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Bye-bye, lullaby (sleep well)
Don't lie at the edge
I'm always lie down at the brink
And fall asleep quietly (easy/peacefully)

I can't sleep (while I'm facing the) wall
Me knees are abut against (the wall)
I'll lie down at the brink - don't do it
You better don't obstruct me - don't
I'll lie down, and you should know it
Don't, don't
The gray-iy wolfy will come
And will bite (you) at the flanky

у стенки per se means "near the wall"
не ложися = не ложись - don't "lie down self"
ложуся = ложусь  - I lie down

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Russian
Русский

88 - восемьдесят восемь

eighty eight

89 - восемьдесят девять

eighty nine

90 - девяносто

ninety

91 - девяносто один

ninety one

Тридцатый (30-й) урок

Thirtieth lesson

УРОК НОМЕР ТРИДЦАТЬ (№30)

Lesson number thirty (#30)

or Ещё стакан чая?

AK: чая (чаю) - "of tea" is "partitive genitive", it's used here to say "some amount of", "a little of"

(Do) you (pl.) like music?

но не могу сказать, что я знаток музыки.

AK: You should say "but I can't say that I'm a music expert"
знаток = the one who knows well, connoisseur

AK: I listen to my radio with pleasure

А на концерт, в Оперу (3) вы не ходите ?

But (do) you not go to the concert, to the Opera [on concert., into Opera...]?

AK: But don't you go to the concert, (or visit the) Opera?

Very seldom ;

AK: Rarely.
Closer to the evening I'm becoming tired (a little, no doubt)
and I go to bed pretty early.

AK: You, (this) means, is no fan of music.

for me the greatest pleasure in (my) life,

AK: самое большое = greatest

With lemon?
— Yes, and but without sugar.

To listen-to; I listen, you pl. listen, he listens,
we listen, they listen.

AK: meaning of слушать is "to listen to something as a general action"
слушать музыку - to listen to some music
я слушаю музыку у меня дома - I listen (to) music at my place

слышать is "to hear something now"
слышать музыку вдали - to hear some music (playing at distance) faraway
я слышу чью-то речь/голос - I hear someone's speech/voice

AK: рано means early
soon is скоро, вскоре

стакан чаю or стакан чая; лимон; сахар.

УПРАЖНЕНИЕ

I go to bed [lie down sleep] at once (right) now.

AK: сейчас means now
at once - сейчас же, немедленно

Я сейчас же ложусь спать.

I go to bed immediately / at once.

You want to go to bed are sleepy so early?

спать means to sleep, but here it means rather "to go to bed"

Он сонный

He's sleepy, drowsy, lethargic, etc.

Она очень хочет спать

She wants to sleep very much

Да; я устал;
Да, я устал

AK: I strolled around (for pleasure) a lot today

Give her the largest [most large] glass, she is very thirsty.

I hope that you (pl.) will sleep well.

He never listens to what you (pl.) tell (say, are saying) him.

He is a great fan lover of vodka.

AK: lover is любовник
Though it's possible to use "lover" in this English sentence,
любовник can't be used.
Russian equivalent for this particular case is "fan".

Любитель is "someone who loves doing something"
and the most literal translation is amateur (one who loves),
but it also means "unprofessional" without negative connotation.
Радиолюбитель - amateur of radio(technick)

AK-NOTE

Чаю, of tea is the irregular partitive genitive of чай, tea (s. N. 8).

дай мне немного чаю or немного чая - give me some tea, give (you pl.) me a "little quantity" of tea

Музыка, music, a feminine noun, becomes in the accusative музыку,
as палка, the stick, becomes палку, and трубка, the pipe, трубку.
The genitive (parag. 6) is музыки, of the music or of music;
палки, of the stick; трубки, of the pipe.

В Оперу, litter. "into (the) Opera".
We have here Опера in the accusative, and not in the prepositional "в Опере".
The reason is that the preposition в, in, into,
governs the accusative when there is an idea of motion from one place to another (S. N. 3, less. 35).

Prepositions do not "govern" cases.
There is no rules of "cases governing" in Russian.
Full sentence is я иду в Oперу - I go to the Opera(house), and the verb is идти в - to go to.
Compare: я вхожу в Оперу - I go/step into the Opera

Самый, самая, самое mean : the most.
Самый большой человек, the greatest [most great big] man;
самая красивая женщина, the most beautiful woman;
самое трудное упражнение, the most difficult exercise.

большой doesn't mean great in this particular phrase
величайчший is (spiritually) the greatest man

Whereas с, with, here requires the prepositional, без, without, governs the genitive.
Лимон, lemon; с лимоном, with lemon; без лимона, without lemon.
— Сахар, sugar; с сахаром, with sugar; без сахара, or без сахару, without sugar.

Again, there is more to it.
с = вместе с - together with
без = не с - without
In this particular case "с" is a conjunction and NOT a preposition.
Hence an error in trying to define it as "prepositional case".

It's an instrumental case:
лимоном, лимонами - (to do it with/by) lemon/lemons
сахаром, сахарами/сахарами - (to do it with/by) sugar/sugars

I will read them without translation,
(слушайте) listen to these words as music
(и вы услышите) and you'll hear the language melody.

— Стакан, стакан, стакана, стакану.
— Чай, чай, чая / чаю (irreg.), чаю.
— Музыка, музыку, музыки, музыке.
— Музыкант, музыканта (living creature), музыканта, музыканту.
— Вечер, вечер, вечера, вечеру.
— Дом, дом, дома, дому.
— Удовольствие, удовольствие, удовольствия, удовольствию.
— Радио, (a foreign word, is not declined).
— Концерт, концерт, концерта, концерту.
— Опера, оперу, оперы, опере.
— Жизнь (a fem. noun), жизнь, жизни, жизни.
— Лимон, лимон, лимона, лимону.
— Сахар, сахар, сахара (or сахару), сахару.