Thread: How Do I Write "Happy Holidays" In Russian?

I'm new, I've looked through the forums. Probably missed it, but how can I write "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" in Russian? Would I be able to handwrite the Cyrillic letters, or might I end up looking foolish?

Thanks,

Jim

Originally Posted by Appletomm

I'm new, I've looked through the forums. Probably missed it, but how can I write "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" in Russian? Would I be able to handwrite the Cyrillic letters, or might I end up looking foolish?

Thanks,

Jim

Счастливых праздников.
Поздравляю с праздниками.

Isn't Happy Holiday's an American expression.

We don't even say it in England. We just say Happy/Merry Christmas.

I know in America they do it to aslo include Channukah. Russian's don't bother with that cos they hate Jews :P

Happy Christmas:

С рождеством

Happy New Year

С новым годом

You don't have to hand write.

Originally Posted by TATY

Isn't Happy Holiday's an American expression.
We don't even say it in England. We just say Happy/Merry Christmas.
I know in America they do it to aslo include Channukah. Russian's don't bother with that cos they hate Jews :P

You don't have to hand write.

Well - I am sending a Christmas card to an Israeli that lives in Moscow. Our cards have a very Christian sentiment on them, so I want to add a hand written note that says "I should probably send you a card that says "Happy Hanukkah" (in Hebrew) or Поздравляю с праздниками."

Very friendly and helpful people on this forum - thank you all.

I think you can say "(Поздравляю) С праздниками". I don't know whether it's an American expression. I've actually never heard it.

Appletomm, if you need to send a handwritten note to a friend of yours that lives in Moscow and if you want to be sure that your handwriting is legible you could write the note on a piece of paper, then take a picture of it and show it to us, so we can comment on it. What do you think?

Yeah here in America some people say "Happy Holidays" because they are afraid of offending people who do not believe in Santa Claus.

Is there a meaninful difference between С Новым годом! and Счастливого Нового года! ? I've seen them both described as Happy New Year, but I think I really only see people actually say С Новым годом.

Also, is there anything like a standard for writing out russian in english letters? I want to SMS "С Новым годом!" at midnight Moscow time, since a telephone call would be disruptive.. but I'm not sure if the cyrillic characters will go through or not. I assume they would, since beonline.ru is a russian webpage, but I figure better safe than sorry.