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TheJosh
Topic: Bilingual text
I've got names for my story, but now I have a problem. The reporter, Howard Flint, is in Russia for the first chapter. I want him struggling to talk with the Russians, but I can't find a decent text translator. All the translators i've found give me this.

Hello! Welcome to Russia.

to

Здравствулте!! Добро пожаловать к России!

Help me out?

#1 Aug 22nd 2007, 12:04pm
Burnt Bread
The only way you're going to get a good translation is from a person who speaks Russian. There's no short cuts!!!!

I only know that Hello sounds like "pree*-vi'et" but I don't know how to spell it.

Ask around, there's more Russians around than you'd think.

As for second language format, if you're writing the sounds for a language in speech, use italics which hints that it is another language.

#2 Aug 29th 2007, 5:37pm
diceK
I know there are multiple words in Russian that mean 'Hello'. There's 'Dob'ry den'i', there's 'pre'vyet'. Good bye is 'da svidanya'.

soyuz nerushimy respublik svobodnykh splotila naveye velikaya rus...

slavsya otechestvo, nashe slobodnoye, druzhny narodov nadyozhnyk oplot, Partiya Lenina! sila narodnoye... nas k'torzhestvu Kommunisma vedyot!

...is the opening line and chorus of the 1979 Soviet anthem.

#3 Oct 11th 2007, 3:02pm
diceK
Здравствулте!! Добро пожаловать к России!

is pronounced (I think... I learned Cyrillic a long time ago):

Zdravstvulte!! Dobro pozhalovat' k Rossii!

#4 Oct 11th 2007, 3:04pm
LegendaryAdrian
Your problem is that Russian uses a different Alphabet my friend. Those translators are correct, too correct for you to be able to read them. Try searching for translation into a romanized alphabet (the spellings will be phonetic, but that's as close as you'll get) Your best bet is to find someone who can translate for ya.

Oh and diceK, those are not completely correct pronunciations, I took Russian for two years. Still can't remember how to spell things, but the sounds aren't right. Don't fret though, I can't type it out phoneticaly. Need to be speaking it.

#5 Mar 13th, 7:45pm

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