If you're thinking about posting something on DU in Russian, [View all]

[MineralMan]

You might try using Google Translate to convert your English words into Russian in the Cyrillic alphabet. You can copy and paste that into your DU message. However, what you end up with might just not be what you intended.

Google Translate doesn't always give you a good translation, especially if your English words have multiple meanings or if you're just translating random words.

Here's my suggestion, if you don't actually speak Russian at all: After you do your initial translation, reverse the process and translate what Google gave you as the Russian translation back into English. If it doesn't give you your original English back, then keep trying after changing your English wording.

Google thinks literally, and may choose a Russian word that means a different meaning for one of your English words, since many words in English have multiple meanings. That can get you in trouble. Keep trying, and remember to capitalize appropriately and use punctuation if you are trying to translate a sentence. But...whatever you do, test your Google results by back-translating.

Disclaimer: I do speak Russian, courtesy of the United States Air Force, which sent me away to a full-immersion, 24/7/365 language school back in 1966. After that they gave me some things to do with that new skill. My Russian abilities have diminished after 50 years of infrequent use, but I am still conversational in the language and can read newspaper-level material. My advice here is simply designed to help people get better translations from Google.