Question by Turtle: Where online would I find phonetic translations for Russian words?
I’m trying to find a site where I can get the phonetic translation for Russian words, going from English to Russian. I know there are sites that will translate it into the Russian words/symbols…but I’d like to see it in English letters. Can anyone help me out?
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Answer by paulgor1
There is no such thing. All translation services produce English–> Russian translation THE SAME way they do say English->Greek or English–>Polish or English—>Italian:
the result is presented using __that language’s ALPHABET___ (how else???)
Moreover, even if someone who knows Russian will try to manually prepare ‘same word using English letters’ it will NOT really be “same word”:
English alphabet is different from Russian or Polish or Greek alphabet and _therefore_ it is NOT possible to adequately/correctly present a Russian word using _English_ alphabet.
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STAR says
There should be a website where one could enter the title of a russian song on youtube, where the title is displayed in english, not cyrillic letters, e.g. 'belaja gvardia', 'ogonek', 'temnoje noch', and get the english translation.
sarah_wy/ellie moran says
Look for phonetic transcription in IPA symbols ( if available)