Thread: spelling of the name lisa

He, Daniela is female. Danila is male. In my study group we have a student with name Danila. We call him Danil.
By the way, if such name as Danilla (with two "l") exist then it would be female rather than male.

Mike said Daniila, Даниила, with two I's, not two L's.

Даниила. Never heard. In any case in conversations her name will be shortened to Дана.

well im glad thats sorted

Just wondering, since there is no "H" in Russian, do Russians find it hard to say "h"? (By the way, that's the English letter 'h', not Russian 'n')

Hello, how would you spell/ say the female name Sabrina in Russian?

If I could figure out how to type in Russian, I could tell you Sabrina...we were doing our names in class this morning

Сабрина

thank you for helping me out with that

Originally Posted by Rahul

Just wondering, since there is no "H" in Russian, do Russians find it hard to say "h"? (By the way, that's the English letter 'h', not Russian 'n')

It seems to me that at least tatu is having some problems with it

My name is Lisa and I still prefer to be called (and spell my name) Лиса in Russian instead of Лиза.Even if it does'nt make sense to anyone.

what about our vowels, like "i" in "hit," "u" in "up," or "a" in "cake"? Is it hard for them to say these?

Originally Posted by emka71aln

what about our vowels, like "i" in "hit," "u" in "up," or "a" in "cake"? Is it hard for them to say these?

hit might be difficult.

The sound in up is like the sound of an unstressed "а", isn't it?

The "a" in cake is not a vowel, it's a diphtongue that could be rendered as "ей". Shouldn't be so difficult. Doesn't the comparative ending "ее" sound like this?

The sound of the 'u' in up is not translatable into Russian. You could get away with using a short 'a' sound if you were talking quickly.

Yes just look at mine.
Paul translates to either gender (sex) or floor.