Приветики! As I promised in the last episode of our Russian Podcast I do a bonus recording in order to tell you what happened after I turned off my handy recorder that evening. P. S. В центре фотографии - ведро... Сначала я думал, что это ведро для чеков, которые люди могут выбросить отходя от окон, но неееет... Через 15 минут в это ведро полилась вода(!) (снова знак свыше?! ахах!) ... из кондиционера на потолке! Так что это супер-пупер функциональное ведро, а не просто элемент декора, ахахах! И...
Jun 08, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 39
In this Episode of our Russian Podcast I share with you my thoughts on why the virtual life sucks. We want more comfort. We want ease. We tend to have things simpler and get services faster. But have we ever thought why faster is better? Do not we lose ourselves and reality in this sea of binary signals? Let's get our as**s outside and discuss it learning a few cool vocabulary words and phrases at the same time. links to the videos I mentioned: I came back to my little house in Russia: https://y...
Jun 04, 2019•36 min•Season 1Ep. 38
No, no, no... I'm not gonna tell you about darkness, vampires, and horror films... although it sounds interesting :D Today I want to talk about my recent trip to Moscow and what I experienced being an 'technical engineer' during a preparation for Julia's summer camp. At the end we will discuss a bit such things as 'What does fear mean?" and 'How it ruins our daily life, ahah'! Let's begin! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involve...
May 28, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 37
I recently met my uncle who lives in Germany and our talks took me to this monologue. Where are we going? Who stands behind all this political crap? Does the world government exist? You will not find answers for those questions, however I invite you to virtually discuss them and of course learn a few cool and new Russian words and phrases :) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fu...
May 21, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Russian Book Club series. HQ audio version of the last episode. Video: https://youtu.be/tvH1-R8ElXQ ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2, lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way to understand real Russian (TV-shows, movies, podcasts, etc). ►To get podcast transc...
May 18, 2019•1 hr
Yes, I'm thinking to buy a bike, but... I have to get a driver license before. Today we will talk about what you need to do if you want to drive a car in Russia (and how about corruption in Russia). Let's ride! The video I mentioned: https://youtu.be/Uw_pF1yBZHU ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining word...
May 14, 2019•31 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Good day to you! No, unfortunately we are not going to talk about the Metallica's song today, however it is somehow related to the discussion. In this podcast I'll tell you about a couple of thing which I recently realized. They are so simple so you may want to throw something at me, but knowing a thing and total awareness of it are two different things! And it changes everything... and nothing else matters! Let's go! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). ...
May 07, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Приветики, дорогие друзья! Today my niece and I are discussing the parables you sent to me 2 weeks ago. Thank you very much for joining this activity and your wonderful stories! All 5 senders will get postcards from the cultural heart of Russia called Saint Petersburg (ahah, isn't it called megalomania?). Tons of love to you and lets get started!:) Read all these parables: https://www.russianwithmax.com/parables-in-russian-from-learners/ ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower inter...
Apr 30, 2019•35 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Today's episode is a common chat in Russian with Max about what recently happened and why I... HATE drinking and LOVE Moscow:) Let's jump into it and learn a few new cool words and phrases^_^ Ёжик в тумане: https://youtu.be/_Rugwd8ZNHY Video with Israel about Russian grammar: https://youtu.be/CPkQmpcJln4 ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topi...
Apr 23, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Hi all! We continue with our education topic, but today we have a guest named Julia who we are going to talk about informal education with. What is 'informal education'? Why we need changes? What problems do we find in traditional educational system? What new methods do we have and how 21-century teacher will look like? You will know from this Russian dialogue. Learn Russian, get new knowledge, and have fun! Lots of love, your Max! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediat...
Apr 16, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Hi there! I'm happy to have you here! This episode of our Slow Russian Podcast is about minimalism. We probably need 10 episodes to cover this topic, but I'll just share with you my thoughts. I hope you'll enjoy it and learn new interesting Russian words and daily expressions. I'd also glad to hear from you in the comments and... don't miss a competition (oh, sounds so serious, in fact it's more like fun writing exercise for you:) at the end of the episode. Lots of love and let's get started!:) ...
Apr 09, 2019•38 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Hi all! In this episode I want to discuss some 'alternative' ways of living. There are some stereotypes about the American Dream as if it's filled up with materialistic ideas and so forth, but in fact we do have the same concepts in Russia, I mean this tendency to get more, to have bigger houses, more expensive cars and so on. Communism crushed, however some people still want to build communes and they have had this idea since... 1960! Some links I promised to give you: A family went living off-...
Apr 03, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. " That was the beginning of the Anna Karenina novel by L. Tolstoy. What family problems are there in Russia? What kind of relationships do we need to cultivate? Should children live with their parents or they should leave? In this podcast we will talk about those things and of course learn a few new Russian words and expressions. Let's begin!:) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above...
Mar 26, 2019•30 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Привет! Yep, that's true! For 2 days I've been really depressed about a Russian book I read during my way to Tver. This book called The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and that's what I would like to discuss in this episode of our Russian Podcast. I came up with a couple thoughts about Russian classic literature in general. Let's dive into it! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through inte...
Mar 19, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 27
This time in our Comprehensible Russian Podcast I'd like to tell you about one new Russian bill called "internet isolation". They tried to block Telegram last year, but failed. What is this about? An attempt to make the Ru-net independent? Or create a new 'Great Chinese Firewall' in Russia? Let's dive into it. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversia...
Mar 12, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Hello my dearest! In this episode of our Russian Podcast I am answering a question that one of our listeners called Ricardo asked. I am going to tell you about a very famous and amazing Russian singer called Boris Grebenschikov. His music is really out of all crap what you can hear from the 5kng TV and средств массовой дебилизации today. I'm very glad to share his podcast dedicated to music from all over the world and BG's thoughts about ...the life in the very widest sense! More over his radio ...
Mar 05, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 25
Привет, друзья! This is a HQ audio version of our last Book Club video: https://youtu.be/F9pje19bjHE Read the full text, and watch a short film here: https://www.russianwithmax.com/the-green-lamp-by-a-grin/ I also create an audibook 'The Green Lamp" with parallel text Ru-En: https://www.russianwithmax.com/product/the-green-lamp-dual-laguage-audiobook/ P.S. For all "Mastery of Russian" members there's a cool discount:) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2, lower intermediate and above)....
Mar 01, 2019•1 hr 1 min
Привет всем! "Y ou're either with us, or against us" - The slogan of the October Revolution. We had a lot of revolutions in Russia. But I'm sure we need a brand new one! Follow me and in this episode of our Russian podcast I will tell you why... and how :) Since last episode I've decided to put some "vocabulary part" in the transcripts, so you can find difficult-word translation in there. Удачи, мои дорогие!:) ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal ...
Feb 26, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Привет всем! Today I want to talk about education in general. In Russia we still have the idea that if you want to succeed, you have to have a higher education. However, our life is changing, and many young people cannot find a decent job after 4-5 years of study. What is the problem? Do we really need education? What skills should we have to be successful? What was the situation in the USSR? Let's discuss it! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal ...
Feb 19, 2019•20 min•Season 1Ep. 23
In this episode I want to tell you about my recent experience of becoming blind. It made me think that very often we don’t appreciate what we have. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to build your strong Russian foundation and help you on your way to understand real Russian (TV-shows,...
Feb 12, 2019•25 min•Season 1Ep. 22
We start reading in Russian! Hooray! This is the first book called The three little pigs and today we will take a half of it. This is a short HQ audio version of the YouTube video: https://youtu.be/i0A4OvGQIs4 Here's the link for text: http://www.planetaskazok.ru/smihalkovsth/triporosenkamihalkov My plan: I choose one short Russian book for reading (or a tale \ story, etc) and give you the full text of it. Then during the live session I explain some difficult words and give you the main idea of ...
Feb 06, 2019•38 min
In this episode of our slow Russian Podcast I decided to walk around the place I live in Saint Petersburg and make a live recording of my thoughts. I am going to tell you how I got to Russia and how I feel about moving here from China. This podcast is a kind of improvisation and has real spoken Russian. It's slightly adapted for better comprehension. I mentioned a video from my YouTube "Learn Russian VLog" series and here's the link: https://youtu.be/tvIZ0y-EbQ4 ----- This podcast is for learnin...
Feb 05, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Привет-привет! Hey my dearest learners! In today's episode of our slow Russian podcast we are going to talk about one smart guy who faced a difficulty on his new job, but he managed to deal with it in a very creative way! This story has a few questions (TRPS-like) so you may try to answer them while listening. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversia...
Jan 29, 2019•26 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Привет, мои дорогие и замечательные! Today in our Slow and Comprehensible Russian podcast I'm going to talk about my experience of traveling in Russia with almost no money. I started travelling this way 9 years ago and visited lots of wonderful places in Russia (and other world). Is it easy to travel this way? Where did I sleep? How were the drivers who picked me up? I'll try to answer these questions and hope you will find some new and useful vocabulary to improve your Russian! ----- This podca...
Jan 23, 2019•24 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Приветствую, дорогие товарищи! In this episode we have a conversation in Russian and our guest is Katya from Live Russian. We'll talk about our experience of learning languages and talk specifically about learning Russian as a foreign language. Unfortunately Chinese internet didn't allow us to make sound very clear and I'm really sorry for that. Anyway it's a good listening practice and I hope you'll find it interesting! До встречи, Ваш Макс :) Katya's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/esech...
Jan 15, 2019•29 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Приветствую всех! In this episode of our slow and comprehensible Russian podcast we are going to learn some relationships and dating vocabulary. Firstly you will hear a story of a girl (one friend of mine) and then I will share with you my thoughts about "what love is". I think it'll be good Russian listening practice and, hey, I want to hear your opinion on this topic! Tell us what you think and what love means for you! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above...
Jan 08, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Привет, дорогие! Let's talk about a few Russian bank terms and finance vocabulary in Russian. Today you will learn how to say some basic bank operations as to withdraw money, to put money into your account, what we can do with our finance and so forth. If you listen to this podcast and enjoy it I'd super appreciate your feedback and rating on iTunes - it helps me a lot! ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian lan...
Jan 01, 2019•23 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Hi all! In this episode of our slow and comprehensible Russian podcast we will talk about Instagram as a tool for learning Russian. We'll also chat about social networks dependency and as always will learn a few new vocabulary words in Russian. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial topics. I speak clear and slow, explaining words in Russian to bu...
Dec 25, 2018•22 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Привет! Verbs in Russian is a very tough topic to talk about. Perfective, imperfective, reflexive verbs and so on.. There are so many thing we need to learn to understand how to use them correctly. In this episode I want to answer a couple questions which you sent to me recently and give you some examples. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My goal is to get you involved in the Russian language through interesting, fun, educational, and controversial to...
Dec 18, 2018•24 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This is a TRPS Russian lesson. I tried a new format for our Russian podcast with storytelling and question answering. I'm sure that this method is very effective if you want to learn spoken Russian and think in Russian. However, you should decide yourself what works better for you and if you enjoy this episode and find it helpful let me know at [email protected] and I'll do more stuff like this in the future. ----- This podcast is for learning Russian (A2\lower intermediate and above). My...
Dec 11, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 13
