Translation - Russian-English - Привет, дорогой. Спустя столько времени я не могу...

Hi Aneta,
I'd suggest some changes in order to sound more natural in English. Please, tell me if the meaning changes in any way, OK?

Hello, dear. (Even) After such a long time, I can't forget you. Please, answer (-) me. I will wait for your reply. I look forward to our meeting.

What do you think?

It's perfect for me, Lilly, but ask also some Russian expert, ok? I was learning Russian in a primary school, quite long time ago...
I think I can understand a lot..., but I can be wrong...

Of course I'll set a poll for it and the community will give their input. I just wanted to know if the meaning was kept

I still look forward to our meeting.

I still hope we meet again. Girl wants, but don't really expect it
May be it should be written in comments field that the writer is a girl and she addresses to a guy (I don't know if there is any difference in Norvegian).

Yes, of course, I knew it. It sounds almost the same in Polish:
Я всё ещё надеюсь = Ja mam jeszcze nadzieję

So: I have still a hope/ I still hope

But who has a hope, the one always looks forward... Doesn't s/he?


Anyway, you're right. Literally it means "I still have a hope..." thank you, Siberia!

I like your variant "I have still a hope"

As for me "to look forward is to wait smth that is going to happen or very probabl to occur, smth real". Here it's only a dream of a girl (she wrote in comments that the guy doesn't answer her).

But it can be my personal perception not existing in real language

Is that better, girls?

I think that is...

не нравится мне это after such a long time=)))

Well, my first version was different a bit, Siberia. It was:
"I can't forget you, though so a long time went by".

Maybe we should only change:
so a long time --> such a long time

and it would convey the meaning in a better way?

What do you think, dear friend?

It was a question to Siberia.

@ Lilian

hope of meeting you >>> "of us meeting" or "we meet" or smth else, but it should be about two people

@ Aneta

Um... may be you were adressing to Barbariska (the author of previous post)?

I believe that both variants have the same meaning, I'd traslate them in Russian with the almost same words. So it's indeed a question of English natural sounding.

P.S. just your version sounds more romantic

About my version: "I can't forget you, though so a long time went by".

Hehehe!!! I believe Lilly knew what she was doing when she changed my version into this one. Even, if my version sounds more romantic to you ...

About the previous one. Well, it was before:
"I look forward to our meeting"

and then I asked Lilian to add "still" and she changed the line in the way she did...

The only change I imagine is in the last line.

"I still have the hope of meeting you"
"I hope we will meet someday"
"I'm still hopeful about meeting you"

"our meeting" sounds more like a business meeting

Well, I think the all propositions except the 2nd one (lack of "still" ) are fine.

Siberia, all the versions say about meeting two persons... Even if we don't use the word "our"...

I guess that only in Russian (and in Polish too) we can say:
"I have still the hope for our meeting",

but it shouldn't be expressed in this way in English, as it could sound like a business meeting like Lilly claims.

Nice discussion. Really!

I guess it's really too subtle nuance (we meet each other/I meet you).

Among vatiants given I'd subscribe to "I'm still hopeful about meeting you" (the most emotional).

Anyway in expert I trust in this case

Lilly, you have probably forgotten tiny sth.

I' still --> I'm still