Alaska Chat III (Anchorage: Russians, children, student)

[nuala]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

You can hear bits & pieces of it in rap music. The last time I went to the mall I asked the Rosetta Stone guy if they had Yu'pik. They didn't. Now I'll have to ask about ebonics.

You really want to learn Yu'pik?

[Лютый]

Originally Posted by nuala

Lyuty - yes, your English is good, and you get a good practice here.

Only a couple of things:

you say, "it's clear!" - (you translate it from "yasno!") - the English would say "Got it!" or "Got you!" or "I got you!" or (slang) "Gotcha!"

Another thing you put down as, "I rest of my soul in the village there" ("moya dusha otdyxaet") - to the English, it sounds too close to dying ("rest my soul", "rest in peace").

Maybe, "I find peace there", or "My whole being is resting there" ...

Hope that's OK with you

Thank you very much! Your help is very important to me!

[Barkingowl]

Originally Posted by nuala

You really want to learn Yu'pik?

I'd like to, yes.

[Лютый]

Yu'pik as well as the languages of other peoples of the North is very difficult in pronunciation. There are a lot of guttural and clicking sounds, which do not characterize the speech of Europeans.

[nuala]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

I'd like to, yes.

It's amusing to think of the circle of languages that happened in my family. As I said, my father is Yakut, one of the nations in Siberia. I never learned that language as he had come to the Russian part of the USSR to study in an univeristy, fell in love with a Russian woman (my mother), and the rest was history. He was talking in his language only to rare acquaintances from back home. To me, the language sounded with a lot of "kh" sounds.

So I come to Canada and have kids, and I dont' speak Russian to them, and I have hard time explaining why. It's almost as if I need to get them back there and immerse. They are still small.

It's all personal preferences, of course. I would love to learn French, myself.

[Лютый]

It's interesting, what does Russian language seem to English-speaking people?

[nuala]

Originally Posted by Лютый

It's interesting, what does Russian language seem to English-speaking people?

They get tired listening to it

[Лютый]

Originally Posted by nuala

They get tired listening to it

No, I'm serious.

[ASpilot2be]

Originally Posted by Лютый

It's interesting, what does Russian language seem to English-speaking people?

Well, it sounds like nonsense to me

We have quite a few Russian students here in Anchorage and they are always speaking Russian to eachother. I always think they are plotting against me.

[nuala]

Originally Posted by Лютый

No, I'm serious.

I'm serious. ()

How long can you listen to someone talking in Farsi language?