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Question Hi i want to be able to talk in Russian because i want to greet my passengers (i work in an airport). I need to see phonetic translation, i dont understand the russian alphabet.
thank you so much!!!
Russian: привет как дела? Я желаю Вам хороший полет, и я надеюсь, что у Вас будет красивый конец дня! Спасибо за путешествие с Эйр-Канада! Мы надеемся видеть Вас скоро!
English: hi how are you today? I wish you a nice flight and i hope you will have a beautiful end of day! Thank you for travelling with Air Canada! We hope to see you soon!
Answer Hi Helen,
If you are going to use these sentences as a greeting and you are planning to say them all at once, then you don’t really need to ask “Как дела?” for in Russian it always implies that a person being asked has to reply, which would probably make it harder for you. Another thing is that if I were you, I would use “Здравствуйте” instead of “Привет.” It is pretty much the same thing, but “Здравствуйте” is more formal and is actually more appropriate in this context. I’m also wondering if you meant to say “снова” (again) instead of “скоро” (soon) in the last sentence. So, to make it sound MORE RUSSIAN, I’d change it to:
Здравствуйте. Я желаю Вам удачного полёта и хорошего окончания дня. Спасибо за путешествие с Эйр-Канада! Мы надеемся увидеть Вас снова/скоро.
Hi. I wish you a nice flight and a good ending of the day. Thanks for travelling with Air-Canada. We hope to see you again/ soon.
Zdrastvooyte. Ya zhelayu vam udachnava palyota ee harosheeva akanchaneeya dnya. Spaseeba za pooteshestveeye s Air-Canada (you can say it in English – it’s OK as long as it’s a proper name). Mee nadeyemsya uveedet’ vas snova/ skora.
Zdrastvooyte - “A” is stressed and sounds like “a” in “papa,” not like in “bag,” “mate” etc.
Ya zhelayu – “zh” sounds like “s” in “pleasure,” “treasure,” “leasure”; “A” is stressed again.
vam
udachnava – “ch” sounds like “ch” in “chair”; the first “a” gets stressed
palyota – “l” is soft; “o” is stressed
ee – as in “eel”
harosheeva – “o” is stressed; “a’s” still sound like the “a’s” in “papa”
akanchaneeya - “ch” sounds like “ch” in “chair”; the third “a” gets stressed
dnya
Spaseeba – “ee” is stressed
za
pooteshestveeye – second “e” is stressed
s Air-Canada
Mee
nadeyemsya - the first “e” is stressed
uveedet’ – “u” = “oo; “ee” is stressed
vas – “s” sounds like “s” in “same”, “sauna”, not like “s” in “was”
snova - “s” sounds like “s” in “same”, “sauna”, not like “s” in “was”; “o” is stressed
