Living in Russia without speaking Russian | British expat experience
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
- My guest Kat Sullivan from the UK and I went to the streets of Moscow for an experiment! We tried to speak English with strangers to ask for directions or to buy something. Watch to find out what happened and see how Russians speak English. Kat also told me about moving to Moscow and her expat life in Russia.
00:00 meeting Kat - an expat from the UK
2:21 cultural differences between Russia & the UK
5:53 the image of Russia abroad
10:35 teaching English in Russia
11:34 how well do Russians speak English?
13:49 living in Russia without speaking Russian
18:35 learning Russian as a foreign language
24:04 Do Russians speak English? Experiment in Moscow!
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Thanks for having me Eli ❤️ it was so much fun to film!
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I saw you made a video with Natasha from yeah Russia just a few days ago too! What a week!!!! Like your videos. Your boyfriends Russian is amazing, he sounds Russian, it's incredible.
You should try doing it in reverse, go over to the UK and try speaking Russian, lol. If there's one place in the world where no-one is going to try and understand it's the UK. It's almost a badge of pride that you haven't got a clue what anyone is saying in a foreign language. You're too young to remember it but back when I was a kid there was some comedian who used to actually do that, I'm not sure if he was Russian but he spoke Russian and he used to go around doing Russian things and people thought he was bonkers. The one I remember is when he goes into a pub and says: "Можно мне пожалуйста водка." And the bar guy understands "vodka" and pours him a shot of vodka and he starts going through all the Russian toasts "за ваше доровье" etc. then "ещё раз", points at the glass for a refill and then he gets to one where he throws the glass into the fireplace and they think he's gone mad. He used to pretend he was a Russian sailor, iirc, he'd wear a тельняшка. No doubt it's somewhere on UA-cam. (I doubt any Russian would ever actually do that though.)
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@@ElifromRussia Thanks for both of you, that was interesting!
Got a question: I wonder what they learn about the WW2 in UK, specifically if they know anything about the Eastern front?
Would be interesting to watch you both react together to this super popular video on UA-cam called The Fallen of WW2 by Neil Halloran (if you haven't seen it yet).
I am a 68 year old American and took the Russian language in high school..my very best subject.
Nice meeting with two tea nations..😄🫖🫖🇬🇧🇷🇺
If you are visiting Moscow or St Petersburg with little Russian, its fine. If you are living in Moscow/St Petersburg for a while, or visiting other parts of Russia, learning Russian is important. English is barely spoken outside major cities
I think it's right to learn the language of the country you intend to live.
I guess this problem doesn't exist anymore now.
@@YannR34 why???
@@soumyaranjanpatro1131 because there is many more places I would like to visit before to go to Russia now.
It would be like, just before North Korea, or some others, same "style", countries. And I doubt I will have opportunities to see all the others before. I bet that tourism in Russia will not be a major issue in the coming years, decade(s) maybe.
@@YannR34 russia is nothing like north korea lol. The fact that people there can use social media and are free to enter and exit the country already makes it very different
Hi Eli, I am a software engineer from Austin, Texas USA. I often have UA-cam playing on my Television as background noise while working from home and this lead to running across your channel. I enjoy learning from your content and feel you do a great job of not only showing the cultural differences of Russian's and other nations but also just how similar we all truly are. Keep up the great content.
Kat is adorable 😂 I’m from Russia but I live the United States. Russians absolutely love when you try to talk to them in English. When I lived there, I used to be so excited to finally be able to practice my English IRL. Russians love western tourists cuz I think a lot of us romanticize places like England and the United States.
who'd you move to the states?
@@thedmitryguy like...a lot of people? US is number one destination for immigrants
@@slava8617 I meant, HOW'd you move to the US
@@slava8617 sorry for the confusion
I love how whenever girls 'talk' they always giggle. It's so cute.
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@@ElifromRussia Priveyte Ruskiy Kak Dela?? Its nice to see you Laughing so Cute @Eli from Russia
This vid is a feline OD.
Feminine girls like this, yes. It's one of the marvels of the fairer sex, that warm feminine energy! Very light, laughing often. Compare this with the dour-faced stooges in say the USA or even parts of the UK, where their femininity has been stripped by feminist brainwashing and such nonsense. They no longer laugh! Sad to see.
@@harrypike5140 Are you alright?
Russian landlords aren’t as intimidating as I thought 😂
Mr ditkovich is scarier 😂
@@ElifromRussia search on UA-cam, mr ditkovich wants rent 😂
@@AusValue you are 2 months late, AGAIN!
Thats why the women like foreign men apparently. They were complaining about the ukranian men in other vids
That was a fun experiment. The Russians seem to be a helpful people 😃❤️👍
I don't know wether they changed after the fall of Soviet Union or not. I still have this warm feeling about my stay in Leningrad and my experiences there. It was in 1969. I just arrived to study Russian at Leningrad Politechnical Institute .
I was at the Metro station trying to figure the system and what trains to get to my destination. I must have looked lost. I was. Ha ha ha.
Suddenly 2 teenage girls (14-15 years) approached me and offered their help. I was able to explain to they my destination. Without any hesitation they dragged me into the next train. We had many stops to change train lines. Leningrad's metro system is very elaborate and I believe the best and cleanest in the world.
Sorry, I live now in the Washington DC metro area. You call this a metro system? Lmao.
I was not even expressed by NY metro system. Sorry, let's go back to my story.
I suspect it took them 1 to 1 and half hours to bring me to my destination. At least same time to go back.
It's 52 years since then. I did not forget their kindness and never will.
When, later, any of my Russian co-students at Moscow Energy acted Institute acted funny I was quick to forgive them for the sake of those wonderful little girls.
Eli, your blogs are always interesting and informative with diverse content. You would make an excellent talk show host.
"Shakespeare is boring", yes if you already read Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy then you really know how great Russian literature is, actually there are many people try to learn Russian language after reading Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy, so I encourage you to read them, they're really worth reading and eye-opening !
I read Dostoievsky and I converted to Orthodoxy :-D So what you are saying is true.
I haven’t read any Tolstoy, but I’ve read some some Dostoevsky and found I love his genius. My favorite of his novels so far (still reading through his works) is The Double. Tolstoy is on my list too. His works and genius have made me love pre-Soviet Russian literature.
Anna akhmatova " Poem with no heroes", she was a survivor of Stalin.
My English teachers always said Shakespeare would find it funny that his works were taught to children because a bunch of them are comedies with stuff like dick jokes, just in an older dialect of English
Come on Shakespeare boring? It was biggest influence on writes and play rights the World over! However your right Russian writers like Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, aren't so well known outside of writers and actors!
I cant believe what happened in Perm! Lots of love, prayers 🙏, and warm thoughts coming to you from all over the world.
She smiled a lot when asking Russian people for direction. Hopefully the Russians don't think she is crazy. I like her confidence! Good job!
I'm investigating for my channel covering life in Russia, it's about 4 years old and also I have about 200 videos yet the algorithm sill hasn't loved me yet as it did Eli. Can you help me? Can you take a look channel and see what is missing because I really want to improve. Almost everyone who views my videos leave incredible comments about how much they like my content
Hmmm...so smiling in Russia makes you seem "crazy"?
@@AK49IAN Only smiling at strangers
@@AK49IAN they don't have the same facial muscles as everyone else. They're physically unable to smilr
Wow!!. My two favourite bloggers in Russia in a collabo. These was very interesting indeed Eli. Much love from Botswana, Africa.
Very professional Eli, you really look like a TV host. As usual you look so elegant and refined. I'm glad you brought us gorgeous Kat again she is just adorable.
POLITE PEOPLE are in Russia; and these interviews are amazing content for a British audience! / / \ \ Keep up the great work!
Hi David, I'm investigating for my channel concerning life in Russia, it's going on 4 years now and I have over 200 videos yet the algorithm hasn't promoted me so far as it did Eli. Can you help me? Can you take a look channel and see how I can improve because I really want to improve. just about everyone who found my videos leave brilliant comments about how much they love my videos
Just don't cross Putin or you will be poisoned to death
So much fun to watch:) I dream of visiting Moscow one day and this video was helpful with showing me how it would be as an English speaker. Dostoyevsky is a wonderful writer unfortunately here in Canada we learned nothing of Russia. I am particularly interested in Russian culture especially the arts. Dance, language, and especially music. I really enjoy your videos, thank you for sharing.
CBC is a total trash and russophobic media.
Go to UBC
I'm American but I feel the same way
Moscow is a brutal hellhole. If you are open-minded, the people will think that you are a weirdo.
Здравствуйте Ели. Я Пол и я англичанин. Я изучал русскую историю в школе. Ленин, Сталин ……….. скоро я буду жить в Питере. Спасибо за твоё видео 😊
In the bigger cities of both Russia and Ukraine it is amazing how many people speak excellent English. You can be trying to indicate to a sales person what you are looking for, and suddenly hear someone nearby say, "If you would like, I will try to help." That person then proceeds to help immensely.
Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and Solzhenitsyn ought to be required reading everywhere! ♥️🇨🇦
why you put Solzhenitsyn here
@@aur485 : IMO, Solzhenitsyn` s "Gulag Archipelago " is an essential read because it provides insights into brutal totalitarianism, Comunist type. I considerate it a serious warning for Americans, because the Democrat Party is taking America in that direction via "feel good" ideas and policies. One day, we Americans will wake up and .... well, read the book.
@@meteor2012able It's fairytale, fiction. Brutal totalitarianism has been and is in America.
I feel sorry for your landlord, maybe can include him in the next video so he can be a famous UA-camr too haha
I really enjoyed this informative conversation from two genuine and charismatic people.
When I was at school…some years ago now. Russia came up in geography and history. We learned about superpowers, USSR, the Cuban missile crisis and a lot about WW2 and The USSRs part in that.
History seems to be taught really badly in the UK, but did plant the interest in me because I love history now!
Let’s not discuss foreign languages in England - we don’t even learn other British languages like Welsh or Gaelic let alone Russian!
Ого! Модные ютуб-девчонки, говорят о насущном.. Радует одно - мне кажется, мы "о них", всё-таки, знаем больше, чем они о нас.. Рано или поздно, это будет нашим конкурентным преимуществом :)
So great; awesome memories! Thank you! :) I spent the last 2 weeks in Petersburg in excactly these situations. But we always figured a way out in russian / english / even german. So much fun! Great time.
I'm Scottish and live in a small town in the south of Russia. My experiences Vs Kat in Moscow is pretty large, I think in Moscow it's more easier to get around since it's more of an international city
It’s like comparing Edinburgh with Arbroath
Hope your experience of Russia in small town is not much worse than in central regions !! 🤔 Mostly people see Moscow and think that Russia is all the same everywhere ... It is as stupid as thinking that US is the same everywhere as in New York.
As far as I am aware the 'th' sound comes from Scandinavian, and the Thorn and Eth letters (that would represent the voiced and unvoiced 'th' in Old English) still exist as distinct letters in Icelandic. No mainland European language, as far as I am aware, has those sounds.
Spanish does, I think?
In my Grammar School in Essex, in the UK in the 1960s we learned French, German, Russian, Latin and Greek, but now, I believe that I'm correct in saying that there is no compulsion to learn a foreign language, which I think is disgraceful, but not really surprising, for the attitude I hear from kids in the UK is, "why should I bother when every country speaks English".
I think that Europe is better off without us.
As a Portuguese, it makes me sad that the UK left the EU. We've been brothers and strong allies for like 500 years or so
This was such an awesome video to watch and the two of you really collaborated so well together! It was also very informative! Thank you both!
The last part of the video where you test English on the streets of Moscow is genius. I could watch this for hours. Probably exhausting to do and film, but I would love to see more of this!
Elly ,You blog was so educational for me ,i was never taught much about Russia in school.I really enjoy watching it I think you are very creative, thank you for all of your hard work .I have learned so much about Russia because of you.😎
I always wondered about the "w" and "v" distinction, because my family from Eastern Europe have no difficulty making either sound, but they reverse which words they use them in. Same thing for the "ee" sound versus "ih" sound. I feel like they speak English better than me sometimes, though, because they use more precise wording and are more careful about pronunciation. And the accents are so beautiful. I've heard an American accent does not sound so pretty when we speak other languages.
Eli, you are a Star. You are so creative and have a pleasant, approachable and positive personality. Keep it up! A little feedback about the sound quality, not sure why but it wasn’t the best (some echo?). Anyways, that’s it :).
Eli has a very good channel,always entertaining,and informative,she is an ambassador for the way the world should be
Holy cow; in high school (as a Senior, in USA, Alabama) we had to read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn -- great authors but they took SO LONG to read (and the NAMEs, oh my).
We students were terrified of English class that year!
We were told that the brothers in Brothers Karamazov are common Russian archetypes. Do you agree?
Absolutely not! I’m telling you this as a Russian.
Your videos are very interesting ! I'm learning so much about your country.
It brings me joy to hear these two talk.
In school in France, we had almost no Shakespeare, but we did read Tolstoy's war and peace and also Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment as well as some German authors in addition to French authors (and English authors, too, just not much foreign theatre, only French theatre.)
We also studied the Grand Inquisitor in philosophy class.
Eli, what a great video! This makes me want to travel to Russia even more now 😃😃😃😃
Love the channel, well done. I think what your friend means is that the UK has been screwed up by Americanisation and all the social media nonsense they created which has broken down conventional values, communication and traditional relationships, young people can't even apparently build rapport with potential dates anymore. Yes I'm older but for goodness sake how can you replicate the chemistry that occurs between two people that are attracted to each other by looking at posed photo's of faces and other intimate parts?
Well said my friend!
Can we please just all agree to nuke California?
It is a degenerate cesspit of insanity that is destroying the whole world.
How do you apparently build something. I'm 65 myself, but I've been some places.
@@disposabull It is indeed a cesspit of woke, SJW and the like. We do not need it, we should turn away from Silicon Valley and build alternatives. (It is already happening, the tech-exodus)
@@disposabull Don't leave out Washington DC and NY.
As a child growing up watching US TV, it took me a while to understand the UK accent and their choice of English words.
In Moscow from my personal experience is that it's not difficult to live without speaking any Russian at all, plus I do believe as well that poeple in Moscow are more open-minded than the rest of Russia besides SPB. While living in other places especially where I am living now Chelyabinsk for example is extremely difficult plus people here is more conservative I guess so in lot of cases you will be being ignored by locals when you are asking something in English. I remember when I was poking around in outskirts of Moscow and some young people saw me with a camera they were excited and asked for a photo shooting of them. In SPB, right after I got off subway when I was approaching a yong girl for asking directions she was able to speak very good English and even walked me until I can find my hotel. So that's why I do believe that in Russia, there are also good, kind and friendly people to foreigners. Now I am learning Russian in order to survive in Chelyabinsk a small town compared to Moscow, it's necessary, but I found out it's much easier to get know new people and make friends in big cities than in Chelyabinsk as well. In terms of learning languages, the grammar part is the most challenging for me and the pronounciation of R sounds. Anyway, stay safe and stay warm guys.
I didn't speak any Russian when I moved out here and at the time there were no apps for taxi's and food or supermarkets! But I got by, it's part of the journey! I'd be fascinated to know your opinion. I'm likewise a significant fan of this channel and I also make vlogs about life in Russia. unluckily the youtube algorithm has actually not been as wonderful to me yet. Virtually everyone who watch my videos writes that it is top notch, however not many are able to watch it. Can you be brutally straightforward and tell me how I can improve my content? I value your honest point of view.
I love these videos and typically have no trouble hearing them. This one though is particularly hard to hear. Since I see no audio pick-up equipment clipped to clothing, I assume that equipment is in the foreground. Perhaps that distance is giving the reverberation effect being heard here. That, or this older set of ears here is the issue.
I agree Eli. The sound on your other videos was so great it was disappointing this one didn't work as well.
I definitely enjoyed this vlog with Kat Sullivan, You guys are really good together, You Eli took Kat of the hook from buying a chain saw😎
@@ElifromRussia Yeah I saw that and you came to the rescue, obviously Kat living in an apartment does not need one.
You must do a video on navigating the Moscow Metro. I loved visiting Moscow and found the Metro easy to use. But some visitors found it daunting.
In America, many students do not read Tolstoy, Dostoevsky or Chekhov until we are at the University, but some of us read them in high school if we are advanced students. Sometimes the literature we read is a choice. In high school I read "Don Quixote" in Spanish and then in English, but it was my choice.
The atmosphere is so cool
🙏❤️❤️🌲🌲🌎 keep our world green and love everything and everyone ❤️🙏
I already watched this video before, but I just saw the news about the shooting in Perm and wanted to share my sympathies. I hope no one you know was affected. Much love from New Zealand.
The walk in the city asking the people in English was funny))
A little throwback to my own vacation in Moskva & Peterburg. Although i was able to get around just fine.
Activating my phone in Russia was the most difficult thing for me because i forgot to inform myself in advance. Totally forgot !
Once when in a my company sent me to a foreign country I was issued a card to show which said something like, I am lost and do not speak the language...please call this number.
Very nice video, Eli, very interesting and informative. Thanks.
The young lady you interviewed obviously hadn't read any Russian literature but I, and my friends at school and University, were familiar with & had read works by Tolstoy (definitely regarded as one of the world's great authors), Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn and TV when I was young had plays like The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya & The Three Sisters (Checkov) from time to time - and those plays are performed in theatres frequently in the UK.
Russian composers are well known in the UK.
So some Russian culture is known here..
Good video though!
Even if you do choose History in British High Schools, you only learn a specific period of History that particular school offers. So not everyone would get to learn Russian History at school even if the do choose History.
At 25:00 minutes the young and others were very friendly when trying to explain where was the metro.
Eli ! You are making interesting videos. Thank you.
Fascinating culture! Thanks Elina
I grew up in germany and learned the language with my family (half american, half german) but settled down back in the states. when I would visit germany and spoke in german, they detected my rough german and answered back in english. lol. I speak well enough to get by but i'm getting rusty now that I haven't used it in so long since my grandparents passed away. Last time i was there was 2003. love your channel.
Hi Eli, I'm from Brazil and I really like your videos. Your channel is very good ^^/
Hi there Eli, I heard you're good at speaking English, where do you learn that?
in school.
It's your native language. She is from Great Britain. She moved to Russia with her boyfriend
You're both so cute.Thank you.
9:34 Russian literature has never been on the English school curriculum. Unlike in the USA we only study books written in English in our English classes (in the United States where they do sometimes study great Russian novels in translation, I have heard).
The only chance to study foreign literature at school was if you took French or German A Level. Those were the only foreign languages available at my school. (This was back in the 1980s by the way 🤪!) Spanish was a pretty rare language in schools (I would have liked to do Spanish).
The only other language I ever heard of being taught in state schools was... wait for it... RUSSIAN🤪 but this was pretty rare. I would have **loved** to learn Russian. Russian literature is the best in the world (in my opinion) and I was fascinated with life in Eastern Bloc countries.
I finally started learning Russian a month ago, but all I can say so far is спасибо, большой, хорошо, телевизор and хомяк🐹‼️
I come from France and I dont exactly remember how but I got very motivated to read plenty of Russian authors when I was teenager and I truly LOVED IT!!!! Doytoiesvki, Crime and Punishment was definitely my favourite book at that time and I got so emotional reading it (several times!) !!! I remember also Tolstoi ..and also some "recent" writers like Soljenitsine ..We discussed it in classroom. As for history we definitely learned some basic backgrounds (the tsar, the Napoleon painful retreat in Russia (from a French point of view lol)..how resilient were the Russians during second world war to fight back against Hitler...and then a bit about USSR and the "communist" system. Indeed we learned about Marx, Lenine, Staline ..the cold war..Overall I feel I have been spoiled compared to English teenageers from what I ve learned on this video! Maybe its because like the Russians we do needed to go through plenty of compulsory subjects for getting the A level (Bacalaureat in France) (history including basic international knowledge and also human (international) geography but also Economics. Later on I studied economics and I had to study a lot about Marx work..and the various shapes of communism and socialism in the world. However I m not young ..so I have no idea what young French teenagers and students learn these days about Russia (and former USSR). Maybe Eli could ask her French friend?
Anyway many many thanks for this great video!!!
Солженицын очень посредственный писатель и умные люди понимают за что ему дали Нобелевскую премию
@@user-cr6vx6by1k да вообще не писатель.
Tolstoy, Chekov, Dostoevsky and other classic Russian authors are generally studied at university level in the main English-speaking countries - UK, Australia, New Zealand, US etc.
Kat reveals the main weakness of the British education system (of which I am a product); specialisation at too young an age. I live in Denmark now, with a Danish wife and my kids are basically Danish and were far better educated at age 16 than I was. I also taught in France for while and would say the same about French kids.
One thing I really did notice in this video was how different the two of you vocalised English words. Your vocalisation is similar to Scandinavian, with more restriction at the rear of the mouth, whereas Kat is more "throaty" but with less lip movement. The key to English pronunciation (which my Danish wife masters beautifully, despite her vocabulary and grammar not being as good as yours) is to move your upper lip as little as possible.
We didn’t read any Russian authors here in the US during high school. They were always praised but never taught. In college, I was only assigned Turgenev and Trotsky. Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Akhmatova et al... I had to come to on my own.
Hi Eli, great video. Very Elegant outfit and congratulations to your hair dresser ! From my personal experience, many native English speakers have problems pronouncing the Russian letter -X- . And yes, Moscow is not cheap, but I heard that it can be a lot fun 😊
there are two types of verb in English: regular and irregular. Regular verbs subdivide into strong and weak verbs. "to be" is irregular but "to swim" is regular but strong. Germanic languages follow these rules. Swim, swam, swum [German: schwimmen, schwamm, geschwommen]. The changes in the vowels are regular. There are many examples. As an example of a regular weak verb: cook, cooked, cooked.
The street segment was great
33:44 ❌ "much much fewer people". Rules:❗️"Fewer' is used in situations where there are an integral or countable, number of items. ‘Less' is used when something is measured in an infinitely variable quantity such as weight or volume. Much relates to an infinitely variable quantity, whereas many refers to countable items. To be consistent FEWER should therefore be qualified by MANY, NOT much. Many fewer vs. much less.
I know China's been aggressively attempting to remove outside influence on their students' education, I wonder if this will adversely affect her tutoring.
It was fun to see her navigate arbitrary destinations without exploiting computational assistance.
Some schools in the US have a strict education program just like the one you described experiencing, Eli.
Others are almost entirely self guided, aiming to foster an enjoyment of the learning process like the 'Waldorf schools'.
For me, in middle school (6th-8th grade) you were allowed to decide which music class you wanted to take & your 8th grade year there were various electives you were allowed to take.
I took Orchestra for 6th & 7th grade music, & jazz appreciation & art for my 8th grade electives.
For High school (9th-12th grade) you were allowed to take classes in any order you wanted as long as you qualified for the class.
There are certain subject minimums you were asked to meet, like a certain number of math, composition, computer literacy, physical education & other credits worth of courses.
The mandatory subjects were mostly determined at the State level as opposed to the federal level of government I believe.
I let my friend talk me into taking Honors World Geography where we had to draw each 'continent' with its countries, major land & water features, & capitals as quizzes from memory on an A0 sheet of paper.
For the North American 'continent' we were asked to draw each individual state with their capitals as well.
The final we had to draw the entire world with all the features from the quizzes, & we were marked off for scaling & border issues. Great Britain was very tricky, it's a wiggly island!?
Our instructor was very into local, state, federal, & international governments & elections. He also taught the international studies elective.
We watched the election & celebration of Putin in 2009.
I remember they had some ladies singing this song on a big flashy stage with the Russian flag & colors every where: ua-cam.com/video/zk_VszbZa_s/v-deo.html
I studied a lot of math & science, & my senior year the local university accredited qualified teachers to teach their courses for credit, so I took Anatomy & Physiology lecture & lab for university & high school credit.
¡¡Excellent video, as always, Eli!!)))♥
Excited to see what you share next time :]
32:35 Ladies, a chain saw "for like the hedges"? 😁 Unless the hedge is totally overgrown, you don´t need a chain saw, but a hedge trimmer.👍
Eli and kat I enjoyed your chat it was very nice and educational lots of love girls 😘😘
The mixing of the languages is fun. In Canada we call it Roonglish (this is more of the pronounciation, but its supposed to be spelled Runglish). Russia langauge is very unique and that's why we love it. The alphabet allows for borrow words from other languages. We would spell it in Cyrillic but the pronounciation would be very close. I used to learn Mandarin with my X gf. Except I would write it in Russian and then actully practice the pronounciation because "hard" and "soft" sounds wouldn't be enough to explain the actual sound.
But in general Cyrillic can basically transcribe the words and just additional phonetics and practice are needed for proper pronounciation.
I am Croatian and I can speak some words in Russian. My favorite words are: Gopnik, Hardbasseri, blyaaat and Privet. Spasibo🙏🏻
Hi! I'm russian) what is hardbasseri???😂
@@nevagerber2434 I am not Russian but I did study at московский Энергечитский Институт имени Ленина and speak Russian. This word does not look or sound Russian. I think our Croatian friend has invented it. By the way he also mentioned bilaat as a Russian word. I think he meant blyad Блядь which is Kurva in Cerbo-crоatian.
He also wrote Gopnik. I think he meant Gornik. He mixed the Russian letter R (written as P) with Latin/English letter P.
Gornik (Горник) means mountaineer.
@@ab1858 No, gopnik is a russian slang word, it's like bandit in Russia but they also have sort of subculture compared to regular bandits and thugs.
@@JOHNVS7 I still don't think there is a Russian word Gopnik even in slang. But, hey, the only Russian person here is Neva, I would like her to clarify.
Thank you. A very interesting video. Yours always are.
😄😄😄👍🏻I really liked the last part of the video, kat was great!!!! A fantastic video Eli, I really liked it!!! 😊😉😉
@@ElifromRussia 😄😄😄👍🏻Super
09/20/21 11:00 locoal time. Hey are u OK??? there was a shooting in a Ural university?? 8 People died. =(
the street questions was so funny to watch, i had the same issue with my near zero russian. i could find people with pretty rough english but i did also experience many more people who didnt speak english at all. I found the younger people spoke English a bit more. Im doing my best to speak russian so when i return to moscow i can meet more people
"Living in italy without speaking in italian"
you would have no friends and would live in solitude 😅😂
Hi Eli Have you been to Australia we have more than 20000 people of Russian origin here. Your videos are very interesting and enlighteningkeep them coming . We were always shown the Russians to be the bad guys I believe that young people such as yourself are doing a great thing for your country in showing the world what a great country Russia really is and encouraging people to come see for themselves. Very well done Thank you
well said mate
It’s very dangerous for your country 😂…maybe they need independent in near future from you.
This is a great video !! Please ...more , more, more !!
Hi Mate, I'm researching for my channel covering life in Russia, it's 4 years old and I have about 200 videos yet the algorithm sill hasn't promoted me yet like it did Eli. Can you help me? Can you look at channel and see what I can do better because I very much want to improve. Almost everyone who views my videos leave overwhelming comments about just how much they adore my videos
I have a different experience when it comes to the country Russia. When I was growing up in India, I had a penfriend in Lithuania during the early 1970s when it was known as the Soviet Union. Now going forward to 2020, I have established a friendship with a Russian woman and we communicate on regular basis. I had been thinking to learn more about life in Russia and cultural life in Russia. I did not try to search on Google but I think my thoughts were focused on my friend and then on Sept. 18, 2021, your videos appeared on my laptop. I have had few such experiences where my thoughts about a subject bring the information about it on my laptop or mobile device without doing a Google search. I have also experienced this unique phenomenon when it comes to predicting weather in our local geographical areas. Eli, I have subscribed to your channel and hope you will keep on posting videos on a wide range of topics about life in Russia and educate foreigners who want to move to Russia. I am looking forward to sharing information with my friend in Moscow as well about your channel. I thank you once again and looking forward to new videos from you.
As crazy as it sounds, I've had my thoughts appear later as recommendations too. Abstract topics that I had never mentioned or written about. Very curious....
Hey Eli, I was watching on UA-cam “ The Largest SuperYachts of Monaco Yacht Show,” some extremely rich people are in the video, one lady was wearing a shirt just like the one you have own. You wear it well and could fit right in among the richest people in the highest society. The way you present yourself, your wonderful personality, education, mannerisms, taking care of yourself by physical exercise, you could marry a Prince and make him very happy. I hope you do find your Prince Charming someday if you haven’t already. I enjoy your videos. Thank you.
That was interesting. If the roles were reversed to see English people speak Russian I think it would be very different outcome. Thanks for sharing. Always fascinating. Stay well and be safe.
"Shut the front door!" doesn't mean close the front door. It's a shock, excitement response, telling someone to "shut up" because you're so amazed at what they are saying. But obviously you still want them to keep talking :-)
"Break a leg" means good luck. It comes from acting on stage in a theatre but others also know it.
Add your own...
regarding the first portion of the video - It sounds as though the microphone is either from within the camera or attached to the camera. You should get a long cable to attach a microphone too so that you can put the microphone nearer to you as it is very echoey.
I love this channel. Russians always seemed so cold to me me. I’m very patriotically American but I love world culture. It’s awesome to see a Russian that is just a really nice, happy, smiling person. We would gladly accept Russian friends in America, just not so sure how much Americans would be accepted in Russia.
But this definitely makes me want to visit Russia - the people actually seem so nice
Americans are being brainwashed on daily basis about Russia and other countries. The USA media are just terrible.
@@pstrazz8 Russians will treat you like family if they get to know you and like you. But just walking up to a Russian in the street smiling and saying hello and you'll typically get a cold reaction. Russians are hard on the outside and soft on the inside like coconuts.
Kat sounds like a Southern Californian "Valley Girl" with an English accent.
Her accent is not English at all.
Yes, bobby, I also was struck by her lack of consciousness of her massive ignorance.
I heard with the crackdown on teaching or tutoring via the internet here in China that classes would be difficult to have now .
hi Elina whats the update from Perm? I heard there were a student mass shooting.
she will not reply bro.
hi eli, very interesting the young lady is obviously from southern england, up north where I come from we drink a lot more cups of tea because its much colder up here then down south, so she has that one wrong, in our education system nothing in the north of england is told about russia at all and that goes for any subject, maybe if when you leave to go to university you could probably learn russian and its history, I wonder if your friend knows that theres other cities in the united kingdom apart from london, you might want to find out about scotland, wales, northern island, north east of england where I live then the north west of england as well and the ice cream shacks are also in the north eastern england dont think your friend has been anywhere apart from the countryside and bloody london, also there is many many accents in the united kingdom
I love Eli channel.
Thanks for your videos. I don't normally subscribe but have a Russian girlfriend and your videos help me understand the culture. I would love to see more on Izhevsk.
My cousin doesn’t speak English, but understands it. So when I visit, I try to speak Italian to her, and she speaks Italian back to me. I get to practice Italian and she practices English comprehension. It was funny trying to explain why I almost fell over when I saw a “Bimbo Abordo” sticker on a car. ;-)
Your "Landlord" is way too soft hehehe... Kat is sooo cute... as well as you too Eli...!! An interesting experiment about the percentage of people able to speak English in Moskow, I could tell maybe 1 out of 10, do speak English or at least try in this video; when I visited Moskow in 1995, I hardly found 1 person that could speak English out of 20 or more that I asked to. That time I got to the airport by "Miracle" virtually...
@Kat Sullivan @Катя Солливан: In Russia, what are the English Teacher requirements: TESOL or TEFL certification? A Bachelor's degree?
Delightful! And very interesting. Your channel, and Natasha's (Yeah Russia), and a few others have certainly given me new appreciation for the Russian people.
Nice and cool entherview
Greetings from Brazil