how well are you at translating english to russian?
I majored in the language but it’s been a while since I really used it–what do you need translated?
see… it’s so hard to translate to russian. my girlfriend’s friend is from russia, but the way we say and mean things confuse her. haha. like we may say: “god is love” or “my ar 15 is the bomb”… she just laughs as this makes no sense to her. she tries to explain that a gun and a bomb are two different things and that god does love but love is inanimate thing, therefore god cannot be love. make sense?
freetranslation.com got me through spanish when i was in high school, haha. prolly not the most accurate thing in the world tho 
see… it’s so hard to translate to russian. my girlfriend’s friend is from russia, but the way we say and mean things confuse her. haha. like we may say: “god is love” or “my ar 15 is the bomb”… she just laughs as this makes no sense to her. she tries to explain that a gun and a bomb are two different things and that god does love but love is inanimate thing, therefore god cannot be love. make sense?
“The Bomb” is an American colloquialism, it is not the fault of the language that it’s being used metaphorically.
And she has a hard time with the phrase “god is love” because she’s right, it’s poor grammar - one cannot be a state of being.
Yep, I know a word or three, but in this particular case, your girlfriend’s friend just need to spend more time learning contemporary English. Rest assured, there are plenty colloquial expressions in Russian that would make no sense to English speakers.
right, i understand. english is jacked up. you really have to tone it down to get a good translation.
right, i understand. english is jacked up. you really have to tone it down to get a good translation.
You seemed to have missed the point. Colloquialisms =/= English. It is NOT an element of the language itself to use metaphoric expressions. The problem isn’t English, it’s how you’re using it - stick closely to the language and she’ll understand better.
My Russian is almost perfect. How can I help you?
never mind
I’ve actually started to learn Russian for no other reason than I want to.
Tonight I was at Border’s to look for a book on speaking Russian and ran into three young women speaking a language I couldn’t quite place. I asked one of them where they were from. “Russia” she said. Too bad I live almost an hour away from the area, otherwise I would’ve asked if they’d tutor me. 
Very crusty Russian here. I did a few semesters in College years back and totally let it slip. Google Language Tools has been helping me quite a bit where I am trying to translate the other way. Just copy and paste the text you want in English and zap! there it is in very slightly broken English. Mostly I am hunting info on combloc weapons & the translator does better with techincal stuff not so well with poetry.
seeing as how I was born in the Soviet Union I may be able to help…
kak ya vam mogu pomoch?
I teach my GF all kinds of stuff… mostly horibly bad curse words and combinations which my dad tought me. I make her say them in front of the rents cause she thinks its hilarious… My had just covers his face with his hands and shakes his head and my mom can’t stop laughing! My Grandma is not a fan…
You went from the CCCP to NJ? Oy… Not much difference is there? :mad:
CCCP to NY to NJ… no, not much or a difference… except there are more Mc Donalds’ and the cars dont all look the same
lol
One of the women I work with is from Kyrgystan and it took me a few seconds to realize she understood me when I muttered “Vwee veh pizde” (Anglicized) one day…:p:p:p
what are you trying to say there buddy? The last word is correct, not sure I understand the first 2
Not the case any longer.
The further west you go, the less of compatriots and similarities with Motherland you see, Alex. It becomes wild-wild West about 200 miles west of Chicago 
and continues to get better. Until you hit LA.
Translated: “We’re F***ed”
Im sure you are right… Right now, I can drive 40 miles to Brooklyn [Brighton Beach] and see streen signs and store signage all in Russian and not hear a single word of English lol.
Scarry!
Hm… not sure who tought you Russian, but that fraze makes no sence, and the first two words are not even Russian…
“Vwee” not sure what that means, but it could be “Vi” which is “you [formal]” and by no means “we”
The Russian word for “we” is “mi” if you are trying to say “we are f*cked”
If you want to use the word “pizda” or “pssy" which can be used to make your fraze, the Russian equivalent fraze would be “my v glubokoj pizde” directly translated as "we are in deep pssy” kind of meaning like “we are in deep sh*t”
The problem is the f-word in english is used for everything, where in Russian there are litteraly 100X more curse words then in English, so the f-word does not directly transfer in the instance.
I think “my v glubokoj pizde” is what you wanted to say because the last word is the same, or derived from the same word.
Your co-worker simply reacted to the last word you said, which was Russian, and was a curse word.
In Russian the word for p*ssy can be made to mean a million different things:
pizdun = lier
pizdet’ = to lie [hense the very common Russian fraze “pizdit kak Trotski” or “lies like [Leon] Trotsky” [perzdit’ is congigated for a specific person and not simply “to lie” but of of “he lies”]
pizduhat’ = drive for a long time
pizhachet’ = work really hard
pizdovol = blaber mouth or airhead
pizdobratiya = group/gang “bunch of people”
and so on