Thread: Travel Blog; CIS/ex-USSR countries (i.e. Russian speaking)

Basil - don't be harsh on yourself - your English is very good.

Scott

Originally Posted by Basil77

Don't be so harsh to yourself, we're all learning here. Russian isn't even your second language! I bet my posts in English look incredibly stupid in the eyes of native speakers and people like you who are fluent in it. And I can't even speak it at all, only read and write after almost 20 years of learning!
As for the verbs пропала/потеряла: they are quite similar to English missing/lost:
My credit cart is missing - Моя кредитка пропала.
I lost my credit card - Я потеряла кредитку.
You can't say in English either: "I miss my credit card", at least it sounds funny, like you have some feelings to a piece of plastic . But in Russian it doesn't sounds funny, just wrong. And I think everyone have understand that you were trying to say.

Yes, люди is plural in Russian. Also this noun hasn't a singular form. To say strictly it has, but with completely different root: человек. Singular: человек Plural: люди
Смешные isn't grammatically wrong, that's why I made the correction in green. But смешные sounds like you can laugh at them like they are some clowns, not with them. So I've suggested that you wanted to say a slightly different thing, sorry if I was wrong.

Originally Posted by fortheether

Basil - don't be harsh on yourself - your English is very good.

Hey Scott, thanks for the compliment but I've realized that my English is crap a couple of weeks ago. I've encountered a road accident with a Finnish truck-driver who couldn't say a word in Russian but spoke a decent English. I've communicated with him about three or four hours while we were waiting the road police, then filling papers and such stuff. Although his English wasn't perfect, my talking skills appeared to be a million times worst. I must confess: it was an awful feel, man. .

З.Ы. Hanna, I hope you'll exсuse me for this little off-topic in your fascinating blog.