Нет, это *моя* кнуга!

[schmerica]

Okay, so I figured out how to do stuff in Russian. Go me! Therefore, you get a completely nonsensical and pointless entry in Russian. I would have said more, but I couldn't really think of anything interesting to say with the numbers, school supplies and clothing that the rest of my vocab consists of.

Also, I'm pretty sure this has a bunch of stupid mistakes in it, because why wouldn't it, really?

Привет! Меня зовут Эрика. Я живу в штате Вашингтон. я студентка.

Как у вас дела? Вы студент? Вы аспирант? Где вы работаете? Где вы живёте? Вы читаете "slash"?

Что вы делаете?

Дира пишет "хоккей AU." фрейзер - канадец. Рей - американец.

Моя комната маленъкая и хорошая. Фокс тоже хорошая. Она красивая.

Comments

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

...

Word up, yo.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*snugs* Fox also good! It beautiful!

[anyand.livejournal.com]

Just had to delurk and say that, as someone who studied Russian for three and a half years, this post made my night! *vbg* I can still understand the "Mother Tongue!"

Pardon the horrible transliteration here:

Da, ya chetayou "slash." Eto ochen horoshow.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

From Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com)

Regards! Me they call Erik. I live in the state of Washington. 4 students. How you have the matter? You are student? You are graduate student? Where you do work? Where you do live? You do read "slasyu";? What you do make? Dira writes shityu the "AU" frayzer - kanadetts. Paradise - American. My room is malen"kaya and is good. Fox also good. It beautiful.

Which just made me laugh and laugh. Me they call Erik! Hee.

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Fox also good?

*dies laughing and of squee, at the same time*

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

LOL. I also like the part where you can just *hear* the heavy Russian accent in "You are student? You are graduate stuent? You do read slasyu?"

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Hee. I would probably translate it closer to this:

Hi! My name is Erica. I live in Washington state. I am a college student.

How are things with you? Are you a student? Are you a graduate student? Where do you live? Where do you work? Do you read slash?

What are you doing?

Dira is writing a "hockey AU." Fraser is Canadian. Ray is American.

My room is small and good. Fox is also good. She is pretty.

But, you know. It doesn't have the same charm as yours.

[sophia-helix.livejournal.com]

Babelfish always comes up with crackhead translations. That's part all of its charm. *g*

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Ой! Я люблю читать "slash". Это очень хорошо.

Ack. Russian typing speed = Slowest. Thing. Ever.


and, psst - should be "Как у вас делаете". or I could be wrong.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

and, psst - should be "Как у вас делаете". or I could be wrong.

Hmm, I'm not sure. Our reading for this week had "Что ты делаесшъ?" for the singlular/informal, so I was thought it'd just be changing to вы form.

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Ah! Well, yes. :-) делаете is the вы form. So, Как у вас делаете - How are you doing? And, um. I'll shut up now, really. *runs away*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

No! You don't have to shut up! I want to know!

So, okay, in the entry I had "Как у вас дела?" for "How are things?" and I had "Что вы делаете?" for "What are you guys doing?" So were you correcting both of those, or just one?

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

No, no, just the first one. The second one you've got absolutely right. :-D

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Actually, for the first, I'd say "Kak dyela?" Pretty informal, but I'd say you're addressing your flist informally, albeit plurally.

Will reply in Russia later? :) This post totally made my day.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Wow, that second to last sentence was so not what I meant to say.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

...So you didn't go to Russia to post that other comment, then?

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

YOU ARE SO SMART!

*twirls you*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*twirls back*

[lattara.livejournal.com]

*stares avidly*

That is the coolest thing ever.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heee. Cyrillic alphabet is the perfect alphabet for coolness, I think -- seeing the big string of stuff is more impressive than strings of foreignness in Roman letters, but familiar enough to be "wow!" more than a completely different alphabet or word system.

[lattara.livejournal.com]

*nods* Oh, yeah. And so is Greek.

[estrella30.livejournal.com]

Dude.

Pearl is smart like, WHOA.

*stares in awe*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*grins* I love how easily everybody thinks I'm brilliant! Even just saying completely fatuous things. But, ooh, weird and unfamiliar.

*babbles randomly*

"Кто это? Ето Нанси?"

Мой карандаш болъшой.

Чъя это матъ?

"Ты живёшъ здесъ?" "Нет, я живу там."

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Здравствуй, Эрика! Очень приятна познакомится. Меня зовут Мелисса. Я из Орегоне, но сейчась я живу в штате Колорадо.

Я студентка в Колорадо Колледге. Мой спетцалность геология. Сейчас я изучаю геоморфология, русски язык, у арабски язык.

Я не работаю сейчас. А ты, ты работаешь? Где?

Я читаю "slash," да.

There are probably a few misspellings in there. I'm pretty sure I spelled "spetsalnost" wrong, and probably "nice to meet you." Kind of rusty....

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Oh, random note: the reason как never made me giggle is that I say it as "kahk" and cock as "kawk." It's a very, very subtle pronunciation difference, but enough that I never connected the words as sounding similar in my head. "Cock вас зовут?" would definitely sound wrong to me, and different from "как вас зовут?"

So it just didn't occur to me to giggle, really.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

See, I think my (American/English) accent is such that I don't pronounce a different between those two sounds -- I know a lot of people you have, say, a different between "cot" and "caught" (one with "a" in the phonetic alphabet, one with the backwards c), but I pretty much don't. I don't actually hear the difference between the two sounds most of the time, actually, unless I'm specifically listening for it.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

I don't distinguish between cot/caught, but yeah, it's probably a matter of slightly different accents (that and I was trained young to languages that ONLY have a pure 'ah' sound, so I default to that for foreign words -- which is crippling in Arabic).

I need to learn the phonetic alphabet....

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Also, I made up геоморфология. Maybe I got lucky that's really "geomorphology" in Russian. Who knows?!

Also, у арабски язык should be и арабски язык. Typing Cyrillic on an English keyboard confuses me.

I think I misspelled the languages, too, oy. Sleep now.