Here is the song Moscow Nights (Podmoskovniye Vechera), which we have been singing in my phonetics class. Our teacher insists we'll be singing it at some end of the semester gala or whatever in front of all our professors. But I have no idea how accurate this is seeing as this is the same lady who today made two people from my group act out a scene from Pushkin's "After the Ball," which involved making the guy rub the earlobes of the girl and then kiss her forehead. After he had to do some kind of stomp-dancing routine and then kneel on the ground while the girl danced around him "pretending to wear a long skirt." I swear, these Russians sometimes..
But really, this isn't even that weird for this class. So anyways, tonight's homework is to have the words memorized of this song so we can give my professor yet another performance of it tomorrow. We sang this for a solid forty-five minutes today. It's really lovely. Just not so much when I sing it. I actually sound especially horrible since the recording that we listen to in class has a much deeper voice than this and we're supposed to imitate it somehow. And that ain't happenin. But yeah, here it is! Enjoy!
(i'm not promising that the English translation in the video is accurate)
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