The Russian Your Teacher Was Too Embarrassed to Teach (18+) | Easy Russian 113

If anything no one died—just the marriage So now it'll just be vulgar expressions This phrase means a difficult life decision Hello dear subscribers of Easy Russian I'm Marina And today as always in this makeshift studio my friend Arnold is with me Hi there He's a journalist too just like me And that's why I decided to test him a little about knowledge of Russian idioms and phrasal expressions Darn Arnold doesn't know what I'm going to ask him So you're witnessing improvisation live on air Are you ready Let's go What do you think about your level of Russian I think I have a decent command of Russian I manage everyday situations just fine I can buy everything I need at the store And I can also edit certain texts But my style is more analytical so I don't often use complex phrasing Proverb saying So maybe I'll fail here But we'll find out now We'll find out now By the way dear friends let us know in the comments if you think Arnold was wrong in his assessment some idioms I'll be asking him about Share your versions Alright let's go This quick little thing here Flash What does the phrase "not my first marriage" mean It means you've already had this experience Seems complicated You know everything about him Well marriage is a good yet complicated matter You'ready you know what you're getting into You're no dummy What does "no dummy" mean I already adjusted it myself That's the difference between someone who's not cut from the same cloth and… The first one what was our situation again I've already forgotten "Not my first time married " What's the difference between "not cut from the same cloth" and "not my first time married" Honestly I don't know Well actually I do know—it seems to me "Not made of the same cloth" simply means someone is a certain kind of person With life experience He can't be fooled He's no ordinary man He's no gullible fool Being "not a first-time married person" means the individual has had some prior experience In essence they're similar but differ slightly in connotation—could you provide some context When in your life would you have said "Well I'm not the first time married I know what I'm getting into " Well for instance you're out skiing and say you've got more experienced friends with you And they give you some advice on how to properly descend a particular trail And you tell them "Yes I'm married again—this isn't my first time " I'm not even sure I'd say that And if you ever get married a second time will you say that "Not my first marriage " Well I suppose I'll just say frankly to the person who He'll conduct the ceremony and when he asks "Do you agree " I'll say "Yes and not for the first time " Come on let's go Well then next personal question How many times have you been married Been married I've never been married—except once Since then I've always fit that saying I was married only once We'll toast Without clinking glasses If anything no one died—just the marriage By the way I have my own proverb: First marriage a mess Like the first pancake a mess yes So I can feel it in my gut Well this is a simpler version and it's more colloquial so I think that's why we all use it— though not usually in written texts That means you've got some intuition—gut feeling I'd say just sense it with my gut I'm simply certain I have a sixth sense Something is going to happen That is strong inner confidence Trust your intuition Yes trust your gut You can absolutely trust your gut—it won’t let you down I just know in my bones that the second marriage will better That’s it How skillfully Arnold handles the Russian language and explains idioms That's precisely why I personally always learn languages with native speakers I'm currently studying Portuguese and honestly it's not coming easily to me By the way they say Portuguese sounds like Russian Do you think so too Let us know in the comments So to suffer just a little less and not suffer alone I went to the italki platform italki is a platform where do you find a native language teacher and take one-on-one online lessons with them Moreover on italki all teachers are highly professional and you can choose from various accents and countries Each teacher has a video introduction so you can listen watch and choose the one who suits you best long before you book your trial lesson learning a language with a native speaker remains the best way for me because that way you don't just understand the language itself but also its nuances and unique characteristics—you begin to truly feel it and not just talk about it Use promo code EASY RUSSIAN to get a 5 euro discount on your first lesson on italki f your first lesson costs no less than 10 euros the link is in the description Well then let's go back to Arnold That's where things get really interesting And this is definitely not something a grandmother would say A grandmother said it Ah that's when you're working in media and doing a report for instance and everyone keeps telling you these stories Rumors and tales about Putin having 18 look -alikes flying to Epstein 's island and so on And you clearly don't trust it You as a journalist say it's like an old woman telling two tales And where did this expression even come from do you think Why don't we believe our grandmothers Why the two of us I trust my grandmother It seems there's a cultural stereotype that grandmothers love to gossip Since they have plenty of free time they're free spirits who stroll out onto the little bench in the courtyard and talk about various Third World Wars gossip and their neighbors' sexual behavior Turns out grandma I do the same It's just a different place You must be going to trendy Portuguese bars And they’re gathering they say right outside the entrance I’m chatting right outside the entrance too I'm calling my friend on the phone Dasha you wouldn't believe the wild sex life my neighbors have So if you tell me something scandalously shocking I'll know it's Grandma or grandfather Well alright Good We've mostly sorted out the grandmothers We need to split them into two groups Everything they say And what about Grandfather Darn was there something about grandpa We have a little saying a bit crude About grandma about grandpa If Grandma you know had external genitalia And she could have been Not that Arnold And what about it To eat a dog Where in your life have you eaten a dog I must have eaten a dog during the text editing session Interacting with journalists is another matter As the editor and manager he ate the dog Because there was just too much I can't even begin to guess why something like that would happen A highly experienced individual by no means inexperienced given tha I'm really good at this Interesting what kind of dog Oh by the way you might think Each person ate their own dog because they each have different expertise and experience in this matter Good thing dogs still exist in the world After that because the expertise is extensive Write in the comments Not a single dog was harmed during the filming of this segment Just Arnold That dog from Nasty by the way right I'm a tough dog for sure Next up a bonus Arnold consistently avoided vulgar language which I greatly appreciate I no longer have issues with this So now there will be only crude radiological expressions Can I say which one we love right away Of course Context Context – something somewhat out of place something that doesn't quite fit here like some foreign element Yes all our metaphors are about texts If you're writing a text about I don't know surfing in Portugal and suddenly you take this little detour and start telling a story The Russo-Japanese War I don't know well don't get confused where's the sleeve and the author must either sew that sleeve back on or prove why that damn thing still needs a sleeve And she wasn't saying it for nothing I have my own favorite phrase that I often probably constantly keep in mind but I don't use it for some reason Here are two chairs On one… What's on the first chair and what's on the other Arnold Which one are you on It seems everything is yours because my chair is clean—I checked Are you comfortable I feel perfectly comfortable Well the peaks are sharp cocky as far as I recall Yes you remember correctly What does this phrase mean This phrase means a difficult life decision When you have all the options Not very good actually bad but you need to sit somewhere because sitting on two chairs No that's not at all what it means No sitting on two chairs means when you want to There there and at the peak and on the dick all at once When you don't want to make a choice But peaks and dicks—that’s when you’re forced to choose yet the choice is unpleasant I had never heard that expression at all until yesterday evening I wonder if you knew it Friends like that aren’t worth a damn—no museum would even want them No no I didn't know— considering went to the museum yesterday I have no idea what you found out yesterday In what context Sounds a bit off of course Friends at a museum means probably they aren't that close They're outdated morally obsolete A good interpretation I agree And finally then On paper you're just a simple guy Oh no Sometimes it just happens like that You sound so fierce in words but in reality… What does it mean Well this person who who didn't eat the dog at all but pretends he did Not just one Tolstoy – a great Russian writer One of the most famous You all know him already And here he is eating a dog just to write long posts complex novels about War and Peace About everything under the sun about love and many people haven't eaten a dog but want to appear as if they're fat Accordingly in reality And in reality they're far from ordinary It's when you've exaggerated your resume so much you actually end up having to live up to it Yeah Well then Now your favorite idioms Don't tug where the sleeve is Well for instance I have a word in Saratov that I absolutely love You can say Well this is a total mess or this is just messed-up text But he's so strange that you can't describe him in any words at all—simply put you just don't like him yet at the same time evokes many intense emotions Well yes Perhaps one could say crazy — just a slightly different shade of messed up something really strange Overall it's good Well even a mess can be good Oh by the way Extremely strange but on the edge For example Evgeny Petrosyan's show is definitely very messed up And the stubborn ones too yes The stubborn ones There's something almost folksy charm about it all And we often talk about something being crazy That’s pure craziness Yes though incidentally a person can be completely out of their mind who simply used a lot of drugs for example They're wild animals That's right isn't it Well yes I think they're already caught Game refers to meat you could say This is game Meat by the way is also used figuratively What's missing from the text is substance—meaning it's too watery The text is made up of substance and water Just like us too Texture Just like us just like people roughly There's also something else I don't like They say it's delicious Oh I hate it—it's like a little person You can't use it By the way I haven't heard anything in ages but they say a tasty text a delicious book By the way Vladimir Sorokin has a little search into how people about how it's an dystopia where they cook food from books What's it called I can't remember We'll find it They cook food on books and just like with Dostoevsky Tolstoy and various other authors each one imparts a different flavor And here they prepare it creating delicious nutritious food In this sense the word "delicious" is not only appropriate but necessary because why eat something unappetizing But in a figurative sense a delicious text delicious clothing I don't know no need for that Delicious track Delicious track yes a juicy track Cool Cringe ban not taking it Well I think our blitz is done Big thanks to Arnold For having participated in this Well I think he did a good job Let's assess this now Let's rate Arnold 's performance 10 out of 10 in the comments with an explanation of Russian idioms Yes preferably using other idioms to evaluate them Good luck Good luck with learning Russian