空白から生まれた話
空白から生まれた話
今日はついに、初めての日本語のポストを書いてみた！最近ね、日本人ユーチューバーのいろいろな動画で新しい言葉をいっぱい覚えたから、語彙がめっちゃ増えたよ。だから、新しい語彙を使って「興味深い内容」を書こうとしたのに、パソコンの前に座ったはいいけど、空白の画面をただ眺めちゃって、頭も紙も相変わらず空っぽのままだった。「今日の一日について書くぞ！」って思ったんだけど、僕は朝ごはんは食べないし、庭いじり
Uly
speaks: English, Spanish
learns: French, Japanese, German, Russian
Hello all! I've been studying Russian for ten years on my own. My native languages are English and Spanish. Additionally, I've been an editor for a major international publishing house for 35 years, so please feel free to pick my brain. I look forward to improving my Russian and helping others learning my native languages.
Palm Beach, FL, US
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Lions and Tigers and Phrasal Verbs*... Oh My!
Lions and Tigers and Phrasal Verbs*... Oh My!
About a year ago, I started a YouTube channel called SMISSLE to help people learn natural, conversational American English. Since I've actively been learning Russian for the past decade, I know how
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Te perdono
Te perdono
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Learning from Others' Mistakes
Learning from Others' Mistakes
After years of reading and editing English posts on Journaly, I've realized that corrections and suggestions are a powerful language-learning tool. This is because there are two basic kinds of
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The Battle of the Moose
The Battle of the Moose
This is an excerpt from a Russian book, Тропою испытаний (The Path of Trials), written by Grigoriy Fedoseyev, a Jack London-type writer of fiction.
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The Gnome: Part 7
The Gnome: Part 7
This is the final installment of my translation of a Russian short story called Гном (The Gnome). Think of it as a very adult Little Prince. I had a lot of fun translating it because it's basically
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The Gnome: Part 6
The Gnome: Part 6
This is my translation of a Russian short story called Гном (The Gnome). Think of it as a very adult Little Prince. I had a lot of fun translating it because it's basically just a conversation
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Jul 29 - 2 min. read
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The Gnome: Part 5
The Gnome: Part 5
This is my translation of a Russian short story called Гном (The Gnome). Think of it as a very adult Little Prince. I had a lot of fun translating it because it's basically just a conversation
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Jul 25 - 9 min. read
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The Gnome: Part 4
The Gnome: Part 4
This is my translation of a Russian short story called Гном (The Gnome). Think of it as a very adult Little Prince. I had a lot of fun translating it because it's basically just a conversation
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Jul 22 - 6 min. read
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The Gnome: Part 3
The Gnome: Part 3
This is my translation of a Russian short story called Гном (The Gnome). Think of it as a very adult Little Prince. I had a lot of fun translating it because it's basically just a conversation
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Jul 20 - 5 min. read
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The Gnome: Part 2
The Gnome: Part 2
This is my translation of a Russian short story called Гном (The Gnome). Think of it as a very adult Little Prince. I had a lot of fun translating it because it's basically just a conversation
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Jul 20 - 4 min. read
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The Gnome: Part 1
The Gnome: Part 1
This is my translation of a Russian short story called Гном (The Gnome). Think of it as a very adult Little Prince. I had a lot of fun translating it because it's basically just a conversation
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Jul 19 - 5 min. read
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Goyo
Goyo
This post is in English and Spanish for students of both.
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Jul 16 - 3 min. read
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Driving on the Dark Side
Driving on the Dark Side
This is a translation from Russian into English of the story below as told on the Russian website killmeplease.
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My Amazing Experience with Comprehensible Input
My Amazing Experience with Comprehensible Input
Comprehensible Input has become a buzzword in the language community of late, and I'll admit that I knew little or nothing about it until recently, when I watched a YouTube video about it. The video
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The Bear Hunt
The Bear Hunt
This is a translation of a seemingly popular Russian anecdote as told by someone on LiveJournal.
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An American Teenager
An American Teenager
Sometimes it's interesting and illuminating to see our country... our world... through the eyes of an outsider. This story is from a Russian woman living in New York and an experience she had in a
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A Tough Week
A Tough Week
Thank you, @NataBold, for the excellent post. I hope I did it justice! Let me know if I misunderstood anything.PS: I hope you're feeling better. What a week!!!
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Translation: The Madonna Concert
Translation: The Madonna Concert
Thank you, @NataBold, for the excellent idea to post translations. I think these are a win-win for anyone studying either language. Русские друзья, если вы найдёте ошибки в моем переводе, дайте,
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Response to Linda's Question
Response to Linda's Question
In her post, Linda asked: This question is for @CocoPop: What are your thoughts on the pronunciation of foreign names in other languages such as
English? Do you think people should put more of an
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