90's documentary on Moscow subway

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Warning: the video is in Russian, use Close Captioning

I spent 3 days making subtitles for it, hope you enjoy it

http://youtu.be/vrwKFTZruVY

[GojiMet86 4,699]

Do you know Russian?

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Do you know Russian?

That's my native language

[Via Garibaldi 8 8,599]

да!!! да!!! 

 

P.S. The translation wasn't bad, but was too literal in terms of the style... 

Edited January 11, 2013 by Via Garibaldi 8

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да!!! да!!! 

 

P.S. The translation wasn't bad, but was too literal in terms of the style... 

Translation was done as an afterthought really, I wanted to show the video footage of the stations' interior.

Too bad the better quality film is over an hour and a half long, (it took me 3 days to do subs for this one), also I doubt youtube will let me post it.

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Translation was done as an afterthought really, I wanted to show the video footage of the stations' interior.

Too bad the better quality film is over an hour and a half long, (it took me 3 days to do subs for this one), also I doubt youtube will let me post it.

Well I've done subtitling for short movies in Spanish when I was in college and God it was a b*tch!! Usually it takes more Spanish words to make sentences, but the way the movie played out, it took more English words and as a result it was such a pain to do the subtitles from Spanish.  Me and the person I was working with realized that we had to a TON of editing so that we could fit the subtitles on each screen if you will, which was a problem because it was too long for someone watching the movie to read and we didn't to leave out any of the important parts so in short it is indeed a long process. I've watch a lot of International movies (Italian, French German & Spanish) and a few of them that had subtitles were EXCELLENT.  There's a French movie I watched over the summer that was amazing and the subtitles were spot on... The name of it is "The Diving Bell & Butterfly".  Check it out if you can... I saw it on IFC (International Film Channel) and have it recorded onto my DirecTV set.

Edited January 11, 2013 by Via Garibaldi 8

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And some of the phrases are just can't be translated properly, because of the cultural differences, certain things aren't translatable or have different meanings. I omitted many details, especially the patriotic garbage which can only be taken seriously by kids. 

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You can use software to split the 1.5-hour video into... 3 separate videos. YouTube will let you post it like that.

BTW, Russian is my native language too. You can somewhat tell by my name "sovetskii" = "soviet".

Great post.