Anyone fluent in Russian?

[Varian P]

I have a story which has a few short chunks of dialogue in Russian. Really, really wretched Russian, I fear.

Anyone fluent (or proficient) in Russian willing to have a look and chasten me?

 

[_blushy_bottom_]

Ya na gavarou pas Russki ouchin harasho

 

[Varian P]

Ya na gavarou pas Russki ouchin harasho

No, me either.

 

[Guest]

I can still curse fairly fluently. If you need to say, "Kiss my ass!", "Fuck you!", "I fucked your mother," or "I'll kick your ass if you give me any shit!" let me know.

 

[sweetness6280]

Nyet.

 

[Varian P]

I can still curse fairly fluently. If you need to say, "Kiss my ass!", "Fuck you!", "I fucked your mother," or "I'll kick your ass if you give me any shit!" let me know.

Where were you when I was in Russia and could have used that service?

 

[Guest]

Where were you when I was in Russia and could have used that service?

In hiding from the KGB, tovarishch.

 

[Varian P]

In hiding from the KGB, tovarishch.

Smart. Then you didn't have to spend a night locked up in Lubyanka, like I did?

 

[Guest]

Smart. Then you didn't have to spend a night locked up in Lubyanka, like I did?

I was hiding in plain sight. You didn't recognize me in my guard's uniform, did you?

And... ve haf peectures!

 

[jomar]

Anybody got some vodka?

 

[keeblercrumb]

PM me.... Moy russky blowha but I have infinite resources.... I always bring a long haired dictionary wherever I go.....

I write for a local English language newspaper here in the Urals... If you like I will be happy to send you the five most important words for a foreigner...

Oh... I will tell you anyway...

Peeva. (Beer)
Bolshoi (Big)
Holenda (cold)
Eesho (another)
Ya tozha.(I will have whatever he/she/it is having.... a personal favorite of mine... It is easy to say and sound ..... native)

Hmmm. Maybe that is six words... Oh well.... foreigners can't count anyway.

And actually... my very favorite is "Da, da, da, da!" much better than repeating "yes"

Hmmm. And then "Cock vac sovute?" (What's your name?) I think it is cool that the first thing I get to say to a woman is.... "Cock..." It just gets everything off to a grand start.

I digress.....

But I will be happy to pass your words by some of my native friends....

Horoshow?


-KC

 

[Varian P]

PM me.... Moy russky blowha but I have infinite resources.... I always bring a long haired dictionary wherever I go.....

I write for a local English language newspaper here in the Urals... If you like I will be happy to send you the five most important words for a foreigner...

Oh... I will tell you anyway...

Peeva. (Beer)
Bolshoi (Big)
Holenda (cold)
Eesho (another)
Ya tozha.(I will have whatever he/she/it is having.... a personal favorite of mine... It is easy to say and sound ..... native)

Hmmm. Maybe that is six words... Oh well.... foreigners can't count anyway.

And actually... my very favorite is "Da, da, da, da!" much better than repeating "yes"

Hmmm. And then "Cock vac sovute?" (What's your name?) I think it is cool that the first thing I get to say to a woman is.... "Cock..." It just gets everything off to a grand start.

My favorites were "krasny vino" and "nyet!" Oh, and "ananosovy sok" to go with the vodka. But as I recall, the Russians' favorite word was "conyeshna!" (of course!).

But no, none of that really holds a candle to getting to say cock to everyone one meets.

I digress.....

But I will be happy to pass your words by some of my native friends....

Horoshow?


-KC

Pajalustaa! Spaseeba! I'll PM you. Spaseeba! Pajalusta!

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

But no, none of that really holds a candle to getting to say cock to everyone one meets.

It's KAK (spelled Ka ah Ka)that mean what or how

Also there are many dialects. Lithuanian sounds exactly the same but the words make no sense at all.

 

[Varian P]

It's KAK (spelled Ka ah Ka)that mean what or how

Don't go trying to take the fun out of things now, Jenny. It sounds like cock (close, anyways), and sometimes when it's seven in the morning and about ten degrees out and men are lining up at the kiosks buying their vodka tonics, you take what you can get!

If it were spelled COCK is would sound like sosk. Fun in its own way, maybe, but not as fun as cock.

Also there are many dialects. Lithuanian sounds exactly the same but the words make no sense at all.

And Bulgarians can understand Russian, but if you ask, "do you understand Russian, they play dumb. It's almost like their bitter about Soviet domination, or something. Plus, they nod their head for "no" and shake it for "yes." It's not easy for a weary traveler to process an enthusiastic "Da! Da!" accompanied by a head shake...

 

[Equinoxe]

Also there are many dialects. Lithuanian sounds exactly the same but the words make no sense at all.

The words in Lithuanian shouldn't make sense to a Russian speaker, because it isn't even a Slavic language. It's about as close to Russian as Gaelic is to English.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The words in Lithuanian shouldn't make sense to a Russian speaker, because it isn't even a Slavic language. It's about as close to Russian as Gaelic is to English.

Still sounds almost the same. Several years ago some Lithuanian imigrants bought the house next door to me. One of them didn't speak any English at all. Sounded like Russian but wasn't. Drove me nuts.

 

[Equinoxe]

Still sounds almost the same. Several years ago some Lithuanian imigrants bought the house next door to me. One of them didn't speak any English at all. Sounded like Russian but wasn't. Drove me nuts.

Oh yes, I can imagine it would be frustrating because it only sounds similar (as, coincidentally, does Portuguese).

 

[Stella_Omega]

Oh yes, I can imagine it would be frustrating because it only sounds similar (as, coincidentally, does Portuguese).

That's funny-- I don't think Portuguese sounds anything like Russian!

 

[Equinoxe]

That's funny-- I don't think Portuguese sounds anything like Russian!

Interesting. I'm sure that what certain languages sound like to people varies from person to person.

However, if we look at the consonant inventories of Russian and Portuguese, they are quite similar. They share two nasal consonants (Portuguese also has a palatal nasal that Russian does not), they both have the same sets of plosives, they have nearly identical sets of fricatives (the difference being that Portuguese uses regular postalveolar fricatives while Russian uses retroflex fricatives), the approximants are the same except that the palatal approximant is also lateral in Portuguese, and they both use trills. The major difference is that Russian also has a set of palatalised consonants (this is one feature that probably makes Lithuanian sound similar).

In any case, I shall have to quote a Portuguese Litster in my defence:

Sometimes I am walking down the street, not really paying attention, and I hear something that sounds like Portuguese but that somehow escapes my understanding. Then I listen up and turns out it's Russian.

 

[gauchecritic]

Russian sounds like Lithuanian when they speak English and that's about it in my experience.

Lithuanian is more fluid when spoken where Russian is blocky. That's how it sounds to my ear anyway.