Comments? Suggestions?
If you want your word or sign featured as a word/sign of the day, please PM me.
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Comments? Suggestions?
If you want your word or sign featured as a word/sign of the day, please PM me.
It's certainly an improvement over the "Immigration Q&A forums" ad that was previously up top.
I loved it at first sight :) (though of course the opinions of the learners of Russian are much more valuable here)
I like it. I like it.....a lot.
По-моему, это отличная идея - спасибо!
Good to hear you all like it.
I like it so much, I want to marry it!
Hey MasterAdmin, will you feature this as "sign of the day"? :wink:
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehosting ... ?id=143616
Reminds me of this street sign :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/blogs/s...ade/Kinkos.jpg
No way! 8)Quote:
Originally Posted by Pravit
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehost...jpg/?id=144077
How about this one?
or this?
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehost...gif/?id=144083
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehost...jpg/?id=144278
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehost...jpg/?id=144279
http://www.imagehosting.us/imagehost...jpg/?id=144280
All are perfect cadidates for sign of the day.
As I said, pictures should yours or at least licensed from the author. Othewise I can't place them here.
I am the author. You have my license.
I'm sure Lindzi would let us use that last one.
Ooo, I got pictures, where do I send them to??Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterAdmin
oh yea huh, that last one is линдзи's. hahaha. Ok so sue me.
Heh. You totally have permission to use the last one. It's from St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Pete.
Hey MasterAdmin, do you really go out and take a picture every day?
photos@masterrussian.comQuote:
Originally Posted by kalinka_vinnie
Gotta sign and email it :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dogboy182
Ok you cought me in my own bed of lies.
Come on, MA, you can do better than this!Quote:
Word: Аэропорт
Meaning: Airport
Pronunciation:
ighrah-port
Word: Аэропорт
Meaning: Airport
Pronunciation: ighrah-port
You're having a laugh!
Best. Translit. Evah.
I like seeing the Russian signs. And the way it's translated, word of the day and it's use in a sentence etc. The photos have so far been very good and interesting.
Hey MA, do you really need to mark the accent on a one-syllable word? :DQuote:
Word: Свет
'svyet'
There's always going to be one of us beginners that'd find a way to cock that word up. "Um sir, in a single syllable word, does its stress fall on the first syllable of the following word?" etc.
Though it'd be hard to cock up this particular point, I have to say.
(And no, Pravit, I'm not recounting here one of my mistakes).
Well, y'see, Brett, that would be a valid point if the one-syllable word was actually in a sentence(e.g. "da nyet" with one of the words not being accented), but it's very hard not to pronounce the stress on a one-syllable word when reading it in isolation. If not impossible. I certainly can't do it. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
Today's word of the day couldn't be more fitting!Quote:
Word: Запретить
Meaning: To forbid, prohibit, ban
Pronunciation:
zah-pree-teet'
Example: Ему запретили пользоваться доской объявлений.
Translation: He was banned from the bulletin board.
Notes: Запретить (perfective aspect); Запрещать (imperfective aspect)
:twisted:
On today's street sign is the word 'hlyeb' (bread). The Russian 'l' equivalent is written in its hand-written form, like an upside down 'v', as opposed to the printed. Is is common for Russia's street signs to use handwritten? It is more easily distingushable from Russian 'p' than in print. So, it'd make sense, so long as all the other letters don't look printed. In which case it looks a little like a 'p'.
I know it wouldn't be a problem once you knew the word, but for uncommon words, there could be passers-by looking twice before they decide what a sign is saying. It's still heaps better than English handwriting, though.
Printed "л" can look like upside down "v" too. It depends on the font. Here are four signs with printed "л":Quote:
Originally Posted by brett
http://404.rzn.ru/tmp/l/PICT0329.jpg
http://404.rzn.ru/tmp/l/PICT0340.jpg
http://404.rzn.ru/tmp/l/PICT0890.jpg
http://404.rzn.ru/tmp/l/PICT0891.jpg
No.Quote:
Is is common for Russia's street signs to use handwritten?
Yeah, I agree that 2nd and 4th ways of writing are pretty confusing. But I think 1st and 3rd ways are more common.Quote:
I know it wouldn't be a problem once you knew the word, but for uncommon words, there could be passers-by looking twice before they decide what a sign is saying.
EDIT: Oops, I just saw the sign "хлеб", I saw the sign "квас" for some reason till now. It's not a hand-writen form of "л", it's a printed form.
spasiba, Alexei. That was very helpful. Yes, I wasn't aware of the variety of ways it could be written. All I've had is regulation learning tool books to go by. Yeah, 1 and 3 are very easy to distinguish, now that I know 'l' is written that way. That first 'l' is better than the version I always find in learning tool books.
Hand-written form of "хлеб" looks like here:
http://404.rzn.ru/tmp/l/bread.jpg
From the sign of the day. :lol: :lol:Quote:
Russian: Кристально чистая вода
English: Crystally clear water
It's correct as "Crystal clear"
It's not a post office although the sign says почта, it's a post box (mailbox) - почтовый ящик.
http://masterrussian.com/graphics/signs/s0003.jpg
Yeah, but that doesn't agree with what's in the picture. The best compromise would be to say it's "mail", since it is a box for mail and many mailboxes around the world are labelled with this word.
I think it's great! Oh...thanks for pointing that out.. :D
I love the site in general because of all the different forum (subject) choices...and I just got here. I don't know more than "most" of the alphabet; "some" of the grammer; and a very few words and phrases... the bar at the bottom will help alot put words to context and more-thanks.
:wink: