This weekend I went to Coney island with my class mate , after going for few wild rides we decided to go the Brighton beach area where there are lots of Russian stores. Since my classmate did her schooling in Russian she was keen to go this place. We saw a Russian book store and she said she will show some of the best Russian collections.
Once inside I saw different sections and there not much for to look apart from the front cover as everything else was in Russian.There was section called bilingual which was interesting because the left hand side was written in Russian and its english translation on the right hand side. It would easier for people learning the language to read these books.Then I found that all great writers like Shakespeare, Dickens to the latest books by Paulo Coelho translated in Russian. There were also the book of famous Russian authors like Leo Tolstoy Alexander Pushkin etc Then there were biographies of famous Russian people like Lenin,Trotsky,Rusputin etc. My friend was telling me all the book she read during college days and how much importance the Russian literature were given importance in their school curriculam. It was my first experience to go into a book store finding my as an illiterate.
Once inside I saw different sections and there not much for to look apart from the front cover as everything else was in Russian.There was section called bilingual which was interesting because the left hand side was written in Russian and its english translation on the right hand side. It would easier for people learning the language to read these books.Then I found that all great writers like Shakespeare, Dickens to the latest books by Paulo Coelho translated in Russian. There were also the book of famous Russian authors like Leo Tolstoy Alexander Pushkin etc Then there were biographies of famous Russian people like Lenin,Trotsky,Rusputin etc. My friend was telling me all the book she read during college days and how much importance the Russian literature were given importance in their school curriculam. It was my first experience to go into a book store finding my as an illiterate.
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Didn't your Russian friend present you with a Russian book as her parting gift?
Joke about Russian translation -
A firm experimenting with an electronic brain designed to translate English into Russian fed into it the words: "The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak."
The machine immediately responded with a sentence in Russian which meant, a linguist reported: "The whisky is agreeable but the meat has gone bad."
JP...payan yerkanavae 16 adi payaran...innum usupi vidathinga...
@Sheila
anda russian book a vechum naan enna pannuven? E adika than use aagum:)
un room le irukira karapaanai adikka use pannalaam :). U cud also use it to catch a Russian kili :)
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