ukranian or russian?

[nrgmrt]

Hello

I am a translator agency owner. And would love to hear from able translators. Those who want to work with us pls kindly write to nrgmrt@superonline.com and include your cvs. ok this is the first issue. The second is

hiiimm. I need to learn if russian or ukranian is prefferred for your press. I have a text to be published in kiev written press and the translation was made into russian. Now i understand that ukranian is most widely used.
So i need ideas on the issue. Do you think the text should be in ukranian or in russian. We want the text to be widely available but to look professional . So what is the general approach?

bets wishes

nrgmrt

[LeClaireAve]

Hello!

I'm the owner of the consulting company in Ukraine...

forget it



Well, the article should be translated into Ukrainian only, as it is the only national language of the country.

Regards.
Yu_mer@yahoo.com

[zhuk]

According to you choise of language.
Yes, ukrainian is the only damned national our language.
Yes, all the official letters to state establishments should be conducted in ukrainian.

But: some 40 percents of population are russian and prefer to speak and read russian.
In eastern Ukraine even official correspondence is conducted in Russian.
Among businessmen and especially wealthy or high rank businessmen some 65 percents prefer to speak and read in Russian.
Modern Ukrainian language is still "under construction" so you will hardly find appropriate terms especially in economics and business terminology.
Some 30 percents of people will be likely to refuse to read text with complicated terminology in Ukraine.
I live in Kiev for some 15 years,and I have a company of my own (just 10 workers). Our language is still russian, we subscribe the only russian press and news papers. But do not consider us nationalists, I am ukrainian, but russian language dominated in most big cities of Ukraine for some 150 years.

[NZman]

It's Ukraine so the language is Ukrainian, This Polack kisser would prefer it not to be, but tough titties.

Love the NZman

[iridium]

i had a perfectly good message in here but irinka decided to delete it. so i'll rephrase it.


zhuk, where do you get the statistic of 30% of people refusing to converse or even read anything in ukrainian?

how can you say that ukranian language is "beind made up". it's been around for centuries, as long as russian has been, there are plenty of terms to go around, what you say is completely inane.

stop spreading your russian propoganda here.

actually i don't even feel like writing in here anymore, because the moderators of this forum aren't even ukrainian and will sensor anything i write. oh well, i just hope this message is left in here, i didn't write any obsenities, but asked valid questions.

[Irinka]

Your "perfectly good message" contained negative ethnic slurs, hatered, foul language..etc
If you can not communicate respectfully, your messages will be deleted.

Irina

[Irinka]

But I am
Born in Odessa, Ukraine.
My mother is from Donetsk, my father is from Lviv.
I visit Ukraine every year and have a small business in Odessa.

Iridium, you haven't been in Ukraine for 8 years.