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This episode features a short story about a young artist whose painting caught attention of a collector. The collector visited the artist's workshop and found a piece of work that he really liked. The story includes some vocabulary related to arts and painting. The full version of the episode features a story with the dialogue changed into indirect speech. It also includes a PDF file with the transcript, comments on some vocabulary, grammar notes, exercises on changing general questions into indirect questions using the conjunction 'ли', and a Russian/English glossary.

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This episode features a short story about someone who is looking for a new job. The vocabulary includes Russian terms for 'job offer', 'interview', 'reference letter', etc. The grammar notes in the full version include explain the use of sentences such as 'Ему задают вопросы.' The full version for subscribers include a longer audio, PDF download, grammar notes, exercises on the episode, and a Russian/English glossary.

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This episode of RussianCast features a short, presumably, funny story about the importance of being attentive. Imagine that your hotel room is on the 50th floor, but the lifts are out of order and you have to walk upstairs after a long busy day in a big city. How would you entertain yourself while climbing up those stairs? The story features some verbs of motion, such as 'поехать', 'ходить', 'прийти', 'дойти', and some other 'motion' vocabulary.

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How do you say 'Happy Birthday' in Russian? Listen to this short simple story about Lena's birthday to learn new vocabulary. Listening to podcasts with transcripts is a good way to improve your understanding and listening skills. You can try listening without reading the text, if you don't understand something, take a look at the transcript. The transcript is available on https://russiancast.ru/podcast-season3-episode2. 

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What is the best method to learn Russian? Learning grammar and doing exercises or regular talking to native speakers without doing any studies? Listen to a simple short story about John and James who use the two strategies and think which one is better. Leave a comment. 

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As a thanks for your support, dear Subscribers, I'm going to add extra episodes that will help you go through some difficult areas of Russian grammar and vocabulary. These episodes are only available to Subscribers. In this extra episode, you're going to learn how to say dates in Russian. What's the Russian for 'date' How do you say 'it's the 1st of January' vs 'on the 1st of January?' To find the answers, please, listen to the recording, and if you need, read the transcript.

This episode features a simple story about my working day. Some basic everyday life vocabulary related is used. The full version includes the story from a different perspective and comments on some vocabulary, as well as other extra materials. The transcript is available on russiancast.ru.

This episode features features a story about Dima who is going to a museum. The story contains some verbs of motion 'заходить', 'ходить', 'идти' and some other vocabulary related to visiting a museum. The transcript is available on russiancast.ru. The full version includes the same story from Dima's perspective, comments on some vocabulary including the stress of the verb 'находиться' and pronunciation of '-ться' and '-тся', as well as brief grammar notes, and a Russian/English glossary.

In Russia, New Year holidays last for 8-10 days. It's a great time to visit your friends and family. This podcast episode features a story about Katya and Kolya who are visiting their friends. The story features verbs of motion in set expressions with 'гости': 'идти в гости', 'ходить в гости'. The other featured verbs are 'подходить' and 'заходить'. Visit russiancast.ru to see the transcript. The full version of this episode is available on russiancast.ru and includes comments on those verbs and the same story from a different perspective, as well as grammar notes on the usage of the word 'гости' and a Russian/English glossary.