Hallo. Ich habe hier schon lange nichts geschrieben. Am meisten waren meine Schreibungen auf Englisch, und es klingt jetzt mir komisch. Ich habe es gestern gesehen, ich hatte einen Post auf Deutsch geschrieben und es war auf niedrigem Niveau. Nach diesem fünf Jahren hat es sich viel geändert. Es ist fast alles umgekehrt :) Jetzt habe ich einen B2-Zertifikat auf Deutsch. Es freut mich sehr. Was mir aber nicht gefällt, ich kann Englisch jetzt nur verstehen. Schreiben geht mir schwer und ich benutze ganz andere Grammatik. Über das Gespräch habe ich nichts zu sagen. Ich wiederhole jetzt viele einfache Wörter, die ich jetzt mich nicht erinnere. Wie, zum Beispiel, "to drive", "to use". Erste Wörter, die kommen, sind "fahren" und "benutzen". Es ist ja nicht so schlimm, aber sehr unbequem. Ich verstehe sehr gut, aber sprechen 😅 Also, ich vermute, ich sollte noch mehr auf Englisch schreiben. Ich werde Themen finden und über etwas berichten. Vielen Dank. Einen schönen Tag noch 🙂

Harry Potter Houses Hey! Today I would like to tell you about interesting facts in Harry Potter in Russian. But first, I want to say, that I had read HP in Russian and Ukrainian, and both versions have some differencies. It's funny to look for them. So, I'll tell you about houses. Hogwarts has 4 houses: Griffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slitherin. It's the first time we have no problem with Griffindor, really :) But then we have Ravenclaw, and it's very controvercial (I thought that there must be such word as "contraversional") house. There are two ways of translation: Рейвенкло (Ravenclaw, transcription), Когтевран (Kogtewran, literary translation). The second way in that case means that we translate parts of the word and try to unite meaning in original and translation. Kogtewran has kogot' (коготь, claw) and woron (ворон, raven). Claw of the raven. And I like it very much. Then we have Hufflepuff. Either two ways: transcription (Хаффлпафф) and literary translation (Пуффендуй, Puffenduy?). In the second case we divide word on two and it's hard to translate on Russian. We can do it, but in inadequate way :) So the translator which had been working on the HP had found the only way: "huff" was omitted and puff was like blowing, blow, дуть. The translator had made it twice: "puffenduy" it's like "puffenblow". I think, it's hard to translate in another way. Duidui? Poduyduy? That makes no sense. And that is why I prefer English version. Huh, I just understood that we have no problem with Slitherin either as with Griffindor. Hard to believe :) The only that "th" in the middle of the word is stronger, like "z". It's because Russian language sounds more harder than English. There are many variants how to translate the anagram of Lord Voldemort, but I like two of them. It's translation from РОСМЭН, the most famous, they adapted it like Том Нарволо Реддл (Tom Narvollo Reddl) => Лорд Волан-де-Морт (Lord Volan-de-Mort). It's the only variant when the translator decided to change his name at all. But it sounds strong and scary, and can be translated somehow from French. And the second variant I like is from Potter's Army, they just translated it on Russian and showed English original anagramm. In fanfiction authors use many variants and it's ok, everybody understand and use the name they like.

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