Comments on: "My brother is in Mexico"

"My brother is in Mexico"

growabrain — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:26:12 -0800

Russian lessons from "Giant Heads"

By: tweak

tweak — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 00:32:35 -0800

Funny! Thanks. Sadly, the audio was fuzzy on my cheap speakers, so my pronunciation of those phrases will be awful.

By: greasepig

greasepig — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:43:02 -0800

[??? ??????]

By: greasepig

greasepig — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 02:45:04 -0800

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.

By: graymouser

graymouser — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 03:58:38 -0800

[eto khorosho]

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:49:48 -0800

It would be [better] if the Russian were correct. But I guess it's hard to be funny and accurate at the same time.

By: graymouser

graymouser — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:27:54 -0800

languagehat - It's been 6 years since I had Russian...what's wrong w/ the phrases offered? We need to know, man! :-)

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:44:03 -0800

For starters, the letters are all weird-looking!

By: languagehat

languagehat — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 06:59:41 -0800

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.

By: solotoro

solotoro — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:16:47 -0800

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."