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how-to-make-mistakes:

Russian tongue-twisters

(Stressed vowels italicized)

Во дворе трава,

На траве дрова.

Не руби дрова

На траве двора. —

On the yard there is grass,

On the grass there is some wood.

Don’t chop the wood

On the grass of the yard.

Жужжит жужелица,

Жужжит, кружится. —

A ground beetle is buzzing,

Buzzing and whirling.

Тридцать три корабля лавировали, лавировали, да не вылавировали. —

Thirty-three ships were tacking and tacking but didn’t tackle.

Шла Саша по шоссе и сосала сушку. —

Sasha was going along the highway and sucking a sushka (~bagel).

– Расскажите про покупки!

– Про какие про покупки?

– Про такие про покупки,

про покупочки свои! —

– Tell about the shopping!

– About what shopping?

– About that shopping, about your shopping!

Два щенка щека к щеке

щиплют щётку в уголке. —

In the corner, two puppies are chewing a brush cheek to cheek.

Бредут бобры в сыры боры. Бобры храбры, а для бобрят добры. —

The beavers are walking to the moist woods. The beavers are brave and kind to their cubs.

Чащи чаще в нашей пуще.

В нашей пуще чащи гуще. —

There are more thickets in our woods.

The thickets are denser in our woods.

От топота копыт

Пыль по полю летит —

The dust is flying over the field because of the clattering of the hooves.

Еду я по выбоине, из выбоины не выеду я —

I’m driving in a pothole, I can’t drive out of the pothole.

Королева кавалеру подарила каравеллу. —

The queen gave a caravel to the cavalier.

Король-орёл, орёл-король —

An eagle king, an eagle king.

slightmood:

intsoc:

saddestblogger:

professor: you are failing this course

the rat living in my shoulder bag who i spent time training instead of doing the course work: *pops head out and plays sad wah wah wah wah noise on trombone*

Go figure, leftists are only good for playing with rodents 😂 Simple minds, simple pleasures I guess. All we have to do to distract them is jangle a set of keys or throw something shiny