Cheburashka's Song (English translation)

[MantasGSRS]

very well done, great translation, thank u ;)...

[dansteely100]

Well done! Thanks for the singing and translation!

[QuiGonForever]

Cheburashka is so cute... I've always wondered what kind of animal he is though....

[Zhihveli]

Great. I'm so happy that you were saved. Russians are such great people.

[positifaith]

Great job! Wonderful! Superb! I admire you.

[oinonio]

very nice singing.

[ranlaen]

Very good translation,even better your ability to made it sound like the original.Cos a translated song is never the same.

[00Indil00]

Nice translation, I like it. :)

[JosifT123]

very well translated :)

[BPEDIHAxD]

cool :)

[1BUXGALTER]

Где бы весь текст взять?

Респект!!!

[SONIC2011ify]

@1BUXGALTER (

напиши мне, я многим могу помочь.)Write to me, I can not help much.

[FeiaFarfalana]

It's actually a very good translation. I like it! Well done!!

[apple306252525]

very nice I love cheb

[Goblinjon]

You have a nice voice.

[5Alenka]

Soviet movies and cartoons are the best.

[4ingP]

Sheburashka?

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

Mispronounced, I know. Most people who don't know Russian pronounce CH as a soft sound, because they treat it too much like French.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow Most people haven't heard of Ш, have they?

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

No one who doesn't know the cyrillic alphabet would.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow Very well. But have they heard of Tchaikovsky? Chernobyl? Or Shaikovsky and Shernobyl?

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

Most English speakers who have never learnt a second language don't have the depth of linguistic understanding to make those connections XD In other words- people who only learn English and nothing else are often pretty bad at figuring out sounds from other languages.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow Well, shit. People can't be that stupid, can they? I've figured out everything I know about Russian on my own (albeit, I can only understand what short sentences are saying) and I had no problem at all.

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

Maybe not stupid, but ignorant, yes.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow No, they're stupid. How else can people have such difficulty with things that are so easy? How can people who are supposed to be native English speakers write and speak English like I could when I was five?

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

Lack of decent education.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow Is mandatory education really so hard?

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

Mandatory education of what? It's not the mandatory nature of education. It's the exposure to new languages as a young child. The exposure to their own language. It's parents, not schools. By the time they're in school, they're already passed the prime for language acquisition.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow Elementary and high school. Primary and secondary school. That mandatory education. I learned most of what I did from K-12 education (don't call me lazy, I'm still 18), and for whatever reason, I'm leagues ahead of supposed college graduates in every general subject and I don't consider myself smart.

I only ever learned English from exposure. Simply had to pay attention to pick up the little Russian I know, which everyone SHOULD be able to do.

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

Ahh, but you see, Natural English speakers don't have the same exposure to second languages that other children do- so they DON'T pick up other languages. People who speak other languages usually learn English because it's just so prevalent. If a child isn't exposed to other languages consistently, they won't pick it up. Easy as that. Intelligence has nothing to do with it. Natural-English speakers only ever hear English.

We are now trying to change this in our Preschools.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow I'm talking about natural English speakers. Most don't even know proper English, let alone a few words in another language. No, that would be too mentally taxing.

As it turns out, most people who learn English after they learn their native language do as well or better than most people who learned English before anything else. That's what I'm talking about. The stupidity of most English speakers.

[Treemeadow]

Stupidity has nothing to do with it. In fact, you are demonstrating ignorance by not realising how language works.

Of course ESL speakers are better- studies have proven that people who learn a second language from an early age become more proficient that natural speakers, simply because they have been exposed to and can speak two or more languages.

Someone who has only ever known one language does not have the same skills. It's nothing to do with intelligence, all to do with exposure.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow For FUCK'S sake, I'm not talking about people not knowing other languages. I'm talking about people who spoke English (and, undoubtedly, nothing else) who don't, for example, know the difference between "country's" and "countries".

Not everyone who learns English after their native language learns it at an early age.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow I'm only fluent in English, and yet I can figure out a month's worth of language instruction on my own, no matter whether or not it's Spanish, which is the only other language I've been exposed to.

And I see so many "native" English speakers who haven't heard a word of another language butcher the English language so much that you'd think they're 5.

Don't call me ignorant when you don't even know what people I'm calling stupid.

[Treemeadow]

@4ingP

Well, it's ignorant to group all native English speakers together in one group when you're only talking about a few.

- If English isn't your first language, then you are fluent in two languages. Most English speakers only know one language, and as I said- intellect has nothing to do with that.

What this has turned to is not a discussion on the Linguistic-inefficiency of native English speakers, but just a way for you to try and show off how "smart" and "clever" you are.

[4ingP]

@Treemeadow I'm talking about much more than a few. You know how stereotypes wouldn't exist if they weren't true for a large portion of the group of people being stereotyped?

You've been doing what I was talking about, and you're calling me ignorant?

What's so smart about knowing the difference between "country's" and "countries"? That's taught in elementary/primary school. I'm talking about how stupid people are, and you're defending them by saying that it's too hard for them.

[Treemeadow]

You obviously don't know how language develops. I'm finished with this conversation. I don't appreciate you coming on my page abusing people for things that they can't help.

[Treemeadow]

I know plenty of English speakers who were exposed to other languages as children. They are bilingual, multilingual, high performance people.

But their level of intelligence has nothing to do with that- it's because they spent a lot of time around people who speak other languages.

If a child has no exposure to another language, you can't call them stupid- just because they never had the same experience as you. That's very ignorant.

[Dashaproductions]

I mean "tiny", not paw lol sorry

[Dashaproductions]

This is really good! i <3 the lyrics!

I also like in the sped up version, how you said "paw"

[SovietSongsInEnglish]

It is a tough one to translate. Thanks for the courage. :))

[Aquilani42]

Fuck you, сука.

[Treemeadow]

@Aquilani42

Grow up.

[ndyag1]

ochen xorosho

[rstay0212]

wow. amazing!!! could you post words in English? Pliz

[Treemeadow]

@rstay0212

They are in the description :)

[kutuzanna]

Thank you for this translation!

[Hoz9in]

Great а где можно посмотреть русские мультики на английском

[Treemeadow]

@Hoz9in

Когда я был ребенком, я попал в аварию, живя на острове, чтобы спасти меня, я neded которые должны быть приняты на Таити на лодке.Только корабль, который спасет меня был советский катер.Экипаж мужчин позволит мне смотреть Чебурашка мультфильмов.

Мультфильмы дублированы на английском языке, но я не знаю, где tofind них. Я смотрю их с субтитрами

Слова благодарности за Ваш комментарий!

[jbfirstdown22]

very wonderful voice :)

[Ephebiphobe]

That's adorable! If you dubbed the animation, it'd be cute. tehe. :)

[JohnPiperBoots]

Very cute !!!! =)

[Thecrystalgreeneyes]

your voice is so expressive :) thank you

[Treemeadow]

@Thecrystalgreeneyes

Thankyou very much for the lovely compliment :)

[d80iva]

Excellent translation and singing!

[CharlesVariations]

I really enjoyed listening to this! I love Cheburashka! You sung well, even with a sore throat!

Btw, you were at Mardi gras? Just curios, but did you flash anyone?

[Sharkest132]

ahah) perfect) but you mispronunced "Cheburashka" there are some places in the translation I would argue about))

but in general you've done this work perfectly)

(I'm russian myself- for case of thinking about me as about a someone who knows nothing regarding russian))

if you wanna get some help with russian write to me via skype) sharkest132 - is mine

keep working)

[Treemeadow]

@Sharkest132

^-^ Thanks for the help. I know the translation isn't perfect- but I haven't seen one out there that tells the story using proper english- so I had to skip or change a few things.

[maini4ka]

well done!

[Treemeadow]

@maini4ka

Thankyou very much :)

[linkaqt1]

really nice! do you speak russian??

[Treemeadow]

@linkaqt1

No, actually, I can read the letters and sound them out, but my vocabulary is very limited.

[linkaqt1]

@Treemeadow i see. but you sound very fluent! I speak russian myself. =]

[Treemeadow]

@linkaqt1

I am learning :) I owe my life to Russians, Soviet, in fact, when I was 18 months old, I was in an accident on an island, and the only ship that would come to my rescue was a Soviet ship. They saved me, and the men gave me a cheburashka doll :)

[linkaqt1]

@Treemeadow wow! glad you could make it back!

[lala630312]

@Treemeadow Oh, what a great story!!

[Aquilani42]

@Treemeadow пидорас, они возможно ебали тебя в жопу после того как тебя спасли. THUMPS UP

[Treemeadow]

@Aquilani42

Watch your language. I don't approve of what the Soviet Union did, but I appreciate what ONE ship did for me.

Я могу использовать Google Translate идиот

[Aquilani42]

@Treemeadow мне похуй, свиноматка.

[RussianMetalhead666]

@Treemeadow lol nice story o.o

[14DeathNote14]

@Treemeadow seems legit ;D

[0o0Januschka0o0]

very nice



[Heke1959]

gavno.......not nice,like it in rusian language

[Treemeadow]

@Heke1959 It is better in Russian, but this is for people who want to hear a translation that tells the same story using the right English.

[Heke1959]

@Treemeadow its ok:),greetings from Cheburaska:)

[samuraimacisthebest]

@Treemeadow you did it very well. I like!

[JMSONE]

well done!

Great voice!

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[alazandanga]

damnit... I dunno if its the melody, the tiny poor thingy or what, but i find it a somehow sad song!

Your voice is very nice, btw. A capella and all... great job!

Congratulations from Argentina : )

[vincentcuzon]

j'aime beaucoup! I do love it. I will sing it to my son.

[0itodance0]

awesome, I really like it..

[ManuAllowitsch]

crappy

[Treemeadow]

@ManuAllowitsch Not crappy, actually.

[linkaqt1]

@ManuAllowitsch if you listen to the russian version it wont be crappy. oh wait, were you saying that about your face??

[wtfandy]

Beautiful voice

[Treemeadow]

Thankyou :D