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ECTACO Info: You don’t learn Russian, Russian learns you....

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29 Things You Will Only Understand If You Studied Russian. You don’t learn Russian, Russian learns you.... 1.  When you first meet the Cyrillic alphabet and think, cool, I can do this. ..... 7.  But when you mix them up, native Russian speakers have no idea what you’re trying to say. ..... 15.  Your instructor makes you describe a merry little trip around an imagined city, full of opportunities to ехать, идти, выходить, обходить, переходить and заходить. .... by  Susie Armitage BuzzFeed News Reporter Full:  http://www.buzzfeed.com/susiearmitage/29-things-you-will-only-understand-if-you-studied-russian#.ddgYW0N6v ECTACO Info http://www.ectaco.cz , www.luxectaco.com   Electronic translators  --> ECTACO RU | Англо <-> Русский переводчик Partner LUX 2 Вы говорите, мы слушаем. Идя навстречу пожеланиям наших пользователей, мы много сил посвятили созданию переводчика, который понимал бы своб...

ECTACO Info: 10 Words Everybody Needs to Know before Going to Russia. Part 4

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An announcement in hospital: Больных в семь утра закапывать всех. Direct translation: At 7 o’clock all patients must be filled up. The speaker wanted to say: At 7 o’clock all patients must receive their eye drops . It’s well known that the Russian language is rich in slang , pejoratives and vulgar words. Even the most common words can have a completely different meaning when used figuratively, which we wouldn’t encourage to you use. .. In addition, two more Russian words are worth mentioning: виснуть/зависнуть , which means to hang in the air without any support. We can use this word e.g. when describing UFO’s. As we say that UFO hangs in the air.  And the second word is тормозить . This word is related to transportation. E.g. to jam on the brakes. In their figurative meanings, these words are synonyms. If you hear «Не тормози!» или «Не висни!», it means you seem to be a person who is too slow or not concentrated or not attentive enough. There is a trick to distin...

ECTACO.CZ | NEW 19 language communicator SpeechGuard TLX

NEW 19 language SpeechGuard TLX : Rugged World Travel Smartphone, Voice Translator & Language Assistant is now available for the most popular European and Asian languages.   Fast, Efficient, and Powerful: The SpeechGuard is the world's only professional voice translator, smartphone and travel assistant. A joint effort in development between Ectaco, Inc. and the US military yielded SpeechGuard, it has been molded into civilian friendly multilingual version, model TLX/WLD19 . The SpeechGuard benefits many businesses, professionals, and individuals throughout the world.   This is an exceptional phone and voice translator for exceptional situations.   SpeechGuard TLX/WLD19 comes preloaded with language pairs:   English <-> Arabic, Arabic <-> English; English <-> Chinese, Chinese <-> English; English <-> Farsi, Farsi <-> English; English <-> French, French <-> English; English <-> German, Ger...

LUXECTACO.COM | Partner LUX 2 8-language Free Speech Electronic Translator

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www.luxectaco.com Partner LUX 2 8-language ..., over 6,000,000 words/phrases..., voice translator... European ECTACO Partner LUX 2 8-language Free Speech Electronic Translator Language pair:  English <-> Spanish, Spanish <-> English; English <-> French, French <-> English; English <-> German, German <-> English; English <-> Italian, Italian <-> English; English <-> Polish, Polish <-> English; English <-> Portuguese, Portuguese <-> English; English <-> Russian, Russian <-> English.   Highlights: 8 languages pre-installed: This comes with English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Free Speech Translation: Press a button, speak what you want and get an instant translation. Language Teaching: Specialized program which will teach you a language. Easy to use: Has a flippable touch screen and runs on the speedy Andro...

ECTACO Info | More Swiss eager to learn Russian

ECTACO INFO (ECTACO - Electronic translators ) www.ectaco.info Second native, third foreign, fourth most popular – the Russian language has gained a striking foothold in multi-language Switzerland. Opinion polls show that many Swiss are eager to learn the language of Pushkin and Tolstoy for professional or personal reasons. Russian is a mother tongue for 26,000 Swiss citizens and a second native language for immigrants from former Soviet republics and children born into mixed families.   The number of Russian language learners in Swiss schools and universities is on the rise. Russian ranks among the top four most popular foreign languages in Switzerland along with Spanish , Arabic and Chinese. It is a compulsory foreign language for more than 2,000 Swiss school students. Thomas Schmidt, President of the Swiss Association of Teachers of Russian, confirmed that more and more students were taking up Russian for economic reasons, probably encouraged by their parents seei...