(Екб) Про наш город (по-английски), English-speaking zone Опции

[DEDA]

Hi! This is english-speaking zone only. Let's speak about our prefect city. Try to tell us about your district, street or yard at first.

Let's go...

[NASA]

WOW!
It's a new wave on our forum :)

but... actually I have no idea what to write about the city

Сообщение отредактировал NASA - 26.10.2010, 13:53

[Flinstoun]

Ekaterinburg is the capital of Ural.
The are many avto-club's in this city. Gets-club one of them.
That is all what i remember from school.
Now Olenushka teach us speaking on eanglish.

PS: real topic ))))

Сообщение отредактировал Flinstoun - 26.10.2010, 13:59

[Тиль]

Hey guys!
Good idea to talk in English :)
I haven't add to Flinstoun's speech about city any more ..

What do you think about this topic like English practice place?

[Йохан]

Are there any brides in yr city, guys? ;) фрагмент 12 стульев

[DEDA]

Are there any brides in yr city, guys? ;) фрагмент 12 стульев

To whom the mare is the bride

I don't know what is right translation or not. But your phrase is really good.

[DEDA]

I haven't add to Flinstoun's speech about city any more ..

You think so? In what district do you live? Do you love it?

[NASA]

In what district do you live? Do you love it?

Looks like english lesson Realy!!!

[DEDA]

Looks like english lesson Realy!!!

Yep, why not? :)

[Flinstoun]

I think necessary start topic "About our city(translate)" :)

[DEDA]

I think necessary start topic "About our city(translate)" :)

Do you offer start new topic in Russian?


Lingvo & translate.ru help us.

[Йохан]

Are there any brides in yr city, guys? ;) фрагмент 12 стульев

To whom the mare is the bride

I don't know what is right translation or not. But your phrase is really good.

Well done! Y see what I mean =)
I think it is a good idea to have a little practice in writing English! Do you mind that I interfere in yr chat room?

[DEDA]

I think it is a good idea to have a little practice in writing English! Do you mind that I interfere in yr chat room?

You're welcome, feeling like at home.

[Йохан]

C'est tres gentile de votre part, mon ami=)

Nice to meet U! BTW it might be interesting to use and learn abbreviations. Like IMHO, BTW etc

Over

[DEDA]

C'est tres gentile de votre part, mon ami=)

Nice to meet U! BTW it might be interesting to use and learn abbreviations. Like IMHO, BTW etc

Over

Whom? Or stop-stop, just saying RTFM! to all. :-)


Roger

[Йохан]

C'est tres gentile de votre part, mon ami=)

Nice to meet U! BTW it might be interesting to use and learn abbreviations. Like IMHO, BTW etc

Over

Whom? Or stop-stop, just saying RTFM! to all. :-)


Roger

What is RTFM? Translate it pls )

over

[NASA]

Yohan, see the private message ;)
I'm afraid we can't explain this to you HERE :)

[Михаил З.]

Could I join ur party?

What is RTFM? Translate it pls )

It's an acroform: Read The Fucking Manual. )))

[DEDA]

Could I join ur party?

Sure, why not.

Сообщение отредактировал DEDA - 27.10.2010, 18:47

[DEDA]

Михаил З., did you visit our city?

[Михаил З.]

Well... The topic starts, bt what's the topic?

[Михаил З.]

DEDA, I've never seen bt know some people from... Pretty nice guys!

[DEDA]

Well... The topic starts, bt what's the topic?

In regional forum I guess it's ... about our region - Ekaterinburg and Sverdlovskaya... wow!? oblast? Or region/area is more right?

[DEDA]

DEDA, I've never seen bt know some people from... Pretty nice guys!

I believe in it. And more believe if thees guys are from Uralmash-group. ;-)


I'm kidding.

[Михаил З.]

DEDA, right u r! Oblast. Bt u can use "region" as well.

Uralmash organized crime? Hmm... I wish I do!

[DEDA]

upd: And versus you, I'm never been in great historical city Saint-Petersburg. It's seems me gloomy but very attractive place.

[Михаил З.]

DEDA, so, what's the pro to visit?
Moscovites do it often.
Come to our Clubbirthday in april.
Actually I'm not from S-P. Born in the Far East, studied in Moscow, spent 17 yrs in Caucasus.

[DEDA]

DEDA, so, what's the pro to visit?
Moscovites do it often.
Come to our Clubbirthday in april.
Actually I'm not from S-P. Born in the Far East, studied in Moscow, spent 17 yrs in Caucasus.

Caucasus - it's really hard to read and translate then.

Thank's for your offer. Actually, it's no problem to visited you. Just wish and some good moves. In future time I'll promise to think about it.

[Тиль]

Good evening!
I see our guests from St.Petersburg. Very nice city!!! I have been there this summer. It was unforgettable trip from Moscow to Peter by car!

[Михаил З.]

Тиль, police-cameras-speedlimit fines???

[Тиль]

Михаил З. No polices, no fines.. I drove car carefully.

[Михаил З.]

What'so unforgettable?

[Йохан]

What'so unforgettable?

Pretty young girls of my mind ;)))

Well, Michel, how it was in the Caucases? Did U disapear in the mountains for 17 years!?;) Oh, my God! (I'm kidding)))

Guys, sorry, I cannot say anything good about Ekaterinburg cause I've never been there. I wish I would visit yrbeautiful city someday )

Our cities are very much alike just because they were founded by Peter the Great and nearly at the same time!

NASA thanx 4 translation! U are a getlеmen ;-)

Thank for yr topic! It helps me to revise some grammar and spelling rules.

Сообщение отредактировал Йохан - 27.10.2010, 22:11

[Михаил З.]

Йохан, Caucasus gave me the best education & real friends!
I'm not lost in Mountains! It taught me a lot of real-men qualities!
Visitin' Caucasus every MF year! L-L-LOVE IT!!!

[Olenushka]

Come to our Clubbirthday in april.

Михаил З.
And what about giving a hearty welcome to a lonesome Getz-owner in mid-November? Spb seems to be a nice place to escape from my birthday blues. Like cures like...
Joking apart, a colleague of mine has just returned from your city with surprisingly colourful photos of Pavlovsk (I suppose it’s your suburb). Awesome! Moreover, who could ever imagine that the 'gloomy' city may have the sunlit blue sky that we all consider to be the privilege of Naples.)) So, to hell with all these stereotypes!

Йохан
Voulez-vous proposer un theme nouveau: Le getz-club en francais?
A propos, cette langue pour vous: la profession ou la passion?

To the topic-starter:
DEDA, pretty cool idea of yours! However, the feedback is even more impressive: outstandingly hot topic with new people involved. Carry on!

[Михаил З.]

Olenushka, cela n'est pas une problemme! Si vous voulez visier - je peux vous rencontre et etre votre guide en voyage!
Pouvez-vous me dire les dates de vote visite d'avance?

To all: excuse me 4 French! C'etait le crie de l'ame!

[Olenushka]

Olenushka, cela n'est pas une problemme! Si vous voulez visier - je peux vous rencontre et etre votre guide en voyage!
Pouvez-vous me dire les dates de vote visite d'avance?

To all: excuse me 4 French! C'etait le crie de l'ame!

Михаил З., enchante!

Thanx! At the moment it’s just a vague idea, but if I go, I will certainly get in touch with you. In advance

[DEDA]

Just some news from web

News of Ekaterinburg

Ekaterinburg can take the third place on population among Russian cities

Data of population census which is being realized these days can push Ekaterinburg on the third place among Russian cities in unofficial rating, Nakanune.Ru informs referring to the Press Secretary of the Head of Ekaterinburg Konstantin Pudov.

Population of the Ural capital grows every year that allowed to leave behind Nizhniy Novgorod three years ago. By the results of present census Ekaterinburg can also leave behind Novosibirsk.

«Annually the population of Ekaterinburg increases approximately by 9 thousand people. Roundly 20 thousand people are required to catch up with Novosibirsk. More accurate data which will be given by this census is necessary for us», - Konstantin Pudov has noted.

He also added that among cities with a population of one million or more, capitals of entities and federal districts there was «unpublished table of ranks, the table of federal investment, investment attractiveness for private investors - Russian and foreign ones».

«Therefore census is very important, in particular for introducing clarity into the data on population of the city. If we take the third place, it will be important», - Konstantin Pudov has added.

It is necessary to notice that for January, 1st, 2010, according to the Administration of Ekaterinburg, 1 million 372 thousand and 800 people lived in the Ural capital. Real population of Ekaterinburg taking into account unregistered dwellers by different estimations made from 1.5 up to 1.6 million people.

Link


And some more,


As you can see there are 11 cities with population more than million. For example, in China the number of same cities is 99. It's incredible.

Сообщение отредактировал DEDA - 28.10.2010, 5:55

[Михаил З.]

People!
It's some kind of nightmare!
Only 11 cities?!!!
Shocked, stressed & confused!!

[DEDA]

People!
It's some kind of nightmare!
Only 11 cities?!!!
Shocked, stressed & confused!!

In USA just 9, Canada - 4. GB - 2 only.

Сообщение отредактировал DEDA - 28.10.2010, 7:04

[vikeburg]

What do we smoke is the third day? Cannabis Sativa forever? Or something stronger?
Propose to make a parallel with the translation topic for very clever

In USA just 9, Canada - 4. GB - 2 only.

China - that's our answer damn capitalists


Сообщение отредактировал vikeburg - 28.10.2010, 7:30

[Михаил З.]

vikeburg, China?
I gess they'll attack all MF capitalists usin' small units (about 2-3 million people in each)

[DEDA]

continue...

History

The city was founded in 1723 by Vasily Tatischev and Georg Wilhelm de Gennin and named after Saint Catherine, the namesake of Tsar Peter the Great's wife Empress Catherine I (Yekaterina). The official date of the city's foundation is 18 November 1723. It achieved town status in 1796.

Soon after the Russian Revolution, on 17 July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II, his wife, Alexandra, and their children were executed by the Bolsheviks at the Ipatiev House in this city. In 1977 the Ipatiev House was destroyed by order of Boris Yeltsin, who later became the first President of the Russian Federation. President Yeltsin represented the people at the funeral of the Tsar in 1998.

In the 1930s, Yekaterinburg became a large industrial center of Russia. It was the time when the famous Uralmash was built, becoming the biggest heavy machinery factory in Europe.

During World War II, many government technical institutions and whole factories were relocated to Yekaterinburg away from the war-affected areas (mostly Moscow), with many of them staying in Yekaterinburg after the victory. The Hermitage Museum collections were also partly evacuated from Leningrad to Sverdlovsk in July 1941 and remained there until October 1945.

In the 1960s, in the days of Khrushchev's government, a number of lookalike five-story apartment blocks sprung up all over the city. Most of them still remain today in Kirovsky, Chkalovsky, and other residential areas of Yekaterinburg.



Link

[Йохан]

Come to our Clubbirthday in april.

Михаил З.
And what about giving a hearty welcome to a lonesome Getz-owner in mid-November? Spb seems to be a nice place to escape from my birthday blues. Like cures like...
Joking apart, a colleague of mine has just returned from your city with surprisingly colourful photos of Pavlovsk (I suppose it’s your suburb). Awesome! Moreover, who could ever imagine that the 'gloomy' city may have the sunlit blue sky that we all consider to be the privilege of Naples.)) So, to hell with all these stereotypes!

Йохан
Voulez-vous proposer un theme nouveau: Le getz-club en francais?
A propos, cette langue pour vous: la profession ou la passion?

To the topic-starter:
DEDA, pretty cool idea of yours! However, the feedback is even more impressive: outstandingly hot topic with new people involved. Carry on!

Salut, Olenushka!

Excuse moi, mais j'ai deja oublier tous les mots. C'est dificille pour moi a dir.
I think Michel will follow up. He's doing very well ) I'll keep on chatting with U 4 sure!

Michel, I see yr point. The Caucasus is also my sacred place, mine faterland )

Сообщение отредактировал Йохан - 28.10.2010, 22:17

[Михаил З.]

Йохан,

The Caucasus is also my sacred place, mine faterland )

Mine too! Cause I grew up there!

[DEDA]

What's the weather like today?

It's dry, cool and sunny locally and very nice to see how beautiful is our city. But everybody waiting snow. When, when it goes, isn't it?

[Михаил З.]

DEDA, r u expectin' snow? Think it's too early!

[DEDA]

DEDA, r u expectin' snow? Think it's too early!

Why not? Winter tyres on my car needs to use them. And making snow-woman also. Not using but just making.

Are you expecting rain?

[DEDA]

Note: writing here ten or more messages per day will give good experience in learning* English. Dictionary in Opera helps at once.


* Or studding?

[Михаил З.]

DEDA,

Are you expecting rain?

As always, unfortunately! S-P has always been The Rain Capital! )))

[NASA]

Too long autumn...
I can't wating for a snow!!!
Last week I changed the wheels. Feel's like I'm driving plane now and should fly up soon!

[DEDA]

About the city /What to see

Antei Tower



The Antei entertainment and business center has a 273 meter high rooftop lookout that offers a stunning panoramic view of Ekaterinburg.

Lookouts such as this one are all too rare in Russia, so make sure you get up to have a look.

Ekaterinburg might not be an overly picturesque city from the air, yet being up there gives you a good idea of the city’s varied and somewhat mixed architectural styles, and general layout. Thanks to Dutch architects, the streets of Ekaterinburg stretch conveniently from north to south, just like in St.Petersburg and unlike Moscow, which makes finding your way around much easier.



Entrance costs 40 roubles, which is not much. At the top you will find restaurants, cafes, bars, shops, a bowling alley and billiards room and night clubs.

At the entrance to the tower are statues of the immensely popular bard singer Vladimir Vysotsky and his French wife Marina Vlady.



From here

[Olenushka]

If we speak about our city, the following question is an issue which is tormenting me. The skyway of Moskovskaya is ready. Does anybody know if they will return the both-way traffic to Sheinkmana street at last? I’m sick and tired of circling around my house...

[Михаил З.]

DEDA, Night views r always nice!
Have u got something 4 sightseeing?
I mean historical places, or whatever...

[Йохан]

It's a really marvelous view from the skyscraper! I wish I could look at your beautiful city from the top drinking espresso ;)
It is nearly a hundred floors bulding, is it?

[DEDA]

Михаил З., I want say "Thank you" for your attention and participation in this topic. It's really important for me. Your messages make me go on.

Ok, what about your question, historical places and others. I find interesting site about it. Tourist Information Service. This is list of points of interest. The most famous is Plotinka of cause.

[Olenushka]

It's a really marvelous view from the skyscraper!

Йохан
While DEDA is coquetting with Michael, let me flirt with you ))
The most peculiar thing with the skyscrapers like Antey is that locals don’t usually visit their observation deck at all. It is tourists who are attracted. For me, for example, Antey is primarily a building where the Federal Real Estate Registry is located.
I’ve come across the same situation in Baltimore. When I expressed my interest in a tower called the Top of the World, natives just laughed: Oh, you see, almost every city in the US has its OWN Top of the World!
But let me assure you, the view is really magnificent, even in the day-time. So, come and join us!

[Йохан]

It's a really marvelous view from the skyscraper!

Йохан
While DEDA is coquetting with Michael, let me flirt with you ))
The most peculiar thing with the skyscrapers like Antey is that locals don’t usually visit their observation deck at all. It is tourists who are attracted. For me, for example, Antey is primarily a building where the Federal Real Estate Registry is located.
I’ve come across the same situation in Baltimore. When I expressed my interest in a tower called the Top of the World, natives just laughed: Oh, you see, almost every city in the US has its OWN Top of the World!
But let me assure you, the view is really magnificent, even in the day-time. So, come and join us!

Well, Olenushka, it's very nice of you to coquet with me. По нашему "покуковать" в обратном смысле этого слова ;))
BTW I didn't hear this word before. It seems to originate of a french word, does it?

I see you are a good traveler and has a gift to the languages =)

With yr assistance i get to know new words. God bless internet! Thanks a lot!

As for the Top of the World tower, I would add that in many capitals (big cities) there are their BIG BEN towers. Do U have yr own BIG BEN?

[Тиль]

It is nearly a hundred floors bulding, is it?
As for the Top of the World tower, I would add that in many capitals (big cities) there are their BIG BEN towers. Do U have yr own BIG BEN?

Antei is 19-storey house.
It's picture of our Tower!
Make me last winter.



Сообщение отредактировал Тиль - 15.11.2010, 17:57

[Йохан]

It is nearly a hundred floors bulding, is it?
As for the Top of the World tower, I would add that in many capitals (big cities) there are their BIG BEN towers. Do U have yr own BIG BEN?

Is this a recent picture? How beautiful! =)

[Тиль]

Is this a recent picture? How beautiful! =)

It was last winter. Isn't snowing now.
This fall is non-typical for Ural.

[DEDA]

Ekaterinburg or Yekaterinburg? With the "y" or without the "y" ... and why

Mikhail Brodsky, PhD, Institute of International Relations,Yekaterinburg, Head of Translation Chair

Globalization made us all realize that we are different and unique. We have become more sensitive to our self-identity. That is why in the past decades the tendency to transcribe proper names — write a name in the way locals pronounce it — has won over former ways of translation.

Today, when I open The National Geographic Atlas of the World or maps printed by Webster’s or Oxford University Press, I find there Praha instead of Prague, Roma instead of Rome, and Schweiz instead of Switzerland. On some maps I have even seen Moskva (Moscow) and Sankt-Peterburg (Saint-Petersburg). How about this: Magyarorszag (Hungary)? Could you read it in Hungarian? Well, I couldn’t.

Because Russians pronounce “Russia’s third capital” Ye-ka-te-rin-`boork, it is not quite obvious why so many people write it Ekaterinburg. This issue has already attracted a lot of attention. So, let’s see if we can figure it out.

Sverdlovsk used to be a closed for foreigners city. (I saw my first foreigner when I was 19.) Moreover, we did not have any translation schools. So, when the city got its historical name back, we just did not know how to write its name properly in English. People literally would just flip a coin. Consequently, some stuck to Ekaterinburg (like those working in the UK Consulate General), while others clung to Yekaterinburg (those working in the US Consulate General).

Years went by, and slowly but surely a community of translators appeared and multiplied. Now even junior students who study linguistics and translation theory know some basic rules. The Russian letters я, ю, ё, and е, consist of two sounds. Therefore, the Russian я is rendered as ya (Yalta, Yakut), and ю is rendered as yu (Yulia, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), and ё is rendered as yo (Yoshkar-Ola), and е is rendered as yе (Yeltsin). These sounds are not that unusual for an English ear, for there are words like yard, and Yukon and yo-yo, and Yemen. Come to think of it, many languages have sounds that are rendered by two (or more) letters, e.g. Hungarian busz (bus). But no more Hungarian, ok?

Proper names printed in English-English dictionaries - Yerevan, Yeltsin, Yesenin, Yenisei, Yevtushenko and others — indicate clearly that the only way to write our city in English is Yekaterinburg. All the maps write Yekaterinburg. Why is Ekaterinburg so sticky, then?

When they write Egorov on the jersey of an athlete, it’s because fewer letters save space. Or when airport Koltsovo writes Ekaterinburg, it’s because fewer letters save space, too. When the City Administration chose to write Ekaterinburg on their official site, it’s because they never bothered to ask the opinion of experts. Google maps prefer the spelling Ekaterinburg because they looked at how we ourselves write the name in English, shrugged their shoulders, and agreed to it. So, my guess is that Russians are strangely and stubbornly persistent, while English speakers don’t really care that much. Foreigners come here and ask me all the time: on all our maps we saw Yekaterinburg, so why do you write Ekaterinburg, without the y? Citizens of the world, don’t ask me why. I just don’t know!

When our city’s most popular site E1 (www.e1.ru) proposed a partnership, I agreed. I agreed because I want to see my city become more English-friendly with every coming year. The associates at E1 explained however that they could not change their name. Ekaterinburg is what they must stick to. It was not easy for me to agree with this wrong spelling. We settled on a compromise: Whether you google Yekaterinburg or Ekaterinburg, you are directed to this site anyway. As a linguist and a patriot, I do what I can. I am not going to surrender and raise the white flag of defeat. I may have lost the battle, but — in the long run — I intend to win the war.

In the meantime, enjoy the site and the city! Welcome to Russia, the Urals, and (Y)Ekaterinburg!


Click here

[Мороз]

I suppose Ekaterinburg is better than ridiculous and eye harshing Yekaterinburg.

[Михаил З.]

Мороз, 100% agree!

[DEDA]

Test: What is your level of English?

[DEDA]

Виталий Мутко фром хиз харт

[vikeburg]

Test: What is your level of English?

B1. this is really bad?

[Йохан]

Виталий Мутко фром хиз харт

причём, боттом ов хиз харт ;)

[DEDA]

[Михаил З.]

...Зэ педерал гавенмент...

Sounds great!
But reads in Russian realistic!

[DEDA]

...Зэ педерал гавенмент...

Sounds great!
But reads in Russian realistic!

just

Сообщение отредактировал DEDA - 3.12.2010, 14:05

[NASA]

HAPPY YEAR EVERYBODY!!!!!!

Нappy new year, Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend

Happy new year, Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I

[NASA]

Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh.

O, Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way!
O what fun it is to ride In a one-horse open sleigh.

[Flinstoun]

Test: What is your level of English?

B1. this is really bad?

В1 ту.
ай синк соу ит вэри бэд фор зис топис