<==From Russia With Love==>

[Lilith]

Some of you know my nephews are adopted from Russia, darlin' sweet precious monsters that obviously are genetically linked to their Auntie Lil in some way. Well, I am writing a children's book(for school, not of my own free will) about their immigration to the US. Soooooooooo I am looking for something online that will translate English words to Russian, pronunciations would be nice too but beggars can't be choosers:D I have found Russian to English at places like Babelfish but not the other way around. Any body have any good ideas of where I might find one?

[IAKaraokeGirl]

Lil--try this: http://www.rustran.com/

[Lilith]

Have I told you today that I love you???

[IAKaraokeGirl]

Not today, but I'm sure I'll realize it when I get the mail soon. :D

[Lilith]

Mailed them off this morning in fact!

[gekkogecko]

Crap, makes me wish I had finished learning Russian. Well, I'm to the point where I can sometimes remember which of the Cyrillic c/v combinations make which sounds.

[Lilith]

I have the translations in print but what I would like to know is how to actually say the words...LOL I have to be able to read the damn story outloud!

[PantyFanatic]

Originally posted by Lilith
Mailed them off this morning in fact!
Do you need MY address for anything?:D

[IAKaraokeGirl]

<---is wondering if she remembered to punch air holes this time. ;)

[PantyFanatic]

And what did you learn in school today IAKaraokeGirl? I hope it was “SHAREING” :lust:

[Lilith]

Originally posted by IAKaraokeGirl
<---is wondering if she remembered to punch air holes this time. ;)

Nooooooooooo that is part of the fun:p

[IAKaraokeGirl]

LOL.

<---has *already* learned the sharing lesson. Today she learned to accept herself, believe in herself, and that she deserves happiness. :)

[Lilith]

Have you been seeing Stuart Smalley again???

[PantyFanatic]

Originally posted by IAKaraokeGirl
<---is wondering if she remembered to punch air holes this time. ;)
OMG :eek:
I hope it’s nothing that eats.:confused: I was planning to do the eating.:lust:

[dreamgurl]

babble fish is also a good translating site if ya still need it

[lakritze]

I use dictionary.com/translate for things I want to look up in another language.They do have Russian available but it won't help much with pronounciation.Go to your favourite large corporate book chain and look in the reference section.You should find several books from dictionaries to phrase books with phonetic pronounciations.BERLITZ is a good book to check out.

[dreamgurl]

you know if i could remember what i read i would be doing good lol

[BlueSwede]

Everyone's had some great ideas; you might also see if you can find a generous professor or student in the Russian dept at any of the universities or colleges offering it in your area who would be willing to read it out loud for you so that you can write it down phonetically. I used to be fluent in Russian and still use their alphabet to make out lists so that no one knows what I've written, but I'm not fluent enough in it any more to be able to be sure I'm not making any mistakes for you.

[Lilith]

My current problem is that the program I made the damned confounded book in, does not recognize the Russian characters:rolleyes:

[BlueSwede]

I'm not sure I understand (computer illiterate that I am); are you saying that there is no way for you to print out the text in Russian to show anybody? Can it be e-mailed to anybody (like someone in a Russian studies dept)? I do think that just using the phonetic pronunciation of the alphabet to help you would be a very daunting task. It would be so much easier if you could actually hear someone pronounce the words for you.

[Lilith]

no I was trying to print the Russian words in the book. I am going to have to remake the book in a dif program, one that recognizes Russian characters.

[BlueSwede]

Oh. You poor thing...what a project...fun but hell at the same time.

[Lilith]

If good things came easy we would not appreciate them nearly as much;)

[fzzy]

it was over 20 years ago, but I did take a couple of quarters of Russian in college ... still remember how to count to 5 and to say hello, good buy and thank you. :) if I can be of help, feel free to email me. :)

[Lilith]

TY I just may hit you and Blueswede up for some quick lessons, if I get the words in the book.

[BlueSwede]

I'd be happy to help in any way that I can.

[Loki]

Originally posted by Lilith
no I was trying to print the Russian words in the book. I am going to have to remake the book in a dif program, one that recognizes Russian characters.


Here is one resource: http://www.cyrillic.com/russian.html

and another couple:

http://www.stanwardine.com/russification.htm
http://www.qsl.net/kd4whz/russian/word.html

From what they say, it requires some of the texas two step approach to install and enable cryllic on a western keyboard based system. But MS Word does have a downloadable multilanguage support package.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/search.aspx?displaylang=en

That package does include a form of cryllic. There are also other packages for sale which also enable that.

Good luck!

[Lilith]

kisses for you ^^^^ TY I will try that!

[Loki]

You are most welcome. That should enable you to get the document into the most capable bowers of the Blue Swede.

[bordendazed]

By all means, have a fluent Russian read your work - and if possible even translate it back to English - to uncover any grammatical or semantic errors. Russian (I had a few courses) is still a rathe "literal" written language, but as you noted, the speaking of it DOES use inflection and other audible cues to get it understood correctly. Also make sure you concentrate on teh dialect - While Russian and Ukranian (for example) are similar, they are not the same -and there is some mingling of the two in the border areas....

Good luck and Das Vedanya!!