"Community college" in Russian?

Paul B. Gallagher paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Fri Jun 8 13:10:17 UTC 2007


Dustin Hosseini wrote:

> According to Multitran.ru, a community college is any of the following: 
> 
>  community college  |  g-sort
>   амер.	местный колледж (обыкн. среднее учебное заведение для местного
> населения)
>   образ.	муниципальный колледж двухгодичный (США Bullfinch)
>   рекл.	общественный колледж
>  Community College в начало
>   общ.	двухгодичный колледж (bookworm)
> 
> Since Russia doesn't traditionally have such an idea, there is no concrete
> translation. 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Dustin.
> 
> PS: There is something called ПТУ, but this applies to technical institutes,
> where studies study hands-on skills.

Converting to readable form:

> According to Multitran.ru, a community college is any of the 
> following: community college | g-sort амер. местный колледж (обыкн. 
> среднее учебное заведение для местного населения) образ.
> муниципальный колледж двухгодичный (США Bullfinch) рекл. общественный
> колледж Community College в начало общ. двухгодичный колледж
> (bookworm)
> 
> Since Russia doesn't traditionally have such an idea, there is no 
> concrete translation.
> 
> Hope this helps, Dustin.
> 
> PS: There is something called ПТУ, but this applies to technical 
> institutes, where stud[ent]s study hands-on skills.

-- 
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Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
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