@@vladkast I second that, I would not know you were Russian if you did not tell me, you sound closer to the Scandinavian people I have met, who speak English just as well as a native English speaker, as they are all taught it in school and are inundated with English language media. You sound to me like someone with what I tend to think of as an "EU accent" I am however fairly bad at picking up accents from anywhere in Europe, as I'm from New Zealand. Most Russians I've met have very thick accents and they tend to roll their Rs the same way they would in their own language, so again, you just don't sound like a Russian to my ears. If you want to know how Russians usually sound to me Life of Boris is a slightly exaggerated example. And yes I know he isn't Russian, but us English speakers can't tell the difference really.
I think your English is decent.. you do have to understand in the usa we are a nation of immigrants (legal ones) .. usa English is almost a different language. Nouns and slang is much different from say the UK
@@jaybrooks1098 slang yes, but they are far from different languages. I have traveled the UK, Australia, New Zealand as an American and it is very much the same language. Extremely rare to have any lack of understanding with others. Even much of the slang and urban areas is now almost the same
To my ears Vlad, you have a very slight but distinct Slavic accent. It's so mild that I couldn't say from what country unless you told me. But yes, your grammar is great and no issues whatsoever understanding you. We definitely don't cringe when someone speaks as well as you
uh why?, It should be whoever you are learning with or whatever area you are studying would be the accent you will have not base on what English you speak whether base in US or British. If an American and British are learning the same dialect then they should pronounce in Russian the same way not base on their English verbiage.
Yeah, agree with you, I answered it in a different comment, for example my accent is very different from my Ukrainian friends who grew up in the same city, but I still have russian/Ukrainian accent. I just think she’s very intelligent and was interested in the language more then other people. Her accent is better then mila kinis’s imo and she was born in Ukraine! 😂
@@MABardowell The reason English or other language speakers Don't speak Russian with a recognisable Russian accent is that, unless someone grew up in Russia, it's difficult to do a Russian accent. The accent someone has in a foreign language comes from the language and accent of their native language. British English is not pronounced the same as American English and it's possible to hear this in their accents.
@@MABardowell Not how it works. Accents have certain sounds to them, and certain sounds cross better than others. For example, some British accents have trilled Rs...which is not natural to most American accents. Russian [and Spanish] have trilled Rs come standard. It's easier for someone with a trilled R to pick up on that then someone that has to figure out the sound. Yes it'd be nice to just try to learn based on how the word is supposed to be pronounced, but it doesn't work that way. We're stuck in our ways and thoughts. It's the same reason why this guy [vlad], and NFKRZ [the only other big name Russian youtuber I know off the top my head] have different English accents, despite being Russian. Vlad clearly has influences from somewhere in Russia [or Ukraine?] (dunno where), and NFKRZ is influenced by Chelyabinsk.
@@MABardowell Actually your mothertounges accent makes a difference. For example, the reason that english american sounds the way it does is because of the way that most indo european languages form the tone of the languge in their mouths. When you as a foreigner and after the age of 12 learn to speak english, it is more natural for you to adopt more of an american english accent than an english british accent. The only country that i know of that form the tone of their language the same way that british english does are the dutch. So thats why, even today any foreigner who learns english will most likely adopt more of an american english accent.Even the dutch might still due to movies but language wise they are more natural at speaking british english than the rest of us as a foreigner. So you see, Kate speaking british english doest have an affect on how she will pronounce any foreign language that she learned. It might also be that she has studied the language from childhood. After the age of 12 it is very difficult, almost impossible to completly get rid of your foreign accent when you learn a new accent. I studied language transition but i only recommend looking into things on your own, there is far too much to cover in one YT comment.
I didn't know Kate Beckinsale spoke Russian. That's pretty impressive. That lady is the whole package. Smart, funny, gorgeous, classy but not snobby, has a beautiful voice, and so on and so forth.
The best clip of Mila Kunis speaking Russian is when a reporter asks a dumb question of Justin Timberlake at a conference like "You're a musician, why are you in a movie?" and she goes off on him. She's talking fast without thinking about making an answer ahead of time. It would probably be a better example of how she actually speaks. 'Mila Kunis chews out Russian reporter - in Russian!'
Yeah, it's a great clip. She flies off the handle and the Russian just rolls out. The moderator and other journalists are impressed with her and get a big kick as she goes up one side and down the other of the questioner. (I don't usually speak English using slang almost exclusively. I know it's hard to translate slang. Sorry about that.🤭🙃🤭
Mila Kunis left when she was a child so in her mind she speaks Russian like a child so she gets nervous to speak in an interview. But I also understand that the interviewer wants her to speak Russian and they can excuse any mistakes she makes.
There is a scene in _Johnny Mnemonic_ where he stands on top of a pile of junk and screams out his frustration over the situation he finds himself in. That is one of the few scenes in his filmography where he does not mumble his lines.
Just added Russian to my languages on Duolingo because of your channel. Thought it would be hectic but it's not that bad. Love your content. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦
I just want to say your English is excellent and your pronunciation is really clear, I almost can't tell you have an accent. I really enjoy videos like this, I'm learning Russian as a third language so keep them coming!
I'm so baffled as to who tells him his accent is "horrible". Personally i think his enunciation and grammar are damn near perfect. He probably heard that from monolingual English speakers who couldn't understand any other accent than their own.
I remember in one of the James Bond movies when Russian scientists showed up, they actually started to speak Czech instead of Russian 🤦😂 typical US-American thing: all Slavs are Russians to them. I personally love Russian, it's a beautiful language. Greetings from Slovakia
Lol reminds me of these American tv shows and movies in the 90s would do something similar for Chinese. You have actors throwing Mandarin, Taishanese and Cantonese at each other as if they all understand each other regardless of dialect but in reality, sometimes people in China have a hard time understanding different dialects. It’s even worse when they have the actors throw random incoherent foreign words that has nothing to do with the subtitles. Just because they think Americans could not care or understand what is being said.
I think one of the differences is that English is meant to be spoken with an accent of some kind. So whether it is a Slavic one, Spanish, or Thai, it all works. The key to English is communication, not beauty or refinement.
I don't know if I would say it's meant to be spoken with accent, but just the fact that so many people speak it as a second language means that native English speakers get used to hearing accents. I've a noticed a big difference between that and other languages, for which if you don't have just the right accent and grammar it's possible no one will understand you.
"I don't understand what he said." Same for me, a native German speaker, when people are supposedly speaking German in English TV shows/movies. It is getting better, though, and there are also a few older Hollywood movies with actual German actors.
Ausser [vielleicht in Texas, Kalifornien, Florida...] Spanisch, hoert ein typischer Amerikaner nur Englisch. Als kinderen haben die Europaer [ausser fuer Russlaender vielleicht?] viele Sprachen zu hoeren. Es macht einen grossen Unterschied.
@@Warriorcats64 Yes. Been to Comic Cons in the UK where the American actors didn't understand the English and Scottish accents of the hosts or the other European accents of people asking questions. Me, an Austrian who watches UK and US TV shows and movies, had no problem whatsoever with either accent.
Oh god. There's this show called "Sleepy Hollow", which is kinda cringy at times, but also really enjoyable if you like spooky fantasy stuff... but there were these supposed Hessians speaking supposed German. Absolutely terrible. Actually the most haunting thing in the whole show ^^ I mean, I heard a lot of really bad German in American shows and movies, but in this case I didn't even have a clue as to what those guys were saying.
It's very interesting, for example, when im hearing people speak German (i understand hochdeutsch very well) but when encounter someone from different region of Germany i don't understand a shit very often😄 And it's funny that, when you're immigrant, you understand other immigrants (european) talking broken German very well, in the beginning you understand them better than native speakers🤣
My favorite is Brad Pitt speaking German and Italian in Quinton Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds movie. It's comically bad on purpose 😭 And I'm an English speaker.
This is very helpful to me! I am American and trying to learn Russian. I love the language so much but and worried about my accent because I know that it makes native speakers cringe to hear their language slaughtered. Btw you speak English well, I hear your accent but it doesn't bother me. Please make more of these videos! I am subscribing right now. 💜
Keanu’s Russian proficiency in John wick can sorta be explained by that traits movie. *spoilers* in John wick 3 it’s reveals that John is originally from Belarus, so he’s a Belarusian speaking Russia.
Yeah but pretty much all Belarusians speak Russian, and I believe that for majority it is also their first language; Belarusian is, sadly, a dying language (though it's in a much better position than, say, Irish Gaelic). There's no excuse.
What proficiency? ))) Keanu can't speak Russian at all. And surely he can't speak any Belarussian either, because if he could he could speak Russian freely, as these are two very similar languages.
@@sashbar I think they're referencing his character in the movie. But i also agree with the fact that Belarusians don't speak Russian with that bad of an accent the way keanu did
Milla Jovovich also had a singing career with a CD. That had some Russian or Ukrainian songs on it if I remember correctly. It was released in the mid 90's. A good video to search for is Ой у гаю, при Дунаю
The CD is called "The Divine Comedy" and the track in Ukrainian is called "In A Glade". Lyrics in Cyrillic and a translation can be found here: www.millaj.com/music/lyrics.shtml. It's a very good CD and I'm really glad I found it back when I was (much) younger lol!
I also love the Eurovision Song Contest so do try and sing along with a lot of the various languages represented. Russia is a challenge (when using the Latin alphabet) but sometimes I can manage. Funnily enough, the song that gave Russia its only victory is one of its entries I dislike the most (I am not a fan of Dima Bilan), but they've sent some really good songs, definitely.
I'm surprised that you didn't watch Robin Williams speaking Russian. Check out his performance in the movie "Moscow on the Hudson". He speaks nothing but Russian for the first 30 minutes of the film.
I watched some show where he was singing in "Russian" and that was mostly some badly accented slavic-sounding gibberish. As for the movie, it was slightly better than Keanu Reeves
Early in his career he does an "interview with Nadia Comaneci where the reporter asks a question and then Robin does her voice but high-pitched and rapid Russian-sounding giberish ... then after the one minute tirade the translator says she says, "Yes." ua-cam.com/video/YStLi_S_BSk/v-deo.html
LMAO Try watching the episodes of NCIS where 'Agent Gibbs' 'speaks Russian', that shit got me to the point where I was ready to admit Keanu was fluent.
I love your videos and your commentary. I studied Russian in high school in the 1980s and visited Moscow in 1990. It is nice to know I can still understand it after all these years.
The thing about English is that word choice is more important that sounds. Like, it's weirdly forgiving in that way. You have tons of sounds and accents that are "right"
I have such a high tolerance for accents when people speak English, I don't care what the accent is, I'm not going to cringe because no matter how much they struggle with pronouncing the words in English or how thick their accent is they're speaking to me in a language that they aren't native to, which is more than I do. Especially when speaking it to a native speaker of the language, it's gotta be stressful and really anxiety inducing. I took Spanish for 3 years in high school and I remember the vocab and everything really well, I remember pronunciation rules, I remember grammar rules and how to conjugate verbs, but I haven't used Spanish since high school and I definitely couldn't hold a conversation in it. I remember reading this quote somewhere from a bilingual person where they said something to the effect of "I'm smarter in Spanish" because they were a native Spanish speaker and they learned English later. I've always understood the frustration in that quote, where someone might be trying to express an idea but they can't think of the right words to do so, and then expressing that frustration by saying "I'm smarter in Spanish" because they have an easier time expressing themselves in Spanish. Like, honestly, the fact that someone put time and effort into learning a new language is awesome, in my opinion and they'll only get better with practice, so who am I to judge someone based on how thick their accent is. I do cringe when it comes to American Southern accents, though. The U.S. southern accent is just... annoying to me.
Hey!!!! 😂 Texas girl here. No accent whatsoever but I enjoy hearing it! That drawl is not heard often in d/fw area. I think it’s cute tho😊. Bless yer hart ♥️
I like this quote, I think it was either by Trevor Noah or he quoted someone else, regarding accents. Paraphrasing: "an accent is not a measure of a person's intelligence. It's merely them applying certain rules of their mother tongue in a foreign language". Now imagine I have easier time expressing myself in English than in my mother tongue. I'm 23, moved abroad (not to an English speaking country though) when I was 19. I've never been to any English speaking country and my main experience with it ever since graduating is lots of movies, shows, videos and chats, AND I think in English about 80% of time. Now, this is kinda sad.
It’s so wonderful you guys are encouraging him and saying his english is perfectly fine. And I agree. I’d be able to have a conversation with him, which is enough. But don’t forget that he HAS to say that and be apologetic about it BECAUSE it’s normal that people give non native english speakers shit about how they speak english. Please also remind those kinds of people that it’s ok to not be great at it. What’s important is we all understand each other
My best non-native language is Spanish (though very rusty now), I took a couple semesters of Italian, and to change things up I took one semester of Russian. The best compliment I've ever received on language skills was when my Russian teacher told me I spoke Russian with a Spanish accent. Which makes sense to me because it would be my brain's default 'not-English' setting for vowel sounds, etc.
Yes, he is liiving in Canada and is a lot easier to correct your english when everyone around you is speaking it. But for me as a slav who live in my own country, its difficult to get rid of the awfull accent.
@@rally2811 Audiobooks my friend. 10-30 minutes a day mimicking an audiobook will improve an accent over time. My friends use this method as they are multi-lingual, and I personally have used it to mimic other English accents. Worth a try, especially if you have books you have already read that you can find on Audible.c0m.
@@sarasorensen2650 I have a few Swedish, Finnish, and Dutch friends who are like that, always them quit it you speak it better than I do, like most second languages while learning is more formally taught.
My grandparents are Ukrainian and I thought it was just my terrible Russian when I only understood cyka when Keanu was speaking, lol. I'm glad someone with good Russian is just as confused as I am.
Seriously, I've been in love with KAte Beckinsale for years!! I have pictures of her as my background picture and I had no idea she could speak Russian. And I agree 100%, her accent is beautiful
According to the subtitles, here's how the John Wick in the car part went down: Just before the clip, in English, Alfie Allen asked how much to buy his car, and Keanu said it's not for sale. Then the clip starts, and Alfie says "Aw, I love dogs" and then switches to Russian and says "Everything has a price, bitch." and Keanu responds "Not this bitch."
I enjoyed your video! Ralph Fiennes sounded like a native to me who doesn't speak Russian, lol. Anyways, I hope covid will be over since I want to visit Russia as my cousin lives and work there. I guess she's now fluent in Russian, on top of 4 or 5 other European languages (she's a polyglot and a Southeast Asian).
I've been that awkward person who has to sit there not understanding anything. You want to be polite but other than pretending to understand it looks weird having something to focus on. Pretending to understand makes you look silly too.
I watched several The Queen's Gambit vids, and YT just recommended me this one. I don't speak Russian, just I've learn the alphabet once I was bored. But I adore the culture. I think I stay at this channel, seems fun, and informative.
@@vladkast It is melodious. People always seem to think that Americans look down on "accents". But the truth of it is that most of us admire those people who make the effort to learn English. I wish everyone spoke at least a few languages. I tried learning Russian, but I had real problems with the alphabet. French, German, Spanish, Italian .... those I can do, but Russian? Eeeeek!!
@@RickyMaveety I think it's more that Americans look down on anyone who doesn't speak English (or doesn't speak it well enough to be conversational) more than us looking down on accents while speaking English. And sadly, that's been my experience; the number of angry/rude "you're in America, learn English!" comments I've heard here are uncountable. It's even worse where I live in south Florida, because there are a lot of Spanish-speakers here, yet many people who don't speak Spanish look down on those who speak Spanish and not English. The added layer of irony is that Florida (a) was settled by the Spanish before the English, and (b) is a Spanish word. I've had to explain to people that learning a new language isn't easy, and that English isn't the native language of the Americas anyway, so we should definitely try to work *with* people if we want to communicate rather than deriding them for not speaking the same language we do.
I think your English is very good, better than a lot of others I have heard. I, myself, have a strong interest in learning Polish to have a stronger connection to my ancestors. I have heard that it is very similar to Russian, so I figured that since Russian classes are more accessible in my area that I would learn Russian first, then learning Polish would be easier.
Heritage speaker of Polish who studied Russian for years here: Yes, Polish and Russian are both Slavic like Portuguese and Italian are both Romance languages. My advice is to take Russian if that's what's available. The grammatical structures are very similar and ~80% of the vocabulary is built off the same, common bank of roots. Like in English if you see a new word that has 'scrib' or 'scrip' in it you know it will have something to do with writing in some way. Most of the prefixes and suffixes have the same conceptual meaning even if used differently. So yes, study Russian now and you'll have a huge head start when you're able to start Polish.
I wish that I could speak Russian as you can speak English. I want to learn Russian but I am now learning how to speak and write in Tagalog. I can speak a French and I studied in Lyon, France. Russian is a very interesting language and the more I listen the more I can understand. It is a cool language.
Russian is actually a kind of "soft" languages. Some accents almost sound like french and Russian in one. Like the sentences kind of carry out the same pose?
Keanu is trying to say "У етои сукa нет", but they mess up how it sounds, and they should also say "суки" instead of suka. Props for trying, and actually making a good movie, but that Russian is cringy.
@@Precisa72 oh man than the translation would be "Всему есть цена/у всего есть цена, сучка/сучара" "Только не у этой суки" in Russian they're basically saying "every bitch has a price", which is not the same
Fun fact, Italian has a very similar structure and syntax to Russian which is why sometimes the cadence and words sound almost Italian while being wholly Russian
@@susanmaggiora4800 We have a lot of food-related words for describing attractive people... the reasons should be obvious, but I'll keep my comment rated PG 😂
Vlad, your English has the grace and elegance of Russian. (I mean that, I'm not being sarcastic.) I speak very little Russian, although I do know the Cyrillic alphabet. I like the sound of the language.
I don't know why, but I love the chaotic energy of heritage accents. Like, when you can hear phrases that sound indistinguishable from a native accent, immediately followed by an awkward delivery of something that should be just as simple to say. Or those seemingly random moments when they slow down, because they can't remember a word and need to buy time. Their story of becoming a heritage speaker is embedded in their accent and is completely unique to them. It can be very distracting, though, and frustrating for both sides. I have some family who still treat me like a child because that's how I speak their language, and they don't speak mine, so that's all they have to know me from.
I don't mind hearing people speak English with different accents - I enjoy it. What I find cringy is people trying to do British accents when they aren't British. You can usually tell unless the actor/person doing the accent is impeccably trained.
Yeah, the last two bits shows us why it is always a risk to throw in languages to a movie where the actor does not understand the language. The difference between the Reeves lines and the Fiennes lines is not the actors, but the people hired to coach them on how to pronounce / enunciate the words. In the case of Reeves/Allen (scene with the "bitch"), it was likely an American who tried to coach them. The goal was not to speak Russian, but only to sound like they spoke some level of Russian. In the case of Fiennes, the speech coach likely provided a much more in-depth lessons on how to pronounce words, but then they failed to pay a native speaker to write the speech. Very strange, but money makes people choose stupid things. Making people say things in languages they do not actually speak is just as dumb as making people look like they play instruments they do not know how to play.
Great video! I would love to hear what you thought of Jodie Comer speaking Russian in the show Killing Eve. She is kind of a chameleon with accent but I’m not sure how good her official language speaking is!
I think the structure of sentences must be key, because I’ve always said I love the way Russians speak English. Something about the phrasing and choice of words.
I’m happy because I speak basic Russian but I understood pretty much what everyone said, with the exception of Keanu. I guess it helps that I’m a native Portuguese speaker 😅
And lord knows if anyone will need to tell Putin to put his shirt on, it will be Colbert. 😂 Meanwhile I’ve been doing Babbel Russian lessons for months and still only feel confident pronouncing кто and водка. I’m planning to start over with a non-dominant hand writing practice included. I think it’ll help
Love the Russian accent, you also get drawn in, listening to Russians talking in their own language, even when you don't understand what they are saying.
As a German raised by a Russian mother, I understand Russian very well. It feels kind of cozy to listen to Russian. 😊 This is why I can recognize very quickly if there is an accent. Unfortunately, I never learned Russian at school (reading/writing). So, it’s more of a childish feeling if Russian sounds right or wrong to me. 😅 This is why I am enjoying your video very much. For years, I have been criticizing Russian pronounciation in all movies I‘ve seen, especially German dubs. It is quite common to leave the original English sound undubbed if there are Russian phrases. This is when one can judge the actor‘s language skills. 😝 Otherwise, you can only judge the actor‘s German voice actor. And that can be very painful for your ears. 🙉
Because I think I've had both- My mom's Ukrainian and my grandma on my dad's side is Russian. The Ukrainian borsh is more purple hued and has different vegetables (for example beets). And the Russian borsh is more orange-red, tastes richer and has a lot of cabbage.
Flipping threw the comments i did not notice that no one pointed out the second guy that was with Keanu was Big Daddy Diesel Kevin Nash a retired wrestler from Michigan.
With the movie with Keanu Reeves they use a lot of ADR. So the actors may not even be speaking Russian per se. They might be saying it phonetically but being dubbed over by a actual speaker. Then it was blending with the background noise and since you cannot read their lips you don’t understand what is being said. It also sounds mumbled.
Words I understood “this” “understand” “borscht”, “ good evening” I thought I some form of “beautiful”. Regarding Keanu Reeves, it reminds me of when Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson said of the character Scotty on Star Trek “He was the only one we (Scottish people) couldn’t understand.” (Scotty was played by Canadian actor James Doohan.)
Yes, it is a cute accent. I'm Finnish so there are usually many Russians in Finland. It's funny, but you really look very Russian to me, it is not always easy to see who is
Your english is very good, and I can hear the accent, but it's not too much where I cant understand you. Which is great because accents like that are really nice, personally
There are so many people from all over the world speaking English as a second language that pretty much all native English speakers don't find accents odd. I can understand why you might from the point of view of someone else speaking your first language because there are probably far fewer people speaking Russian or whatever that second language is compared to English. So having to put up with funny accents is far less common.
America has a lot of accents in general and big cities are very diverse and multicultural so we are used to hearing English spoken with a variety of different accents. (You sound great to me btw) I even heard there was a study that speculates that Americans are a lot more smiley than some other countries because we are using nonverbal ways of communicating because there are sometimes language barriers 😀😀😀
Your English is very good. I am Louisiana French Cajun and found it interesting that French soldiers (metropolitan French sounds very different than Louisiana French) would say Cher ami when asking fir food. So Russians started saying sharomyzhnik but I heard different versions of story that some were charmed by soldiers and some used the word to means like crooked begger or begger. In Louisiana it sounds like we are saying “sha” because you don’t hear the r like sha as in la ti da. And ami is Ah mee. We say hey “Sha” or hey tite sha meaning petite because we use tite or T’ as an endearment meaning little. Like we may say how’s T’jean which means John jr or little John. I called my grandmother little maman Tite maman. But sounds like I am saying teet mama. Or teet mamere. Little grandmother. We speak a broken English (anglais or patois) so your accent in English sounds very nice to me. And I understand you perfectly. We were beaten and told we spoke French wrong so we nearly lost our language. When I was a tite Bebe this québécois teacher said I spoke French wrong, ya know improperly. I thought it was because she never met a Louisiana cajien because we had moved far north of state where it was not Spoken but later I found out a famous Cajun singer Zachary Richard back down in my home area I nicknamed T’la, meaning little Louisiana for south Louisiana was being horribly treated and told he did not speak French right along with his good friends Barry Ancelet our famous language expert and historian of all Louisiana French language and culture who all speak it fluently along with their Cher ami Marc Doucet. I wish Russians would change the meaning of Cher ami to not mean crooked begger but to mean dear friend. I did hear some Russians were charmed by soldiers and I hope not all Russians hate the French. No use that negatively. In fact the first time I heard it I was told it was a nice story but later I heard it meant derogatory. Many of the French soldiers stayed and taught the more wealthy noble kids. Like I said I speak differently and have totally different culture which I love. I am covered in creole gravy as the saying goes. Creole just means native born to my state. I am also tslaigi Indian as well as other native Indian. My mama grew up where the Ouachita Indians lived in Louisiana and is also has Indian ancestry. That is what makes our people so Jolie which means pretty is our mix of French Spanish and Indian and some European and of course we have people that came from west Africa and islands too. We use many west African foods and sayings in our language and stories in our culture, like Booqui and his compair Lapin. The hyena and his friend the rabbit. And we eat Coush coush for breakfast which is African. Merci beaucoup and spasibo. I always wanted to learn Russian. I thought it would be good and help international relations and I like the Ukrainian people.
I just love it how I can't speak the word of the language if they'd ask me to, but I understand what my fellow Russians are saying in context. For instance I knew instantly what Mila said without any translation. Could I repeat it in Russian? No. Did I understand? Yes. Ahh, the beauty of Slavic brotherhood! Btw, South Slav here, if you could not deduce by the name alone.
@Thunder Bird There is only one nationality in the world that uses Cyrillic alphabet and who's last names end in "ић", that's Serbian :) There are others that end in the same way within South Slavic group, but they don't use Cyrillic alphabet. So when you see a combination of those two, you can be 100% sure it is a Serb.
Kate studied in Oxford. By gramma her Russian is high level. More over, she can write Russian.... It is Number One!! University education it is not lie around. It is hard work!
No, your English language accent sounds cool. Most accents are cool-sounding to me. So far, the only time I kind of cringe when I hear an accent is when an American speaks Spanish without even attempting to pronounce the Spanish words with the correct sound - and they sound SO American. haha But that's probably because I have caught myself doing it sometimes when I'm not focusing enough on pronunciation, and it sounds awful to me. :p
I checked this video out, being a Russian-American myself. Despite being born in America, all of the Russian people I talk to are always surprised by my lack of accent. Having learned Russian as my first language and having lived in a predominantly Russian part of New York, I haven’t truly lost my lingual ability. I guess my family taught me well!
I know a family in Toronto, who forbids their kids to talk English at home, only russian, they grew up here, at honestly they have very little accent, but still have it... I’m glad your parents tough you well 😄
My biggest take away from this video is that Kevin Nash (from Detroit) did such a good job speaking Russian in his clip with Keanu, that you thought he was Russian. Impressive.
I don't blame you for not understanding the Russian that was spoken in the movie, American movies don't usually care for accurate depiction of other languages, I never understand the Arabic spoken in American shows or movies, they don't even bother with getting native Arabic speakers in minor roles or one time appearances
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Thank you for watching the video!
Note: I misspoke that Kate Beckinsale is an American, I know she's English
You have really nice eyes and accent.
Awesome video. You gained a subscriber! Can't wait to see more of your videos. Nice job
Kates accent is very seksi. Good combo english tongue russian language. )))
I love your english. a slight accent but its understandable.
So is Ralph Fiennes
No, Vlad, your accent when you speak English is good. We can hear you perfectly.
What do you mean good?! It’s incredible
@@vladkast I second that, I would not know you were Russian if you did not tell me, you sound closer to the Scandinavian people I have met, who speak English just as well as a native English speaker, as they are all taught it in school and are inundated with English language media. You sound to me like someone with what I tend to think of as an "EU accent"
I am however fairly bad at picking up accents from anywhere in Europe, as I'm from New Zealand. Most Russians I've met have very thick accents and they tend to roll their Rs the same way they would in their own language, so again, you just don't sound like a Russian to my ears. If you want to know how Russians usually sound to me Life of Boris is a slightly exaggerated example. And yes I know he isn't Russian, but us English speakers can't tell the difference really.
I think your English is decent.. you do have to understand in the usa we are a nation of immigrants (legal ones) .. usa English is almost a different language. Nouns and slang is much different from say the UK
@@jaybrooks1098 slang yes, but they are far from different languages. I have traveled the UK, Australia, New Zealand as an American and it is very much the same language. Extremely rare to have any lack of understanding with others. Even much of the slang and urban areas is now almost the same
To my ears Vlad, you have a very slight but distinct Slavic accent. It's so mild that I couldn't say from what country unless you told me. But yes, your grammar is great and no issues whatsoever understanding you. We definitely don't cringe when someone speaks as well as you
Kate Beckinsale is British so she would have a different accent in Russian to an American one.
uh why?, It should be whoever you are learning with or whatever area you are studying would be the accent you will have not base on what English you speak whether base in US or British. If an American and British are learning the same dialect then they should pronounce in Russian the same way not base on their English verbiage.
Yeah, agree with you, I answered it in a different comment, for example my accent is very different from my Ukrainian friends who grew up in the same city, but I still have russian/Ukrainian accent. I just think she’s very intelligent and was interested in the language more then other people. Her accent is better then mila kinis’s imo and she was born in Ukraine! 😂
@@MABardowell The reason English or other language speakers Don't speak Russian with a recognisable Russian accent is that, unless someone grew up in Russia, it's difficult to do a Russian accent. The accent someone has in a foreign language comes from the language and accent of their native language. British English is not pronounced the same as American English and it's possible to hear this in their accents.
@@MABardowell Not how it works. Accents have certain sounds to them, and certain sounds cross better than others. For example, some British accents have trilled Rs...which is not natural to most American accents. Russian [and Spanish] have trilled Rs come standard. It's easier for someone with a trilled R to pick up on that then someone that has to figure out the sound.
Yes it'd be nice to just try to learn based on how the word is supposed to be pronounced, but it doesn't work that way. We're stuck in our ways and thoughts.
It's the same reason why this guy [vlad], and NFKRZ [the only other big name Russian youtuber I know off the top my head] have different English accents, despite being Russian. Vlad clearly has influences from somewhere in Russia [or Ukraine?] (dunno where), and NFKRZ is influenced by Chelyabinsk.
@@MABardowell Actually your mothertounges accent makes a difference. For example, the reason that english american sounds the way it does is because of the way that most indo european languages form the tone of the languge in their mouths. When you as a foreigner and after the age of 12 learn to speak english, it is more natural for you to adopt more of an american english accent than an english british accent. The only country that i know of that form the tone of their language the same way that british english does are the dutch. So thats why, even today any foreigner who learns english will most likely adopt more of an american english accent.Even the dutch might still due to movies but language wise they are more natural at speaking british english than the rest of us as a foreigner. So you see, Kate speaking british english doest have an affect on how she will pronounce any foreign language that she learned. It might also be that she has studied the language from childhood. After the age of 12 it is very difficult, almost impossible to completly get rid of your foreign accent when you learn a new accent. I studied language transition but i only recommend looking into things on your own, there is far too much to cover in one YT comment.
I didn't know Kate Beckinsale spoke Russian. That's pretty impressive. That lady is the whole package. Smart, funny, gorgeous, classy but not snobby, has a beautiful voice, and so on and so forth.
De Niro played with her in something. During an interview he couldn't speak properly when the interviewer asked him about Kate :D
Кейт и обе Милы бесподобные) In Russia we're very loved their!
The best clip of Mila Kunis speaking Russian is when a reporter asks a dumb question of Justin Timberlake at a conference like "You're a musician, why are you in a movie?" and she goes off on him. She's talking fast without thinking about making an answer ahead of time. It would probably be a better example of how she actually speaks. 'Mila Kunis chews out Russian reporter - in Russian!'
Hm, I haven’t seen that I think, I JUST recorded the second part of this video, if I’ll make the third, I’ll add that clip maybe
Yeah, it's a great clip. She flies off the handle and the Russian just rolls out. The moderator and other journalists are impressed with her and get a big kick as she goes up one side and down the other of the questioner.
(I don't usually speak English using slang almost exclusively. I know it's hard to translate slang. Sorry about that.🤭🙃🤭
Indeed!
That’s one of my favourite videos of her! 🔥❤️👍
Mila Kunis is UKRAINIAN ! Nowadays you can't mistake about that, and say she's...russian...uuuuh !
Mila Kunis left when she was a child so in her mind she speaks Russian like a child so she gets nervous to speak in an interview. But I also understand that the interviewer wants her to speak Russian and they can excuse any mistakes she makes.
TBF Keanu mumbles in any language :) still love him :D
love him too
There is a scene in _Johnny Mnemonic_ where he stands on top of a pile of junk and screams out his frustration over the situation he finds himself in. That is one of the few scenes in his filmography where he does not mumble his lines.
@@TorIverWilhelmsen "I want room service!" Love that scene.
Saw a clip of him speaking afrikaans. Was alright but not great
Keanu lets the guns do the talking
Just added Russian to my languages on Duolingo because of your channel. Thought it would be hectic but it's not that bad.
Love your content. Love from South Africa 🇿🇦
Good luck!
It's a beautiful language and very hard. Good luck
I just want to say your English is excellent and your pronunciation is really clear, I almost can't tell you have an accent. I really enjoy videos like this, I'm learning Russian as a third language so keep them coming!
I'm so baffled as to who tells him his accent is "horrible". Personally i think his enunciation and grammar are damn near perfect. He probably heard that from monolingual English speakers who couldn't understand any other accent than their own.
I remember in one of the James Bond movies when Russian scientists showed up, they actually started to speak Czech instead of Russian 🤦😂 typical US-American thing: all Slavs are Russians to them. I personally love Russian, it's a beautiful language. Greetings from Slovakia
No y’all fight too much for us to think all of you are Russian!
Lol reminds me of these American tv shows and movies in the 90s would do something similar for Chinese. You have actors throwing Mandarin, Taishanese and Cantonese at each other as if they all understand each other regardless of dialect but in reality, sometimes people in China have a hard time understanding different dialects. It’s even worse when they have the actors throw random incoherent foreign words that has nothing to do with the subtitles. Just because they think Americans could not care or understand what is being said.
I could understand Ralph Fiennes easily but not Keanu. He mumbles in English too though.
True, Ralph fiennce was very good
Мне показалось что он попытался сказать "ты за кого меня принимаешь"
I think one of the differences is that English is meant to be spoken with an accent of some kind. So whether it is a Slavic one, Spanish, or Thai, it all works. The key to English is communication, not beauty or refinement.
I don't know if I would say it's meant to be spoken with accent, but just the fact that so many people speak it as a second language means that native English speakers get used to hearing accents. I've a noticed a big difference between that and other languages, for which if you don't have just the right accent and grammar it's possible no one will understand you.
"I don't understand what he said." Same for me, a native German speaker, when people are supposedly speaking German in English TV shows/movies. It is getting better, though, and there are also a few older Hollywood movies with actual German actors.
Ausser [vielleicht in Texas, Kalifornien, Florida...] Spanisch, hoert ein typischer Amerikaner nur Englisch.
Als kinderen haben die Europaer [ausser fuer Russlaender vielleicht?] viele Sprachen zu hoeren.
Es macht einen grossen Unterschied.
@@Warriorcats64 Yes. Been to Comic Cons in the UK where the American actors didn't understand the English and Scottish accents of the hosts or the other European accents of people asking questions. Me, an Austrian who watches UK and US TV shows and movies, had no problem whatsoever with either accent.
Oh god. There's this show called "Sleepy Hollow", which is kinda cringy at times, but also really enjoyable if you like spooky fantasy stuff... but there were these supposed Hessians speaking supposed German.
Absolutely terrible. Actually the most haunting thing in the whole show ^^
I mean, I heard a lot of really bad German in American shows and movies, but in this case I didn't even have a clue as to what those guys were saying.
It's very interesting, for example, when im hearing people speak German (i understand hochdeutsch very well) but when encounter someone from different region of Germany i don't understand a shit very often😄
And it's funny that, when you're immigrant, you understand other immigrants (european) talking broken German very well, in the beginning you understand them better than native speakers🤣
My favorite is Brad Pitt speaking German and Italian in Quinton Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds movie. It's comically bad on purpose 😭 And I'm an English speaker.
This is very helpful to me! I am American and trying to learn Russian. I love the language so much but and worried about my accent because I know that it makes native speakers cringe to hear their language slaughtered. Btw you speak English well, I hear your accent but it doesn't bother me. Please make more of these videos! I am subscribing right now. 💜
Kate is just beautiful 100% in every way
Agree 100%
Keanu’s Russian proficiency in John wick can sorta be explained by that traits movie. *spoilers* in John wick 3 it’s reveals that John is originally from Belarus, so he’s a Belarusian speaking Russia.
Yeah but pretty much all Belarusians speak Russian, and I believe that for majority it is also their first language; Belarusian is, sadly, a dying language (though it's in a much better position than, say, Irish Gaelic). There's no excuse.
If you didn't know Keanu was born in Beirut then grew up in Canada so might explain odd accents too (i know your talking about John lol)
What proficiency? ))) Keanu can't speak Russian at all. And surely he can't speak any Belarussian either, because if he could he could speak Russian freely, as these are two very similar languages.
@@sashbar I think they're referencing his character in the movie. But i also agree with the fact that Belarusians don't speak Russian with that bad of an accent the way keanu did
@@serazharkova7564 Keanu was born Beirut and grew up in Toronto Canada.....idk where the hell you are getting Belarus from lmfao....
Milla Jovovich also had a singing career with a CD. That had some Russian or Ukrainian songs on it if I remember correctly. It was released in the mid 90's. A good video to search for is Ой у гаю, при Дунаю
The CD is called "The Divine Comedy" and the track in Ukrainian is called "In A Glade". Lyrics in Cyrillic and a translation can be found here: www.millaj.com/music/lyrics.shtml. It's a very good CD and I'm really glad I found it back when I was (much) younger lol!
I also love the Eurovision Song Contest so do try and sing along with a lot of the various languages represented. Russia is a challenge (when using the Latin alphabet) but sometimes I can manage. Funnily enough, the song that gave Russia its only victory is one of its entries I dislike the most (I am not a fan of Dima Bilan), but they've sent some really good songs, definitely.
I'm surprised that you didn't watch Robin Williams speaking Russian. Check out his performance in the movie "Moscow on the Hudson". He speaks nothing but Russian for the first 30 minutes of the film.
there is also a part of his interview on "In The Actor's Studio" where he gets asked a question in Russian & he responds in Russian.
I watched some show where he was singing in "Russian" and that was mostly some badly accented slavic-sounding gibberish. As for the movie, it was slightly better than Keanu Reeves
Early in his career he does an "interview with Nadia Comaneci where the reporter asks a question and then Robin does her voice but high-pitched and rapid Russian-sounding giberish ... then after the one minute tirade the translator says she says, "Yes." ua-cam.com/video/YStLi_S_BSk/v-deo.html
Oh, that surprised me. Thanks for the information. I want to watch that movie, now. 🙂
LMAO Try watching the episodes of NCIS where 'Agent Gibbs' 'speaks Russian', that shit got me to the point where I was ready to admit Keanu was fluent.
I love your videos and your commentary. I studied Russian in high school in the 1980s and visited Moscow in 1990. It is nice to know I can still understand it after all these years.
I'm glad you're enjoying the videos
The thing about English is that word choice is more important that sounds. Like, it's weirdly forgiving in that way. You have tons of sounds and accents that are "right"
I have such a high tolerance for accents when people speak English, I don't care what the accent is, I'm not going to cringe because no matter how much they struggle with pronouncing the words in English or how thick their accent is they're speaking to me in a language that they aren't native to, which is more than I do. Especially when speaking it to a native speaker of the language, it's gotta be stressful and really anxiety inducing. I took Spanish for 3 years in high school and I remember the vocab and everything really well, I remember pronunciation rules, I remember grammar rules and how to conjugate verbs, but I haven't used Spanish since high school and I definitely couldn't hold a conversation in it.
I remember reading this quote somewhere from a bilingual person where they said something to the effect of "I'm smarter in Spanish" because they were a native Spanish speaker and they learned English later. I've always understood the frustration in that quote, where someone might be trying to express an idea but they can't think of the right words to do so, and then expressing that frustration by saying "I'm smarter in Spanish" because they have an easier time expressing themselves in Spanish. Like, honestly, the fact that someone put time and effort into learning a new language is awesome, in my opinion and they'll only get better with practice, so who am I to judge someone based on how thick their accent is.
I do cringe when it comes to American Southern accents, though. The U.S. southern accent is just... annoying to me.
I'm fine as long as i can understand them. Some of these india accents for example i find extremely difficult to understand
Hey!!!! 😂 Texas girl here. No accent whatsoever but I enjoy hearing it! That drawl is not heard often in d/fw area. I think it’s cute tho😊. Bless yer hart ♥️
Hi Texas!
I like this quote, I think it was either by Trevor Noah or he quoted someone else, regarding accents. Paraphrasing: "an accent is not a measure of a person's intelligence. It's merely them applying certain rules of their mother tongue in a foreign language".
Now imagine I have easier time expressing myself in English than in my mother tongue. I'm 23, moved abroad (not to an English speaking country though) when I was 19. I've never been to any English speaking country and my main experience with it ever since graduating is lots of movies, shows, videos and chats, AND I think in English about 80% of time. Now, this is kinda sad.
ngl southern accents are the best
It’s so wonderful you guys are encouraging him and saying his english is perfectly fine. And I agree. I’d be able to have a conversation with him, which is enough. But don’t forget that he HAS to say that and be apologetic about it BECAUSE it’s normal that people give non native english speakers shit about how they speak english. Please also remind those kinds of people that it’s ok to not be great at it. What’s important is we all understand each other
Your English is great man, and your enunciation is pretty spot on for having a slavic accent.
"Oh no, Keanu, not you, too" made me laugh. He is such a great guy all around, but yeah
My best non-native language is Spanish (though very rusty now), I took a couple semesters of Italian, and to change things up I took one semester of Russian. The best compliment I've ever received on language skills was when my Russian teacher told me I spoke Russian with a Spanish accent. Which makes sense to me because it would be my brain's default 'not-English' setting for vowel sounds, etc.
Don't sell yourself short. Your English is better than some native speakers I know.
Esl speakers have this impression of themselves often.
Yes, he is liiving in Canada and is a lot easier to correct your english when everyone around you is speaking it. But for me as a slav who live in my own country, its difficult to get rid of the awfull accent.
@@rally2811 Audiobooks my friend. 10-30 minutes a day mimicking an audiobook will improve an accent over time. My friends use this method as they are multi-lingual, and I personally have used it to mimic other English accents. Worth a try, especially if you have books you have already read that you can find on Audible.c0m.
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@@sarasorensen2650 I have a few Swedish, Finnish, and Dutch friends who are like that, always them quit it you speak it better than I do, like most second languages while learning is more formally taught.
My grandparents are Ukrainian and I thought it was just my terrible Russian when I only understood cyka when Keanu was speaking, lol. I'm glad someone with good Russian is just as confused as I am.
I'm from Brooklyn, everyone here has an accent when speaking English. Your's is nothing to frown on.
Seriously, I've been in love with KAte Beckinsale for years!! I have pictures of her as my background picture and I had no idea she could speak Russian. And I agree 100%, her accent is beautiful
According to the subtitles, here's how the John Wick in the car part went down: Just before the clip, in English, Alfie Allen asked how much to buy his car, and Keanu said it's not for sale. Then the clip starts, and Alfie says "Aw, I love dogs" and then switches to Russian and says "Everything has a price, bitch." and Keanu responds "Not this bitch."
Nice video! Never imagined Russian words coming out of "Voldemort"! :)
If Kate Beckinsale learned Russian at Oxford, (assuming she still speaks it regularly) she can probably speak it more properly than most Russians.
She is good though. And in one of the interviews she says she had a wonderful Russian teacher( a native) at Oxford
She works for the British government. She's a British spy.
@@darren_myatt so shes James Bond?
Jamie Bond?
I enjoyed your video!
Ralph Fiennes sounded like a native to me who doesn't speak Russian, lol.
Anyways, I hope covid will be over since I want to visit Russia as my cousin lives and work there. I guess she's now fluent in Russian, on top of 4 or 5 other European languages (she's a polyglot and a Southeast Asian).
I've been that awkward person who has to sit there not understanding anything. You want to be polite but other than pretending to understand it looks weird having something to focus on. Pretending to understand makes you look silly too.
Love from Trinidad and Tobago, its so cool hearing russian not much speakers on my end of the word
Kate is British,she learned Russian at Oxford University.That's why she is so good
I watched several The Queen's Gambit vids, and YT just recommended me this one. I don't speak Russian, just I've learn the alphabet once I was bored. But I adore the culture. I think I stay at this channel, seems fun, and informative.
Really? My channel was recommended after the queens gambit? Hm, interesting
@@vladkast Yeah. The show has some Russians in it, so I guess, the algorithm just works like that.
No .... I’m a typical American, and I think your accent is beautiful.
Quite. And not at all scary as Trevor Noah asserted in the other video.
My accent is fucking amazing 😂
@@vladkast It is melodious. People always seem to think that Americans look down on "accents". But the truth of it is that most of us admire those people who make the effort to learn English. I wish everyone spoke at least a few languages. I tried learning Russian, but I had real problems with the alphabet. French, German, Spanish, Italian .... those I can do, but Russian? Eeeeek!!
Oh, everyone I meet in Canada loves my accent 😊 or at least they say they do
@@RickyMaveety I think it's more that Americans look down on anyone who doesn't speak English (or doesn't speak it well enough to be conversational) more than us looking down on accents while speaking English. And sadly, that's been my experience; the number of angry/rude "you're in America, learn English!" comments I've heard here are uncountable. It's even worse where I live in south Florida, because there are a lot of Spanish-speakers here, yet many people who don't speak Spanish look down on those who speak Spanish and not English. The added layer of irony is that Florida (a) was settled by the Spanish before the English, and (b) is a Spanish word. I've had to explain to people that learning a new language isn't easy, and that English isn't the native language of the Americas anyway, so we should definitely try to work *with* people if we want to communicate rather than deriding them for not speaking the same language we do.
Kathryn Winnick (''Lagertha'' from Vikings) is also of Ukrainian descent and speaks the language, there's a video of her check her out.
I think your English is very good, better than a lot of others I have heard. I, myself, have a strong interest in learning Polish to have a stronger connection to my ancestors. I have heard that it is very similar to Russian, so I figured that since Russian classes are more accessible in my area that I would learn Russian first, then learning Polish would be easier.
Heritage speaker of Polish who studied Russian for years here: Yes, Polish and Russian are both Slavic like Portuguese and Italian are both Romance languages. My advice is to take Russian if that's what's available. The grammatical structures are very similar and ~80% of the vocabulary is built off the same, common bank of roots. Like in English if you see a new word that has 'scrib' or 'scrip' in it you know it will have something to do with writing in some way. Most of the prefixes and suffixes have the same conceptual meaning even if used differently. So yes, study Russian now and you'll have a huge head start when you're able to start Polish.
I wish that I could speak Russian as you can speak English. I want to learn Russian but I am now learning how to speak and write in Tagalog. I can speak a French and I studied in Lyon, France. Russian is a very interesting language and the more I listen the more I can understand. It is a cool language.
I actually want to learn French too
hey! I'm a tagalog native and I think it's so cool that you're learning my language, best of luck!! (I'm learning russian now aswell)
I could help both of you)))
@@arthurbeugre3624 You can? Would you recommend a program for us? We have watched some online programs but we do not know which is the best? Thanks!
@@Ignatius98 what programs did you tried? I can find try to find some. Having someone to speak too will greatly help you))
This is an awesome video.
Russian is actually a kind of "soft" languages. Some accents almost sound like french and Russian in one. Like the sentences kind of carry out the same pose?
You should react to Katya speaking Russian, I've heard she's really good.
Keanu is trying to say "У етои сукa нет", but they mess up how it sounds, and they should also say "суки" instead of suka. Props for trying, and actually making a good movie, but that Russian is cringy.
The subtitles from the John Wick movie read
Everything's got a price, bitch.
Not this bitch.
@@Precisa72 oh man
than the translation would be "Всему есть цена/у всего есть цена, сучка/сучара"
"Только не у этой суки"
in Russian they're basically saying "every bitch has a price", which is not the same
Szuka is a Russian word??
The guy he asks about the weight is Kevin Nash. He is an American wrestler.
I personally prefer to hear the accents come through. I find it endearing!
Fun fact, Italian has a very similar structure and syntax to Russian which is why sometimes the cadence and words sound almost Italian while being wholly Russian
The guy with Keanu is Kevin Nash and he is an American retried wrestler and he’s from Michigan, definitely not Russian.
Kate Beckinsale is a dish in any language .....
Sorry for my English, but what do you mean by dish?
@@vladkast means she’s beautiful. :)
Ohhh... yes! She’s gorgeous! And when she talks in Russian with that accent I feel warmth in my heart 😅
vladkast It’s an older version (from the 1920’s I believe) of saying someone is a ‘snack.’
@@susanmaggiora4800 We have a lot of food-related words for describing attractive people... the reasons should be obvious, but I'll keep my comment rated PG 😂
I, too, only understood “suka” in the Keanu segment
Vlad, your English has the grace and elegance of Russian. (I mean that, I'm not being sarcastic.) I speak very little Russian, although I do know the Cyrillic alphabet. I like the sound of the language.
Kate Beckinsale....oh... her accent sounds so beautiful....
Yeah man I can't imagine her doing anything that isn't beautiful.
Agree
Well, I mean... I bet you could if you tried.
From Scandinavia with love.
Hi
I never mind the way foreigners speak English. It is nice that they learned our language and I enjoy hearing the different ways people speak it.
I don't know why, but I love the chaotic energy of heritage accents. Like, when you can hear phrases that sound indistinguishable from a native accent, immediately followed by an awkward delivery of something that should be just as simple to say. Or those seemingly random moments when they slow down, because they can't remember a word and need to buy time. Their story of becoming a heritage speaker is embedded in their accent and is completely unique to them.
It can be very distracting, though, and frustrating for both sides. I have some family who still treat me like a child because that's how I speak their language, and they don't speak mine, so that's all they have to know me from.
Vladimir -- you're accent is BAD ASS.
English with a Russian accent is awesome.
For us English speakers and in America, we're just happy you learned english and can speak it well.
I don't mind hearing people speak English with different accents - I enjoy it. What I find cringy is people trying to do British accents when they aren't British. You can usually tell unless the actor/person doing the accent is impeccably trained.
Yeah, the last two bits shows us why it is always a risk to throw in languages to a movie where the actor does not understand the language. The difference between the Reeves lines and the Fiennes lines is not the actors, but the people hired to coach them on how to pronounce / enunciate the words. In the case of Reeves/Allen (scene with the "bitch"), it was likely an American who tried to coach them. The goal was not to speak Russian, but only to sound like they spoke some level of Russian. In the case of Fiennes, the speech coach likely provided a much more in-depth lessons on how to pronounce words, but then they failed to pay a native speaker to write the speech. Very strange, but money makes people choose stupid things. Making people say things in languages they do not actually speak is just as dumb as making people look like they play instruments they do not know how to play.
Great video! I would love to hear what you thought of Jodie Comer speaking Russian in the show Killing Eve. She is kind of a chameleon with accent but I’m not sure how good her official language speaking is!
Voldemort took a semester abroad at Durmstrang to learn Russian
Durmstrang is located in Bulgaria though, and even if it’s similar language it’s completely different 😛
I think the structure of sentences must be key, because I’ve always said I love the way Russians speak English. Something about the phrasing and choice of words.
The guy in the second clip from John Wick is actually from Michigan. It's Kevin Nash, a retired professional wrestler.
Your accent is lovely
6:42 nice compliment to Kevin Nash))
nah, I just couldn't hear what he says
Milla Jovovich was born in Russian and so was her Mom, she moved to England when she was five and returned to Russia at 18.
I’m happy because I speak basic Russian but I understood pretty much what everyone said, with the exception of Keanu. I guess it helps that I’m a native Portuguese speaker 😅
Kate Beckinsale is English, not American:)
I'm 32 years old, born and raised American...I would've been able to identify your accent as a foreigner...Other than that, your English is great.
The "you'll need that" was directed to Stephen Colbert because he was going to russia so she was trying to teach him phrases he might need.
And lord knows if anyone will need to tell Putin to put his shirt on, it will be Colbert. 😂
Meanwhile I’ve been doing Babbel Russian lessons for months and still only feel confident pronouncing кто and водка.
I’m planning to start over with a non-dominant hand writing practice included. I think it’ll help
Keanu, as far as i can remember is born in Beirut, Lebanon, and is of Canadian nationality.
Love the Russian accent, you also get drawn in, listening to Russians talking in their own language, even when you don't understand what they are saying.
As a German raised by a Russian mother, I understand Russian very well. It feels kind of cozy to listen to Russian. 😊 This is why I can recognize very quickly if there is an accent. Unfortunately, I never learned Russian at school (reading/writing). So, it’s more of a childish feeling if Russian sounds right or wrong to me. 😅 This is why I am enjoying your video very much.
For years, I have been criticizing Russian pronounciation in all movies I‘ve seen, especially German dubs. It is quite common to leave the original English sound undubbed if there are Russian phrases. This is when one can judge the actor‘s language skills. 😝 Otherwise, you can only judge the actor‘s German voice actor. And that can be very painful for your ears. 🙉
Isnt there a russian version of borsh- where they use tomatoes instead of beets??
Because I think I've had both- My mom's Ukrainian and my grandma on my dad's side is Russian.
The Ukrainian borsh is more purple hued and has different vegetables (for example beets). And the Russian borsh is more orange-red, tastes richer and has a lot of cabbage.
Flipping threw the comments i did not notice that no one pointed out the second guy that was with Keanu was Big Daddy Diesel Kevin Nash a retired wrestler from Michigan.
4:47 also because she is beautiful in any way. Her british accent is lovely too. One of the best voices on the market
With the movie with Keanu Reeves they use a lot of ADR. So the actors may not even be speaking Russian per se. They might be saying it phonetically but being dubbed over by a actual speaker. Then it was blending with the background noise and since you cannot read their lips you don’t understand what is being said. It also sounds mumbled.
Most of the movies ADRed, and by most I mean only small indie films are not, like my short films, check out my third channel haha 😉
Words I understood “this” “understand” “borscht”, “ good evening” I thought I some form of “beautiful”.
Regarding Keanu Reeves, it reminds me of when Scottish comedian Craig Ferguson said of the character Scotty on Star Trek “He was the only one we (Scottish people) couldn’t understand.” (Scotty was played by Canadian actor James Doohan.)
In the series Orphan Black there was a portuguese mafia and I cound't understand a word they said
I love your accent bro.
Yes, it is a cute accent. I'm Finnish so there are usually many Russians in Finland. It's funny, but you really look very Russian to me, it is not always
easy to see who is
Your english is very good, and I can hear the accent, but it's not too much where I cant understand you. Which is great because accents like that are really nice, personally
Yes, please more celeb reactions.
There are so many people from all over the world speaking English as a second language that pretty much all native English speakers don't find accents odd. I can understand why you might from the point of view of someone else speaking your first language because there are probably far fewer people speaking Russian or whatever that second language is compared to English. So having to put up with funny accents is far less common.
Nah mate. You're English is really good and your accent is fine. Some British born are harder to understand. 😂
America has a lot of accents in general and big cities are very diverse and multicultural so we are used to hearing English spoken with a variety of different accents. (You sound great to me btw)
I even heard there was a study that speculates that Americans are a lot more smiley than some other countries because we are using nonverbal ways of communicating because there are sometimes language barriers 😀😀😀
06:00 - the pain - we all felt it.
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lol anything Keanu does is 'Woah!' lol
Your English is very good. I am Louisiana French Cajun and found it interesting that French soldiers (metropolitan French sounds very different than Louisiana French) would say Cher ami when asking fir food. So Russians started saying sharomyzhnik but I heard different versions of story that some were charmed by soldiers and some used the word to means like crooked begger or begger. In Louisiana it sounds like we are saying “sha” because you don’t hear the r like sha as in la ti da. And ami is Ah mee. We say hey “Sha” or hey tite sha meaning petite because we use tite or T’ as an endearment meaning little. Like we may say how’s T’jean which means John jr or little John. I called my grandmother little maman
Tite maman. But sounds like I am saying teet mama. Or teet mamere. Little grandmother. We speak a broken English (anglais or patois) so your accent in English sounds very nice to me.
And I understand you perfectly. We were beaten and told we spoke French wrong so we nearly lost our language. When I was a tite Bebe this québécois teacher said I spoke French wrong, ya know improperly. I thought it was because she never met a Louisiana cajien because we had moved far north of state where it was not Spoken but later I found out a famous Cajun singer Zachary Richard back down in my home area I nicknamed T’la, meaning little Louisiana for south Louisiana was being horribly treated and told he did not speak French right along with his good friends Barry Ancelet our famous language expert and historian of all Louisiana French language and culture who all speak it fluently along with their Cher ami Marc Doucet.
I wish Russians would change the meaning of Cher ami to not mean crooked begger but to mean dear friend. I did hear some Russians were charmed by soldiers and I hope not all Russians hate the French. No use that negatively. In fact the first time I heard it I was told it was a nice story but later I heard it meant derogatory. Many of the French soldiers stayed and taught the more wealthy noble kids.
Like I said I speak differently and have totally different culture which I love. I am covered in creole gravy as the saying goes. Creole just means native born to my state. I am also tslaigi Indian as well as other native Indian. My mama grew up where the Ouachita Indians lived in Louisiana and is also has Indian ancestry. That is what makes our people so Jolie which means pretty is our mix of French Spanish and Indian and some European and of course we have people that came from west Africa and islands too. We use many west African foods and sayings in our language and stories in our culture, like Booqui and his compair Lapin. The hyena and his friend the rabbit. And we eat Coush coush for breakfast which is African. Merci beaucoup and spasibo. I always wanted to learn Russian. I thought it would be good and help international relations and I like the Ukrainian people.
I just love it how I can't speak the word of the language if they'd ask me to, but I understand what my fellow Russians are saying in context. For instance I knew instantly what Mila said without any translation. Could I repeat it in Russian? No. Did I understand? Yes. Ahh, the beauty of Slavic brotherhood! Btw, South Slav here, if you could not deduce by the name alone.
@Thunder Bird There is only one nationality in the world that uses Cyrillic alphabet and who's last names end in "ић", that's Serbian :)
There are others that end in the same way within South Slavic group, but they don't use Cyrillic alphabet.
So when you see a combination of those two, you can be 100% sure it is a Serb.
I love your accent so much 😻
thanks
Kate studied in Oxford. By gramma her Russian is high level. More over, she can write Russian.... It is Number One!! University education it is not lie around. It is hard work!
No, your English language accent sounds cool. Most accents are cool-sounding to me. So far, the only time I kind of cringe when I hear an accent is when an American speaks Spanish without even attempting to pronounce the Spanish words with the correct sound - and they sound SO American. haha But that's probably because I have caught myself doing it sometimes when I'm not focusing enough on pronunciation, and it sounds awful to me. :p
I checked this video out, being a Russian-American myself. Despite being born in America, all of the Russian people I talk to are always surprised by my lack of accent. Having learned Russian as my first language and having lived in a predominantly Russian part of New York, I haven’t truly lost my lingual ability. I guess my family taught me well!
I know a family in Toronto, who forbids their kids to talk English at home, only russian, they grew up here, at honestly they have very little accent, but still have it... I’m glad your parents tough you well 😄
My biggest take away from this video is that Kevin Nash (from Detroit) did such a good job speaking Russian in his clip with Keanu, that you thought he was Russian. Impressive.
Nah, he’s Russian was pretty bad, it’s just the sound mixing was terrible I couldn’t understand what he was saying
The second Keanu Reeves scene is a American. Former WcW wrestler Kevin Nash.
Oh, thanks, I was wondering, sound mixing is so bad there, I could hardly hear
Vlad, your English is very well spoken.
Yeah, I know 😅
I don't blame you for not understanding the Russian that was spoken in the movie, American movies don't usually care for accurate depiction of other languages, I never understand the Arabic spoken in American shows or movies, they don't even bother with getting native Arabic speakers in minor roles or one time appearances
did Keanu say : "a votye sukye nyet"?