Two random questions

[arian-archer.livejournal.com]

First of all this is something I've been wondering about for a long time. I work at a summer camp. People always ask me what I do during the summer and I never know how to express that I teach archery at a summer camp. So firstly how would one say they do archery. Secondly what is the Russian word for summer camp? I assume (maybe incorrectly) that they have summer camps in Russia.

The other thing I wanted to know is what the term is for when someone's arm/leg/other appendage falls asleep.

Comments

[zveriozha.livejournal.com]

To do archery - заниматься стрельбой из лука
Summer camp - летний лагерь

[uncle-gora.livejournal.com]

Вы преподаёте стрельба из лука в детском летнем лагере.

should be

[uncle-gora.livejournal.com]

стрельбу из лука

[zveriozha.livejournal.com]

What about crossbows?^^

[zveriozha.livejournal.com]

Leg fell asleep - нога затекла. If you mean bad blood circulation caused by sitting for too long etc..

[uncle-gora.livejournal.com]

if by falling asleep you mean loosing sensitivity, then you can say (take a leg for example)
моя нога онемела/затекла/потеряля чувствительность.

[sergeysk.livejournal.com]

more colloquial way would be "отсидел ногу"
as in sitting on it for a long time

[uncle-gora.livejournal.com]

that is more specific to a leg. What about an arm? Or other extremities? There is also similar word "отлежал ногу\руку". The usage of either, obviously, depends on the body positioning. :)

[zveriozha.livejournal.com]

"Or other extremities?"

Like what? ;-)

[sergeysk.livejournal.com]

agreed

[uncle-gora.livejournal.com]

We must not discriminate against those of us who have parents from other galaxies. For instance somewhere in the vicinity of the Betelgeuse, I've heard they have quite a variety of different extremities.

:)

[diello.livejournal.com]

I have no answers for you, but at least several other people did. I just wanted to say, yay for Chris Vrenna and the Alice soundtrack :)

[arian-archer.livejournal.com]

I'm glad somebody actually knew that. I've been terribly addicted to that soundtrack since I first played the game.

[the-sunn.livejournal.com]

детском ли?

[the-sunn.livejournal.com]

and what about crossbow?

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

арбалет

[ilia-yasny.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I have a question. Why I see so often that the questions in the language learning communities are called "random"? Is there some special sense in this? How can "the random question" be translated into Russian?

[rustmanspb.livejournal.com]

"random question" translate as "случайный вопрос".
I have one question... why are you asking "how to translate ..." if you can use simple interpreter like the LINGVO?

[ilia-yasny.livejournal.com]

Don't you think that saying "У меня к вам случайный вопрос" is quite unnatural in Russian. I thought it might be some modern idiomatic expression that I was unaware of.