see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
Even in Ukraine, only about two thirds of the population speaks it.
see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
Even in Ukraine, only about two thirds of the population speaks it.
It's only slightly more useful than Welsh.
I remember when I was in Uzbekistan (2003ish), there was a lot of drama because everything official was being put into Uzbek and English exclusively and lots of ethnic Russians didn't speak either very well.
see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
If they are banning it I haven't seen a big movement too so far, or heard anything about it. Most places speak Russian right away, although I can't tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian right now.
I know most signs I read end up being Ukrainian.
edit - just asked. Everybody speaks Russian but in the schools and at the work place it's strictly Ukrainian
see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
Even in Ukraine, only about two thirds of the population speaks it.
It's only slightly more useful than Welsh.
I remember when I was in Uzbekistan (2003ish), there was a lot of drama because everything official was being put into Uzbek and English exclusively and lots of ethnic Russians didn't speak either very well.
I missed the boat on basically ever getting into Uzbekistan. They don't so much like foreigners right now. Maybe things will change, but you can go ahead and color me jealous. What were you doing there?
Minorities are getting kinda screwed in Kyrgyzstan. Everything official, including the schools, are in Russian, so everyone learns Russian. All these people get their advanced degrees and whatnot, then they go to get a job and the applications and interviews are all in Kyrgyz, which isn't taught in the schools and pretty much only spoken by Kyrgyz. Of course, there's a better than even chance that they were just telling us that so we'd buy them vodka. These guys had a bit of a reputation.
see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
Even in Ukraine, only about two thirds of the population speaks it.
It's only slightly more useful than Welsh.
I remember when I was in Uzbekistan (2003ish), there was a lot of drama because everything official was being put into Uzbek and English exclusively and lots of ethnic Russians didn't speak either very well.
I missed the boat on basically ever getting into Uzbekistan. They don't so much like foreigners right now. Maybe things will change, but you can go ahead and color me jealous. What were you doing there?
I was just hanging out, really. I had a Russian teacher in high school who was spectacular at securing funding so we could do cool stuff and he found this State Department program through which students from my school went to Uzbekistan for a month in the summer and then Uzbek students came to our town for a month in the fall. It was really cool. We were in Tashkent for most of the time and we did some touring in the desert to Kiva, Bukhara, and Samarqand. Amazing stuff.
It's spoken a lot less in the South than in the North.
On top of that, generally in multi-language societies, the more cosmopolitan an area is the more people will speak the lingua franca and the less they'll speak the various national languages.
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see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
Even in Ukraine, only about two thirds of the population speaks it.
It's only slightly more useful than Welsh.
I remember when I was in Uzbekistan (2003ish), there was a lot of drama because everything official was being put into Uzbek and English exclusively and lots of ethnic Russians didn't speak either very well.
I missed the boat on basically ever getting into Uzbekistan. They don't so much like foreigners right now. Maybe things will change, but you can go ahead and color me jealous. What were you doing there?
I was just hanging out, really. I had a Russian teacher in high school who was spectacular at securing funding so we could do cool stuff and he found this State Department program through which students from my school went to Uzbekistan for a month in the summer and then Uzbek students came to our town for a month in the fall. It was really cool. We were in Tashkent for most of the time and we did some touring in the desert to Kiva, Bukhara, and Samarqand. Amazing stuff.
That's awesome.
I know some people who used to work there. They tell all these awesome stories that make me want to try to get there, then they remind me that they decided to purge foreign influences a few years ago and a bunch of people got the shit beat out of them or just straight up "disappeared" in the process.
My grandfather, who was born in Odessa when it was still part of Russia, went to college in Oklahoma. One day, he was talking to a girl about where he was from, and she said "oh, I'm from Odessa, too!"
My grandfather, who was born in Odessa when it was still part of Russia, went to college in Oklahoma. One day, he was talking to a girl about where he was from, and she said "oh, I'm from Odessa, too!"
My grandfather, who was born in Odessa when it was still part of Russia, went to college in Oklahoma. One day, he was talking to a girl about where he was from, and she said "oh, I'm from Odessa, too!"
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Step One:
Be a huge fucking asshole to everybody, especially foreigners.
I love it because there is an h-sound in Russian, just not the right h-sound.
listen to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbud8rLejLM
livin in the ukraine kinda got to know it
Steam
so Rob we share some common blood.
only mine's kinda part fighting blood hitler and part being kept in bloodcentration camps.
In Soviet Russia, the Party finds you!
In America, you listen to man on radio.
In Soviet Russia, man on Radio listens to you!
In America, you can catch a cold.
In Soviet Russia, cold catches you!
In America, you drive car.
In Soviet Russia, car drives you!
In America, you watch Big Brother.
In Soviet Russia, twenty three million people were executed over a seven year period!
see that's funny because a) ukrainian sounds dead retarded to everyone else in the USSR, and b) ukraine is actually banning Russian within the country to promote ukranian which nobody outside ukraine cares about
and that's why we eat gamburgers while we play garmonica
Someone's fuuuuucked.
Just talk in gutteral gibberish and be drunk 24/9
EDIT: YER A WIZARD, FAPPU
Even in Ukraine, only about two thirds of the population speaks it.
It's only slightly more useful than Welsh.
Karl Marx was the original Yakov Smirnoff.
"Under communism, the worker makes use of a tool.
Under capitalism, the tool makes use of him."
Seriously.
http://numberblog.wordpress.com/
I remember when I was in Uzbekistan (2003ish), there was a lot of drama because everything official was being put into Uzbek and English exclusively and lots of ethnic Russians didn't speak either very well.
If they are banning it I haven't seen a big movement too so far, or heard anything about it. Most places speak Russian right away, although I can't tell the difference between Ukrainian and Russian right now.
I know most signs I read end up being Ukrainian.
edit - just asked. Everybody speaks Russian but in the schools and at the work place it's strictly Ukrainian
Steam
Maybe that is why they all stick to speaking Russian here.
Steam
I missed the boat on basically ever getting into Uzbekistan. They don't so much like foreigners right now. Maybe things will change, but you can go ahead and color me jealous. What were you doing there?
Minorities are getting kinda screwed in Kyrgyzstan. Everything official, including the schools, are in Russian, so everyone learns Russian. All these people get their advanced degrees and whatnot, then they go to get a job and the applications and interviews are all in Kyrgyz, which isn't taught in the schools and pretty much only spoken by Kyrgyz. Of course, there's a better than even chance that they were just telling us that so we'd buy them vodka. These guys had a bit of a reputation.
odessa is odessa
they have their own thing going
fyi half the jokes in russia are about wacky things people from odessa do
wait do you mean odessa texas
I was just hanging out, really. I had a Russian teacher in high school who was spectacular at securing funding so we could do cool stuff and he found this State Department program through which students from my school went to Uzbekistan for a month in the summer and then Uzbek students came to our town for a month in the fall. It was really cool. We were in Tashkent for most of the time and we did some touring in the desert to Kiva, Bukhara, and Samarqand. Amazing stuff.
On top of that, generally in multi-language societies, the more cosmopolitan an area is the more people will speak the lingua franca and the less they'll speak the various national languages.
That's awesome.
I know some people who used to work there. They tell all these awesome stories that make me want to try to get there, then they remind me that they decided to purge foreign influences a few years ago and a bunch of people got the shit beat out of them or just straight up "disappeared" in the process.
Oh okay, my dad has great stories about this
My grandfather, who was born in Odessa when it was still part of Russia, went to college in Oklahoma. One day, he was talking to a girl about where he was from, and she said "oh, I'm from Odessa, too!"
(Odessa, Texas)
cool story bro
people from oklahoma think of the city from texas instead of some random russian city when odessa is mentioned
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
new little odessa
I don't get it.
so dull
same here. I'm nothing but euro-mutt.
The most exciting of which is that I'm like half Irish.
I'm not even a mutt
I'm pretty much entirely English (almost) and my ancestors were basically farmers and accountants
Farmers. Accountants.