the "translate please" thread

[Siren]

i wish i could read all the letters of the cyrillic alphabet :/
anyone with the time and patience to teach us something is welcome to do so

 

[Cuthalion]

i could teach you what would you like to know?

 

[Siren]

i'd like to know the letters of the alphabet (in order) and how you pronounce them or to which latin (or greek, if that's easier) characters they 'equal', if it's not too hard please.

 

[Magrathean]

Geri: Thanks! I'm fairly familiar with the cyrillic alphabet (as in there's still a few letters i have to look up to be able to pronounce them correctly, but fewer and fewer each day). Russian is my favorite language, i wish i could speak it.

Delirious: Thanks to you too. I take it ä is pronounced the same in swedish as in german?

Siren:
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Bookstore/3230/alphabet.html
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Bookstore/3230/pronunciation.html

 

[Siren]

@UC: thanks!

 

[Magrathean]

I hope that's useful.

 

[Cuthalion]

thats the russian alphabet the other slavis cyrilic alphabets have some differences for example the serbian alphabet has 30 letters and the macedonian has 31 while the russian has 33. I guess the pronounication is similar in all the slavic languages (the ones that actually use the cyrilic alphabet)

 

[Magrathean]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Siren]

thank you both! this all has sure made things a bit clearer, but i still have a long way to go..

 

[Magrathean]

If you ever decide to live in Russia for a couple of months/years and learn russian by practice, tell me so we can do that together (trying not to sound creepy/stalkerish).

 

[Cuthalion]

i would like to live in Mexico for a couple of months...

 

[Thanatos]

cool, you can stay at UndoControl's

 

[Magrathean]

Sure. I don't live in the capital, but close enough.

 

[Cuthalion]

great

 

[Magrathean]

Just tell me if you're coming.

 

[Geri]

i wish i could read all the letters of the cyrillic alphabet :/
anyone with the time and patience to teach us something is welcome to do so

Here for you another useful site to learn the differencenses in the cyrillic alphabet!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_alphabet#Bulgarian

I would recomend you a hear course called "Pimsleur" in case that you not just want to learn the alphabet but to speak another language as well:

pimsleurapproach.com

It's quiet easy for absolutely beginners to learn any language (I don't know how good it is for Russian but I was very statisfied by the one for Hebrew). The only disadvantage of Pimsleur is that you only can learn to talk but not to write or read .... so this part you should do by yourself

Furthermore I can't really say how you should beginn to learn because i grew up with the cyrillic alphabet and have knew besides Bulgarian (the whole my life) also from my 6 year of life Russian... so maybe I'm the wrong one to tell where you should beginn...but I'm hey- you can always count on me for amy help

 

[Siren]

@Geri: thanks a lot! that pimsleur course sounds very interesting, i'll be sure to check it out

 

[Cuthalion]

i think that i will start learning swedish is it verty similar to german? I really don't like german

 

[herneheim]

i think that i will start learning swedish is it verty similar to german? I really don't like german

pretty much like german, yes..
the grammar is a bitch, probably as bad as german, or possibly worse.

but i like it

 

[Magrathean]

Is ä pronounced the same in swedish as in german?

Another question: how do you pronounce ø and å?

Thank you.