"My brother is in Mexico"

June 21, 2005 12:26 AM

Russian lessons from "Giant Heads"
posted by growabrain (8 comments total)

Funny! Thanks. Sadly, the audio was fuzzy on my cheap speakers, so my pronunciation of those phrases will be awful.
posted by tweak at 12:32 AM on June 21, 2005

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posted by greasepig at 2:43 AM on June 21, 2005

aaah, I'm sorry, forgot about the whole entity-translation thing not equaling what you see in preview. Just meant [this is good] in Russian.
posted by greasepig at 2:45 AM on June 21, 2005

[eto khorosho]
posted by graymouser at 3:58 AM on June 21, 2005

It would be [better] if the Russian were correct. But I guess it's hard to be funny and accurate at the same time.
posted by languagehat at 5:49 AM on June 21, 2005

languagehat -

It's been 6 years since I had Russian...what's wrong w/ the phrases offered? We need to know, man! :-)
posted by graymouser at 6:27 AM on June 21, 2005

For starters, 'in Mexico' is v Meksike, not "v Mekhiko" (it would help if I could use Cyrillic, but we know how that turns out; anyway, the x letter in Russian represents the kh sound, not ks). Mekhiko is a Russian word, but it means 'Mexico City,' and even if you meant 'in Mexico City' it would be v Mekhike, not "v Mekhiko."

I noticed other errors as I went through the site, but I'm not about to waste another chunk of my life going through it again taking notes. Just treat it as a clever joke site, not an actual Russian lesson.
posted by languagehat at 6:59 AM on June 21, 2005

I caught the "x" problem, but didn't realize the missing declension was wrong. I just figured they'd treat it as a fixed borrow-word, like "metro."
posted by solotoro at 4:16 PM on June 21, 2005