love letter translation

Someone please translate this for me. Thank you very much!
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Dear Vika, I am missing you again! You are birthday and valentine's day are here very soon. If you celebrate your birthday with your friend, remember to send me your pictures! It is very hard being so far away from you. The only good thing about being so far away is that it makes me miss you even more often. You must be sleeping as I am writing this letter. Everytime I think about you, I will go back to look at the photos of us together. After I fix my scanner this weekend, I will scan more pictures and send them to you. I have been studying russian very very hard. I will write to you later. Miss you so much.

Дорогая Вика, я снова по тебе скучаю! Скоро твой день рождения и день св. Валентина. Если ты будешь праздновать день рождения с друзьями, не забудь прислать свои фотографии! Мне очень тяжело находиться так далеко от тебя. Единственное хорошее в том, что я так далеко, это то, что я скучаю по тебе всё чаще и чаще. Ты, наверное, спишь, когда я сейчас пишу это письмо. Каждый раз, когда я думаю о тебе, я иду смотреть на фотографии, где мы с тобой вместе. После того как я починю сканер в эти выходные, я ещё отсканирую фотографии и пошлю тебе. Я очень много занимаюсь русским языком. Позже напишу тебе ещё. Ужасно скучаю.

Just wondering ... are you a native russian ? If not, how long did it take you to master russian ??

i don't want to asnwer for her, but it sounds to me like she's a native russian...cause even people who study russian for a long time prolly won't sound the way native speakers do...that's just my thought though,lol

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Originally Posted by tonyvong2002

Just wondering ... are you a native russian ?

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I am. :)

****Твоё день рождения

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Originally Posted by Евгения(Женя)

****Твоё день рождения

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Since when is день nueter ?

"День" isnt neutral, this is just what I see and hear. Откуда вы? :D

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Originally Posted by Евгения(Женя)

"День" isnt neutral, this is just what I see and hear.

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It's true that some people (including myself :) ) talk like this in a rather careless speech, but it's incorrect. I think it's because the word combination "день рождения" is subconsciously perceived by native speakers as a single word "деньрождение" and if such word existed it would be neuter because "рождение" is neuter.
So my advice is to use "твой день рождения", at least in written form. :)

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"День" isnt neutral, this is just what I see and hear.

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Please tell me where on god's russian speaking educated green earth you would see this ? And don't use a chat room full of 12 year old slavic girls as a resource.

If you know it's not nueter, then why correct it and say it is ? Granted, i hear people say "wassup bro, sry i gotta bounce" Everyday too, but it doesn't mean it's correct speach, and i certianly wouldn't suggest that instead of the right way to say it. Even if деньрождения was one word, i don't know how you could assign it a proper modifyer since я isn't a feminine ending here, it's genitive. this whole thing is confusing me... But as friendy said, t's not твое день. it's твой.

And im from Азербайджан comrad. Where are you from.

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Originally Posted by Dogboy182

Even if деньрождения was one word, i don't know how you could assign it a proper modifyer since я isn't a feminine ending here, it's genitive. this whole thing is confusing me...

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When it's perceived as one word it's "деньрождениЕ" because the "ия" ending is often not pronounced very clearly and is easily confused with "ие". Not to say that the "ние" ending is often pronounced as "нье"(the same is with "ния", which is prononounced as "нья" and so on).

i understand. but it doesn't matter how you "pronounce" the word, even if you pronounce the word "flanger", it's still a nueter ending. this part of russian grammar deals with how the word ends on paper, not on how it sounds. so even if it does sound like that (which i agree, it can), it doesn't make it right to say it's nueter.

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Originally Posted by Dogboy182

i understand. but it doesn't matter how you "pronounce" the word, even if you pronounce the word "flanger", it's still a nueter ending. this part of russian grammar deals with how the word ends on paper, not on how it sounds. so even if it does sound like that (which i agree, it can), it doesn't make it right to say it's nueter.

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Of course. I was just pointing out the origin of the mistake when it's made unconsciously . :)

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Originally Posted by Dogboy182

i understand. but it doesn't matter how you "pronounce" the word, even if you pronounce the word "flanger", it's still a nueter ending. this part of russian grammar deals with how the word ends on paper, not on how it sounds. so even if it does sound like that (which i agree, it can), it doesn't make it right to say it's nueter.

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ok, in your little perfect russian grammar world....We can go through your english posts and correct your english grammar as well...Almost no one speaks their native language perfectly. Half of a language's rules and exceptions are dervied from how different regions speak, little mistakes work their way into speech, and next thing you know, its pretty common to hear and see such "mistakes".

I don't think Dogboy is saying that someone has to speak and write textbook perfect language all the time, but that when one is correcting someone, one ought to correct them...well...correctly. And I don't see how it's possible to argue with that.

When I'm talking casually, I often mess up verbs badly (e.g. "What do he say about it?") but if someone had written "What does he say about it?" in an article I was editing, I would never change it to match my speech pattern. Because I know it's wrong, even if it's the way people talk.

And im from Азербайджан comrad. Where are you from.

Я из Уркаины.

And im from Азербайджан comrad. Where are you from.

Я из Уркаины.

Ты с Украины. Unless you are speaking Ukrainian, of course, where it is "в/из". I just learned that from JJ today!

By the way, I think you have the wrong thread. And the only real Azeri here is Garfunkel.

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Originally Posted by Pravit

Ты с Украины.

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Never say this to an Ukrainian! :)

BTW, about mistakes. It is interesting that native and non-native speakers make mistakes of different kinds. Native speaker of English is likely to confuse there and their, your and you're, its and it's, etc. For me, as a non-native speaker, it is strange to see this kind of mistakes, since I would never make such a mistake. And vice versa - no native speaker could make a mistake I occasionally make (I am sure this post is full of examples :lol: )

I have a Russian penfriend who often confuses "you" and "your", though I have no idea why. I've repeated that "your" is ALWAYS a possessive pronoun and that "you" is used for, well, everything else. But they continue to say "I am very glad to write to your", etc. :lol: Do any Russians here have that problem?

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Originally Posted by Pravit

I have a Russian penfriend who often confuses "you" and "your", though I have no idea why. I've repeated that "your" is ALWAYS a possessive pronoun and that "you" is used for, well, everything else. But they continue to say "I am very glad to write to your", etc. :lol: Do any Russians here have that problem?

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I personally don't have this problem, but I think every learner has his own 'set of common mistakes' :)

I hate to bring up an old argument, but i just got a new idea! By this logic you say it's OK to write Моя время, because it sounds that way, even though it's nueter ?? :lol:


OK I'M DONE!

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Originally Posted by Dogboy182

I hate to bring up an old argument, but i just got a new idea! By this logic you say it's OK to write Моя время, because it sounds that way, even though it's nueter ?? :lol:


OK I'M DONE!

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It may be strange, but to the "Russian ears", despite its ending, "время" sounds definitely neuter. :)

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Originally Posted by al

Native speaker of English is likely to confuse there and their, your and you're, its and it's, etc. For me, as a non-native speaker, it is strange to see this kind of mistakes, since I would never make such a mistake.

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I actually confuse there-their and its-it's sometimes and then-than, but not your and you're. :) Though I usually check my spelling before posting.

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Originally Posted by Friendy

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Originally Posted by al

Native speaker of English is likely to confuse there and their, your and you're, its and it's, etc. For me, as a non-native speaker, it is strange to see this kind of mistakes, since I would never make such a mistake.

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I actually confuse there-their and its-it's sometimes and then-than, but not your and you're. :) Though I usually check my spelling before posting.

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Interesting stuff. You're right Al, about those pairs of words with identical pronunciation. Some native speakers never seem to get it right :) I suspect it's just that some people are primarily speakers and listeners, and not readers and writers - these people are generally poor at spelling.

About non-native speakers, I'd say that by far the most common mistake, amongst those who are basically proficient or fluent in English, relates to the use of definite and indefinite articles. As you say, native speakers *never* make mistakes with that.

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Originally Posted by Friendy

It may be strange, but to the "Russian ears", despite its ending, "время" sounds definitely neuter. :)

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I can believe that. Sometimes when reading russian, i will find a word i don't know, but my brain will just automatically fill it in; and it will be right... I don't know how this happens, and it has happend more than a few times. One time in perticular i read some sentence and was like like "Wait... i don't know that пускай means "let"... It must be the imparative of the verb пускать... So i will go look up that word puskat'... and right under it, it says Пускай, see пусть(w00t!) to good to be true! So, i get there and bam, i was right somehow!

So i can understand how a russian, without even knowing it, would know that it is nueter.

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Originally Posted by waxwing

About non-native speakers, I'd say that by far the most common mistake, amongst those who are basically proficient or fluent in English, relates to the use of definite and indefinite articles. As you say, native speakers *never* make mistakes with that.

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Yes, that's right... I still do mistakes with articles :) It's getting better though.

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Originally Posted by Dogboy182

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Originally Posted by Friendy

It may be strange, but to the "Russian ears", despite its ending, "время" sounds definitely neuter. :)

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I can believe that. Sometimes when reading russian, i will find a word i don't know, but my brain will just automatically fill it in; and it will be right... I don't know how this happens, and it has happend more than a few times. One time in perticular i read some sentence and was like like "Wait... i don't know that пускай means "let"... It must be the imparative of the verb пускать... So i will go look up that word puskat'... and right under it, it says Пускай, see пусть(w00t!) to good to be true! So, i get there and bam, i was right somehow!

So i can understand how a russian, without even knowing it, would know that it is nueter.

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I think that's so because there's a particular set of more or less frequent words
племя
бремя
время
имя
семя
знамя
пламя
стремя
темя

which are neuter and have very special way of declining (время-времени). All native speakers know them subconsciously.

By the way, are there any words ending with "мя" that are feminine?
I think there aren't, but maybe I've missed something.