Thread: Help!! I am totally lost!

------------------------------------------------------------------------I know how to write russian because I wrote a word and showed it to a russian guy in my class and he read it. I can't READ it. I can't make russian symbols on the computer but I can translate symbols into letters. One song I like is called Ya Shoshapa s uma. It is soposed to mean "all the things she said" If I write it it would look totally different. What am I doing wrong? I speak english and i'd do ANYTHING just to learn russian. Can someone help me? and one more question, I know there are two russian symbols that have no sound, why are they even there?? Please Reply!!!!!!!!

The song is called Ja soshla s uma. You should write it like this: Я сошла с ума. The two symbols in question are ь and ъ. They are hard and soft signs, and their purpose is to affect how consonants are pronounced. Please only post your questions in one forum, not 5. I don't mind answering questions, but having to enter the moderator panel for every forum to get rid of one spam is not fun.

Originally Posted by Tatu_fan

One song I like is called Ya Shoshapa s uma. It is soposed to mean "all the things she said

doesn't ya soshla s uma mean 'i have lost my mind'

Originally Posted by Anna

Originally Posted by Tatu_fan

One song I like is called Ya Shoshapa s uma. It is soposed to mean "all the things she said

doesn't ya soshla s uma mean 'i have lost my mind'

Yes (or something close). But when they made an English version of the song, they named it "All The Things She Said". Apparently, just because this phrase "fits" withing the previous metric of the music.

Blah, Tatu is getting very old now. They have only just started to get to number one here in australia (Yerh yerh, we are always about 3 months behind the rest of the world). Have they actually releaced anything latly?

Probably a few venereal diseases into the general populace. Other than that, I don't believe so.

Я сошел с ума
Я сошел сума

omg im new to english, i speek russian and i know there is this Apostraphy thing that looks like this ' it doesn't make any sound omg omg. i talk to these girls that speak english all day and i cant speek that gud but i wood do anythang two lern englesh.

phew, i thought for sure you would erase that one, and as my predicition served correct, she never returned. wich gives me an idea


to predict
(to) return
idea, vso slova pa russkiy pazhaoosta. (ya ne mogyo zhat печатать pa russkiy alphavet na moem komputeriy snova... tolko na vtornik, ne davna!)

I can help you with writing cyrillic on the computer

goto www.cyrillic.com and download something called cyrillic starter 5.0 it's like 600kb

lol... why are ours "letters" and theirs "symbols"

alphabet: letters which represent parts of a sound, put together to combine whole sounds and words. (Greek alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet, Latin alphabet, etc)

syllabary: symbols which represent whole sounds (syllables), put together to form words. (Katakana, Hiragana: the native Japanese script)

pictographs: symbols which represent whole words. (most infamous example being Chinese)

I've been listening to Zemfira latly. Much better than Tatu. More intune with old geazers like me.

I listin to Moon far away there like an underground Gothic instrmental band, I love em

I know that im a little late, i have only just recently discovered this site. The song "Ya Soshla S Uma" does not mean All the things she said or i've lost my mind. It means "I Got Mad".

well, no if u want to play the exact translation game it is "i have left from mind" now, try to make sense of that !

Speaking of exact translation, where's the have in я сошла с ума?