Day 39: Five-Minute Voice Messages
In an office in Smolensk, a young project manager has a word with an older engineer about his voice messages in the work chat.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title.
- Read the dialogue and its translation. The audio for this lesson is coming soon.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Russian audio, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
Audio for this lesson is coming soon. For now, read the dialogue and its translation.
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A
Борис Иванович, не могли бы вы не слать голосовые по пять минут?
Boris Ivanovich, could you possibly stop sending five-minute voice messages?
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B
А что такого? Я всё по делу, без воды, не то что некоторые.
And what's wrong with that? Everything I say is to the point, no waffle, unlike some people.
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Вчера три минуты про пробки, а что сдача переносится, сказали под самый конец.
Yesterday it was three minutes on the traffic, and you only said at the very end that the handover had been moved.
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B
Печатать я не нанимался: у меня пальцы как сардельки, по три буквы разом цепляю.
I didn't sign up to type: my fingers are like sausages, I catch three letters at once.
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A
А если диктовать? Ткнули в микрофон, говорите, а телефон сам всё настрочит.
What about dictating? You tap the microphone, talk, and the phone will type it all out for you.
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B
Пробовал: я ему «совещание», а он мне «свидание». Весь отдел неделю хохотал.
Tried it: I say "meeting" to it, and it gives me "date". The whole department was laughing at me for a week.
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Тогда компромисс: не дольше минуты, главное в начале, а про пробки за обедом.
Then here's a compromise: no longer than a minute, the main point first, and the traffic over lunch.
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