h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Dasha, I've posted a message for you in the EnvironMental issues of Ukraine...

Thank you, Alex! I'll look at it..Thanks! I've been busy lately so I could forget to look at it..Sorry! We may chat here too if you like...I can't imagine that we could speak Russian\Ukrainian here!

Äî çóñòð³÷³!

Äàøà

Àëå æ ÷îìó á í³?
Äî ðå÷³, Äàøà, ÷è Âè çíàºòå á³ëüøå "³äåîìàòè÷íèõ âèðàç³â" (óñòàëåíèõ çâîðîò³â) á³ëüøå àíãë³éñüêîþ ìîâîþ í³æ óêðà¿íñüêîþ??
×è Âè ÷óëè êîëè-íåáóäü ïðîãðàìè ÂÂÑ English ïðî ³äåîìàòè÷í³ âèðàçè?
Íàïðèêëàä, ÷óäîâ³ ïðîãðàìè íàøîãî çåìëÿêà Äìèòðà Êîñòåíêà??

Ïðèâ³ò Îëåêñàíäðå! (ß ãàäàþ, ùî Âàøå ³ì'ÿ "Îëåêñàíäð"? ß ïðàâà?)

Äóæå ðàäà ÷èòàòè Âàø ëèñò óêðà¿íñüêîþ! ß îáîæíþþ ëþäåé, ÿê³ øàíóþòü íàøó ìîâó!

Ùîäî ³ä³îì-çâè÷àéíî ÿ çíàþ á³ëüøå ôðàçåîëîã³çì³â óêðà¿íñüêîþ ìîâîþ, àëå òàê ñêëàëîñÿ, ùî ÿ äóæå çàö³êàâëåíà â àíãë³éñüêèõ ³ä³îìàõ! Ìîæëèâî, öå ùå é òîìó, ùî íàâ÷àþñÿ íà ôàêóëüòåò³ ³íîçåìíèõ ìîâ, à ìîæëèâî òîìó, ùî ÿ ñàìå çàðàç ïèøó êóðñîâó ðîáîòó íà òåìó "Êîëîðàòèâí³ ³ä³îìè â àíãë³éñüê³é ìîâ³".....

Íà æàëü, ÿ íå ìàþ çìîãè ñëóõàòè ïðîãðàììè BBC çà äîïîìîãîþ ³íòåðíåòó, òàê ÿê ì³é êîìï'þòåð ìåí³ öå çàäîâîëåííÿ íå äîçâîëÿº! Íåâäîâç³ áóäó êóïóâàòè íîâèé! Ó ìåíå çàðàç íîóòáóê..

Àëå ìèíóëîãî ðîêó ÿ ÷àñòî ñëóõàëà àíãë³éñüê³ óðîêè íà ðàä³î Era! ² äî ðå÷³ ç Äìèòðîì Êîñòåíêîì! Ìåí³ îñîáëèâî ñïîäîáàëèñÿ ìóçè÷í³ óðîêè!

Ùî Âè ìåí³ ìîæåòå ïîðàäèòè?

Áóëî äóæå ïðèºìíî ïîñï³ëêóâàòèñÿ ç Âàìè óêðà¿íñüêîþ...Öå, äî ðå÷³ äîçâîëåíî òóò?

Óñüîãî äîáðîãî,

Äàøà...


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Hello Alexader! ( I think your name must be 'Alexander'..Am I right?)

I'm very pleased to read your Ukrainian letter! I admire people who respect our language!


Regarding idioms, yes, of course I know more Ukrainian idioms, but I'm so interested in English idioms! Maybe it's because I study at the faculty of foreign languages or maybe because just now I've been writing my term-parer "Colourful idioms in the English language"..

Unfortunately, I don't have such an opportuntity to listen to the BBC programmes with the help of the Internet..as my computer doesn't allow me such a pleasure! I'll bye a new one soon..Now I have a laptop..

But last year I used to listen to English lessons at the radio "Era"..And, by the way, with Dmitro Kostenko..I liked musical lessons most of all! (Pop-phrases)

What can you reccomend me?

It was very nice to communicate in Ukrainian with you here..By the way, is it okay? Can we speak Ukrainian here? Maybe we should translate our Ukrainian letters into English?

All the best to you,
Dasha

P.s.Öå, äî ðå÷³ ñïðàâæíº äèâî, ùî ÿ çíàéøëà Âàø ëèñò ìåí³ òóò.....By the way, it's a real miracle that I was able to find your letter to me here...

Hello, Dasha!

I think that None is almost certainly a woman...

Hello Alex _S!

If None is a woman-it must be a super smart woman!!!

Do you mean that men are smarter than women??????

Well, no!! Women are clever!!!!!! Sometimes are even more clever than men...But actually both-men and women can be smart..

Well... Thanks!

You are welcome!!! By the way, Alex, could I have seen your picture at BBC?? I seem to have seen you with a radio in your hands...

Yes, that's right! And in a BBC t-shirt... Could you give me the link?

Sure!! You are welcome!! BTW, you are a nice Ukrainian man! I've seen Nori there too..Is he our Nori???

Here is the link:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/youmeus/discussion/members.shtml

Thanks!! Yes! And Nori is the same! Almost ten years younger...
(look at my TENYEARSAFTER thread... - I'm going to post there some old messages). BTW - today is my 10th "interactive" anniversary at the BBC!
Cheers!

Cool!!!
You must be very proud!! Congratulations!!! I've already looked at your site..Very cool!!! And I'll drop by to visit your Anniversary thread soon!!

Hello Alex_S!!!!

How are you? Hope you are well...

Catch you later,

Dasha

Hello, Dasha!

They've closed your thread...
Is it because it was too long? Or maybe "mr Putin" complained?
I think we will never know the reason.
Are you going to start a new thread?
By the way, would you like Ukrainian to be POWERFUL and "famous" language in the World? (as famous as English or Russian?)

Dear Alex,
Yes, they have closed my thread.. And the worst thing is that I don't know why.. Well, I've sent an email to BBC Message Boards, but I haven't got the answer yet.. Well, NewBrazilian (you know him as Mark) says that there is another closed thread in the Board, and it was not too long.. Well, I do hope that it'll be opened, but till that moment you may write to my new discussion thread 'The Circle of Friends'..Well, hope it won't be closed!

Well, yes, I do want Ukrainian to be as popular and powerful as English or Russian..But I'm afraid that it is not possible..At least in this world.

Well, I do my best to do it popular in my village. At my house, at least!

What about you?

Take care,

Dasha

Dasha, there are more closed threads in the Board. And they were in the past (they also closed one mine thread). I guess that some threads may be closed by mistake. The same is for the hidden messages. I saw some messages being unblocked. But I doubt they will reopen closed threads - so far I haven't seen any. I saw your new thread. If you or your guests will have questions for me, I may join it - let me know then.

"...Well, yes, I do want Ukrainian to be as popular and powerful as English or Russian..But I'm afraid that it is not possible..At least in this world..."

I think it is possible, if we would manage to do something like Microsoft, Google or Wikipedia, we could easily promote it all over the World. To do this thing we need something like 20-30 devoted, energetic and skilled young people...

Dear Alex,

Shall we create a Club of Ukrainian??

Well, I'm not so perfect in Ukrainian, but I love it, and feel it my native language, so I wish you were right, and Ukrainian became a new popular world language!!!!! Let's do it!!!

Well, today I received such a reply from BBC:

Dear BBC Visitor,
Thank you for your email!
The thread in question was closed as it was over 4000 posts long and had veered off topic.
Once threads reach this length they are often closed for techical reasons due to the strain that they put on the messageboard servers.

Kind regards,

Central Communities Team.


Well, so it was the reason...

See you!!!

Take care,

Dasha

Dasha, I will reply to you after the Board is closed.