Nick Nasev
@nicknasev
Chartered Linguist Macedonian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin into English Translator Australian English Expert Let's talk about Balkan and Aussie stuff! nicknasev.com
I didn't find Borat when I was in Kazakhstan eight years ago... but I did find Boran
I just found out the name of the project manager in charge of the works on my building... IYKYK! (tulibu dibu douchoo!)
Scene exactly 9 years ago today outside of Shepherd's Bush tube station. People were dropping off clothes and items for survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire. So, has anyone faced justice yet? I take that's a no.
Poster in Macedonian advertising the 1972 Hajj for Muslims in Yugoslav Macedonia. Yugoslavia always feared Hajjis would return with dangerous ideologies, but in 1972 one came back with something worse – smallpox The solution was a win for mass vaccination... www.nicknasev.com/blog/how-the...
For someone who translates from a number of Slavonic languages, 24 May is a special day – the feast day on the Julian Calendar for brothers Saints Cyril and Methodius, the progenitors of Slavonic literacy. At the St Cyril and Methodius monument in Mukachevo, Ukraine, June 2018.
You know that I've appeared at Eurovision? Here's the proof ⤵️ It's my two seconds of fame 😁 This was immediately after the Macedonian entry appeared in the second semi final in 2013. Hey, not bad going for my first ever #Eurovision
Mostar Sevdah Reunion performing everyone's most favourite sevdalinka, Moj Dilbere, in London this evening
Turkish Roma clarinetist extraordinaire Ramazan Sesler and his band were amazing last night at the legendary Ronnie Scott's, London
Marija Dimkova, one of the voices of Aegean Macedonian song, died today aged 84. A child refugee from the Greek Civil War, Dimkova devoted her life to preserving the authentic Macedonian folk culture of her birthplace – Pozhar, Meglen, #Macedonia. Бог да ја прости! Вечна памет!
Put it in the diary! Montenegro will be celebrating its 20th anniversary of independence on 21 May with a giant concert on the aptly named Independence Square in the capital Podgorica. The headliner... Ricky Martin Btw, there will be a slew of Montenegrin pop singers too (no Turbofolkers)
Today is Macedonian Language Day! The modern Macedonian alphabet was adopted on this day in 1945, laying the foundations for the use of #Macedonian, until then only a spoken language, in administration, education and public life. 🔆Честит Денот на македонскиот јазик! #македонски #македонскијазик
No, this is not the cover of a construction industry magazine. This, would you believe, is the special May Day 1975 cover for Nash Svet (Our World), a Macedonian magazine for children.
40 years since Chernobyl. In 2014 I saw this still up inside a class in the abandoned city of Pripyat – a propaganda poster saying clean air is a guarantee on health and that human actions can result in the air being contaminated. The horrible irony.
21 years after it was first released, Princes Amongst Men: Journeys with Romani-Gypsy Musicians by Garth Cartwright is back – updated and bigger than before. And guess who had a big part in its fruition? 😊 The book is out now at all good bookshops
A joke for the eve before elections in Bulgaria... "The buying and selling of votes for under 200 leva (100 euros) is a crime"
Off to the CIOL Conference today in London #ciol #translators #linguists
Al lago: Un viaje balcánico de guerra y paz, un libro de Kapka Kassabova, ya está disponible. To The Lake by Kapka Kassabova is now available in Spanish.
On the ‘peace’ wall separating Catholics and Protestants in west Belfast. If Albanians and Serbs have ‘learned to live together', then why is Mitrovica even more divided than Belfast? And how random to see 'закон’ – ‘law’ in Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Macedonian.
Egg dye purchased! First time in over two decades that I bought a Greek dye brand, but what can I do when there was no Macedonian dye left.
Last night watched The Partisan Necropolis, Chris Leslie's brilliant doco of how the fate of this WWII partisan cemetery reflects the division of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Biggest revelation – Mostar Croats speaking in a different accent from the Bosniaks! That wasn't the case before.
From 1994 to 2001 I was one of the producers and presenters of the Macedonian radio program on 5EBI-FM in Adelaide, Australia. Great times! I unfortunately cannot attend this event today as I'm on the other side of the world from Adelaide. Поздрав до сите присутни!
I always love this photo of Debbie Harry taken in 1977 on Hindley Street in Adelaide, Australia. You could purchase the entire works of Lenin from the Third World Bookshop (behind Debbie). They were all arranged on the mezzanine level's top shelf gathering dust. Photo credit: SA Throwbacks
I’m giving a talk this Friday (20 March) at the Centre for Translation, Interpreting and Localisation Studies (CITLS) at the University of Leeds, UK, as part of their Careers in Languages series. It's about translating from "smaller" languages into English. Log-in details below
Today marks a year since the tragic fire at the Puls nightclub in my ancestral hometown of #Kochani, #Macedonia. 63 people lost their lives and more than 200 sustained injuries in the overcrowded and unsafe venue. Justice needs to be served! Вечна памет на жртвите! Правда за сите!