Learn 50 Russian Action Verbs Acted Out (with English and Russian subtitles)

Hi friends Welcome to Russian with Max This is a channel for those learning the Russian language In this video we'll discuss the things we can do using our bodies For example our head shoulders arms or legs Let's get started What can we do with our head We can nod We nod our heads when we agree with something Studying Russian with Max is interesting isn't it Of course interesting But if we disagree with something we shake our heads Motion verbs are very simple No motion verbs aren't simple I shake my head disagreeing Let' s talk about our face This is a face This is my face Let's start with the eyes These are the eyes I can close my eyes When I close my eyes it means I don't want to see something or someone I don't want to see so I close my eyes If my eyes are closed I need to open them Max open your eyes My eyes are open now When my eyes are open I can see I can see what is around me what is in my room I can see To see something I need to look I'm looking now I'm looking at the wall and I see a picture on the wall I look at this wall and I see a television mounted on it I see it If we close one eye and then open it again we'll be winking We can wink with one eye and the other eye Can you wink with both your right and left eyes I can We wink when we want to convey something When we understand each other we can wink at one another Yes I understand you Or if someone catches our interest we can wink too I'm really bad at this Terrible If something really gets on our nerves we can roll our eyes Roll our eyes We roll our eyes when something bores us feels uninteresting or has become tiresome When we want to express this nonverbally We do it like this We roll our eyes Next comes the nose What can we do with our nose Well first of all we could pick our noses Picking our noses That’s considered very rude Don’t pick your nose Sometimes I feel like picking my nose but I see people around me And then I pull my finger away and force myself not to pick my nose With our nose we can smell things If I want to smell something I do it like this These spices smell so delicious Let me smell them again These spices have a wonderfully appetizing aroma It's truly delightful But if something smells unpleasant or foul then you should pinch your nose I held my nose to avoid smelling that awful stench When we're sick or when something gets into our nose we need to sneeze But it's essential to cover your mouth with your hand when you sneeze Usually people are advised to cover both mouth and nose with the crook of the elbow It's more hygienic because microbes won't linger on your palm When we're sick we sometimes need to clear our nose That means we need to blow our nose I have a paper napkin for that I blew my nose When we're sick we blow our noses We need to blow our noses The main thing is not to do it loudly like I did That’s not very proper There are many things we can do or express using our mouth This is my mouth With my mouth I can speak I am speaking to you right now I can talk That is speaking for a certain period of time or on a specific topic I'd like to talk to you for a moment Either I want to talk to you about dogs or about cats We can also talk quietly If we speak softly we are whispering Whispering is when you speak extremely extremely quietly That's why we can whisper With our mouths we can sing We can sing I just sang a snippet of a song We can whistle using our mouths I whistled Or we could whistle for someone That's usually how it's done Whistle But I can't whistle that way so I can't whistle I can only whistle like this But I can't do it like this Our mouth and lips allow us to kiss someone Unfortunately right now there's no one nearby whom I could kiss so I'll kiss you I'll send you a kiss through the air A kiss through the air I kissed your hand and sent you a kiss across the air We use our mouths to eat I'm eating a cookie right now What am I doing right now I'm chewing I'm chewing a cookie The main thing is not to chew with your mouth open That's how it's done That's considered very impolite in Russia Always close your mouth when chewing If you chew with your mouth open it's called chewing noisily I'm chewing noisily Mom always used to tell me Max don't make noises when you eat Don't chomp If I had ice cream I' d be licking it But I don't have any ice cream so I can't show you How to lick an ice cream cone But I'm sure you've done it many times before Lick I licked the cookie If we are sick or something gets stuck in our throat then we cough I'm coughing But of course when you cough you must absolutely cover your mouth When we drink something hot we need to blow on it first o cool it down Now it's fine I blew on the water to cool it down Let 's talk about our ears What can we do with our ears Of course we can listen For example I can listen to music If we want to hear something Some quiet sound—like what the neighbors are doing—I need to pay attention to that Then I can hear what the neighbors are doing If my neighbors are making noise and I don' t want to hear it I can simply plug my ears If I plug my ears I won't hear anything and won 't hear anything at all I can also close my ears Cover your ears with your hands or plug them with your fingers or use those small special items called earplugs They go into your ears and you hear nothing Shut your ears and plug your ears Shoulders We can shrug our shoulders We shrug our shoulders when we don't know what to say When we don't know what to say we just shrug and say I don't know With our hands we can make a wide variety of movements For example we can wave our hand We can wave at someone Hey hello Hello We can wave our hands like this Now I'm waving my hands too And now I'm waving my hand So you can wave at someone or just wave your hand or hands around With our hands we can grab someone or something For example someone might grab me like this Or someone might grab my hand People don't like being grabbed To snatch also means to take something quickly in a hurry For example I grabbed my notebook and ran to school I grabbed my notebook and ran to school I quickly took the notebook and ran With our hands we can grasp something For example I just clenched my hand This is a hand and this is another hand I clenched my hand into a fist Now I unclenched my hand Squeeze release I can also squeeze something For example if I squeeze a lemon That will make lemon juice I squeezed the lemon but the juice just wouldn't come out With my hands I can push something I'm pushing the chair I could also push a person With my hands more precisely with my fingers I can pinch myself I pinch myself Hey that hurts I can also pinch someone else I can also tickle someone Tickle The main thing is not to tickle too long or you might tickle the person too much I heard you can tickle someone to death That's terrifying Sometimes I just feel like scratching something For example right now I'm scratching my hand Now I'm scratching my head Sometimes we scratch our heads when we're thinking I don't know why that happens Perhaps we're stimulating our brains We could also be stroking someone For instance we might stroke our cat or our dog But I don’t have a cat or a dog So I'll just have to iron myself It looks odd but I'm ironing myself If someone really infuriates you you could hit them hit them hard—but I wouldn 't recommend hitting anyone because a compromise can always be found and another way out of the situation exists we can strike someone with the palm of our hand In this case we're talking about giving a slap That's the cheek So slapping someone on the cheek Giving a slap She slapped me because I winked at another girl We can also smack someone using our palms or spanking someone Well it's all about equal enjoyment It ultimately depends on your imagination friends Spanking We can point fingers somewhere Pointing fingers Right now I'm pointing my finger at the camera I pointed my finger at the camera In Russia that's considered an impolite gesture especially when you're pointing your finger at something You can still snap your fingers Snapping your fingers I snap my right hand well but slightly less so with my left Can you snap with both hands A finger isn't just for poking but also for pointing for showing direction There there here But that's also considered an ungraceful gesture At least Mom always told me as a child Max you don't need to point It's better to use your palm and show it like this So keep in mind that many people might not like it pointing fingers at someone—well I don't know it seems like nobody's paying attention to that anymore With our palms or hands we can clap or applaud Hooray We can also shake another person's hand with our hand For example when men meet in Russia They usually shake hands with each other It's usually not customary for men to shake hands with girls That's just how it's been historically Although things might be changing right now and in principle there's nothing to fear If you shake hands with a girl you can even kiss her on the cheek—there's nothing wrong with that It depends on the nature of your relationship That's why there are variations here Shake hands And of course with our hands we can embrace someone—whether we love them or don’t love them—we can still embrace them It's so awesome isn't it What can we do with our feet For example I can kick something I can kick a soccer ball I don't have a soccer ball at home so I kick my sneaker I kicked my sneaker When we exercise we do various workouts For example we squat I'm squatting now But I could just crouch down to see what's underneath I'm currently crouching and need to stand up to get up I stood up First I was squatting then I crouched He glanced at something and got up If I'm walking and there' s an obstacle I might trip For example I just tripped over a sneaker I tripped over a sneaker I nearly fell Darn it The floor's wet there's water on the ground You have to walk very carefully or you could slip You have to walk very carefully to avoid slipping However we often say it as "to slip " To slip I slipped But that's incorrect The correct form is slipped However you'll hear both pronunciations That's all from me for now friends I forgot to mention something I can't remember what it was Leave me a comment below this video And I'll definitely get back to you See you in the next video Bye