What you all think about Russians? or Russian Languauge?

Also,
I think Russia has some of the most beautiful women in the world.

InfraBlue, there are several hundred web pages devoted specifically to that topic if you wish to do so research. But dont say I said it was ok!

Ceili, of course! I don't have cyrillic script enabled on my pc but I believe the phrase you are looking for is Na Zdherohvya. Or as you say something like that!

Now here's a little question

The Russian alphabet - cyrillic, derives its name from

a. the earlist such scripts found at Cyrilliya, near Kiev
b. a particular version of the Greek alphabet
c. some bloke called Cyril.

Just off now for a stoli-bolli. (Stolichnya vodka and Bollinger champagne..equal measures, until it gets difficult to judge)

Na Zheerhhver ....what I said before

На здоровье :wink:

Cheers Ciccooccoollattoo

To your health too.

Now for the result of my exciting prize competition. I was overwhelmed by the response.

The answer was of course c some bloke called cyril. (A monk aparantly)

And the winner is....Cioccolato

Who didn't actually give an answer, but was closest as there were no others.

And your prize...and your prize is to be announced later.

Ждите минуту!
Я думал русские сказало длинние рассказы, как пословицы, между каждым питьем... Не Cheers!
Хорошая вещь слишком. Потому что каждое должно выпить после каждого рассказа.

Steve, Я обжуливаю плох! :wink:

Man! I was totally gonna answer the question but I was only about 99.8% sure that it was some bloke named Cyril...so I didn't say anything. Woohoo, looks like I won anyway.

Oh, "to your health" -- это просто общая тенденция -- как американцы и англичане не всегда используют "Cheers!!"

Вы обжуливаете слишком? Или вы реально знаете русского это совершенно?

Я люблю технологию! :wink:

Оффф! Да, я действительно говорю по-русски :wink: . А я конечно узнала что ты используешь переводчику...потому-что написал ты "слишком" вместо "тоже"...а также немножко другие незначительные (хааа...!) ошибки. Переводчики обычно разрушают твои слова. Они не признают нюансы языка.

In other words...it's not quite cheating because nothing makes sense

For anyone who's interested, the Cyrillic is actually quite easy to learn. You just have to take a moment to ignore the fact that some characters resemble some Latin characters.

After that, because the language is phonetic all you really need to do is build a vocabulary and learn the six grammatical cases involved.

• А а - ah
  
• Б б - bay
  
• В в - vay
  
• Г г - gay
  
• Д д - dee
  
• Е е - yay
  
• Ё ё - yo
  
• Ж ж - zh
  
• З з - zay (as in zoo)
  
• И и - ee
  
• Й й - used for forming dipthongs, i.e. Ча (cha) becomes Чай (chai)
  
• К к - kay
  
• Л л - el
  
• М м - em
  
• Н н - en
  
• О о - oh, sounds like ah when unstressed
  
• П п - pay
  
• Р р - ar
  
• С с - ess
  
• Т т - tee
  
• У у - oo
  
• Ф ф - ef
  
• Х х - h (like the h in Scottosh 'loch')
  
• Ц ц - ts
  
• Ч ч - ch
  
• Ш ш - sh
  
• Щ щ - shch
  
• Ъ ъ - tvyordiy znahk (hard sign)
  
• Ы ы - i (as in ill)
  
• Ь ь - myagkeey znahk (soft sign)
  
• Э э - eh, (as the e in set, yet, etc.)
  
• Ю ю - yoo
  
• Я я - ya
  

Ъ and Ь (the hard and soft sign) don't have a sound of their own. They affect the sound of the consonant they follow.

Mile-O-Phile: and you continue to insist that this isn't hard to learn for one used to Latin characters? Under oath?

It took me three nights to learn the Cyrillic letters - admittedly I don't always get them in the right order when saying the alphabet.

Reading words in Cyrillic is easy enough once you know the sounds each character makes. After that it's just vocabulary and grammar.