Any Ukrainian members here?

[JerseyVics]

I noticed on my site that you can set up a board that is totaly translated in Ukrainian, and since I am starting to forget fast my native language I totaly hooked my site up... now if only there was someone to talk to (LOL)

--Russ :rock:

[Dr Caleb]

близко, никакой сигары товарищ ;)

[woaface]

Guy who owns the dance studio I go to is...

[Petrograde]

близко, никакой сигары товарищ ;)

:lol: My Russian is quite rusty, I believe you said:

Close, but no cigar my friend.


EDIT: hmmm,.. the cyrillic letters have changed! I didn't do that. weird...

[Dr Caleb]

:lol: My Russian is quite rusty, I believe you said:

Close, but no cigar my friend.


Perfect! You aren't as rusty as you thought!

I thought the Russian might be close enough to the Ukrainian that he'd get it too . . .

[Petrograde]

I found out Russian is close enough to Serbo-Croatian a few years ago, when I was in Bosnia. I imagine it's as least as close as spanish is to portuguese

[JerseyVics]

heh, you said an american phrase using russian words it didn't make much sense because Russkies don't talk that way....

i'm paid to talk russian daily and I hate it! I'm a Ukrainian and would much rather prefer to speak that, no matter how similar it is...


also, you know what I noticed? that no matter where you find a Ukrainian and antoher national, the Ukrainian speaks the other person's language to communicate.... ie: a Ukrainian and a Polak talking, they both speak Polish... Ukrainian and Russkie talking, they always speak Russian. I can never figure out why the Ukrainians are so freaking dumb?


so there, if you thought I didn't understand your statement, I did... but I was ignoring it because it wasn't Ukrainian, lol there isn't close enough! they're totally different!


--Russ

[Petrograde]

I took 2 years of russian in high school, A guy in the class was Serbian. I recall he had a similar outlook as you Russ. lol

[Dr Caleb]

heh, you said an american phrase using russian words it didn't make much sense because Russkies don't talk that way....

so there, if you thought I didn't understand your statement, I did... but I was ignoring it because it wasn't Ukrainian, lol there isn't close enough! they're totally different!

--Russ

Nope, I figured you'd understand the transliteration. The tiny little bit of Ukraninan I know would hurt your ears (eyes?) , so I didn't want to use it.

The Russian/German that I learned was all of the 'kitchen' variety. Heavily bastardized. Inserting english/french/german phrases into daily conversation is just normal to me, because it's just the way I learned. So much so that the only trip to Russia I've taken, few people could understand me. So I stick to english unless in a bind. I'm getting really rusty too, because the only one around now who speaks any Russian is my uncle, and we only use it when we don't want anyone to know what we're saying.



I imagine it's as least as close as spanish is to portuguese. . .


So I'm told. Like French and English. Similar alphabets, some phrases carry between languages, but how the languages are actually constructed varies.

[JerseyVics]

Ukrainian is about as close to Russian as Spanish is to English...

--Russ :depress:

[amerikan]

kak dela, ya na palavino ukrainitiz.. papa is odessi... mama is leningrada..

[JerseyVics]

to show off your Ukrainian language skills (or at least russian as most of you have done so far) lol please go to my site: http://www.jerzeylimo.com/forum/

it'll make more sense...

right now you're just confusing everyone else here!

but hey, its great to see other's from my neck of the woods across the pond here!

--Russ :beer:

[RCSignals]

Nope, I figured you'd understand the transliteration. The tiny little bit of Ukraninan I know would hurt your ears (eyes?) , so I didn't want to use it.

The Russian/German that I learned was all of the 'kitchen' variety. Heavily bastardized. Inserting english/french/german phrases into daily conversation is just normal to me, because it's just the way I learned. So much so that the only trip to Russia I've taken, few people could understand me. So I stick to english unless in a bind. I'm getting really rusty too, because the only one around now who speaks any Russian is my uncle, and we only use it when we don't want anyone to know what we're saying.



So I'm told. Like French and English. Similar alphabets, some phrases carry between languages, but how the languages are actually constructed varies.
Well Glenn, you are from around Edmonchuck after all.......

[RCSignals]

What's up Russ? Looking to start a Polka Band?