Russian to English Translation

Russian to English translation links the most widely spoken native language in Europe with the world's main language of international communication. Russian is an official language of Russia and Belarus, is widely used as a second language across Central Asia and the Caucasus, and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. It has well over 100 million native speakers, and including second-language speakers the total is commonly estimated at over 250 million. Russian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, which has 33 letters. Many look like Latin letters but sound different: "Р" is an R sound, "С" is an S sound, "Н" is an N sound and "В" is a V sound. Two letters, the hard sign "ъ" and the soft sign "ь", have no sound of their own and instead change how the neighbouring consonant is pronounced. The letter "ё" is almost always printed as plain "е" in everyday text, so a translator has to rely on context to read some words correctly. Russian grammar is the main challenge for English speakers. Nouns, adjectives and pronouns change their endings across six cases, and nouns have three genders. There are no articles ("a" or "the"), and the verb "to be" is normally left out in the present tense, so "Я студент" literally reads "I student". Verbs also come in pairs of imperfective and perfective aspect. Because the endings carry the grammar, word order is more flexible than in English, and a good Russian to English translator has to work out who did what to whom from those endings. People use Russian to English translation to read news and websites, understand messages and emails, study documents such as certificates and contracts, follow literature by authors like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, and prepare for travel or study. Large Russian-speaking communities live in many countries, so the pair is also common for immigration paperwork, education and everyday communication.