться, пожениться, and also не замужем, не женат, and разводиться to divorce, быть в разводе. Finally you will know how to use them correctly. Grammar: instrumental case of nouns and adjectives.
2020-09-1306 min
Russian Language: Real BreakthroughA2-B1. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.Audio file for the first lesson of a course "Russian Language: Real Breakthrough" for a A2-B1 Level.Book a lesson with me on Italki https://www.italki.com/yulia.stepanova Andrei Mironov is a great soviet actor. This lesson is based on his humorous stand-up show.On this lesson we will discuss what you have ever studied (perhaps, chess, skating, musics, languages etc.). in your life and did you find this is good to force children study things they do not like or they would need it in their future.We will t...
2020-09-1003 min
The Running for Real PodcastAlysia Montano: Fighting For A Level Playing FieldWe've all seen the picture of an iceberg that shows what we see above water is only a fraction of what is happening underneath. This depiction is the reality for many people or situations that we encounter every day. The story always has more to it than first meets the eye. This is no different for Alysia Montaño. Many know her as "the runner with a flower in her hair," or "the pregnant runner." But like all elite athletes, Alysia is more than a runner, with a lifetime of stories that make her who she is. T...
2020-02-071h 31
The Anti-Doping PodcastWhistleblowers Who Helped Reveal Doping in Russian Sport - Yulia Stepanova and Vitaly StepanovYuliya Stepanova is an elite runner who specializes in the 800m track event, and Vitaly Stepanov is a former employee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. Both served as whistleblowers helping to expose doping and related issues in sport in Russia. They discuss their firsthand experiences being an athlete and working within a system that supported doping in sport, the challenges and consequences of being whistleblowers, the impacts of their actions, what they wish they had done differently, and more.
2019-09-0335 min
Marathon TalkEpisode 339 - Scott WestcottWe catch up with an Australian marathon hero and Rio Olympic qualifier Scott Westcott, Jenny Meadows supports Yulia Stepanova case for RIo inclusion. Yuki's Mum's zips up her own Yukisuit for a PB at the Gold Coast marathon, there's a new wheelchair LEJOG record, Sean Conway completes his massive triathlon, the Rob Young saga rumbles on, we talk to Andy Norman about the beer mile world champs, you Rate Your Run, stand proud on our Podium and are looking amazing in your kit around the world.
2016-07-061h 41