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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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| Edited by modern_who - 12/03/2008 01:36 am |
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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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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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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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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'
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| Edited by baomo - 11/14/2008 12:57 pm |
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Baomo, thank you very much!
This is very helpful.
Would you mind if I posted others? |
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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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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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