Meeting people in Ukrainian

Як вас звати?

Yak vas zvàty?

What's your name? 

Formal

Як тебе звати?

Yak tébe zvàty?

What's your name?

Inf.

Мене звати Olena.

Méne zvàty Olena.

My name is Olena.

Звідки ти? 

Zvídki ty?

Where are you from?

F.

Звідки ви?

Zvídki vy?

Where are you from?

Я з України.

ja z Ukraíny.

I’m from Ukraine.

Я іноземець

Ya inozémets

I'm a foreigner.

Скільки тобі років?

Skíl'ki tóbi rókiv?

How old are you?

Inf.

Мені 46 років.

Méni 46 rókiv.

I'm 46.

Як справи?

Yak spràvy?

How are you doing?

Both formal and informal.

Добре

Dóbre

I'm fine.

Дуже добре.

Dúzhe dóbre.

Very good.

Привіт

Pryvít

Hello .

Дякую

Dyàkuyu

Thank you.

До побаченя

Do pobachenya.

See you.

Ви говорите англійською?

Vy govóryte anglíys'koyu?

Do you speak English?

Ви розмовляєте українською?

Vy rozmovlyàyete ukraín'skoyu?

Do you speak Ukrainian?

Я не розумію.

Ya ne rozúmiyu.

I don't understand.

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The Revenant (Albanian subtitles)

 

Jam i plagosur.

I'm wounded.

Ç' të ka ndodhur?

What happened to you?

Një ari.

A bear.

Një ari i zi.

A black bear.

Grizzly.

Njerëzit e mi kujtuan se kisha vdekur.

My men ... left me for dead.

Më vranë tim bir.

They killed my son.

Edhe unë e kam humbur familjen time.

I lost my family too.

Siutë vranë njerëzit e mi.

Sioux killed my people.

Po shkoj në jug që të gjej Poni të tjerë.

I'm going south to find more Pawnee.

Më dhemb zemra.

My heart bleeds (hurts).

Por hakmarrja është në duart e Kriujesit.

But revenge is in the creator's hands.

Do udhëtosh me mua.

You will ride(travel) with me ...

Back to core phrases in Albanian.

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Six skills of successful people (Russian podcast)

Шесть навыков успешных людей:

1. Нет
2. Сегодня не смогу
3. Завтра тоже
4. Посмотрим
5. Точно не знаю
6. Если что, я сам позвоню

Six skills of successful people:

1. No

2. Can't do it today

3. Tomorrow too

4. We'll see.

5. I don't know exactly.

6. If anything, I'll call you myself.

Шесть

shest' 

six

навыки 

nàvyki 

skills

навыков 

nàvykaf 

of skills

Numbers after five take the plural genitive. Шесть навыков genitive plural

Numbers up to 4 are followed by the genitive singular.

Четыре навыки.

успешные люди

Uspéshnye lyúdi

Successful people

успешных людей

Uspéshnykh lyud'ei

Of successful people 

Нет

Nyét

No 

Сегодня

Sivódnia

Today

Завтра

zàvtra

Tomorrow

Note the the letter в becomes soft and it is pronounced as f before т and some other 'hard' letters.

Russian distinguishes between soft and hard letters.

Also навыков. The в becomes soft at the end of the word and it is pronounced as f. 

Посмотрим

Posmótrim

We'll see.

Russian verbs come in pairs смотреть-посмотреть in a continuous, uncompleted and a completed form.

Here посмотрим is in the completed form and it denotes a completed action in the simple future.

тоже

Tózhe

Too

Точно

Tóchna

Exactly

The unaccented o is pronounced like a or more like a schwa in Standard Russian.

сам

Sam

Myself

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Farewell to virginity (Russian podcast)

прощание с девственностью

Мне было 14. Я шла с тренировки через парк. Некому мудаку лет 25 приспичило неожиданно устроить мне прощание с девственностью. У него перелом челюсти, а у меня девственность на месте и заявление о нанесении вреда здоровью средней степени тяжести. Благо в милиции разобрались и заставили его заявление забрать. Ибо нехер пытаться насиловать девочку, которая идет с тренировки по русскому рукопашному бою.

farewell to virginity

I was 14. I was walking through the park from practice. Some asshole about 25 suddenly had to give me a farewell to my virginity. He had a broken jaw, but my virginity was still there and I received a moderate injury report. Fortunately, the police sorted it out and made him withdraw his statement. Because you shouldn't try to rape a girl who was coming from Russian martial arts training.

Russian

English

Мне  было  четырнадцать  Я  шла  с тренировки  через  парк Некому  мудаку  лет  Двадцать пять приспичило  неожиданно  устроить  мне  прощание с девственностью  У него  перелом  челюсти а  у меня  девственность  на месте  и заявление  о нанесении  вреда здоровью  средней степени  тяжесть Благо  в милиции  разобрались  и  заставили  его  заявление  забрать Ибо  нехер  пытаться  насиловать  девочку которая  идет  с тренировки  по русскому  рукопашному бою.

Me  was 14 I on my way to from practice through park No one asshole age 25 had an urge all of a sudden to arrange me goodbye to virginity He's got fracture his jaw but I have virginity  in place and a statement  for causing  health injury moderate severity good thing that the police figured it out and made him statement take it back Because don't trying to to rape a girl who going from practice in Russian hand-to-hand combat.

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The Naranjo brothers.

Los hermanos Naranjo.

The scene that follows is from the Netflix serial Narcos Mexico. 

Mexican Spanish is very interesting to me. I like it better than European Spanish. 

 I'll be using some scenes from Narcos Mexico to teach myself and whoever is interested some Spanish.

First watch the video with the English subtitles and with the Spanish ones.

 

Los hermanos Naranjo.

The Naranjo brothers. Naranjo means orange in Spanish.

-Don Netto

Que sorpresa oír que visite a nuestra ciudad.

Don Netto. I was surprised to hear you were in town.

-Fue un viaje repentino.

It was an unplanned trip.

Aquí ando cuidando a este.

Babysitting this one.

Cómo está tu carnal?

How 's your brother?

-Sí,todo bien.

All good.

Me contaron lo del ejército.

I heard about the army.

Les volverion a quemar la mercancía,¿verdad?

They burned the goods again, right?

Lástima.

Too bad.

Pero para matar a las ratas supongo que hay que meterse a la coladera.

O no?

But if you want to kill rats, guess you have to go into the sewer.

Or not?

-Ajá.

Si, claro.

- Yes.

Yes, of course.

Pues, como te decía aquí ando acompañando.

Te trae una propuesta el compa .

Anyway, like I said, I'm here

accompaning this guy.

He's got a proposal for you.

-Una propocicion?Que bueno!

- A proposal? How nice.

-Ey.

-Oigámosla,pues.

- Yes.

Let's hear it then.

Despues que el broncon que nos pasó alla en Sinaloa,

nació una oportunidad para nuestras organizaciones.

After that mess that happened in Sinaloa...

an opportunity was bornfor our organizations.

Estamos buscando una sociedad.

-Sociedad?

-Ey.

-We're looking for a partnership.

- Partnership?

- Yes.

-A,pues,ahora sí estoy interesado.

Well, now I'm interested.

-Pues esta muy facil.

It's very easy.

Basicamente,es traernos la operacion de nuestros plantíos aca.

Basically, we move our growing operation here.

Venirnos a Guadalajara.

De ustedes nomás necesitamos pues

la protección de sus policías y ya.

Ajá.

Nos encargamos de todo, ¿eh? La mano

de obra, distribución, todos los gastos.

Y... pues estamos dispuestos a compartir 50 y 50 las ganancias.

OK.

Digo... Somos los mejores

para crecer esta chingadera, ¿no?

Miren nada más a este cabrón.

¿Qué te parece si nos dividimos

las ganancias sesenta y cuarenta?

No, no, espera. Setenta y treinta.

No. Ochenta y veinte.

No... Noventa y diez.

Esta es mi última oferta:

a ti no te toca nada

y te largas de mi pinche pueblo.

¿Socios?

¿Es en serio lo que dice este pendejo?

Allá, en Sinaloa,

tienen culitos bien lindos, ¿no?

Ahora que se van a morir de hambre,

¿por qué no nos mandan unas cuantas?

Aquí les encontramos qué hacer.

Dígale al León que en Guadalajara nos reímos mucho de él.

"Sociedad".

¿Sabes? Te tengo otra propuesta.

¿Sí?

Oye, ¿estás loco, pendejo?

Se va a llenar de policías,policias de este cabrón.

Su hermano nos va a quemar vivos.

¡Rafa!

¡Órale!

Pinche par de loquitos. Váyanse a la verga.

Sociedad

¿Sabes? Te tengo otra propuesta.

¿Sí?

¡Qué te pasa, pendejo!

You can find  subtitles in Spanish , English and other languages  for the entire serial in this site.

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At the doctor's in Greek.

At the Doctor in Greek
Symptoms | Pain | Medicine | Prescription | Grammar Notes

Grammar: Expressing Pain & Illness

Structure: Πονάει + το + body part + μου → "My [body part] hurts"

Verb: πονάω (I hurt) → 3rd person πονάει used with body part as subject.

Possessive: μου = "my" (after noun). No article needed in informal speech.

Future for Instructions: Θα + verb = "You will..." (doctor’s orders)

Καλημέρα, γιατρέ. (kah-lee-MEH-rah, yah-TREH)

Good morning, doctor.

Also: Καλησπέρα, γιατρέ. (Good evening)

Τι πάθατε; (tee PAH-thah-teh?)

What happened to you?

Lit: "What did you suffer?"

Πού πονάτε; (POO poh-NAH-teh?)

Where do you hurt?

Πού πονάς; (POO poh-NAHS?)

Where do you hurt? (informal)

Πονάω εδώ. (poh-NAH-oh eh-THOH)

I'm hurting here. (pointing)

Use with finger to show exact spot

Πονάει το κεφάλι μου. (poh-NAH-ee toh keh-FAH-lee moo)

My head hurts.

Πονάει το δόντι μου. (poh-NAH-ee toh THON-dee moo)

My tooth hurts.

Πονάει η πλάτη μου. (poh-NAH-ee ee PLAH-tee moo)

My back hurts.

Πονάει το χέρι μου. (poh-NAH-ee toh KHEH-ree moo)

My arm hurts.

Πονάει το χέρι μου εδώ. (poh-NAH-ee toh KHEH-ree moo eh-THOH)

My arm hurts here.

Πονάει το πόδι μου. (poh-NAH-ee toh POH-thee moo)

My leg hurts.

Πονάει το στομάχι μου. (poh-NAH-ee toh stoh-MAH-khee moo)

My stomach hurts.

Πονάει ο λαιμός μου. (poh-NAH-ee oh leh-MOS moo)

My throat hurts.

Έχω πυρετό. (EH-kho pee-reh-TOH)

I have a fever.

Έχω βήχα. (EH-kho VEE-khah)

I have a cough.

Έχω κρυολόγημα. (EH-kho kree-oh-LOH-yee-mah)

I have a cold.

Νιώθω αδύναμος/αδύναμη. (NYOH-thoh ah-THEE-nah-mos / ah-THEE-nah-mee)

I feel weak. (m/f)

Δεν μπορώ να αναπνεύσω καλά. (then boh-ROH nah ah-nahp-NEHV-soh kah-LAH)

I can't breathe well.

Συνταγή. (seen-tah-YEE)

Prescription. / Recipe.

Αυτό το φάρμακο χρειάζεται συνταγή. (af-TOH toh FAR-mah-koh khree-A-AH-zeh-tah seen-tah-YEE)

This medicine needs a prescription.

Θα παίρνετε αυτό το φάρμακο τρεις φορές τη μέρα. (thah PEER-neh-teh af-TOH toh FAR-mah-koh trees foh-RES tee MEH-rah)

You will take this medicine three times a day.

Πρωί, μεσημέρι, απόγευμα. (proh-EE, meh-see-MEH-ree, ah-poh-YEV-mah)

Morning, noon, afternoon.

Also: βράδυ = night

Πάρτε ένα χάπι κάθε οκτώ ώρες. (PAR-teh EH-nah KHAH-pee KAH-theh ohk-TOH OH-res)

Take one pill every eight hours.

Μετά το φαγητό. (meh-TAH toh fah-yee-TOH)

After food.

Πριν το φαγητό. (preen toh fah-yee-TOH)

Before food.

Greek	Romanization	English
το κεφάλι	keh-FAH-lee	head
ο λαιμός	leh-MOS	throat / neck
η πλάτη	PLAH-tee	back
το στομάχι	stoh-MAH-khee	stomach
το χέρι	KHEH-ree	arm / hand
το πόδι	POH-thee	leg / foot
το δόντι	THON-dee	tooth

At the Doctor's Office:

— Καλημέρα, γιατρέ.
— Καλημέρα. Τι πάθατε;
— Πονάει το κεφάλι μου και έχω πυρετό.
— Πού πονάτε ακριβώς;
— Εδώ, πίσω από τα μάτια.
— Θα σας δώσω μια συνταγή. Πάρτε αυτό το φάρμακο τρεις φορές τη μέρα, μετά το φαγητό.
— Ευχαριστώ, γιατρέ.

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Weather in Russian.

Погода

Pagóda

Weather 

Холодно

Khóladna

It's cold.

Тепло

T'epló

It's warm.

Жарко

Zhàrka

It's hot.

Дождь идёт.

Dózhd' id'ót.

It's raining.

Дождь

Dózhd'

Rain

Марасит.

Marasít.

It's drizzling.

Снег идёт.

Sn’ek id'ót 

It's snowing.

Дует.

Dúet

It's windy.

Гремит

Gr'emít

It thunders.

Гром

Grom

Thunder

Молния

Mólniya

Lightning

Солнечно.

Sólnichna

The sun is shining.

Солнце светит.

Sóntse sv'etit.

The sun is shining.

Пасмурно.

Pàsmurna

It's cloudy.

Собачий холод.

Sabàchiy khólat

Very cold (dog's cold).

Дубак.

Dubak

Very cold (colloquial)

Холодрыга.

Khaladryga

Very cold (slang)

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