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init6 · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject: Need Translation Help

This is some of the translation work I do to try to not only improve vocabulary, but see cases, etc. in context. I'm really pressed for time today and would appreciate some help with this (and yes, I realize this is 1st grade level stuff Razz

):

Для кого?
Для сына моего.
А много ли прислать?
Да пудов этак пяать или шесть:
Больше ему не съест,
Он у меня ещё маленький!

А потом позвонил
Крокодил
И со слезами просил:
-- Мой милый хороший,
Пришли мне калоши,
И мне, и жене, и тотоше

-- Постой не тебе ли
На прошлой неделе
Я выслал две пары
Отличных калош?

-- Ах, те, что ты выслал
На прошлой неделе,
Мы давно уже съели
И ждём не дождёмся,
Когда же ты снова пришлёшь
К нашему ужину
Дюжину
Новых и сладких калош!

Many thanks in advance!

Camrade · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

For whom?
For my son.
And how much should I send?
Well, nearly 5 or 6 poods:
He's not able to eat more
He's just a little guy Smile

And then phoned
The Crocodile
And asked crying:
-- My, darling
Send me kaloshi
To me, to my wife and to Totosha

-- Stop, was it you
whom I sent last week
two pairs of perfect kaloshes

-- Ah, those which you've sent
Last week
We've already eaten
And we're waiting
When you'll send
by the next supper
Dozen
Of new and sweet kaloshes

It's a poem for children Smile

author is really drunk... lol Wink

We've studied it in the kindergarden probably

Actually there are two dificult words "pood" and "kaloshi"
Pood is an old russian unit of measure
Kaloshi is also old russian shoes which are usually made of rubber and protect from water Smile

btw, Nokia (quite famous corp) firstly was producing kaloshi...

init6 · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:36 pm Post subject:

Camrade, you are, as we say in my country, "the man." Thanks very much! VERY much!

And yes, I know it's children's poems, but my Russian teacher uses them to help me read better and to improve my vocabulary, and I must say they seem to be working. And kaloshi has an English counterpart in "galoshes," although we certainly have little use for those in Florida.

Thanks again!

Camrade · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:45 pm Post subject:

Always glad to help you

btw, in the last part i've missed the word
it should look like "When you'll send again"

init6 · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject:

No worries. It would look awfully suspicious to have such a fledgling Russian student translate it perfectly, anyway! Wink

init6 · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject:

I admitted to my Russian teacher that I'd had help from a native speaker with this, but she seemed oblivious and continued to praise me for my "poetic translation." Laughing

On the other hand, yesterday I feel like I made real progress, learned a lot of new words, and I'm starting to feel like Russian is "coming together for me."

Thanks again, Camrade, you're a scholar and a gentleman!

Camrade · Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject:

2init6

That's great! Smile

if any more translation questions, I'm ready to help )