I used to love this movie when I was a kid. I found a good poetical translation for this song in the net and made a subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJB_kRkwUOk
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I used to love this movie when I was a kid. I found a good poetical translation for this song in the net and made a subtitles:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJB_kRkwUOk
Basil... I added it to the Playlist. Nice job!Quote:
Originally Posted by Basil77
I know you did not do the translation... yet...the words seem a little...hmmm. backwards in some places to me. Like "I no more can ignore it" is not the way I would say that line. More like, "I can't ignore it any longer."
BTW...the boy is tooo cute :D
I watched this series in the 1980s! I was around the same age as the kids in the series when I saw it, texted, of course. I certainly agree that the song is beautiful! Nice to see the text. When I listend now, I was able to able to understand a fair bit of the lyrics even without text. Were there lots of series like this made back then?
It's really hard to translate lyrics that are supposed to fit with a melody, convey a certain message and also sound poetic at the same time. That's why I was blown away by the Vysotsky songs that I listened to in Swedish. The translation was perfect, I don't think anything was lost apart from the ability of a non-Russian person to relate to some of the situations that he was singing about.
Question: Are they shifting the accent in the word "далеко" to fit with the melody?
No. "Далёко" is a noun here, meaning отдаленное место, страна (remote land). Also, it's not only the stress what tells one word from the other: in "далеко" it's Е in the second syllable, and in "далёко", it's Ё.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johanna
Of course.... ! :oops: :oops: :oops:
Thanks for explaining.