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Hello, friends! Hello! Sabrina, don't you want to say hello? Sabrina doesn't want to say hello. I'm greeting you, and this is a vlog for those who are learning Russian. Today, Sabrina and I arrived on this bike. Sabrina, where's the bike? Here it is! We arrived on this bike to the forest park, and we are going to explore it together. The first thing we see, friends, is a swamp-look at how swampy the area is. How can you tell it's a swamp? Well, first of all, by the different characteristic plants, like these, you see?
Those dark green ones. And secondly-water! You can see there's a lot of water here. Anyway, that's what a swamp is. Now Sabrina is climbing, climbing the hill. There she is. Oh, no, she keeps climbing. Okay, I think we need to stop her. Sabrina, stop! Sabrina has climbed to the top. There's a railroad, or "railroad tracks," up here. "Tracks" or "railway" is simple. And judging by the tracks, judging by the tracks, the train either runs here very rarely, or
maybe doesn't run at all. In any case, I don't really want to walk along the railroad tracks. And Sabrina, by the way, is already going down. First she went up here, and now she's going down. Sabrina is down. Well done, Sabrina! She's down! Sabrina and I found a small stream or a brook. This is a brook - a small stream. And over there is the place where the stream begins. Come on, Sabrina, let's see where the stream begins. There, there, here it begins. While Sabrina is playing with water - and she really loves to play with water - I'll show you what I have in my pocket.
What do I have in my pocket? What did I take with me to the forest? These are sunflower seeds. Did I take them to feed the birds? No. Did I take them to feed some animals? Like squirrels? No. Why did I take the sunflower seeds? To eat them. Salty ones. There are a lot of benches like these in this park, made of concrete. Concrete benches. It's interesting that they're covered in moss. It's moss. Yes, Sabrina? Do you like moss? Sabrina: Moss? Yes.
There's a climb ahead, so we need to climb. Climb up there, up there. Well, let's go. It's funny how children always find something to do in the forest. There's Sabrina, just dragging a log. Sabrina, be careful, there's a bike! Don't drop the bike. Sabrina is just dragging a log, and she really, really likes it. Come on, Sabrina, let's build a house together! Sabrina: Where's the house? Max: Where's the house? I don't know, over there.
The tree was sawn here. The tree fell, and they sawed it. It's interesting that the rings are very visible here. Do you see those rings? And you can roughly calculate the tree's age using these rings. Sabrina and I did this last time, and we got, I think, eighty-seven or ninety-seven. in short, about ninety rings. So this tree is about 90 years old. Why can you even calculate age using these rings? Because all these rings, look, they consist of two parts: one light part, and the other dark.
This light one, and this dark one, you see, it's thin. Light again, then dark again, thin. In the spring and summer, the tree grows actively, and in the fall, growth slows down, and, well, other processes occur, and this dark ring appears. So this is one year of the tree's life. Well, not always so, but, as a rule, it is. So this is one year, the second year, the third year, the fourth, and so on. And the older the tree, the narrower these rings, because the tree grows outward. Sabrina, what are you throwing out? Show me what you're throwing out. It's a banana peel. Sabrina went to throw out the peel. No, Sabrina, that's not nice. That's absolutely not nice. We won't do that.
We'll take them and dispose of them somewhere neatly, discreetly. By the way, that's how I usually dispose of organic waste in the forest or in a forest park. Well, of course, if it's a city park, I won't do that, but in forest parks like that, I think it's perfectly normal to leave an apple core or a banana peel behind because it's organic, and in two weeks you won't be able to find it. Or in, say, a month for sure-it'll decompose there. The question is: do you do that or not? Because Yulia doesn't like doing that-she says, "Max, you're littering!"
And I tell her: "No, Yulia, you're littering because you're throwing organics into a regular trash bin, and your organics will end up in a landfill somewhere. "But this way, everything will decompose naturally, and everything will be beautiful." The only thing is that you have to throw it away in a way that doesn't spoil the view. That is, you can't just throw a banana peel hanging on a branch-that's bad. But if you bury it somewhere down in the ground, a little, then everything is fine. What do you think about this? Phew! We finally climbed this hill, and finally we are in the park itself.
Here is the entrance to the park, and here is a wooden barrier, which is currently up, but it can be lowered. Yes, it is currently up, but it can be lowered. That is, they raise it during the day and close it at night. Now we'll go explore the park. And this is called a "glade." A glade is an open space where there are no or almost no trees. Well, that is, there is a forest over there, lots of trees, but here there are no trees, so it's all one big glade. And in this clearing there are tables - tables where you can sit and eat something. Picnic tables.
We came to a pond, and here, in this pond, live ducks. There they are swimming over there, the ducks. And also turtles. I hope you can see. There were two turtles over there. Oh! A turtle jumped into the water. And over there, if you can see, there's a carp. A kind of… well, fish. A big red carp. It fell into the water! Sabrina: It swam away! Max: Swam away? Who swam away? Sabrina: *tries to say "turtle"* Pipipata! Max: A turtle! And here, next to the waterfall, look what we found. What is it, Sabrina?
Strawberries. Yes, take them. Are they delicious? This is the first time Sabrina has picked and eaten strawberries by herself. Sabrina, there's another one to your left, look. No, to your left. Over there. Here, look, here. Here's another one. Yes, a big one. Sabrina, there's another ripe one over there, look. Here, look where I'm showing you. Look here. Here, there's one over there. Here, there's a ripe one over there. Sabrina: Where is it?
Max: There you go, baby. There it is. Hidden. Is it tasty? Where are the other berries? Sabrina: Yes. Max: Let's look. And down here, crawling around, is an earthworm, or just a worm. We usually just say "worm." Worm. Sabrina: Worm. Max: Sabrina and I are looking for a clearing with strawberries, but so far we've only found a clearing with little oak trees. Oak trees, yes, or oak trees. An oak is a tree. Well, an oak is a tree like this, and this is an oak tree. So, one is an oak tree, and here is a clearing with oak trees. These are oak trees. And really, there are so many of them here!
Hundreds, just hundreds! I've never seen so many little trees. Just a forest. Look, it's a forest of little trees. I can take a walk through this forest. Well, it's time to go home, which means I'm saying goodbye. Learn Russian with Max, join the membership program if you want to receive transcripts, premium podcast episodes, and practice your Russian regularly. See you in the next video! Bye-bye! Sabrina: Bye-bye!
