Quote Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова
Alexei nickname is Alyosha. I hope that they won't lose their Russian. But I'm surprised, their adopted and they WANT to speak Russian? I was living in an orphanage too, and we didn't want to speak Russian when we left. Are they young? Just sort of curious. I think it's really good you want to learn Russian to communicate with them.
They probably don't know English yet. But I'm guessing that they probably will want to speak English once they learn it.