Thursday, August 16, 2007

Russian Translation of Harry Potter

First of September a new Harry Potter book will be released in Russia. A lot of professional translators work right now on the Harry Potter Russian Translation. Printing houses try to prevent the illegal early release in Russia of the book. But Harry Potter has already been translated into Russian by some individual English Russian translators. They tried to get money out of this business. The first 600 thousand books will be available mostly in Moscow and St.Petersburg.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Russian Web Site Translation from Russian Translation Pros

Russian Web Site translation is a very complex process. Russian English translation of websites or English Russian website translation involve many translator requirements and skills. A Russian translator should not only be a professional translator, but also understand basic concepts of website-building. An English Russian Translator must know and "feel" the target and an original language he translates to. For instance, a website translation for a shopping cart should be for American oriented web site; but for a British English oriented audience it should be translated as: shopping basket. In other words web site translation should be adapted to the target audience culture. As with any translation and localization project, it is not enough to simply convert text into the destination language; rather the success of a website translated into a language different to the original depends on several factors: the contents must be adapted to the linguistic and cultural system of the target language. The other important thing is the search engine optimization process. A Russian website translator should know adapt the English keywords to Russian keywords which are the most searcheable.

Monday, August 13, 2007

Russian Translation needed for Russian Voters

There is no Russian Translation on instructions on how to vote, use the machines, electoral paperwork. So, many Russian voters are either lost in translation or just don't go to elections.
But voting materials are currently available in Chinese, Spanish, and Korean. Even though there are two times more Russian speaking citizens in New-York than Korean speaking ones.
So there should be a Russian translation voting materials as well.

Monday, August 6, 2007

Russian language translation: english russian translators

Russian-Translation-Pros.com is a web site dedicated to Russian English Translation and English Russian Translation Services. On the language translation website you will can find different types of translations and interpretations. For instance, they offer Russian Legal Translation, Russian Medical Translation, Russian Web Site Translation, and a lot more.


Have you heard about Russian Transliteration Translation ever? That what I thought. We will cover this language translation subject little bit later in next posts.


Starting from yesterday Russian English Translators as well as English Russian Translators will translate Russian Documents and Texts or English Documents and Text at an incredibly low for translation business price — $0.01. But this promotional offer will only be available during a certain period of time.


Some more news are coming about the Russian translation services. Keep tuned.

Saturday, May 12, 2007

EuroVision - Serbia Ukrain Russia - Europe Song Contest Winners!!!

Serbia won the Eurovision - a very famous Europe Song Contest which was held this year in Helsinki, Finland. Many people are surprised with Serbia winning the contest. But there are no miracles... Serbia is in the "Eurovision" for the first time and this contry is independent now. So, as you can assume it's all politics. Besides their song, called "Molitva," which is translated as a Prayer into English had no effect on people.

Ukraine had a very interesting singer this year - Verka Serduchka. She is, i.e. he is a man, whose name is Andrey and he is a very popular in Russia.

And finally, Russia got the third place. I think, personally, the song was OK, but it's all Putin's achievement.

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Russian President didn't remove hammer & sickle

Russian President Putin denied a bill passed by Duma. They decided to remove from a symbol of Victory in the 2nd WW hammer and sickle. There were a lot of discussions on this hot topic in Russian Government. So, now Vladimir Putin is a hero again.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Russia doesn' sell pirate CDs, Software, Music on streets

Russian Government prohibited to sell CDs with Music, Movies and Computer Software and Games on the street. It was a common scene to see people selling pirate versions of Computer Programs, all kinds of Foreign and Russian Music and newly-released movies. A person could buy for less than a US dollar a computer game which would cost in the United States $30 and even more. But if there weren't pirate products, most people in Russia wouldn't afford so expensive items. Refer to the average salary in Russia (not in Moscow — it is completely another country, like a lot of people in Russia like to say), and you will see that a person could only buy one Windows XP (or Russian Translation Software) operating system on that kind of a salary. We'll see how that business will be developing in Russia after passing that law.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

LanguageScape Dumps Russian Translators

Hello, dear RussianTranslators.Blogspot Readers. I just wanted to share my own experience with online translation companies, being accurate, just one of them — Languagescape.com or they also call themselves editavenue.com.


When I first came to the US, I had troubles finding a job. If there are immigrants out there who didn't come on H1B, then, you will understand me. It was really difficult to get a job you want. So, I was running out of money. One acquainted of mine, suggested me to try internet search of online translation and LanguageScape.com.


Having reviewed your application, we have determined that your qualifications meet our standards for becoming an LanguageScape translator.

I was so excited about it. And just the next day, I got a translation job from them:



You have been selected for a translation project. An overview of the job appears below:

Job Name: Russian Translation
Invoice Number: ...
Source Language: English
Target Language: Russian
Commission Amount
: $9.90 USD
Number of Pages: 1
Due-Date: 7/25/2006 11:00 PM US Eastern Time (2 Day Turnaround)
Client Location: USA



I have translated the text in about 2 hours and sent it back to the 'customer'. And on my account it was showed that I earned 10 bucks, which I never got back from them. I advised the company to my friend. And I was surprised that he also had the same text I translated. And my Russian Friend also got 10 bucks. After that I started to wonder why are they giving away 10 bucks to every person for the same text. What do you think? Yes, they just were testing our skills. We got 5 out of 5 points. In about a week or so I was assigned to translate another text from a real customer and got another 15 dollars.

A client has rated / reviewed your work:

Russian Translation, 5 out of 5 stars
Very comprehensive translation. Quick and reliable.

Your new average client rating is 5 (5.000).

But when it came to the check at the end of the month, I got this:

Our records indicate that you registered twice. The "..." account has been deactivated.


I asked if they could send me my 25 dollars, but I never heard from them again.

SO, I hope this would be a helpful information for those who would like to work for language scape.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Russian Man beaten to death by Christian in New Jersey, United States of America.

A 26-year-old man was beating an innocent Russian traveler. Russian old man was traveling in the USA with his assistant. While his assistant was in the building of the rest area in NJ State, this tragic event happened. The victim was 75 years old. His Russian Translator in London and Russian Interpreter said that he spent 11 years in prison. Mikhail Makarenko was arrested for anti Soviet propaganda and agitation. Brian K. White killed Russian Citizen with a rock to death because second refused to buy his Christian CDs.
Fortunately, White was arrested by Police after 90-miles-chase.

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Russian Theatre - No cellphones

News from Russia. In Russian Theatre - the Alexandrisky in St. Petersburg have been installed a special equipment which blocks mobile ringtones during theatre performance. One of the artist was so mad one day on the scene, that had to scream "Turn off your cell phone and let me finish my speech." However, audience ignored all the signs saying "NO CELL PHONES." The technology is rather expensive, but the Alexandriisky theater wants to protect its artists from the fancy music.

A.S. Pushkin Russian State Academic Drama Theatre - is one of the most famous Alexandriiskiy Theatre and the oldest Russian national theatre.

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