Once upon a... STORY TIME!

🇷🇺 Указатель туалета. Сфотографировала пару лет назад в одном отеле. Периодически использую как финальный аргумент в спорах с мужчинами 😁 🇬🇧 The restroom sign. I took this photo a couple of years ago at a hotel. I occasionally use it as a final argument in debates with men 😁 Перевод: Мужчины налево потому что Женщины всегда правы 'правы' и 'направо' в английском пишутся одинаково #humor

TRANSLATION ❤❤🥰❤❤❤❤❤❤ 🇬🇧 Today I’m giving you a translation challenge that was sent to me by a friend (a simultaneous interpreter and university lecturer). Here’s what she writes: 🇷🇺 Сегодня я подкину вам задачку на перевод, которую мне, в свою очередь, прислала подруга (синхронный переводчик и преподаватель ВУЗа). Вот, что она пишет: 🇬🇧 - I gave my students a translation task - a scene from the 2006 film “The Break-Up”. It’s the moment when the woman calls her husband out for lying on th...

🇬🇧 Guys, I see you haven't been too actively participating in translating the movie scene (though one idea was absolutely brilliant — thank you!!!). I'll post my own translation and the student translator's successful version at the end of the week, and I'm still waiting for your suggestions! In the meantime, here's a warm-up for you. All these jokes are built on wordplay in English, and as you've already gathered, preserving such humor in translation is almost mission impossible. If you manag...

🫠🤥😶🎵 аудио 😅🫣😍 🎵 audio 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 ❤🥰❤🥰❤❤❤❤ 📕 Story #48 When I Asked for Too Much История #48 Когда я попросил слишком много (1) Today’s story isn't really about languages. It’s more of a little sketch about a clash of cultures. It was shared by one of our subscribers. One time I went to a conference in San Francisco, USA. There is a section of San Francisco called “Chinatown”, and as the name suggests, it is a place of businesses, shops, restaurants, etc., exclusively “Chinese...

🇷🇺 Получила на днях комментарий ❣, который заставил меня задуматься. Для меня очень ценно видеть, как меняются привычки читателей и как вы взаимодействуете с двумя языками на канале. А как читаете вы? Поставьте реакцию, которая вам ближе: 🦊 - Читаю на родном языке - только ради историй 🦁 - Читаю на неродном языке - перевожу сам(а), сверяюсь с вашим переводом 🐯 - Читаю на неродном языке - для практики чтения и лексики, без перевода А если ваш подход другой - напишите в комментариях! Мне очен...

🫠🤥😶🎵 аудио 😅🫣😍 🎵 audio 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 ❤🥰❤🥰❤❤❤❤ 📕 Story #47 Profession: Pervert История #47 Профессия: извращенец (1) In the comments under the last post, you asked Ben what translation app he uses for communication. He said Yandex.Translate and that he finds it more accurate than Google Translate. And that reminded me of a story from two years ago involving my friend. I almost died laughing back then. (1) В комментариях к последнему посту вы задавали вопрос Бену, каким приложением...

🇬🇧 Today my English teacher asked me to translate the phrase "Mother her, she is ill." But how was I supposed to know that it actually means "Take care of her, she's sick," and not "Holy shit, she's crazy"? 😂😂😂 💡Explanation for an international audience: The Russian phrase "Мать её!" (literally "Mother her!") is a shortened, slightly milder version of the common exclamation "Твою мать!" ("Your mother!"). Both are used to express frustration, shock, or annoyance. Think of them as the Russia...

Story #49 the beginning is up ❤ (3) A thought is an image, and apparently that's what Messing was reading. And another quote from yesterday's book: – In moments of nervous tension, you can involuntarily transmit your thought to your interlocutor. <...> My thought that I had dined with Beria reached A., and in his perception transformed into apprehension. He suddenly changed his behavior completely - started speaking in a normal voice. Has anything like this ever happened to you? When during an i...

🇷🇺 Спасибо всем, кто предложил свои версии перевода этой задачки. Среди них есть настолько удачные, что вы могли бы работать в дубляже). А вот и обещанные мною варианты: 🇬🇧 Thank you to everyone who suggested their versions of this translation challenge. Some of your translations are so spot-on, you could totally work in dubbing. And here are the variants I promised: ❤Хорошая версия студентки-переводчицы/A good version from a translation student: МУЖЧИНА: — Послушай, неужели, гений, Микеланд...

🇬🇧 Today I had my first in-person meeting with a subscriber of this channel from Australia - still feels surreal!))) After Cuba, we stayed in Moscow for a few extra days, and Ben (that's his name) has already been living here for three months, processing his documents for permanent residency. We talked for 2 hours, and if you're interested, I'll share more details with you later. For now, here’s something that surprised me. Ben doesn't speak Russian well yet, so I asked him: - Is it easy to ge...