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N: I also took care to make sure that none of the Russians were actually of African descent. ;) But even the Russians who are of solely European descent seem to have quite varied faces.


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It doesn't prove anything, I was just curious if people really had the ability to tell ethnicity from facial features alone. I was also curious if putting the pictures in a particular order, or...

Kalinka, you just made my day! :) :) :) I did spend a lot of time putting that together. The way I found these photos was to search for common names in the target languages - I believe most of the...

I believe MasterAdmin split the thread; the slang one is still in "Grammar and Vocabulary."


Hold on here. If you need more than a photo, I'm guessing you need to be able to watch their...

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Give it your best shot. ;)

I threw in some freebies, but also some where it isn't so clear.

It's very easy to do if you're allowed to see what kind of clothes they are wearing, their behaviour/body language, language(obviously). But from physical traits alone(say mug shots) it is actually...

Hrrmmrmmm. So most Eastern Europeans can recognize other Eastern Europeans? What's the trick?

Do they ever mistake other people of Eastern European descent for Russians? How "Russian" are Serbs or Czechs? I'm Asian, and I honestly cannot tell the (physical) difference from Chinese, Japanese,...

My point is that most Americans wouldn't understand it, be it послайсать or нарезать. Or are you talking about chance meetings between Russian supermarket workers and Russian people trying to buy...

Ohhhh. So why would they be asking people in the supermarket in, say, Victor, Iowa if they wanted them to послайсать?

Right, so I'm thinking Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc.


This could either mean that they came to an English-speaking country to live and their English has some Russian characteristics, or that they...

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That's interesting. Why would people from, say, Tajikistan speak Russian mixed with English?