Thread: Thoughts about Snow and Ice and school snow days!

Originally Posted by rockzmom

School's Out (for summer), is a classic song that starts to be sung and played on the raido towards the end of May! Now days, it is once again a song that many "older" folks know and have to teach the younger generations. My daughter's teachers are ALWAYS amazed when they hear them singing this song in the hallways as they are usually the ones who corrupt the other students!

Please let me know is this song known in Russia by students or do you have a similar end of school year song

Every kid in Russia has seen the kid's (and teenager's) movie "Приключения Электроника" ("Adventures of Elektronik").
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078673/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adv...the_Elektronic

The movie is about a robot, which was made as a kid, and this robot had an intention to be a human. There is a famous song from this movie

Мы маленькие дети
сл. Ю.Энтина, муз. Е.Крылатова, к/ф "Приключения Электроника"

Над нами солнце светит -
Не жизнь, а благодать,
Тем, кто за нас в ответе, Давно пора понять,
Тем, кто за нас в ответе, Давно пора понять,
Мы маленькие дети, Нам хочется гулять!

А нам говорят, что Афины
Войною пошли на Спарту.
А я говорю - покинуть
Хочу поскорее парту.

Эх, встать бы на рассвете,
Забросить в стол тетрадь,
Тем, кто за нас в ответе, Давно пора понять,
Тем, кто за нас в ответе, Давно пора понять,
Мы маленькие дети, Нам хочется гулять!

А нам говорят, что катет
Короче гипотенузы,
А я говорю вам - хватит,
Устал я от этой обузы.

Слова упрямо эти
Я буду повторять,
Тем, кто за нас в ответе, Давно пора понять,
Тем, кто за нас в ответе, Давно пора понять,
Мы маленькие дети, Нам хочется гулять!

А нам говорят, что Волга
Впадает в Каспийское море,
А я говорю, что долго
Не выдержу этого горя!
Чтоб стать, говорят, человеком,
Шагать надо в ногу с веком,
А мы не хотим шагать,
Нам хочется гулять!

I tried to translate it.

The Sun is shining in the clear sky
It can't be just a life. It is the admirable life.
Those who are supervise us must realize
Those who are supervise us must realize
That we are small children, that we want to get our free time.

They are talking to us that Athens gone for war to Sparta.
But I am talking to them that I wish TO LEAVE THE CLASSROOM.

It would be great to wake-up at dawn
And throw the notebooks down.
Those who are supervise us must realize
Those who are supervise us must realize
That we are small children, that we want to get our free time.

They are talking to us that cathetus
Is shorter than hypotenuse.
But I am talking to them ENOUGH,
I am tired of such an onus.

I am stubborn in repeating
these words as the verity.
Those who are supervise us must realize
Those who are supervise us must realize
That we are small children, that we want to get our free time.

They are talking to us that Volga enters the Caspian see.
But I am talking to them that I can't handle SO LONG THIS GRIEF.

They say In order to be a personality
One should be in line with the century.
But we don't want to be in line
We want to get our free time!

In connection to quotes line the famous quote is "Где же у него кнопка?" - "So, where is his (off) button?". This quote is used most when the parents are tired to death with the child activity, while the child is full of strength to continue.

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

In connection to quotes line the famous quote is "Где же у него кнопка?" - "So, where is his (off) button?". This quote is used most when the parents are tired to death with the child activity, while the child is full of strength to continue.

I never knew it's mostly used like that. I think it can be used in many very different situations.

Originally Posted by CoffeeCup

Every kid in Russia has seen the kid's (and teenager's) movie "Приключения Электроника" ("Adventures of Elektronik").

[video:6lq9vlnl]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lteGgg17OAY[/video:6lq9vlnl]
This song isn't exactly about holidays, it's about an understandable desire to have fun all day long instead of visiting school...

But you are right, I hardly can think of ANY song that is a symbol of the end of the school year. One more relatively well-known song about holidays is also from a children's movie "Holidays of Petrov and Vasechkin" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082941/) about two friends (adventurous Vasechkin and more level-headed Petrov) who always get into troubles:
"(School) holidays" (the song in general is about what holidays are for, and how a summer camp can spoil all that )
[video:6lq9vlnl]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ONFpSV8gA[/video:6lq9vlnl]

PS. I remember that we broached a matter of Russians and smiles with you once. Here's a 15 sec. extract from the same movie that shows perfectly Russian reaction to any kind of overenthusiastic and probably insincere smile (which is now now often considered "American").

The dodgy head boy greets Petrov and Vasechkin in the summer camp. He thinks (as a result of some misunderstanding) that they are terrible hooligans, so he plasters his best smile and tests the waters.
The dialogue goes like that:
Head boy: "blah-blah-blah.... We are very glad to meet such WONDERFUL boys"
Vasechkin: "We are very glad too"
Petrov: "Yeah"

The faces are priceless. )))
[video:6lq9vlnl]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dQsgs4Mm8k[/video:6lq9vlnl]

So, I know we have traveled a little off topic here, but hey it still has to do with school!!!

I loved the video clips ya'll have posted for me THANK YOU!!!

It brought up another memory for me.. I am taking you back to 1979 and when I was in 9th grade! Pink Floyd came out with the album The Wall. All the kids were singing the title song off of this one which a number of people think is called "We Don't Need No Education" but it is really "Another Brick in the Wall."

Oh... the teachers would just cringe when kids would say this because it is a “double negative” – “don’t need no” and in English this is incorrect... yet, I just read on Wiki that for you Russians... is perfectly acceptable!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_negative

In Russian, the following sentence with six negations is grammatically correct: Неужели никто нигде никогда не видел ничего подобного? ('Is it possible that no one has ever seen anything like that anywhere?'). Another example, from a popular song, is Ничего не слышу, ничего не вижу, ничего не знаю, ничего никому не скажу, meaning 'I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing, I will not tell anything to anybody'.

Here is a Wiki link about the song http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Brick_in_the_Wall

And for those of you who may not have heard this song, here is a video of it! (I can see my English teachers covering their ears right now!!

[video:3iiscvxa]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw[/video:3iiscvxa]

Originally Posted by rockzmom

I am taking you back to 1979 and when I was in 9th grade! Pink Floyd came out with the album The Wall.

What do you know, I was in 9th grade in 1979!
But, of course, few Russians heard about "The Wall" at that time, let alone listening to it. I saw that double-barrled album for the first time about 4 or so years after it was originally released in UK, when a friend of mine (the happy owner of the album) asked me to translate some lyrics from it.

Originally Posted by translationsnmru

What do you know, I was in 9th grade in 1979!
But, of course, few Russians heard about "The Wall" at that time, leave alone listening to it. I saw that double-barrled album for the first time about 4 or so years after it was originally released in UK, when a friend of mine (the happy owner of the album) asked me to translate some lyrics from it.

Yes, Pink Floyd and "The Wall" were well-known in the USSR even if there was a slight time lag in popularity due to obvious reasons. I've watched "The Wall" for the first time in the late 80s, and a few years later this exactly song was all over TV (for some reason it was often aired in the morning when I was getting ready for school ), so I think there's hardly a person who've never heard of it. Maybe some modern teenager, who doesn't listen to this type of music..

And the double negative in this phrase caused me a lot of grief at the time.. lol . I knew it was wrong in English, so I always thought that I heard this wrong, and wondered what they were singing "for real".

Originally Posted by translationsnmru

Originally Posted by rockzmom

I am taking you back to 1979 and when I was in 9th grade! Pink Floyd came out with the album The Wall.

What do you know, I was in 9th grade in 1979!

Okay people, confess, who else was in 9th grade at this time????

Thank you translationsnmru, at least I know I am not alone!

It is funny, my Hubby listened to American Rock & Roll growing up in Salvador (no Cumbia for him) and this was one of his FAVORITE albums! (of course he was also into Def Leppard, Metallica and Poison... now you know why he assimilated to the States so well!) He had never seen the movie so of course I bought it for him. We have the DVD of Pulse; but, he never got into the Dark Side of the Moon which I really liked!