Microsoft word will do more characters. Just go to the tools menu select languages and select translate then fill the to and from out in the right hand side bar. I use office 2003
Yep, yep! As of right now I'm going to begin the process from my end and as far as I know she will begin from hers. While from this board I know more or less what to expect from the process I am not and would not curb her enthusiasm to try. Besides, as the old Arabic parable goes: "Who knows? The horse may learn to sing hymns!"
No worries at all, baron. I am not the sort that would abuse the system, if she can't get a tourist visa here then it would be me to Russia or we to wherever she could get one to.
I still think that this is rushing it a bit, but as the process will take some seven months I'm okay with it. Patience is one of my strengths.
Not to be the party-pooper Zoomie...but how long have you been writing this girl and has she ever said she loves you in any of her letters or get real chummy with her sign-offs?
Any girl that needs a visa and tells you she will come to you before you ever met....$creem$ scam...and I don't use that word very often.
Zoomie.....don't you think you are putting the horse before the cart even talking about visas....if you want to get to know this girl...get your russian visa and go visit her!!!!
This girl sounds like some I had been in contact with on mamba in the past..........
Keep your eyes wide bl00dy open also, I predicted to you that she would offer, make excuses, to come to you, of course she would, just google for 'cheboksary scam' and have a read.
You can get a Russian tourist visa at the drop of the hat, within a matter of days, so I don't understand why she claims to be able to do things quicker than you!
A knowledgable fellow countryman can advise you of what her chances are of getting a visa to come to you ..... but those chances are pretty much diddly squat and whilst she may not have mentioned a travel agency allow me to predict to you what will happen next:
She will have sourced an agency, having perhaps shopped around for the best price, and they can organise everything for an extortionate amount of dolloars and all you have to do is Western Union the money to her, she might even tell you that you need to provide her with the WU transfer number, I think it's an 8 digit number.
If you were fool enough to send that money then that might be the last you hear from her or ..... she/he/they may think "we've got a right sucker here" and they'll continue to bleed you for more monies right up until the point where she is pretending to be at Moscow airport and they won't let her on the plane, without sufficient living expenses, and you must send her another $500 or whatever amount.
By all means SoCO play it along, you need to know for sure that it's a scam, but do not allow yourself to become emotionally involved and do not spend a single cent in her direction because it will be a wasted cent.
P.S. Have you, from the full header of her emails, run IP location check(s) on her yet, check the IP addresses to see if she always writes from the same PC or from different PC's and also the location (city) where she is writing from, Cheboksary, Kazan, Yoshkar Ola and all around that area are the scammer hotspot but often they will say they are from a different city to the one they are actually from.
I always find the more broken someone's english appears to be, the easier it is for them to be deceptive. Almost to the point where they can be blatant in asking for money and you're just happy you know what they're saying!
This is like some soap opera, wonder what's going to happen next...
<laughs> Fellas! It's cool! I'm going through this eyes wide open.
durak: MS Word will translate an entire document for you. In Office 2007 go to the Review tab and in the 1st block of tools there is a translate tab. Once you click the tab it will send the doc to a MS website that translates documents to and from Russian (or bunches of other langauges).
beemer18: You're no "party-pooper", I'm here to get help as I am admittedly a newbie at this. I'm grateful each of you is willing to share your knowledge and help me out. No, I've not known her very long at all (a bit over a week with daily letters). No, she doesn't use the "l" word but does say how much she likes what I write to her. I've checked on her name, her parents' names, and her internet headers (as Martin suggested) and also the photos she's sent (there has been at least one and sometimes two with each of her letters) and they all check out so far. If she were saying she'd come to me I'd agree with you, but what she's been saying was that she didn't want to wait seven months to meet and that she would come to see me not that she would come to be with me. Difference there. She may sound like some black mambas but if so it's because I am not doing her proper justice in my briefs here. So far, she appears very sweet and sincere. Time and patience will tell and I have quite a lot of both.
Martin: You did indeed predict all that and it may yet be so. We shall see. I did Google and read Cheboksary scam. Quite enlightening. Are you in the U.K. Martin? Here in the U.S. it takes a bit longer than a few days (mostly because the Consulates are so bloody far away unless one lives on either coast or in Texas), but yes, still MUCH quicker than a FSU getting one from the U.S. but again, from every letter she writes it appears to be naivete. Her letter this morning asked if I wanted her to find out about them. Sure it could be a more elaborate version of scam but until it proves to be so I will take it as simply not knowing the reality of how hard the visa would be for her to get. As I've said, I'm an unemployed college student at the moment so there is no money to scam from me even if I wanted to. Besides, my son comes before everything, myself and my "prospects" included. I know the ways of the Internet and while I will allow some emotional involvement the only kind of emotional involvement that would lead to such a thing as what scammers prey upon comes from meeting in person and not just once but many times. I'm too old to not have learned a few things along the way. ;-D
Land of oz: About $131. according to the Consulate site.
Hellbound: You are correct. I'll keep yinz posted as to what happens next.