👋Доброе утро, товарищи!

This post is dedicated to all the brave people forced to work this Monday. Stay strong and think of the positive side of the issue! Hugs!

• Мне не хочется (работать - imperfective)
  [mne ni kho-chi-tsa (ra-bo-tat')]
  SLT: (To) me not want (to work)
  I wouldn't want (to work)
Infinitive: хотеться

• Я не хочу (работать - imperfective)
  [ya ni kha-chu (ra-bo-tat')]
  I don't want (to work)
Infinitive: хотеть

🔻Я не хочу = categorically, i.e. I am completely against it.

🔻Мне не хочется = I think I can do it, but somehow I don’t have the desire, time, opportunity, etc.

📎 If your boss happens to read this post😉:
▶️ Надо vs Нужно (revision)

🎧🗣👇 Listen and practice.

⏺Please check conjugations, more examples & some exercises with the verbs over there 👇.

#tricky_words

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• Наступaть на (одни и) те же гра‌бли
[na-stu-pat' na (ad-ni i) te zhe grab-li]
SLT: To step on one and the same rake

Meaning:
To keep making the same mistakes, to fall into the same trap, to be caught twice with the same bait

❓Why do people continue to step on the same rake? It's simple, according to Oxford scientists conducting brain research, the implementation of accumulated experience depends on the size of the lateral frontal pole of the prefrontal cortex. So, take it easy!

• Большинство‌ люде‌й постоя‌нно наступа‌ют на одни и те же гра‌бли.
[bal'-shyn-stvo lyu-dey pas-ta-yan-na na-stu-pa-yut na ad-ni i te zhe grab-li]
🇬🇧 Most people make the same mistakes over and over again.

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🌝Доброе утро, товарищи!

• Проветриться (perfective)
  [pra-vet-ri-tsa]
From the noun 'ветер' wind

Meaning:

🔢 Cleanse oneself (a room) of bad air with a rush of fresh air:

• Комната хорошо проветрилась.
[kom-na-ta kha-ra-sho pra-vet-ri-las']
🇬🇧 The room has been ventilated well.

🔢 Colloquial💢: to refresh yourself, gain new impressions, do something   for the sake of relaxation and entertainment:

• Я поехал в деревню, чтобы проветриться.
[ya pa-ye-khal v di-rev-nyu shchto-by pra-vet-ri-tsa]
🇬🇧 I went to the village to get some air/to relax.

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🔢🔢🔢 Однокоренные слова 'Море' / Cognate words 'Sea':

1. Море (моря) (neut.noun)
  [mo-re (ma-rya)]
  Sea(s)

2. Моряк (моряки) (masc.noun)
  [ma-ryak]
  Sailor(s)

3. Морячка (морячки) (femin.noun)
  [ma-ryach-ka]
  Female sailor(s) /sailor's
wife(ves)

4. Морской (adjective)
  [mar-skoy]
  Sea, marine

5. Заморский (adjective)
  [za-mor-skiy]
  Overseas, foreign

6. Приморье (neut.noun)
  [pri-mor'-ye]
  Seaside, coastland / Primorski Krai

🎧🗣👇 Listen and practice.

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A Song by SHAMAN 'Let's rise!' now in Latvian.

▶️The Russian original song is here.

™️Source: ivabonana

#sing_it_ 🎵

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🌚(НЕ)ВЕЧЕРНИЙ ЧАТ

There used to be a lot of weird female/male newly invented names for kids in the USSR. Like:

• Даздраперма
  [da-zdra-per-ma]

Short for a Soviet slogan:
• Да Здравствует Первое Мая!
Long life the first of May!

▶️Some other weird names are here.

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