3 RUSSIAN NEW YEAR SONGS TO CELEBRATE 31 OF DECEMBER

Learn the lyrics and enjoy the music!  

Christmas and New Year are coming soon! Time to have a break from shopping and putting up the decorations, wrap yourself up in bright tinsels and sing Russian New Year songs!  Because Every Russian language learner needs a good song (or a playlist just in case) to welcome the year 2018.  Enjoy Russian school recommends learning by heart these 3 extracts of Russian songs since they are loved by everyone in our country and will help you to pass for Russian at every festive dinner! Enjoy and remember to check out our courses to learn more festive Russian vocabulary!

1. «Song about 5 minutes» (Песенка про 5 минут) by lydmila Gurchenko.

It goes without saying that the song is epic. It firstly appeared in the film “Carnival night” in 1956. The song is familiar to all generations and remains one of the most popular songs.

2. «The forest raised a Christmas tree» (В лесу родилась ёлочка)

 

3. «If there was no winter» (Кабы не было зимы) – is a song from a famous Soviet cartoon Prostokvashino. The word КАБЫ (if) is an archaism to ЕСЛИ