I'm trying to understand the fluent English speech. Can you help me please? I'm trying to understand this video with Miley Cyrus's interview. Can you check what I have understood please? By the way, I hope I can give links to other sites here. There is no other way to show you this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWXYJ6NLUN4#t=13 So many awesome designers working on everything.. We have German Scoton and Blonds...(?) We have so many designers who are working hard.. Kenzo.. amasing pieces. A lot of custom staff to that... which are just things I wanna to design cause.. my show... I have super like... (?) I have eighting obviously and I get really bored otherwise and even if you think like doing a show you won't get bored. Because you are used to it. I've made so many extra costumes and extra set-lists so I don't have to do the same thing everyday otherwise I really hate touring.

Please help to to understand the sense I woke up with butterflies in my belly (wtf no butterfly emojis but they've got caterpillars! how am I supposed to show my metamorphosis?!?!) wtf no butterfly emojis but they've got caterpillars - what does this mean?

Vocal lessons Today my vocal teacher has told me for the twentieth time perhaps that I need to teach vocal to practice it and understand all the nuances. I have been taking vocal lessons for 3 years. And I'd like to practice vocal together with a beginner. So if you like singing, please let me know. I will gladly help you and do vocal wam-up exercises together with you.

I'm going to pull myself together and begin studying seriously! I want to improve my French as I studied it at the university but forgot a lot of it, and I've begun studying my favourite Japanese. Actually I began and gave up and began again... This time I've made up my mind! I promise to plan a schedule of my lessons and fulfil it! Here I will report my success.

Russia halts Lithuanian dairy imports. What do you think of it?

I've got to know that Russia has imposed an embargo against Lithuanian dairy products. The Russian consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor claimed that inspections of Lithuanian dairy imports had revealed "numerous violations" of quality and sanitary standards in products including cheese and yoghurt.

I'm sorry for Lithuania. I like its products very much and I'm sure of their high quality.

 

What do you think of the situation? What is the real cause of the embargo in your opinion?

Abba - Chiquitita. What do these phrases mean? Chiquitita tell me the truth I'm a shoulder you can cry on your best friend, I'm the one you must rely on you were always sure of yourself now I see you've broken the feathers I hope we can patch it up together So your voice came tumbling down And your love's a blown out candle I like this song because it has a lot of idioms and of course because it is nice. So these are the phrases I have a little difficulty with: You must rely on - Can we translate it as " I strongly recommend that you rely on me!"? A patch means a piece of clothing, to patch - to put a patch on some clothes to hide a hole. In Russian 'a patch' is 'заплата', to patch - залатать. The figurative meaning is to mend something, to make things settled. "Your voice came tumbling dowm" - I understand it as Chiquitita can't sing well any more, her voice is harsh or screaming sometimes. Is it right? What do you think? Perhaps, it has disappeared at all? 'blown out candle' is quite simple for me. 'To blow out a candle' or 'to put it out' means to blow at it or water it so 'a candle goes out'. Right? So in Russian it would be 'угасшая свеча'/погасшая свеча'. ''Ugasshaya'' is really poetic. 'And your love's a blown out candle' - I would translate this phrase so: Твоя любовь угасла, как свеча. - Your love is blown out like a candle, yet in Russian it means that Chiquitita doesn't love her friend any more, but in this song that means the end of the relationship, in my opinion.

Everyday expressions in Russian. How do we talk.

 Meeting new people (I use it every time when I ask something): Hello - Здравствуйте! (Zdrastvuitie)

Glad to meet you - Приятно познакомиться.(priyatna paznakomitsa)

Excuse me... - Извините (Izvinitie)

Please, you are welcome - пожалуйста (pazhalusta)

Can you tell me... - Не подскажите... ( ne patskazhitie)/ Подскажите, пожалуйста...

Can you tell me the time please. - Скажите, пожалуйста, который час. (katory chas)

Where is Arbat street? - Где улица Арбат (Gdie ulitsa Arbat)

When you are in the shop or a ticket office: Can I get ___ , please? - Будьте добры, ____. (butie dabri) / ______, пожалуйста.

Can I get a ticket to Moscow, please? - Будьте добры, один билет до Москвы. (adin biliet do Maskvi).

Usually Russian people just say: "до Москвы". If they are polite, they add "пожалуйста" or "будьте добры". But they are not usually polite.))

In the metro you take one ticket but say how many trips you need. So you say: 10 trips, please - десять поездок, пожалуйста (desyat' paezdok).

If you jog somebody or step on someone's leg you should say: sorry - простите (prastitie).

If someone says to you "простите" you can answer: that's ok - ничего страшного (nichevo strashnavo).

How much is it? - Сколько стоит? (skol'ka stoit).

Good bye - До свидания (da svidaniya). I usually wish also happiness and say instead of  "до свидания" - Счастливо! (schasliva)

I am learning the song of Abba - I've been waiting for you So, I'm very anxious to begin learning English seriously! And now I want to understand this song by Abba. The text goes like this: I, I've been in love before I thought I would no more Manage to hit the ceiling Still, strange as it seems to be You've brought it back to me That old feeling I don't understand "hit the ceiling". The dictionary says - to be furious. But it doesn't suit here. Can you help me understand it? I, I don't know what you do You make me think that you Possibly could release me I think you'll be able to Make all my dreams come true And you ease me release me - what does she mean? release from what? you ease me - you calm, soothe me - right? You thrill me, you delight me You please me, you excite me You're something I'd been pleading for I love you, I adore you I lay my life before you I'll have you want me more and more And finally it seems my lonely days are through I've been waiting for you my lonely days are through - they have come to an end, right? I lay my life before you - you can do with my life what you want - right? I, I'm gonna make you mine You're gonna feel so fine You'll never want to leave me I feel you belong to me Someday you will agree Please, believe me This verse is clear.