Transcript in English
Maria: – Have a look, they have good greens here! Your herbs are fresh, right? Give me a bunch of spring onions, a bunch of parsley and dill. Yes, that’s enough, thanks.
John: – Maria, I wanted to ask for the long time, how do you call this herb? In Russia it’s like they put it on every dish. Russians like it very much for some reason.
Lyova:– Oh but this is dill! We like it a lot in Kiev too. My wife puts it on everything: on all the salads, into soups, on potatoes, and dumplings! All the dishes become tastier. Why do you not like the dill?
John: – No, no, we also like dill, but not on all the dishes. Its smell is very strong, I think that…
Maria: – Sorry, grandma Klava just called me. She said that we shouldn’t forget to buy a small fish for Vasily. Vasily finds mice every day, so his menu is always the same - mice, mice, mice… For dessert he’d gladly eat a tasty fish. Without dill!
John: – Give us seven red tomatoes and four yellow tomatoes, five pickled cucumbers that are not too large and three onions please.
Stallholder: – Hey, “dear”, I didn’t get that – you want seven kilograms of tomatoes, right? Five kilograms of pickles, yes? I have the best pickles in this entire market, there’s no cucumbers tastier than these!
Lyova: – No, no, we don’t need that many cucumbers and tomatoes. John said everything correctly: please give us 7 of the red tomatoes, 4 of the yellow ones, and 5 pickles plus 3 onions. We don’t need anything more than that!
Maria: – Again grandma Klava called and asked, for us not to forget to get some brown bread, as at home we have finished it all.
Stallholder: – I understood you. Here, take this from me as a gift – for our dear foreign guest – from the hot lands of Azerbaijan! Yours from the heart!
Lyova: – Do you see that tall seller? He sells good meat. Give us 2 kilograms of pork and 2 kilograms of beef please. Yes, it’s for shashlik. Oh, you already have some prepared? From lamb? That’s even better, in that case we’ll take the already prepared shashlik. Everyone agrees?
Maria: – Agree, if it’s good shashlik – we take it. Baba Klava is calling me again and asks whether we want to drink tea from the samovar this evening. Have you ever drank tea from a samovar, John?
John: – No, never! I only saw it in a Russian cartoon, where a bear and a hedgehog are sitting around a fire drinking tea from a samovar together with some raspberry jam. And I dreamed how in Russia I will also drink tea from a samovar, with raspberry jam…
Maria: – That what you watched is a wonderful cartoon called “Hedgehog in the Fog”.
John: – Oh, and what is that? Over there, where there’s the road crossing – are they selling kvass there?
Lyova: – Oh yes, that’s a barrel of actual kvass! Give us 3 big mugs, please.
Maria: – Thank you, you have tasty kvass. Well then, did we get everything for tonight? Let’s go home, quickly, baba Klava is waiting for us.
