Thread: Летс ми спик фром май харррт

If an American minister addressed a group in Russian, it would sound like this .... [silence]. Oh, wait! Not only Russian but any other world language. We are a nation of language dunces over here. But at least we can say thatgRomoZeka is incorrect when she writes А акцент у всех есть, у кого больше, у кого меньше.

Originally Posted by chaika

If an American minister addressed a group in Russian, it would sound like this .... [silence]. Oh, wait! Not only Russian but any other world language. We are a nation of language dunces over here. But at least we can say thatgRomoZeka is incorrect when she writes А акцент у всех есть, у кого больше, у кого меньше.

The thing is that English is the international language and it's right to assume that everyone is, well, more advanced in it than the hero of the thread.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

The thing is that English is the international language and it's right to assume that everyone is, well, more advanced in it than the hero of the thread.

Really? Well, Russian is an international language too, considerening how many millions of people outside of Russia speak it as their second or even first language.

Originally Posted by gRomoZeka

Really? Well, Russian is an international language too, considerening how many millions of people outside of Russia speak it as their second or even first language.

OK, OK, but the Russian had to read in English, it's really interesting to see in what way an American will be made to speak Russian. That's just the objective state of things, nothing personal...

Originally Posted by chaika

If an American minister addressed a group in Russian, it would sound like this .... [silence]....

In the rare event that an American politician made the effort to use Russian, it would probably sound like Sean Connery speaking поу-рашшшки in The Hunt for Red October, though minus the Scottish accent.

If we were EXTREMELY lucky, it might sound like Sam Neill speaking Russian in The Hunt for Red October. (Neill obviously spent time practicing with a dialect coach, and as a result his Russian was "less worse" than Connery's -- Connery didn't even try.)

P.S. Vitaly Mutko's speech also reminded me a little bit of the Мульт Личности version of President Obama -- the озвучение was done, of course, by a Russian actor pretending to have a heavy American accent, and not by an actual American actor!