Thread: Do Russians like American accents in spoken Russian?

It sounds to me like the American ambassador to Moscow speaks Russian fairly well, but with a thick American accent (his Russian isn't perfect, he has a tendency to directly translate English into Russian, which doesn't always make sense, but overall he gets his point across).

Originally Posted by zxc

It sounds to me like the American ambassador to Moscow speaks Russian fairly well, but with a thick American accent (his Russian isn't perfect, he has a tendency to directly translate English into Russian, which doesn't always make sense, but overall he gets his point across).

His accent doesn't sound too bad to me, I agree it's strong, but I've heard much worse)) But I think he messed up his perfective and imperfective verbs a tad))) I'd be happy to speak as well as he does!

Originally Posted by Deborski

His accent doesn't sound too bad to me, I agree it's strong, but I've heard much worse)) But I think he messed up his perfective and imperfective verbs a tad))) I'd be happy to speak as well as he does!

And cases, and genders. his accent is OK.

Originally Posted by Marcus

And cases, and genders. his accent is OK.

Go easy on us Americans! You know we're doing pretty good if we can speak more than one language. Even if we are clumsy )