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Hi! It's your Russian-speaking friend here.

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Today we're going to watch a video by the blogger Lutchak.

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First I'll put my MacBook on charge, because

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there's only 6% left.

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I'll plug in the cable now.

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Did you hear that?

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Now my laptop is charging.

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This blogger's videos are very interesting,

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but they're hard to understand not only for foreigners,

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but even for some native speakers

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who aren't familiar with modern slang.

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One of this blogger's most popular videos

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is about him teaching a cleaning lady

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how to record "circles" in Telegram.

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Telegram is the most popular messenger

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in Russian-speaking countries —

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in most Russian-speaking countries, anyway.

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And in this messenger,

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for sending video messages there's a feature for recording

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so-called "circles."

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Everyone calls them that — it's an unofficial name.

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Let's take a look.

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This isn't my favorite video,

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but it's a popular one.

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It's a prank on a cleaning lady.

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Honestly, I'm not a big fan of pranks,

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but videos of this format usually

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rack up a lot of views.

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Let's watch it together first,

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and then I'll explain what was said in this video.

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- Look, here, you've just got a video...

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And you put it like this, and you get...

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- Wow, awesome!
- Yeah...

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My daughter sent me a "circle." I can't even.

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I want to send one too.

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- You don't know how to send circles?
- Easy, right?

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- It's unfamiliar at first, but then...
- Well, I'm a fast learner.

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- It's just this cup-shaped thing. And you hold it up
to the camera like this.

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And then you turn on the camera and record... and
you get a circle.

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You just need to hold the shape... evenly.

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- Uh-huh...
- Hold the camera like this.

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- It's still not lining up. There, there, it's lining up...
- You have to get used to it, it's not instant... it's not easy.

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Are you getting it?
- Yeah, well, like this...

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- What did you do to this poor woman?
- Max, that's really harsh. Keep going.

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- Clearly she needs more practice.
- Well, it's her first try... like this.

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- Well, like this, very...
- Well, maybe even...

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- Gulnara Muratovna, so, did you manage to send the
circle? Show us how you sent it.

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- Uh-huh.

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- Should we come clean?
- Us?

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- Didn't anything about this whole setup bother you?
- Hm... I did think something felt... kind of off.

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A little heart.

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Video messages cropped into a circle

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(also called "circles")

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are used in popular messengers.
For example, in Telegram or WhatsApp.

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You could describe this situation

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as a prank on a cleaning lady.

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Let's read the text first.

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"Taught the cleaning lady to record circles in TG"

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TG is Telegram, so [what's meant here is]
circles in Telegram.

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Look, here, you've just got a video...

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Look, here

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you've just got a video.

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So he's showing that there are different video-recording features.

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A regular one (video) and, presumably, a circle.

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She says "uh-huh," or rather [a sound]

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Sometimes we write [that sound] as "uh-huh," because saying "uh-huh" out loud feels a bit odd.

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We say [it] with our mouth closed.

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Next, the main guy holds up a
bottomless cup

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and says: "And you put it like this, and you've got
a circle"

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The cleaning lady is delighted, she says:

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"Wow, awesome!"

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My daughter sent me a circle

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It all started with a circle from her daughter.

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In other words, her daughter sent her a video
in the shape of a circle.

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She says: "But I can't, I
want to send one too."

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However, notice — if I'm not mistaken — this actually
looks more like the WhatsApp interface than Telegram's.

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So at the start it said "record circles in TG," meaning in Telegram, but here it's WhatsApp. A small inconsistency.

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You don't know how to send circles?

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He's asking, and here it's written —

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"as if I'd refuse to help," hinting that

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he's about to help her now.

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"Help," you could say, in air quotes,

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because with friends like that, who needs enemies.

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She asks: "Easy?"

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He says: "It's unfamiliar at first, but then..."

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She says: "Well, I'm a fast learner."

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Notice it's written here as "vashche,"

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but the correct spelling is "voobshche."

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Here it says,

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"A tutorial for everyone

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who doesn't get how."

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"Tutorial" is

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the English word "tutorial,"

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which has entered the Russian language.

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And "sharit'" is colloquial Russian —

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this phrase, this verb,

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means to know how to do something, to know something.

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So "a tutorial for everyone who doesn't 'get' how"

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in more neutral Russian

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could be phrased as

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"a lesson for everyone who doesn't know how..."

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And he shows her:

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"I've just got this cup-shaped thing here"

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"And you hold it up to the camera like this"

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notice that the word "vot" ("here, like this")

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comes up very often.

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In Russian we sometimes use it

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just as often as "like" is used

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in American English.

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And then

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you turn on the camera and record.

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And you get a circle.

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The women in the office see what's happening, but stay quiet.

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The main thing is not to shake your hand.

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You just need to hold the shape steady.

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Again — "uh-huh," meaning [that sound].

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Hold the camera like this.

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It's still not lining up.

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It's almost there, it's lining up.

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The correct spelling is

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"vot-vot" with a hyphen,

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but since these are just subtitles from the internet,

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most likely auto-generated,

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they often contain mistakes.

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"Vot-vot" means "any moment now," "very soon."

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In English that would be "soon,"

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in German "bald,"

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in Japanese そろそろ.

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You have to get used to it, it's not instant, it's not easy.

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The practice started right from the first second.

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"Poshla" in this context means "started."

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The boss makes a gesture

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that shows

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he thinks Maxim (the main guy

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who decided to prank the cleaning lady)

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is a little "off" — meaning crazy,

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nuts, has lost his mind.

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He twirled his finger at his temple.

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That's a gesture we use

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to show that someone's "lost it."

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Maxim asks: "Are you getting it?"

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to which Gulnara Muratovna replies: "Well, yeah."

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Then she says something not in Russian.

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The girl asks: "What did you do to this poor woman?"

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"Chyo" is the colloquial form of "chto" ("what")

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Here it's written as "chyo"

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without the "yo" — with an "e" instead,

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because a lot of people just can't be bothered to write the letter "yo."

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I always try to write the letter "yo,"
especially in this video blog,

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but a lot of people skip it and write "e" instead.

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In the next sentence, though,
there's already a "yo." Suddenly.

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"Max, that's really harsh."

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"Max" is the short form of the name "Maxim."

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I think you know that

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regardless of what language you speak.

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"That's really harsh, keep going."

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The beginning and end of that sentence contradict each other.

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Next the text changes to "working on mistakes."

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That's something we often write in school, for example,

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if there was a test,

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some essay or piece of writing.

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Students get their written work back

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and are asked to "work on the mistakes."

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In other words, rewrite everything, but

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with the mistakes corrected

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that were found —

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identified by the teacher.

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"Clearly she needs more practice."

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"Well, it's her first try... like this."

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"Well, like this, very..."

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"Well, like this,

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very...", and then laughter.

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"Look at this." But she said it more like
"luh' at this."

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Often, instead of "posmotri" ("look") in

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casual speech

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we tend to say "pasatri."

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As in many languages, we like to shorten things.

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For example, I'm learning Japanese, and in

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Japanese "ありがとうございます"

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often gets shortened to

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"azas"; it's the same thing here.

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Instead of "posmotri" we

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say "pastri"... "pasatri."

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"Gulnara Muratovna, so,
did you manage to send it?"

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Let's check the result.

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"Show us how you..."

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"Did you manage to send the circle?"

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[I missed that there's one more word there.]

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"Show us how you sent it." "Here..."

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She says something not in Russian again.
Don't worry if you didn't understand it.

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By this point it was no longer possible to keep tormenting Gulnara Muratovna.

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They started to feel sorry for her.

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"Should we come clean? Let's tell her the truth."

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And the girls are shocked,

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they say: "Us?"

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because, in their

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view, they had nothing to do with it —

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they were just sitting there watching.

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"Didn't anything about this setup bother you?"

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Max asks,

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"Didn't anything

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about this whole setup bother you?"

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He pronounces "nichego" ("nothing") more like "nichyo."

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We often say it that way too.

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She made a "tsk" sound.

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In Russian, that sound can be

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written with two letters,

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"tts" together [or "tsyk"],

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or with the verb "tsyknut'" (to tsk).

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"That's what I thought."

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"I thought something felt heavy."

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"Something felt kind of off."

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It's written as "chto-to" ("something"), but

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she pronounced it "chyo-to,"

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because we often
pronounce "chto" as "chyo."

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Personally, I like to pronounce
"chto" in full,

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but a lot of people shorten it.

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Here it also says "we really love our
cleanliness fairy." A little heart.

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What did you think of this video?

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What do you think about pranks like this?

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Isn't this a bit too cruel?
Let me know in the comments.
