Original YT playout date: 10 January 2010
Duration: 24:15
“You waited a long time for this, longer than I promised. But this episode should show to you that the Huliganov Russian Course is not dead. The more people I get staying the course to this level, the more inclined I’ll be to do more. When 12 hours of solid work get me the same view count as something that basically needs an hour, you can see why I don’t do them that much, so it’s up to you. If you share the course, the course will grow. “”Simply as dat””, as the Professor might say…
Complete with a joke and a Russian song, hopefully you will say that the lesson is just as good as they used to be.
In answer to the requests for a translation:
1. Original, 2 literal, 3 free and rhyming (just).
В юности боль забывается скоро
In youth pain forgets itself soon
When you are young you get over things quickly
Слезы смахнув ты смеешься опять
Tears having-wiped-down you laugh again
Your eyes soon dry, you can smile once again
Время пройдет и всегда лишь такою
Time goes-by and always as such
As days go by I’ll recall how you look now
Буду тебя вспоминать
I-will you to-remember
That’s how for me you’ll remain
Счастье короткое бог нам отмерил
Happiness short God to-us measured-out
People are not put on earth to be happy
Непостоянна людская душа
Inconstant (is the) human soul
Or if they are not for long anyhow
Я ведь не зря в эту сказку не верил
I after-all not for-nothing in this fairy-tale not believed
You won’t fool me with “”happy ever after””
Слишком она хороша
Too good it is.
It’s just too good to be true
Как ты красива сегодня
How you beautiful today
My, you look lovely this evening
Нет в моем сердце ни боли, ни зла
There-is-not in my heart neither of pain, neither of bad
I don’t feel angry no more, all is fine
Как ты красива сегодня
How you beautiful today
My, you look lovely this evening
Как ты сегодня светла
How you today bright
I see your bright beauty shine
Может быть, время кого-то и лечит
May be, time somebody and heals
Maybe there are those who find time a healer
Только мне помощь его не нужна
Only to-me help of-it not needful
I don’t need healing, I’ll take any pain
Ты возвращайся, а я каждый вечер
You come back, and I each evening
You just come home to me, and like this evening
Буду тебя вспоминать
I-will you remember
For me you’ll always remain
One translation is if you want to understand how the Russian works, the other is to understand the sense of the song and sing it in English if you want to.
Hey Valeriy, sing my English words and have yourself a hit in the entire world. You deserve it.
***Statistics and Credits***
Views at the time added to HTV: 6,555
Likes at the time added to HTV: 73
Dislikes at time added to HTV: 5
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Location: Home
Other people featured: Just me
Genre: Russian Lesson
Music used: “Kak ty krasivo segodnya”, by Meladze.
Languages used: Russian and English
Animals/plants featured: None