• 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)
+
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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🔢🔢🔢 В самолёте/ On a plane:

1. Застегните ремень безопасности.
[zas-tig-ni-te ri-men' bi-za-pas-nas-ti]
🇬🇧 Fasten your seat belt.

2. Приведите спинку кресла в вертикальное положение.
[pri-ve-di-te spin-ku kres-la v ver-ti-kal'-na-ye pa-la-zhe-ni-ye]
🇬🇧 Put your seat back in their upright position.

3. Отключите ваши электронные устройства.
[at-klyu-chi-te va-shi e-lik-tron-ny-ye us-troy-stva]
🇬🇧 Turn off your electronic devices.

4. Поднимите столик.
[ pad-ni-mi-te sto-lik]
🇬🇧 Lift your table.

5. Оставайтесь на своих местах до полной остановки двигателя.
[as-ta-vay-tes' na sva-ikh mis-takh da pol-nay as-ta-nof-ki dvi-ga-ti-lya]
🇬🇧 Keep seated until the engine is off.

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• Оренбургский платок
  [a-ren-bur-skiy pla-tok]
  Orengurg shawl

🔻This type of finely knit, down-hair lace shawl originated in the Orenburg area about 250 years ago, in the 18th century. The Orenburg region of Russia is famous for its shawls, known as Orenburg shawls "Orenburgskyi Platok" in Russian.

🔻In the English-speaking world, they are often called "wedding ring shawls" because, although the shawls are quite large, a shawl knit in the traditional fashion is so fine that it can be pulled through a wedding ring.

🔻A quality shawl is knitted from hand-spun yarn: the knitter will spin a strong down hair yarn and then ply it with commercially spun silk thread. It usually takes a month or more to knit a large shawl or a kerchief with a pattern.

🔻Because of the high cost of down hair and yarn, an original hand-made Orenburg shawl is an expensive luxury item.

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👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Проспать (perfective)
  [pras-pat']
 
Meanings:
🔢 To oversleep, wake up later than needed:

• Денис опять проспал и опоздал на работу!
[De-nis a-pyat' pras-pal i a-paz-dal na ra-bo-tu]
🇬🇧 Denis overslept and was late for work again!

🔢 To sleep for a long time:

• Оля легла спать и проспала весь день.
[O-lya lig-la spat' i pras-pa-la ves' den']
🇬🇧 Olya went to bed and slept all day.

🔢 To miss an opportunity, a chance, a bus stop (like with 'прозевать'):

• Не проспи свою остановку!
[ne prаs-pi svа-yu аs-ta-nof-ku]
🇬🇧 Don't miss your (bus) stop!

🎧🗣👇 Listen, practice! Хорошей пятницы всем! Не проспите на работу!

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• Сволочь (сволочи) (⚠️low colloquial, femin.noun)
  [svo-lach (svo-la-chi)]

🔻The noun "сволочь" comes from the same stem as the verb "волочить" (to drag along the ground), and originally meant 'garbage collected in one place.'

🔻Later, people of low ranks began to be called this name: servants, workers, peasants.

🔻Nowadays, “сволочь” is used to mean:
•Негодяй (low colloquial, masc.noun)
[ni-ga-dyay]
Or
• Мерзавец (low colloquial, masc.noun)
  [mir-za-vets]
🇬🇧 Scoundrel, rascal

🔻Both a man or a woman can be called this way even though the noun belongs to feminine gender.
All those words are insulting! Mind it!

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😉 A Song with the word 'сволочь'👇.

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The manual:

• Как встречать мужа после работы.
[kak fstri-chat' mu-zha pos-le ra-bo-ty]
🇬🇧 How to meet a husband after work. (Don't thank me:)

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👋Доброе утро всем!

• Уплетать за обе щёки
[up-li-tat' za o-be shchyo-ki]
🇬🇧 To eat greedily, to shovel up food, to play a good knife and fork

Synonyms (slang, colloquial):

• Наворачивать
  [na-va-ra-chi-vat']

• лопать
  [lo-pat']

• трескать
  [tres-kat']

• цопать (rare, from Ural!)
  [tso-pat']

• уписывать
  [u-pi-sy-vat']

• хавать (a bit rude)
  [kha-vat']

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🔢🔢🔢 Музыкальные инструменты / Musical instruments:

1. Арфа (арфы, на арфе)
[arfa (ar-fy, na ar-fe)]
🇬🇧 Harp(s) (to play the harp)

2. Гитара (гитары, на гитаре)
[gi-ta-ra (gi-ta-ry, na gi-ta-re)]
🇬🇧 Guitar(s)

3. Пианино (пианино, на пианино)
[pi-a-ni-na (pi-a-ni-na, na pi-a-ni-na)]
🇬🇧 Piano(s)

4. Скрипка (скрипки, на скрипке)
[skrip-ka (skrip-ki, na skrip-ke)]
🇬🇧 Violin(s)

5. Саксофон (саксофоны, на саксофоне)
[sak-sa-fon (sak-sa-fo-ny, na sak-sa-fo-ne)
🇬🇧 Saxophone(s)

• Я (не) играю на ... (+ prepositional case)
  [ ya (ni) ig-ra-yu na...]
  I (don't) play the ...

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