Thread: Difficulties of translating. English / Russian

songs and not only ones

Everyone of us have done mistakes in translation. Reason of them is conditioned by difference of grammar rules. For example, Russian can be misled in English article, because we have not them in Russian at all. English native speakers are confused by Russian rules for verbs and using of case.

But if we look at it more attentively we will notice that our mistakes very often are typically. I guess that these typically errors were found by you or authors of textbooks before. So, please, let change our own experience like that. Maybe you can give us some links for interesting publications or books about this theme.

To make our efforts of learning language more attractive, we can discuss here translate of modern songs (but not only this). I know it is very creatively process. Probably somebody of us will become to a poet. Anyway we will meet a lot of idioms and reference to national literature, traditional and proverbs.

There are many English and Russian native speakers here, and we could help one another. So take our textbooks and dictionaries for help. Translate, discuss, listen, learn.
Lets begin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXANpfmiWVw

Most difficult expression was marked by me in green
Moscow never sleeps

Moscow never sleeps.
Moscow never sleeps.
Я люблю тебя, Москва!
Люблю тебя.
Moscow never sleeps.
Я люблю тебя, Москва!
Люблю тебя.

А есть ли любовь?!
Возьми мое сердце,
Коснись меня взглядом,
Почувствуй тепло
И будь со мной рядом.
Не бойся любить
И разбей все преграды,
Ведь я, все быть может,
Люблю тебя тоже.

Я люблю тебя, Москва!
Люблю тебя.
Moscow never sleeps.

А есть ли любовь?!
Возьми мое сердце,
Коснись меня взглядом.
Ведь я, все быть может,
Люблю тебя тоже.

Возьми мое сердце,
Коснись меня взглядом,
Почувствуй тепло
И будь со мной рядом.
Не бойся любить
И разбей все преграды,
Ведь я, все быть может,
Люблю тебя тоже.

А есть ли любовь?!

Возьми мое сердце,
Коснись меня взглядом,
Почувствуй тепло
И будь со мной рядом.
Не бойся любить
И разбей все преграды,
Ведь я, все быть может,
Люблю тебя тоже.

Я люблю тебя Москва!
Люблю тебя.
Moscow never sleeps
Я люблю тебя Москва!
Люблю тебя.
Moscow never sleeps

English translation
Moscow never sleeps

Moscow never sleeps.
Moscow never sleeps.
I love you, Moscow!
I love you.
Moscow never sleeps.
I love you, Moscow!
I love you.

Would the Love exist?!
Take my heart,
Touch on me with your sight,
Feel the warm
And be near me.
Don’t be afraid of be loving
And break the all obstacles,
Everything may be,
Maybe I love you too.

I love you, Moscow!
I love you.
Moscow never sleeps.
Does the Love exist?
Take my heart,
Touch on me with your sight,
Everything may be,
Maybe I love you too.

Take my heart,
Touch on me with your sight,
Feel the warm
And be near me.
Don’t be afraid of be loving
And break the all obstacles,
Everything may be,
Maybe I love you too.

Would the Love exist?!

Take my heart,
Touch on me with your sight,
Feel the warm
And be near me.
Don’t be afraid of be loving
And break the all obstacles,
Everything may be,
Maybe I love you too.

I love you, Moscow!
I love you.
Moscow never sleeps.
I love you, Moscow!
I love you.
I love you, Moscow!

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and in addition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PuJgxTuTxE

Между мной и тобой

Сколько нам с тобой теперь осталось?
Лишь малость.
И живет со мной святая жалость – моя усталость.
Между мной и тобой остается ветер.
Между мной и тобой только слово: «Где ты?».

Нет моей вины, что тобой болею,
Седею.
Ты придешь ко мне, я тебя согрею,
Жалею.

Между мной и тобой остается ветер.
Между мной и тобой только слово: «Где ты?».
Между мной и тобой остается ветер.
Между мной и тобой только слово: «Где ты?».

Но снедает нас моя дорога – тревога.
Расстояние в жизнь – это так много,
Долго.
Между мной и тобой остается ветер.
Между мной и тобой только слово: «Где ты?».
«Где ты», – я спрошу,
Может, кто ответит.
Между мной и тобой остается ветер.

Ветер.
Где ты?
Может , кто ответит.
Где ты?

in English

Between me and you

How much time are we having for the future?/How much time will we have spent together?
Only a little.
And the saint pity as my tiredness are living inside me.
The wind is staying between me and you.
There is the word, “Where are you?”

It’s not my fair, that I am ached by you,
that I turned gray.
You will come to me, I will give you the warm heart.
I regret.

The wind is staying between me and you.
There is the word, “Where are you?”
The wind is staying between me and you.
There is the word, “Where are you?”

But my life choice is an anxiety is exhausted us.
The distant like a whole life, it is so much,
So long.
The wind is staying between me and you.
There is the word, “Where are you?”
“Where are you?”- I will ask.
Maybe somebody will reply to…
The wind is staying between me and you.

Wind.
Where are you?
Maybe somebody will reply to….
Where are you?
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Some translations were done already
http://masterrussian.net/mforum/view...p?f=57&t=18959
http://masterrussian.net/mforum/view...hp?f=2&t=16684
http://masterrussian.net/mforum/view...hp?f=2&t=16668
http://masterrussian.net/mforum/view...hp?f=2&t=16328

This song was created by Erkesh Shakeev (Еркеш Шакеев) in 1996 (A’Studio). The song is very popular and it is like that nowadays too. I think the song is above the time. It is sharp and calm at the same time. It is about love and indifference and it is about a hope.
If you read the words of it you will probably think the song is about a man and a woman. The woman is falling in love with him. The man is not. And he leaved her… it is a usual story of life.
But I am sure the song is about the the hope and the dream.
She is crying seating next to the window. It is the truth but the reason of it is that she has not met him yet. She is unloved because they have not met each another yet…

Нелюбимая
группа "А-Студио"

YouTube - А-Студио - Нелюбимая (1996).flv

Позолоченный след твоей слезы горел в ночи,
Обнимая меня, сказала ты: не уходи.
Зная, что нет моей вины,
Я прошептал тебе: “Прости,
Все пройдет, не грусти, не грусти. ”


Нелюбимая ждет меня у окна
Вечерами темными, как всегда,
У окна ждет меня, ждет меня.


Позабыл о тебе я навсегда, но иногда
Желтых писем листва летит ко мне издалека.
Я не прочту твои слова
И не увижу никогда
Облака горьких слез между строк.


Нелюбимая ждет меня у окна
Вечерами темными, как всегда,
У окна ждет меня, ждет меня.


Я не прочту твои слова
И не увижу никогда
Облака горьких слез между строк.


in English


Unloved

by A-Studio



A gold-filled light of your tear was shining through the night
Embracing me you said “Don’t leave me”
I knew that it is not my fault
I whispered to you “forgive me,
Your sorrow will be allayed. Don’t be sorrow, don’t be sorrow”

The unloved waits for me next to the window
When evenings are dark she always waits for me
It is always. She always waits for me next to the window.

I forgot you forever, but sometimes
Your letters which are like yellow leaves are flying to me from far
I will not read your words
And I will never see
Clouds of your bitter tears which are between the lines.

The unloved waits for me next to the window
When evenings are dark she always waits for me
It is always. She always waits for me next to the window.

I will not read your words
And I will never see
Clouds of your bitter tears which are between the lines.