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Yes, it's been a while since I've cleaned the house, friends. It's been a while since I've cleaned. The house is a mess, the floor is dusty, all the surfaces are dusty: well, the surface of the table, the surface of the floor, this surface, all the other surfaces - there's a lot of dust everywhere, which means that I need to clean, or "I need to tidy up." Today, our vlog for learning Russian will be about this. We have a door here that leads to the pantry. And in the pantry there are a bunch of different useful things for cleaning. Let me show you them. So. Well, without these, you can't clean at all, friends. So, look, we have different rags.
This is a good rag for wiping dust, yes. For wiping dust. I can wipe dust with this rag. Excellent! By the way, here is a set of different rags. And here is another special rag, for a mop. For one of these mops: either for this one or for this one. I assume for this one. Great. Actually, there's also a vacuum cleaner. That's a vacuum cleaner. Maybe it even has a washing function, but I'm not sure, I don't know. But, frankly speaking, using some old vacuum cleaners-look at how much dust and dirt there is inside-I feel uneasy. I feel uneasy, I don't like using old vacuum cleaners like that, because it seems to me that.
Well, I don't know, maybe you can wash it and use it, but, frankly speaking, I don't see the point in vacuuming, yes. Vacuuming. Let's see what we actually have here in the apartment. We have a floor here, we call it "tile," because it's tile. Well, essentially, it's ceramic. But we say "tile." I don't know. Basically, you can say: "Here we have tile, and here we have laminate." Laminate, tile. Or: "Here we have tile, here we have laminate." Or "Here we have." Well, usually, yes, we say: tile, tile, tile.
Ceramic tile?. That's right, the material is called "ceramic tile," but for some reason we don't say that in real life. We just say "tile" or "tile." And here's an interesting joint. Look, the joint. The joint between the laminate and the tile. And this is where, of course, a huge amount of dirt gets clogged. Like, it gets clogged, that's the idea. Look, yes. Well, this is a rented apartment, so, of course, I'm not going to clean everything out of there, out of these cracks.
Look here, this space here is called a crack. I'm not going to clean anything out of these cracks. Basically, there's nothing to vacuum. Laminate is easier to wash, tile is easier to wash, but we're simply not going to touch this little rug at all. Maybe later, when I go outside, I'll just shake it out. Or rather, "shake it out." "To clean" means to remove dust. And "to shake out" means to shake the rug so as to shake out. So to speak, "you" here means out. Shake out the dust. There you go. And in general, "to wash the floor" means to remove dirt.
Again, yes, to wash, to clean. You can wipe the table, yes, to wipe it - again, to make it clean. Well, now we'll talk about these words in more detail. Here is everything you need to wash the floor. "Wash" is a perfective verb. When you want to do something - to do… well, for example, wash the floor or cook food, or something else, we use a perfective verb. "I'm going to wash the floor." "I want to wash the floor." "I need to wash the floor." You need to wash the floor every week to keep it clean, and better yet, more often. But we do cleaning, like… my mother used to call it "a general cleaning."
General cleaning. Interesting. Well, you could just say "a complete cleaning," yes. I guess that's what I would say. Basically, we clean every month. Every month… oh, sorry, every week! Every week we need to wash the floor, yes, wash the floor. What do we need to wash the floor? Well, first of all, we. Well, this is a broom, by the way. This is a broom, and it's not for washing the floor. It's for sweeping, yes, sweeping or sweeping the floor, that is, collecting dust.
But, frankly, in this case, it's absolutely useless - I don't see the point in sweeping the floor, it's easier to just wash it right away. And we'll wash it with a mop like this. This mop is for washing the floor. And here's a bucket of water. But, frankly, I'll put the bucket of water over there, in the bathroom, to make it more convenient. Look, I also found this old-school mop here. I assume you just put a rag here, and. well, I mean, a big rag for washing the floor. And then you wash the floor with this rag.
Well, to be honest, I'm more comfortable and used to washing the floor with this more modern rag. I think I'll wash the floor first, remove the rag each time, wash it, wipe off the dirt, and wash it again. Maybe it's not the most effective, not the most. how should I put it? Well, I like it this way. I like doing it this way. The next step is to wipe off the dust. Wipe it off. First, well, first of all, I take a rag like this. This is a rag for wiping off dust. Or we also call it a "dust rag." You need to wet it. Now you need to wring it out.
That's it, I've removed the excess water - I've wrung out the rag. And now we can wipe off the dust. Okay, we can wipe off the dust here, on the countertop. This is the countertop. We're wiping off the dust here. That's great. Now we're wiping off the dust here, on the windowsill. Okay, great. Well, and at the same time, we're wiping off the dust here, on the windowsill. Dust accumulates here in these places too, so we're wiping it off. I won't wash the windows. They're. Well, they're clean enough for now, I won't do that now. That's it. Clean. By the way, one more thing we can do is take out the trash.
Take out the trash. Again, "you"-that is, the idea of removing something. "Wash" means to remove dirt, to clear away dirt. "Take out the trash" means to take out, remove, or put away trash. We either say "take out the trash," or we also say "throw out the trash." Take out the trash or throw out the trash. I'm going to take out the trash. Look how dirty the sink is. This is the sink, and it's really, really dirty. It needs to be cleaned. In general, if we have, you see, such noticeable dirt, then we can say "wash" or we can say "clean," yes.
There is a verb "clean." And to clean something, for example, brushing your teeth, means to remove dirt. So when we clean something, we remove a lot of dirt. So, we don't say "clean the floor," because cleaning the floor would be, I don't know, removing some dirt, like, I don't know, with a brush, like doing something like that. We don't say that. We say "wash the floor," "mopping the floor," "washing the floor." But in this case, we can say that we need to clean this sink because it's dirty. We can take a sponge, we can take a special cleaning product.
I'm sure I have something. And look, I have a product for cleaning, for example, a stove, yes. It, you see, removes grease and carbon deposits. If you're interested in what carbon deposits are, I can show you. Here's our stove. The grease. well, there's not much grease here. Well, in short, carbon deposits are, well, this is everything that. I don't know if you can see. This is everything that's burnt on. Yes, everything that's burnt on. Here, friends, this is carbon deposits. See? This is dirt. Well, how is it?
Basically, this is grease, food residue that's kind of burnt on or burned on. Under the influence of heat, basically, everything has turned into this. Of course, we need to wash, or, we can say, "clean" the stove. Phew, there are a lot of stains here, friends. Stains. Look, there's a stain here. I hope you can see it. And there's a stain here too. This stain and this stain. Sometimes a stain can't just be. Okay, you can. But you still have to rub. Look, yes, you have to rub. Here I am now rubbing and rubbing the stains.
Some stains came off right away, but some stains take a long time to get off, yes. The verb "rub" means I rub. If I'm trying to remove something, I "rub." I rub off the dirt or I rub off this stain, that is, I remove it. See, I have to make a lot of movements like this. I have to rub. Okay, great, I've rubbed off all the stains. Now I can rub the dirt off the microwave, yes. I can say. you can "wash the microwave," yes, you can. "clean the microwave" - well, again, cleaning means taking,
for example, a sponge like this, with this part, and applying a special cleaner here and starting to scrub, then I would call this process "cleaning." But there is nothing to clean here. I will have to clean the grease from the stove. I will definitely have to clean the grease and stains from the stove - that's what will need to be done. But here, everything is actually simpler, because here you just need to wash, and that's it. So, what do we need to do in this room? This is a bedroom, which is also an office, which is also. well, yes, a bedroom and an office. Because this is where my workspace is, here I record our podcasts.
By the way, friends, listen to our podcast, or even better, join our membership program: there are premium episodes and a ton of additional materials, including transcriptions for practicing new vocabulary and speaking, and so on. Look, I have some books here for learning foreign languages. So, what's here? Look, the surface of the laptop is very dusty, very dusty. There's a lot of dust here. We could say, "My workspace is dusty," yes. It's dusty here. Dusty. And the room in general is dusty. It needs a damp cleaning. When we say "wet cleaning," we mean cleaning with water, yes (thanks, Cap).
So, washing the floor, dusting - that's all wet cleaning. So, wet cleaning is necessary, dusting is necessary everywhere. And one more important thing to do: you definitely need to make the bed, because look at this mess. The bed is unmade or the bed is not made. You need to make the bed, you need to make the bed. Phew! Yeah, that took a few hours to clean, friends. That took a few hours. In Spain, when we lived, we had a robot vacuum cleaner - a little round thing that cleaned the floor. And it's just fantastic. The next time we live somewhere, well, long enough, I think we'll buy a robot vacuum cleaner again, because that's what it's all about.
But for now, we have to clean by hand. No big deal. Yeah, yeah, a few hours. Usually, usually, to avoid. well, to avoid wasting that time-because, well, let's be honest, cleaning is boring-I usually listen to podcasts. I listen to podcasts, either while I'm learning a foreign language, or I'm just listening to something interesting. well, rarely audiobooks, because books require more concentration, but you can just listen to podcasts quite peacefully. I recommend you do the same. By the way, what do you do when you clean? Maybe you have the TV on, and you watch it? Maybe you listen to podcasts? Maybe you listen to music?
Tell us. Well, and see you in the next Russian lesson with Max. Bye! Fresh air, good.
