Gavaryesh po-russki yazyk, anyone? ;)

[Tysyacha]

That means, "Does anyone speak Russian?" I've been

trying to learn it by myself, but it's "ochen' trudniy"

(really hard.) Learning Spanish in high school was

challenging enough, but trying to learn Russian through

confusing language books and the Internet is even harder.

No one in my town speaks Russian (and actually, most of

them probably think that if English is good enough for them,

it's gol-darn good enough for the rest of the world!)

 

So...kto khochet' poluchat' mne? (Who wants to help me?)

 

Do svidanya,

Tysyacha

[Writer]

I'd help, but I can see you're further along than I am... ah, well, such is life. Good luck, though

[Aash Li]

I can read Russian script, but as for understanding it, thats another question... I tried learning it for years, but since I had no real use for it, and no one to speak it with... I never finished learning it.

 

And your Russian is oddly written "gavarish pa-russki? is do you speak russian

 

kto - who

sh'to - what

kogo - where (I think)

and the two most recognizable words da (yes) and nyet (no)

eblya - sex (as in the act of having sex)

baba s iatsma - battle-axe, probly what you call your mother-in-law lol

s - is

i -and

durak - stupid, idiot, moron...

ya - I (as in you)

 

theres other article-like, but I cant remember them without looking them up, like to, o... and there is no "a" "an" or "the" in Russian.

[Vladimir-Vlada]

Russian...

 

* Smirks... *

 

I wanted to learn it myself along with Chinese, but my parents...

 

* Frowns... *

 

... Think I should be spening time learning Spanish instead of those two. Anyway, I'm a Slavic and I believe that I could understand russian easily.

[Hallucination]

eblya - sex (as in the act of having sex)

baba s iatsma - battle-axe, probly what you call your mother-in-law lol

Good to know what goes through your mind in more than one language

@ Vladimir-Vlada i know what thats like, my parents want me to take spanish as well (its my dad's first languange and my mom second, followed closely by french and german). And I wanted to take german.

[Hoad]

Yeah I'm learning Russian at school, pretty easy and its fun cos I get to goof off and play web games when we use the computers and still get good marks

[Tysyacha]

Tell you what...If you are willing to answer these 3 questions, you

probably will know enough Russian to help me if you want to.

 

1. I think "Darth Strakh" would be an awesome Sith Lord name. Why?

 

2. What does "Tysyacha Dvukhsotnaya" mean? (Hint: Think 'numbers',

and for 'Dvukhsotnaya', Google-search "Stakhanovite movement".

 

3. What is that upside-down P that comes after words like 'pyat'?

 

Sincerely,

Tysyacha.

[Aash Li]

My russian dictionary is in the car...

 

Well since your transliterations arent the way I learned them, you might be spelling a word I would ordinarily recognize...

 

1. Strakh - fear. the Russian x also gets translated as just "h" sometimes. But its more like the sound of some old guy clearing out his throat.

 

2. Tysyacha devyatsot tridtsat' shestom - 1937 (year), "tysyacha devyatsot" is used to refer to any year of the last century, but Russians just use the year, and not the century when refering to it... like we do, so they wouldnt say they are born in "tysyacha devyatsot tridtsat' shestom" but in "tridtsat' shestom" ('37)

 

2b. Stakhnovites can be read about here: Stakhnovite Movement, basically it was some crackpot during the Stalin era that got everyone all worked up (literally and figuratively), to overwork themselves for the good of their government..

 

3. the upside down p this one d (but pointed on bottom), is a glottal stop... like the b in bomb, but harder...

 

Note that while I answered your questions, it was more because I like a good research challenge every so often. ^_^

[Aash Li]

Here's some russian trivia questions for you, just for the fun of it.

 

1. Who was Sakharov, and what did he invent?

2. Who composed the Nutcracker Suite (super easy)?

3. Who is Shoshtakovitch?

 

and finally...

 

Who's buried in Lenin's Tomb? lol

[Hallucination]

Is the last one Admiral Poopy pants and his dancing teeth? No its Lenin. Good luck in learning russian Tysyacha.

[Sabretooth]

Meh, I have four languages on me already - English, Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit. I tried French, but I gave it up after learning some French Basic. I can't help you with Russian, but I do know that Sanskrit and Russian grammer is similar. If it is, then I feel very, very sorry for you, friend.