Translation and Teaching Resources for
English, Kazakh and Russian Language

English, Kazakh and Russian Language Resources for Teachers and Students

Links to translation resources for professional translators and language resources for beginning to advanced language students.

· The Most Unusual Video Lessons for Russian Language

With very little effort you will pick up a little Russian and be entertained at the same time. Here, Viktor Dmitrievitch Huliganov presents RL101 - 1 :Some Enchanted Evening to learn Russian! from Huliganov's YouTube Russian Course. I'm sure you have never seen a course like this! But don't be fooled. By his fifth lesson you will see that Viktor Dmitrievitch is not only a master of many languages, but a master teacher.

And here is Huliganov's "The Six Letters That Are The Same"

If you are entertained, you can watch the entire series: Huliganov's YouTube Russian Course (opens in a new window)

· Kazakh Video Language Lessons with Maksat Imangazi

Excellent beginner's video lessons for everyday Kazakh conversation. There are a total of 22 lessons of which 8 are listed here.
Lesson 2 with Maksat Imangazi
Lesson 3 with Maksat Imangazi
Lesson 4 with Maksat Imangazi
Lesson 5 with Maksat Imangazi
Lesson 6 with Maksat Imangazi
Lesson 7 with Maksat Imangazi
Lesson 8 with Maksat Imangazi

·Video Lessons for the Russian language

Excellent beginning courses for the Russian language. There are a total of 25 lessons of which 3 are listed here.
Russian Language World Lessons 1
Russian Language World Lessons 2
Russian Language World Lessons 3

· Text Based Kazakh Language Courses

Kazakh Language Course for Peace Corps Volunteers in Kazakhstan The original documents were PDF files containing TIFF images of the scanned pages of the originals. Since these scans were not always legible the author manually transcribed them into HTML. The original documents are still freely available online.

· Text Based English Language Courses

 Learn English BBC web portal (opens in a new window)
Learn English is a portal that links to all of the BBC websites for teachers and learners of English - just one web address to remember.

 Using English.com (opens in a new window)
English as a second language online. A large collection of English as a Second Language (ESL) tools & resources for students, teachers, learners and academics, covering the full spectrum of ESL, EFL, ESOL, and EAP subject areas including free resources for teachers and students alike.

· Learning Russian Through Song

One method of learning language is through song. Here is an amusing example with the following Russian language lyrics:
MY APARTMENT
My apartment is like a jungle
It is full of predators.
They swarm in my apartment,
But I got used to it long ago.



And the following more serious piece "ПОСЛЕДНЯЯ ОСЕНЬ" (The Last Autumn) with lyrics. Mouseover here for the lyrics in English. ПОСЛЕДНЯЯ ОСЕНЬ
This final autumn - not a line, not a sigh.
Final songs have fallen with the summer.
A farewell fire of the epoch burns out,
And we are watching the shadows and the lights
This final autumn.
This final autumn.

An autumn hurricane swept jokingly away
Everything that choked us in the dusty night;
Everything that pushed, played, glittered,
Torn apart by the aspen wind
This final autumn.
This final autumn.

Ah Alexander Sergeevich, dear,
Why have you told us nothing
Of how you held, searched, and loved?..
Of how that final autumn you knew.
That final autumn.
That final autumn.

Hungry sea, hissing, gulped down
The autumn sun, and, behind the clouds,
You will no longer remember what has been;
You will not touch the dusty grass with your hands

Poets walk away into the final autumn,
And you cannot bring them back - the blinds are nailed shut.
The rains only remain, and the icy summer;
Love remains, and the stones that rose from the dead.



 Over 80 examples of Russian language sing-along and Russian television with English subtitle by the same author can be found at his interesting and unique YouTube site:
"Russian Songs and Lyrics" (opens in a new window)

 Luina and Son Pascal sing the Russian WWII era song "Темная ночь" in the Russian language. Luina is from Almaty, Kazakhstan and Son Pascal, who sings in both Kazakh and Russian is from Manchester, England. Notice the Russian dialect of Son Pascal has a heavy English accent and the accent of Luina is Kazakhstan dialect Russian.
Mouseover here for the lyrics in English. SO DARK NIGHT
So dark night, only bullets do buzz over head,
Only wind whizzes weary wires, and the stars glimmer dimly
So dark night, but my darling won’t go to bed
Rocking cradle with baby tonight sudden tear you wipe grimly.


How I do love silent depth of your innocent eyes
Oh, how I wish to touch them with my lips this moment
So dark night separates us beloved my wife,
And the barren dark no-man's land makes me insolvent.

I trust in you, my unfailing magnificent light,
And this trust kept me safe in dark night bullets shot at me hampered
I’m full of joy and so calm in ignivomous fight
For I know you will meet me with love just whatever would happen.


No fear of death, we’ve met it many times in the field
Even just now it continues new victims trapping
You wait for me rocking cradle you are not asleep
And therefore I am really sure nothing bad ever happen!

And below, the original 1943 version from the movie "Темная ночь" as sung by Mark Bernes so that you can compare dialects with the above video.

Big Som & Luina sing "Один" in the Russian language. Luina is from Almaty, Kazakhstan and Big Som is from the city of Aktau, Kazakhstan. Notice the Kazakhstan difference in dialect of Russian language. Filmed in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Анна Каренина ~ Obiralovka Train Station

Self Portrait of Aleksandr Pushkin

Ilyas Dzhansugurov ~ 1923

Abai Kunanbaev (1845 ~ 1904)

ابونصر محمد بن محمد فارابی

 The Leneshmidt English, Kazakh and Russian Audio Phrasebook
The audio phrasebook offers hundreds of written and audio pronunciations of common terms in English, Kazakh and Russian.

 The Leneshmidt English, Kazakh and Russian Searchable Glossary and Dictionary
Over 455,836 English, Kazakh and Russian terms, phrases and words in a free on-line searchable glossary.
"Looking for a good Kazakh online dictionary? This is one of the best I've ever found!" ~ Kazakh Language for All
The Leneshmidt Translations English, Kazakh and Russian Glossary is cited by:
· Oxford University
· So You Want to Learn A Language
· The Apertium Wiki
· Wikipedia
· ProZ
· Free Online Dictionaries
· Kazakh Language for All
among others as a Kazakh, Russian and English course study reference and professional translator language resource.

 Kazakh Language Cyrillic to Latin Font Converter
The Government of Kazakhstan has decided that the use of Cyrillic fonts will be phased out and replaced by Latin fonts by the year 2020. If you would like to begin learning the new system for the Kazakh language we offer the Kazakh language Cyrillic to Latin font converter. The converter is based on transliteration tables by R.S. Gilyarevsky, V.S. Grivnin. Moscow : "Nauka", 1970 from the Princeton Univervisity Library Catalog; the Kazakh-English-Arabic Correspondence Chart found in Wikipedia, and the open source PHP Kazakh-English-Arabic transliteration scheme created by Zhengzhu Feng which can be studied here.

·The Multitran System for Translators
Over 10,000,000,000 terms. Supports English, Russian, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Latvian, Estonian languages.

 Proz.com
Serving the world's largest community of translators, ProZ.com delivers a comprehensive network of essential services, resources and experiences that enhance the lives of its members. Here is a list and summary of the most basic features.

·Google Translate
Supports 65+ languages.

 The American Translators Association
The mission of ATA is to benefit translators and interpreters by promoting recognition of their societal and commercial value, facilitating communication among all its members, establishing standards of competence and ethics, and educating both its members and the public.

·The Google Professional Translator Toolkit
Google Translator Toolkit is a powerful and easy-to-use editor that helps translators work faster and better.

·Downloadable Parsek-Cyrillic@.ttf Kazakh Fonts
The author created the 9 Kazakh-specific letters using FontForge. These fonts can be installed and used with a Kazakh keyboard for Kazakh or Russian text.

·Kazakh Transliteration Table.
From the Princeton Univervisity Library Catalog.

·The Sozdik Online Russian-Kazakh Dictionary
With 60,000 words in Russian and Kazakh. Русско-казахский и казахско-русский онлайн словарь содержит более 60000 словарных статей по каждому направлению перевода. Около 3000 словарных статей на казахском языке озвучены. В словаре реализован двухсторонний перевод.

·The Global Glossary
A unique multilingual dictionary built by combining a multitude of sources from all over the Web. Global Glossary's fast and smart search engine gives you easy access to an amount of lexical knowledge you could hardly find elsewhere.

Humanitarian Projects

·The Nur-Avicenum Hospital and Clinic
Leneshmidt Translation Services lends its support to various organizations that benefit our community when it involves the translation of Kazakh, Russian and English languages. One such organization worthy of this support is the Nur-Avicenum Hospital and Clinic in Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan. The Nur-Avicenum serves over 26,000 of its neighbors each year, many at no cost. The Nur-Avicenum and its programs are non-profit and non-governmental.