Thread: Difficult email from a vendor

So I wrote an email to a woman in Ukraine asking if she knew where I could purchase a certain kind of prayer rope that's not common in the US. this was her response. Could someone please translate it and help me with a response? Thank you.

Доброго здоровья, нет проблем,в тичении каторого времени вам надо сделать и куда переслать.

Hello. No problem. How urgent is that? Where shall I send it?

Let me know when your response is ready. I'll be glad to help.

The translation by Helenej is correct.
No wonder Google Translate couldn't translate this (I'm sure you tried using it before posting here), there are so many mistakes in the text you quoted

Ukrainians spelling is famous for being terrible.

It has nothing to do with Ukraine, I guess. It's just illiteracy.

Originally Posted by Valda

Ukrainians spelling is famous for being terrible.

Not at all, Valda. The Ukrainian spelling is much easier than the Russian one. No vowel reduction at all! You can write them just like you hear. The consonants are reduced, though. Besides, they use double consonants only when they sound that way. In Russian we have to memorize all those words with double consonants in which we hear only one. Классный, поддержать, восстановить, искусство, одиннадцать. Thousands of them, I think.

Yeah,
1. The text above has nothing to do with Ukrainian, just several heavy spelling errors.
2. Ukrainian spelling is much more phonetic and systematic than Russian one. It keeps less survivals of times past.

Originally Posted by it-ogo

Ukrainian spelling is much more phonetic and systematic than Russian one. It keeps less survivals of times past.

Perhaps in this regard it resembles American English as compared with British one.

Are you from Ukraine, too?
Oh, now I see you are. Great. West? East?

Originally Posted by Lena

Not at all, Valda. The Ukrainian spelling is much easier than the Russian one. No vowel reduction at all! You can write them just like you hear. The consonants are reduced, though. Besides, they use double consonants only when they sound that way. In Russian we have to memorize all those words with double consonants in which we hear only one. Классный, поддержать, восстановить, искусство, одиннадцать. Thousands of them, I think.

I meant Ukrainians' spelling of Russian

Originally Posted by Valda

I meant Ukrainians' spelling of Russian

I believe that Ukrainian-speaking person who never had a practice of Russian grammar will do some errors. But such person is a rare phenomenon in Ukraine (where most texts are issued in Russian), maybe you can find some in Canada. I don't have the idea where you got info abut such a "fame".

Maybe you mean that Ukrainian or mixed Russian-Ukrainian speech (and pronunciation) often sounds funny and "provincial" for a native Russian speaker, but it has nothing to do with spelling.