RichardDeaf

Does anyone know any ASL/ESL interpeter in Moscow Russia?

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Byrdie714

Ask authentic, he would know.

authentic

I know it is very rare, and very hard to find ASL/ESL interpreters in Moscow, Russia, because of many Russian ASL/ESL interpreters work in the New York City, and few other big cities. I am sorry to say this, but if you plan to visit Moscow, Russia, you would have to hire one from New York City, or few other big cities to travel with you. I know it would not be that cheap.

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Jolie_77

Personally, I don't know of any ASL/ESL interpreters who are in Moscow but however, I have a friend who is an interpreter here who happens to be married to a guy who hails from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (a country that once belonged to Russia) She lived there for a while as well with her husband. The terp's cousin works with me, so I can ask the cousin to relay the message tomorrow at work. When I hear something from her, I'll let you know.

RichardDeaf

I am not heading to Moscow, I have a friend recently moved to Moscow and will have a job interview this week, so I asked him about interpeter but he doesnt know anyone in the city.. So I figured I would ask here.

Reba

Your friend is deaf and uses ASL? What language will he be using at his new job?

webexplorer

I am surprised that your friend wants to work in Moscow.

My deaf friend was born in Russia. He came and became U.S. Citizen when he was 25 years old. He is happy that he works in U.S. because of better salary. He is still learning in English. There were many poor services for the deaf people after the Communism collapsed in the late 1980's.

My Russian teacher at NTID knows someone who signs in English - maybe ASL. We had the ASL interpreter in our group in Russia. Actually, I haven't seen my teacher for a long time.

RichardDeaf

Yes.. He has CI and can talk voice to people.. I was told the interview would be in English.. he can read/speak fairly ok.

RichardDeaf

He will be working for "America" owned companies in russia as programmer. He will more likely to get full salary like most counterpart in USA.

He met some Russian deafs but very hard to communication due to they were signing RSL... Funny thing is that he told me he had to sign like "caveman" to communicate with others. I looked it up for manual finger signs for russian, omg, finger spelling is completely different!!! No wonder its hard to communicate between RSL and ASL!!!

Ariakkas

of course, they use a completely different alphabet.

Pinky678

That's interesting! I would love go travel to Russia someday. I have 1 friend coming from in Russia. RSL is very complex. The abc letters are very tough! My mom told me the Russian speak like a funny sound. I want to meet with deaf and hoh Russian people someday. I know the country is very poor! Why it's so biggest country than other countries in the world. Our America is 3rd larger. Canada is 2nd.

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RichardDeaf

Moscow is not cheap to live there.. The city is one of most expensive city to live in the world from what I was told (Just like New York City).. But some stuffs are CHEAP to buy there. My friend rented an apartment, that is size about normal hotel room with small kitchin and bathroom, for about $1000/mo. Worse thing is that he is staying on 5th floor with *NO* working elevator!!! Poor him!

Ukraine is cheap place to live as most people earn about $600 USD a month and large families lives under one house.

Pinky678

Wow! That's so strange! Why is the country very poor? Is that bad economy coming from there? Have you even travel to Russia or used to live in?? I am interesting to know about Russia. It sound like Moscow's apt rent price same as California's. My ophthalmologist's dad was coming from in Ukraine. Because of her last name is so complex. I like Ukraine because it's beautiful in Black Sea and many beautiful macrame on bikini and fashion clothes near by the beach.

You mean in the 5 floors without an elevator?? Ohh NO! That's suck! I didn't want to live there. I rather visit to Russia that all. I want to go Ukraine too. I know all about Russia's old Soviet countries. It's new 14 countries became an independent from USSR.

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"Your lips are moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah!"

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webexplorer

I have visited on a beach of Black Sea. There are many rocks on the beach in Tisbi? (in Georgia, Russia). I feel like that I am a sort of in Chicago of Michigan Lake (i.e. Great Lakes - one of five lakes).

Ukraine is a huge place - probably the size of Texas. I have heard that both Ukraine and some parts of Africa have the highest crime of scam businesses in the world.

Pinky678

Really? That's interesting. Yeah I know where is Tbilisi, Georgia near to Russia. The capital Tbilisi isn't close to Black Sea. Did you go there?? Can you tell me why you go there for?? I just curious. I love go to Great Lakes! I live 1 half hours away from Lake Michigan. I live 1 half hours away from Lake Erie.

I didn't know about Ukraine is crime as Africa. My old psychologist's parent were born in Russia. He and his wife travel to Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg, Russia. He told me that Russian people really hate American. I am not surprise that! St. Petersburg and Moscow are crime of Mafia.

My old friend was born in Arkhangel'sk, Russia. It's Northeast close to Arctic Sea. I heard she is not live there anymore. She moved to South Russia. I haven't hear from her for long times.

I have other my friends from church. Her native of Latvia. I ate a Latvian's dessert. It taste like low sugar. It's so delicious! I am interesting about Soviet Union.

I love to travel around the Europe in future! I want to touch 1,000 countries and cities before I die.

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"Your lips are moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah!"

"You can talk but I probably won't listen"

Jolie_77

An update - I apologize for this overdue response. The terp said it is fairly difficult to find an ASL/ESL terp in Moscow. As of now, She doesn't personally know of any terps over there in Moscow.

webexplorer

Yes, I went to Tbilisi, Georgia before a couple of months Communism went down. You are correct that it is Tbilisi. I had a wonderful time there. We were on the train from near Moscow (???) to Tbilisi for one whole day. At that time, we were not allowed to photo them, and even at the train stations. I saw many beautiful places with a lot of mountains and perhaps rivers. I also went to the Black Sea, but I can't remember what city that I went. It could be Sochi.

Today, I had to look up on a Google map and was disappointed that there was no festival site on the mountain right near the city - especially the old fashion wheel rides. Some young Russians invited us to ride on the wheel, and we knew that it was not safe because we saw many rust poles, but it wasn't that bad. It was my pleasure to meet many deaf Russians, and we were able to understand and use our body language. I was surprised that our both deaf cultures with body language are better communication than Russian hearing people. Isn't that irony...

I joined with 30 NTID students and some staffs for the trip, and we wanted to learn their culture. We travelled many cities in Russia for two weeks. If you go to Russia, you should not drink water there. The staff drank the water, and she was very sick for 6 days, and half of her vacation was ruined. We had to drink sodas instead of water.

Some young Russian people love to see your $1.00 American dollars. I brought 20 of $1 for the kids, and they loved it. I also gave away two jeans because it was expensive there at the time. I have no idea how much it changed after the Communism's collapse. I gave many Hershey bars for the little kids. One man seriously begged me to give him my shoes, and I refused him. He tried to give me a lot of money. I can't do that because the security at the airport asked us to show our money before leaving the country. I was lucky that my friends helped me to get away from him. Whew! That was pretty scary.

Good luck with your 1,000 trips if possible!

Pinky678

Yeah Sochi is at Black Sea. My artist teacher from my school. He told me about his trip to Moscow, Russia and stayed there for 1 month. He was graduated from NTID. Why Russia Train is not allow to take a picture?? It's so bummed! I love to take a picture.

How about Russia have a water bottle there?? I don't like to drink any foreign water. I prefer to drink a water bottle. It cost 1,000 dollar on Trip to Russia?? It's not bad. I want to wait until in future. Do you like to eat a Bosch Soup from Russia? I want to learn about countries culture. I bet Russian kids are adorable!

The strange man tried to beg your shoes?? He must be poor. I don't like anyone to beg me to give someone a shoes. It's bacteria and germ. It's not good! I know a little of Russia's ABC sign language. It's so complex! Have you even drink Russian's vodka and beers??

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"Your lips are moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah!"

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Wokamuka

Checking with my Russian-born friend, the story is the same as authentic's. After pressure from me for a "best chance" solution, he'd recommended one of those missionary/church groups who might have an American-based sign language speaker who is fluent in Russian.

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Pinky678

I want to learn how to use RSL. Is that easy to learn it fast?? I am member of church. I want to be on missionary for travel to other countries. i prefer with group who is deaf missionary. I don't like to go alone.

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"Your lips are moving but all I hear is blah, blah, blah!"

"You can talk but I probably won't listen"

Remington

I contacted some terps as well and was told it's very difficult to find an ASL terp here. I guess I'll have to take a crash course in RSL and it's not that difficult to learn quickly. I know Russian language but not fluently but learning RSL is quite easy since I can memorize RSL using English words. Actually, RSL originated from France just like ASL. About 20% of ASL and RSL are the same like 'fish' for an example.

I've heard that some Deaf Russians in New York don't know English well but they learned ASL very quickly. I will have to find RSL book here in Moscow since the internet only gives very little.

SCBassist

The US Embassy in Moscow may know of such interpreting services. Moscow is a major city with various international cultures, they will direct him to appropriate organizations there.

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Remington

I will ask them if they know of an organization or individual who is on contract with US Embassy. The odds of finding one is almost impossible but I'm sure they have one. However, I'm not going to waste a lot of time trying to find one since I'm learning RSL and making contacts with Deaf Russian friends here.

Thanks for the heads up.

Reba

Hmm, that's tough.

When my Hubby went to Ukraine a few years ago with a men's missionary construction group, he spent one day visiting a school for deaf kids there. Our deaf friend went with him. The hearing Ukrainian teacher spoke to the hearing interpreter, who translated into spoken English. Then, Hubby interpreted into American PSE for our deaf friend. Long process.

The teachers explained that the children were not allowed to learn or use sign language until high school. For elementary school the emphasis was oral. The only "accommodations" they had were headsets that plugged into their desks.

The poor kids had bare asphalt for a playground (no play equipment). Their classroom didn't even have a globe. They didn't even understand that the earth was round.

Anyway, we have other missionary friends in Ukraine now, and they minister to hearing and deaf people.

I don't know how the situation is in Russia. I do know a contact at Silent Word Ministries who manages the international missionaries to the deaf, including Siberia and Russia. Maybe he can get you a contact.

This is his email, if you're interested:

davidbennett@swmi.org

Silent Word Ministries International


p.s. Did you know about the World Championship of Martial Arts of Deaf Athletes in Moscow?

p.s. These are Ukraine, not Russia, but maybe they have contacts:

Ukraine

Faith Baptist Church,Pulkovskii 4, Kharkov, UA : Missionary John & Cathy O'Brien, E-Mail: furlough@missions2ukraine.com, Phone: 38-067-724-4452 (Deaf Ministry)

Simferopol Baptist Church,5 Bakhchisaraiskaya Street, Simferopol, Crimea, UA : Pastor Bob Van Sant, E-Mail: bjvansant@pop.cris.net, Phone: 38-0654-516-569, (Deaf Church) Pastor Slava Kratko