Russian Slang Only Young People Use | Super Easy Russian Podcast 53

Hi! I'm Marina. Hi! I'm Nikita. We are the presenters of the Easy Russian podcast. This podcast is for those who learn Russian, no matter what. And this is a video release of the Super Easy podcast, in which we will talk about Russian slang, about modern Russian slang and about jargon. Let's start! Yes, I want to remind our listeners, just in case, that although the releases of our video podcast come out about once a month or less, the releases of our audio podcast come out every week. So, subscribe to our podcast and listen to a new release every week. And don't forget that we have a paid subscription, which will provide you with a lot of useful materials for learning Russian. Today we will start with the dialogue between grandfather and granddaughter, and then we will analyze some words that we used in the dialogue, and which we often use in our speech. We chose this format specifically to give you in this dialogue several modern jargonisms, as well as several highly outdated ones. Let's go! Grandfather, hello! Hi! Marina, where are you? Well, move the computer away from your face. I'll show you now. What? What should I move away? The computer. Move the computer away. Yeah, it seems to be visible. It is visible. Well, how are you doing? What are we doing, old men? We almost dug up a new cellar with grandmother, and piled up potatoes only half. There are 10 acres left. 10 liters of jam were cooked in total. Cucumbers are also not enough in the greenhouse. We do almost nothing, in general. And how are you doing? Tell me better. How is work? Grandfather, well, compared to you, I do nothing. Well, in general, okay. At work, in general, the norm, but the vibe is some kind of strange. Colleagues are so cringy. Some useless rallies. They want me to make more videos, and women want to pay less. I didn't understand anything. What videos? And what are the rallies? Are you political, or what? Grandfather, well, videos. I'm doing videos. I come up with all sorts of creatives. And the rallies are on Zoom. That's how you and I are talking now. But we don't vibe with our colleagues anymore, so I think to leave from there and turn it all around. You and your colleagues are not what? Well, we're not on the same wave anymore, you know? I'm bored there, and somehow they don't appreciate me or something. Come on, granddaughter, I'll score an arrow with my brothers. With your batons and chisels. We'll beat them up. They'll break in a blink of an eye, and they won't polish the baton on you. They'll stop. You see, they've thought it through. They don't appreciate my granddaughter. They don't pay normal money. You're a hundred times better than in a box. You lay everything out on the shelves. Let them filter their bazaar, and scratch their asses. How to save such an influencer? True, they'll probably run straight to the cops, your overseas ones. Oh, God. We need to figure out how to teach Baklanov so he won't get into trouble himself. Grandpa, are you drunk? No, I just had a drink in the morning, and got a little high. Grandpa, come on. Or maybe, well, this is your Sharaga. Come to us. To Russia? Well, grandpa, this is for the shkvar. What shkvar? Not a shkvar, but for the shkvar. I mean, it's not cool, it's a bit shameful, you know. I wanted to live abroad. Why would I give up and go home? You've been twisting and turning all your life. Are all your friends abroad too? Grandpa, how do you know such words? Well, I don't just know, granddaughter. I'll go play Pokemon for an hour, and then I'll get to the point. Well, go, grandpa, hang in there. Let's now look at some words from this wonderful and a bit exaggerated dialogue. I'll start with the word that I've already explained a little. The word for shkvar. It means a shameful act. Or it can also be a feeling, when you feel that something is wrong, something is a bit shameful, not cool. It's a bit like the word cringe, but I think they are not interchangeable. But nevertheless, this is for shkvar, I speak it quite often. Let me explain right away that this word, like most other mentioned jargons, has a prison origin. It so happened that in Russia the prison jargon historically constantly penetrated into everyday speech, even into the highest literary Russian speech. And this very word for shkvar also means in prison or in the zone either to become an informant of the prisoners, or in one way or another to stain your prison honor. By the way, about the words, a bit of tautology, which came to us from the prison jargon, I want to say about the word kent. This means a guy or a friend, you can also say a dude or a buddy. For example, a buddy is already a word from 2010, and a dude or a kent is, in principle, normal. It was popular in the 90s, which is now in 2024. This word came to the Russian language at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century through the thief jargon of Odessa. Mutki or mutit. This is either to make some suspicious conversations, negotiations, to agree on some suspicious matters, or to do these things yourself, that is, mutit or do mutki, to do something dubious. And also another jargon meaning, well-known to me from my youth, mutki or mutit means to start, most likely, not serious romantic relations. For example, you could hear in high school, Are you making out with her? And you are like, no, this is for schkvar. Horrible. What a shame. No, I didn't really do that. But you could hear it. A great word is to boil, or to make a mess, or to feed. That is, to lie down, to rest, or to take a short nap. Prikipet can also be used in the direct sense. For example, milk has boiled to the bottom of the pan. Can I say that, right? You can. Well, in general, this is when something sticks to something very tightly under the influence of high temperatures. You can boil or get addicted to something or someone. For example, to another person. To boil too much to someone Prikipet means to get too attached. Babki. My favorite word. This is a very old slang that means money. Babki, babuli, bablo, babensio. A million different derivatives of this word. Babosiki or babos. For one reason or another, this word has been around for many years and probably remains the main euphemism of the word money. You can also say cabbage in the sense of money, not in the sense of vegetables. In addition, I remember from the 90s that the dollar was quite predictably called green, but the ruble was wooden. Our grandfather says in a dialogue that I, his granddaughter, lay out on the shelves better than in the box. That is, than on TV. The box is equal to the TV. This is due to the fact that in grandfather's youth the TVs were old, square, large and with a wooden case. Therefore, the box. In addition, laying out on the shelves is also a very literary euphemism meaning something in detail, good and understandable to explain or just as thoughtfully think about. Zhest' is a word that we use very often. In the direct sense, it means very thin sheet metal, and in the transitive sense, For example, I want to add that the word zhest' depending on the intonation can also mean something good, like admiration. For example, someone says, I jumped from the third floor and didn't hurt myself at all. And someone admires. Zheest' That is, like, cool, class. But you can also say to mock. Stibatsya or styop it means to mock someone or something. How to pick up or pick up. For example, Nikita jokes with me, jokes, but not offensive and not angry. I can say, Well, stop mocking me already. Not enough. Well. Bukhat' Bukhat' is important. Bukhat' Grandpa also showed such a universal sign when you tap your finger on your throat. It means to drink. Bukhlo is, in fact, alcohol. Well, of course, this word has a direct meaning. True, with another emphasis, it's bukhat', that is, to make a deaf sound. For example, Pushki bukhali vdali. Bubukh. I would finish with a list of some words that we often use in everyday speech. Of course, this is not all modern slang, but it is quite extensive, so, in principle, we could only devote a whole episode to the explanation of these words. Dear friends, this video version of the podcast is recorded separately from the audio version on the same topic. If you listen to our audio podcast, there we give a much more detailed explanation of almost all the slang that we used in this dialogue. So, after watching this video, be sure to go and listen to the extended version in audio format. Bychit' I really like the word bychit'. It's threatening someone, threatening someone to talk. There is another euphemism naezhat' However, I like the fact that bychit', as a rule, is used before a fight, which most likely will not happen. It's trying to scare the opponent rather than really beating him. Well, kaif' Kaif' or kaifovat' we use very often. означает ну, очень чем-то наслаждаться или восхищаться. Например, Никита показывает мне, что он купил себе новую кепку, и я говорю, ну, кепка просто каиф! Кстати, если вы хотите больше узнавать про современный разговорный русский язык, не только современный, в общем-то, приходите в наш разговорный клуб. Мы встречаемся раз в неделю, онлайн, в разное время. И присоединиться к нам можно по ссылке в первом комментарии или на нашем сайте easyrussian.org и оформить специальную подписку, в которой вы получите не только доступ к разговорному клубу, но и все наши дополнительные фичи для изучения русского языка. Очень вас ждем! Наши вам с кисточкой!