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Posted 11/13/2008   05:16 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add modern_who to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Is there someone here who can read Russian? I have a number of old
Russian picture postcards with captions I'd like to translate into
English, but entering letters for Russian script into the online
dictionaries doesn't work, though English to Russian works beautifully.
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Posted 11/13/2008   10:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add baomo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
i've been learning russian for about a year - i'm not fluent but can read a fair bit. thoese online translators can be too literal sometimes.

if you want i'll cheerfully give it a try.
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Posted 11/13/2008   12:53 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks, baomo, I'll scan a few and we'll give it a try. If it works, there could
be a lot of old Russian post cards posted to this thread!
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Posted 11/14/2008   12:30 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hello, baomo. I have scanned 5 cards. These are pre-revolution,
imperial era cards with very short captions.

This is a lovely photo of an old seacoast home.

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Posted 11/14/2008   12:33 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I believe this one to be the home, above, from the garden side.

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Posted 11/14/2008   12:37 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Card 3 is a country road, somewhere.

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Posted 11/14/2008   12:40 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Card 4 is tinted blue for a night-time effect.

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Posted 11/14/2008   12:42 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Card 5 is a color photo of a garden, somewhere.

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Posted 11/14/2008   12:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add baomo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
these are all very lovely thanks for sharing....

card 1
'Курортъ Суукъ-Су' is 'The Resort Sook-So' -- Суукъ-Су doesn't really translate but it sounds like Sook-So in Latin alphabet.

card 2
'Крым'ь. Курортъ Суукъ-Су' is 'Crimea. The Resort Sook-So'

card 3
'Лъсничество близъ Ялты' is 'Lsnichestvo near Yalta'

card 4
'Спускъ къ Уралу' is 'Descent to the Urals'

card 5
'Сочи. Парк Худякова' is ' Sochi. Khudyakova Park'


*edit for spelling
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Posted 11/14/2008   6:39 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Baomo, thank you very much!

This is very helpful.

Would you mind if I posted others?
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Posted 11/14/2008   7:37 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add baomo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
i don't mind, I enjoy looking at them.

put up a few at a time and i'll try to translate them one by one.
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Posted 11/17/2008   7:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Busy weekend. Have had a chance to scan some more, today.

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Posted 11/18/2008   10:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add baomo to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
the second set

card 1
'Елизаветинская галлерея, гортъ Лермонтовъ и Золова арфа, Г. Пятигорскъ' - 'Elizavetinskaya Gallery, Hort Lermontov and Zolova Harp (maybe street or architect names?), City of Pyatigorsk'

card 2
'Ваное здан╕е No.3, Старая Русса' - 'Bath building No.3, Staraya Russa'
this one sounds like either ukrainian or maybe belorussian because of the word 'здан╕е', the letter 'i' isn't russian.

card 3
this one is german not russian. 'Greetings from Libau' is my guess.

card 4
'Дубровииск╕й садъ' - 'Dubrovypskiy garden'
again it looks like ukrainian or beloruss because of the ending -'╕й'
i'm afraid i'm not much help with german - 'Greetings from Dwinsk'
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