• Прошу прощения за мой французский 
[рra-shu pra-shche-ni-ya za moy fran-tsuz-skiy]
🇬🇧 Pardon my French

🔻This is a well-known expression in modern Russian (as well as in English); that is usually used after the non-literary (or obscene) vocabulary as a form of apology.

🔻It is used without any intention to express hostility towards French speakers.

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Подруга (подруги)
  [pad-ru-ga (pad-ru-gi)]
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• Подружка (подружки) (diminutive)
  [pad-rush-ka (pad-rush-ki)]
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• Подруженька (подруженьки) (diminutive)
  [pad-ru-zhen'ka (pad-ru-zhen'-ki)]

🇬🇧 A female friend, a girlfriend

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Listen, practice, take the test and hug your подруг!

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🔢🔢🔢 Как попрощаться / How to say goodbye:

1. До свидания!
    [da svi-da-n'ya]
    SLT: Until date

2. До встречи!
    [da fstre-chi]
    SLT: Until meeting

3. Счастливо!
    [shchis-li-va]
    SLT: (stay) Happily

4. Пока!
    [pa-ka]
    SLT: for the time being(??)

5. Давай!
    [da-vay]
    SLT: Give

• Ну, давай, пока! Увидимся в выходные!
[nu, da-vay, pa-ka! U-vi-dim-sya v vy-khad-ny-ye]
🇬🇧 OK, bye! See you at the weekend!

🔻Surprisingly, but foreign words are also widely used in Russian as a playful way to say goodbye:

• Адиос (исп. Adios)

• Оревуар (фр. Au Revoir).

• Ариведерчи (итал. Arrivederci).

• Чаo (итал. Ciao).

• Ауфидерзейн (нем. Auf Wiedersehen).

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• Японский сад
  [ya-pon-skiy  sahd]

🔻This is a unique place that is definitely worth a visit in Krasnodar.

🔻And the pearl of the park is the Japanese Garden. This is the largest (10 hectares!) similar garden outside of Japan.

📍Geoposition (tap➡️): Кrasnodar, Russia

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👋Доброе утро, пупсики!

• Строить глазки (imperfective, colloquial)
   [stro-it' glaz-ki]
   SLT: To build eyes
   To ogle, to make eyes at smb

• Подмигивать (imperfective)
   [pаd-mi-gi-vat']
   To wink (at)

• Ты это видел? Она весь вечер строила мне глазки и подмигивала!
[ty e-to vi-del? А-na ves' ve-cher stro-i-la mne glaz-ki i pаd-mi-gi-va-la]
🇬🇧 Did you see that? She was ogling and winking at me all evening!

🎧🗣👇 Practice your pronunciation аnd всем хорошего дня!

⏺Сheck the conjugation of the verbs over there👇!

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• Загашник (masc.noun, slang)
[za-gash-nik]

Meaning:
Stash, cache, a secret place where something (money) is stored or hidden

Origin:
One of the items of ancient Slavic costume was 'гашник'. It was an ordinary strong cord used to belt clothes. People used to hide a bag of money on it when they were going to a fair and were afraid of pickpockets. So, it turned out that the money was hidden ЗА ГАШНИКом (behind the cord).

Synonym:
• Тайник
  [tay-nik]

🔻There is one more noun with a similar meaning:

• Заначка
  [za-nach-ka]
  A nest egg, some money kept
for future expenses

• У него есть заначка, припрятанная в загашнике.
[u ni-vo yest' za-nach-ka, pri-prya-tan-na-ya v za-gash-ni-ke]
🇬🇧 He has a nest egg hidden in the stash.

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💙 Ласточкино Гнездо
     [las-tach-ki-no gniz-do]
     The Swallow's Nest

🔻This is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka on the Crimean peninsula.

🔻It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre-high (130 ft) Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic design by the Russian architect Leonid Sherwood for a Russian noble with German roots, Pavel Leonardovich von Steingel.

🔻The Swallow's Nest is one of the most popular visitor attractions in Crimea, having become the symbol of Crimea's southern coastline.

📍Geoposition (tap➡️): Сrimea, Russia

Photo by: alexandrshinkar, ozerserdar

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Главный cуетолог
  [(glav-nyj) su-ye-to-lag]
  SLT: Сhief fussologist

This slang noun comes from the verb:
• Суетиться (imperfective)
  [su-ye-ti-tsa]
  To bustle, fuss (about)
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Suffix -лог (Greek λόγος which means 'study', 'specialist')

• Мама - главный суетолог в нашей семье!
[ma-ma - glav-nyj su-ye-to-lag v na-shey si-m'ye]
🇬🇧 Mom is the main fussmaker in our family!

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