russian cartoon as a gift

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Hi,

I would like to ask your advice, dear students of russian.

Do you think it is a good idea to give our cartoon "Ну погоди!" as a gift to someone who doesn't speak russian?

Well, they don't speak much there and it's very funny. At least for us russians.


Thanks :)

Comments

[branwen.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy having comics in languages that I don't speak or don't speak very well. When I was in Germany I bought a Calvin and Hobbes book in German. I only know a couple of words in German, but I thought it was cool (I had the books in English already).

I say go for it!

[ex-eugzol340.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes, it's very good =)

[vedma.livejournal.com]

it is a bit like Tom & Gerry and i use to watch that in Russia when i did not speak any English :)

i think everyone should have 'Ну погоди!' it's a classic. ;)

[firstlemonpie.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good idea, because there is almoust no russian words there and it's really funny!))

[inoctiluci.livejournal.com]

We have similar cartoons in English, but "Ну погоди" definitely has a nice Russian flavor. I think your friends will enjoy it and appreciate the difference. All you have to do is translate "ну погоди" :)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

and perhaps tell them that "волк" means Wolf and "заяц" means "Hare", these two words are also used a lot :)

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Well, THAT is quite obvious from the show itself. ^_^

[nymphatacita.livejournal.com]

oh, that cartoon. Definitely share it. I think the concepts are universal. I didn't know what the words meant the first time I saw it, and I still appreciated it and understood as much as those who did.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

:-)

[arian-archer.livejournal.com]

We used to watch Ну погоди all the time in my Russian class even before we really even knew any Russian and I've showed it to a bunch of my non Russian speaking friends who enjoyed it as much as I do.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

wow, thank you :) that's exactly what I wanted to hear :)

[olegmmiller.livejournal.com]

I agree with everyone above. ну погоди has very little dialog, and most of the humor is physical in nature anyway.

[irkin.livejournal.com]

Another cartoon without words that comes to my mind is Contact. It's great :)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Contact? ... is it Russian or English? Don't remember it

nice masterpiece

[megilla.livejournal.com]

Contact - Контакт
about (http://www.animator.ru/db/index.phtml?p=show_film&fid=2789)
download (http://multiki.arjlover.net/multiki/kontakt.avi)
music - 'Godfather' theme by Nino Rota - Paul Moria mix ;)

[irkin.livejournal.com]

Why would I mention English cartoons in this topic? ;)
It's Russian cartoon about an whistling artist and an alien that takes the form of everything it sees. Great cartoon, great jazz music :)
Here (http://multiki.arjlover.net/info/kontakt.avi.html) you can see some screenshots.

[idealforcolors.livejournal.com]

get Винни Пух instead! it's so fun to see such a different, very Russian version of a cartoon we have in the US.

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Винни Пух might be a good idea nothwithstanding they talk more there, but I'm going to give it to a belgian girl. Not sure if she knows about Winne-the-Pooh yet.

[snopova.livejournal.com]

It could be a good idea) I brought this cartoon to my German stepdaughter, who doesn't speak Russian - she was delighted)

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

thank you :)

[nymphatacita.livejournal.com]

just curious, where did you get it? I want a copy!

[kehlen-crow.livejournal.com]

Just went to the nearest dvd-shop and bought it - they have digitalized it and restored the colours not long ago.