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

[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!


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[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