Serbs in Dominician Republic!

[mvisnja69]

more translations. Not perfect, but I hope understandable.

Kada sam procitala vas post opet skontala sam da niste jos otisli. Ja zivim u Americi ali bih voljela otic u DR za par godina, mozda pred krajem faksa, ali nista nije sigurno, ima jos 3-4 godina do toga. Bas mi je drago da sam nasla nekoga ko bih isto isao dole! Vi zivite sada u Srbiji? Ja sam porijeklu iz Hercegovine.

Pozdrav,
Ivana

Reading your post again, I figure out that you are still not in DR. I'm in US and I have a plan to visit DR in next few years. After I'm done with my studies, nothing for sure, there is few more years until that. I'm glad that there is someone else who would like to move down in DR. Are you from Serbia? I'm originally from Herzegovina.

 

[mvisnja69]

More EN translations.

Da, sada zivim u Srbiji u Novom Sadu. Koje ste godiste, koji faks studirate? Ja studiram Tehnicki fakultet.
Pozdrav,
Dragan.

Yes, I'm from Serbia, Novi Sad City. What is a year you were born? What are you studding? I'm studding technology.

 

[mvisnja69]

Another EN translation

POzdrav Dragane,

Sve zavisi sta ocekujes od Dominikane? JA sam bio tamo, vidio sve, lijepo se proveo i vratio... Da ces zaarditi tamo neke pare neces Da ces lijepo zivjetii steci nova iskustav hoces...
Da ces tamo nesto raditi tesko bez poznavanja Spanskog i Engleskog.
Jeidna opcija jeste da pokrenes tamo nekakav posao.. Ali bez debljeg novcanika ne idi u nikakve poslove Unaprijed osudjeno na propast...
Spremi se 3-6 mjeseci da prvo upoznas zemlju, ljude jezik, istazis mogucnosti, obezbjedis si boravak, papire, a do tad ces vec znati sta i gdje . ne treba nikoga da pitas za savjete.... I jos nesto
Ako vec odes tamo sto dalje od Srba Mislim EX-Yugoslovena...
Drzi se svog posla i radi..

Pozdrav

Depends what do you except from DR? I was there, saw everything, spent nice time around and I?m back home now. If you think about making money there ? don?t. You can make nice living there, new experiences?
To do work in DR will be difficult without knowledge of Spanish and English.
Only option is to start your own business. But without thick wallet, don?t start any businesses or it will be disaster.
Be ready to spend 3 ? 6 months to learn your way around, to meet people, learn language, and learn about culture, by yourself. You don?t need anyone to ask for advices? And one more think.
Once you are there, stay away from Serbs J I mean ex-Yugoslavia people.
Be by yourself and keep it going.

 

[mvisnja69]

Last translation so far.

zaboravih, ako imas jos kakvih pitanja moj email je damirblazevic@gmail.com


POzdrav

In case that you have any additional questions, my email is....

 

[Squat]

Hey, thanks for the translation... I feel like starting to read and write in serbian now

 

[mvisnja69]

Hey, thanks for the translation... I feel like starting to read and write in serbian now

You are very welcome. I can't resist and not to post one photograph from some street in Belgrade (capitol of Serbia), with my favorite quote from famous Serbian movie 'Balkan Spy - Balkanski Spijun':

"People are walking around without single tooth in their head, and no jobs for dentist!"

http://www.drcaribbean.com/2157.jpg


enjoy visiting virtual Serbia.

 

[A.Hidalgo]

You are very welcome. I can't resist and not to post one photograph from some street in Belgrade (capitol of Serbia), with my favorite quote from famous Serbian movie 'Balkan Spy - Balkanski Spijun':

"People are walking around without single tooth in their head, and no jobs for dentist!"

http://www.drcaribbean.com/2157.jpg


enjoy visiting virtual Serbia.

I have a very good friend of mine who is Serbian and these jokes are typical in his country. Ironic and biting. Its funny he happens to be a dentist here in the states.lol:cheeky:

 

[mvisnja69]

I have a very good friend of mine who is Serbian and these jokes are typical in his country. Ironic and biting. Its funny he happens to be a dentist here in the states.lol:cheeky:

You have a point. It is our style of joking. It is a little bit biting but perhaps not ironic. To make no mistake, I'm not making fun on Serbs; I'm the one also.
But your friend is American dental specialist originally coming form Serbia. He is not Serbian dentist. Right?


There is another famous joke about Serbia:

"How can you tell that you are in Serbia?"
...
..
..
"Somebody just steal your watch and wallet".

Best regards.

 

[Ivanita]

Reading your post again, I figure out that you are still not in DR. I'm in US and I have a plan to visit DR in next few years. After I'm done with my studies, nothing for sure, there is few more years until that. I'm glad that there is someone else who would like to move down in DR. Are you from Serbia? I'm originally from Herzegovina.

Yes, that is what i plan on doing as well, visiting soon and then deciding if i want to move down after college. i'm from hercegovina as well, MOSTARKA, what city are you from?

 

[Ivanita]

Da, sada zivim u Srbiji u Novom Sadu. Koje ste godiste, koji faks studirate? Ja studiram Tehnicki fakultet.
Pozdrav,
Dragan.

Bas, ja imam rodicu sto isto studira u Novom Sadu. Ja sam 89 godiste, pa jos nisam na faksu, do godine! Da li pricate imalo spanskoga jezika?

Wow, i have a cousin who also is studying in Novi Sad. I was born in 1989, so i'm not in college yet . . .next year! Do you speak any spanish?

 

[A.Hidalgo]

You have a point. It is our style of joking. It is a little bit biting but perhaps not ironic. To make no mistake, I'm not making fun on Serbs; I'm the one also.
But your friend is American dental specialist originally coming form Serbia. He is not Serbian dentist. Right?


There is another famous joke about Serbia:

"How can you tell that you are in Serbia?"
...
..
..
"Somebody just steal your watch and wallet".

Best regards.

He was a dentist there and had to study 2 extra years here to practice. Things going well for him here. I do love the Serbian sense of humor.:cheeky:

 

[manunut]

do you guys "look after your own?'

i know a nbr of very nice serbians on the nrth coast.quite a few in fact.a lot dont use dr1 but they are out there.
one guy in cabarette"milenco"has been homeless and destitute for the last 2 years at least on the streets of cabarette.
think he is going a little road crazy with so much time being abandoned here.
im sure he would appreciate a little help or even just to be able to talk to someone in his native tounge.ask anyone as you get around 'la caoba'at the start of the main drag and they will point him out to you.i help him out as best i can from time to time,but i feel"one of his own bretheren"could do a lot more for him."there but for the grace of God'and all that........

 

[dv8]

manunut, it's good you posted this info. people from that part of the world really stick together and take care of each other.
i just with there were some polish people here too so i would not feel so abandoned....
btw, what language group is serbian? i was reading those post and understood no problem, sort of cross over between russian, czech and polish...

 

[mvisnja69]

Hi,

Yes I saw Milenko around Cabarete. Problem is that usually we don't stick together. After a years and years of war and economy disaster in our home country, no meter what kind of government we have, the one realize that fault is not in government or so, but people. Slowly, nice song from U2:

"We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One..."

become just a myth for us.

Serbian language belongs to Slavic group of languages.
There is 3 main branches:
East Slavic: including Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Rusyn
West Slavic: Czech and Slovak, Upper and Lower Sorbian (minority languages in Germany), Lechitic languages: Polish , Pomeranian/Kashubian and extinct Polabian.
South Slavic:Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian (the latter two are mutually intelligible), Croatian-chakavian,Croatian-kajkavian
, Standard Bulgarian and Macedonian (mutually intelligible languages).

The oldest Slavic literary language was Old Church Slavonic, of which Church Slavonic is a later scion.


Serbian orthography is very consistent: approximation of the principle "one letter per sound". This principle is represented by Adelung's saying, "Write as you speak and read as it is written", the principle used by Vuk Stefanović Karad?ić when reforming the Cyrillic orthography of Serbian in the 19th century. Because of this we never have problems with spieling.

Here is how can we write down English: "How are you doing today my friend?"

hau ar ju duing tudej maj frend. :glasses:

 

[Chirimoya]

hau ar ju duing tudej maj frend.

Straight out of the Sankie phrase book!

I remember my Croatian students telling me that their language was more phonetic than English, which isn't saying much. The country's name is spelled Hrvatska (stamp collectors' memories might be jogged here) which doesn't quite back up their case!

So, is the main difference with Serbian that you use Cyrillic, and Croatians use the Roman alphabet?

 

[mvisnja69]

Straight out of the Sankie phrase book!

I remember my Croatian students telling me that their language was more phonetic than English, which isn't saying much. The country's name is spelled Hrvatska (stamp collectors' memories might be jogged here) which doesn't quite back up their case!

So, is the main difference with Serbian that you use Cyrillic, and Croatians use the Roman alphabet?

The name 'Croatia' comes from Latin, whereas the native Slavic name is Hrvatska.
Like country name is Deutschland, but when you use English, you write down Germany or Alemania in Spanish. Right?
?Serbia? is using to refer country in English but we are spelling it Srbija.

In Serbia we use both, Latin alphabet and Cyrillic. Cyrillic is official. In Croatia Latin is official. Language differs in dialect. Officially, Croatian is based on three dialects, while Serbian is dominated by a single dialect.

In Serbia we loan a lot of words from foreigner languages. Like 'Avion', means like in Spanish, Airplane. In Croatian they build composite word for Airplane from basic ones, like in English Air + Plane, in Croatian Zrak + Plov = Zrakoplov. And so on. Anyway, we understand each other perfectly.

On the level of standardology, Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian and even Montenegrin are different varieties, but of a same language.


Best regards.

 

[manunut]

south-pole......

manunut, it's good you posted this info. people from that part of the world really stick together and take care of each other.
i just with there were some polish people here too so i would not feel so abandoned....
btw, what language group is serbian? i was reading those post and understood no problem, sort of cross over between russian, czech and polish...

i have bumped into just a handfull of polish people here.the majorety on vacation.
there is 1 lady however who lives in guyacanes on the south of the island just 10mins drive east to juan dolio.
funny the quote of the song ONE by U2.im from dublin bono lives(in a mansion of course!)10 mins walk from my house.
the reason i posed the question is that irish in my case dubliners as a rule normally help one another out especially when abroad.unfortunatly being from dublin i have experienced next to no back up from other irish from the other counties,bar the lovely Clare people in my travels around the world.a lot of culchies or muck savages as we sometimes call them when they show this attitude have a chip on their shoulder about the boys from the capital.
but they dont seem to mind coming up to our city taking OUR jobs,houses,women etc etc etc........but seriously,keep an eye out for milenko.he?s a little crazy at the mo but he has a warm and giving heart.

 

[A.Hidalgo]

Someone should adopt Milenko.:cheeky:

 

[Ivanita]

Straight out of the Sankie phrase book!

I remember my Croatian students telling me that their language was more phonetic than English, which isn't saying much. The country's name is spelled Hrvatska (stamp collectors' memories might be jogged here) which doesn't quite back up their case!

So, is the main difference with Serbian that you use Cyrillic, and Croatians use the Roman alphabet?

You say Hrvatska exactly like its written, almost every word is perfectly phonetic, unless its foreign or ancient, haha.

And in my opinion, the whole "difference" between serbian and croatian is something of the 90's and more political than anything. they are using any reason possible to show that they are different. i speak serbo-croatian, always have and always will.

 

[mvisnja69]

Dublin music.

funny the quote of the song ONE by U2.im from dublin bono lives(in a mansion of course!)10 mins walk from my house.
the reason i posed the question is that irish in my case dubliners as a rule normally help one another out especially when abroad.unfortunatly being from dublin i have experienced next to no back up from other irish from the other counties,bar the lovely Clare people in my travels around the world.a lot of culchies or muck savages as we sometimes call them when they show this attitude have a chip on their shoulder about the boys from the capital.
but they dont seem to mind coming up to our city taking OUR jobs,houses,women etc etc etc........but seriously,keep an eye out for milenko.he?s a little crazy at the mo but he has a warm and giving heart.

Greetings Manunut,
I have to mention few more names from great Dublin. I'm also big fan of Bob Geldof, and I like Sin?ad O'Connor.
There is also excelent 'The Pogues', from England, but it is Irish-influenced band.
Regards.