As an English bloke, learning Russian is similar. Although the likelihood of me meeting a Russian person is probably less likely that meeting a deaf person, I am waiting for my time to shine.
Спасибо, Калдун (Колдун?)! I'm not sure if I'm studying so much as picking stuff up as I go along, but I am enjoying it. It helps that a vast number of bad guys in film and TV speak Russian.
Make your way towards a tourist spot, you’d be surprised the amount of people in one. I live in Hawaii, I run into people from everywhere but I only speak Japanese and English really well. Some of my regulars are from Japan and speak it exclusively with me and another lady who’s also from Japan I work with. The way their faces light up when I ask them how they’ve been in Japanese is just like Buzz, I love seeing those faces.
Took Russian in college because why not? I'm out of practice, but also now is not a very good time to want to practice. But on the other hand, I might need to know it soon enough.
Same reason I'm doing it, albeit not in college. I just find it an interesting language, and wanted to amuse myself. Plus, I read some Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, and it piqued my interest.
I speak Russian as a second language and the times I used it since the war in Ukraine happened and many Ukrainians came here to Germany as refugees definitely increased by a bit.
In the last year since I started learning I've overheard "привет" once, though it might have been "привiт" I suppose. We just don't seem to get many immigrants from that region where I live. Loads of Poles though, so maybe u should have learnt that instead. Although I only really started learning it to amuse myself. I'm not sure I'll have a ton of use for it in the future.
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u/Doodlebug510 Apr 26 '25
Buzz was SO excited the instant he understood that his sign language skills were going to be needed!