[identity profile] al-r.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] learn_russian
Dear brave and admirable foreigners who dare to learn this wonderful and awful language!
It's really great, even precious when you start feeling language, improvising.... I would encourage everybody to do it!
But sometimes just be careful... I can't help sharing it, it's too good, sorry for the off-top...
I wrote on Skype to my student. And he answered:
Дай меня секунду. Я имею на телефоне моя маму (У меня есть моя мама в телефоне?)
Ones again - I sincerely admire those learning Russian.

Date: 2008-05-24 06:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dr-shinigami.livejournal.com
"У меня мама на телефоне = My mom's speaking on the phone right now" ?????

Date: 2008-05-24 06:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belacane.livejournal.com
well i know my mom is in the telephone!

Date: 2008-05-24 07:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dimal0.livejournal.com
And "Give me a second" that can't be translated with the dictionary. Only "подожди(те) немного".

Date: 2008-05-24 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassandraclue.livejournal.com
)))))
yep, learners of languages must be carefully not to directly translate idiomatic phrases.

Date: 2008-05-24 07:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] georgiil.livejournal.com
Дай МНЕ секунду. У меня на телефоне мама.

Date: 2008-05-24 08:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] k-satanel.livejournal.com
haha))
good one!!!
:)
hiving her mom is a good thing )))

Date: 2008-05-24 09:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ljusalfheim.livejournal.com
It looks like text translated by machine translator.

Date: 2008-05-24 11:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ars-longa.livejournal.com
"Секундочку!"

Date: 2008-05-25 01:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
I have to remind that the working language of this community is English. Thank you.

Date: 2008-05-25 01:10 am (UTC)
oryx_and_crake: (Default)
From: [personal profile] oryx_and_crake
It does, because machine translators and people who don't know the language translate in a similar way: they just replace word after word with their equivalents from another language. Of course, this never works.

Date: 2008-05-25 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] irina-medvedeva.livejournal.com
:) But you understood him, nevertheless. Is not this the main point?

Date: 2008-05-26 04:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] andreyshell.livejournal.com
"Я имею на телефоне моя маму" = I'm screwing my mom on the telephone.
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