09-07-2012, 11:48 PM
I know Russians can be the same way when Americans can speak their language (but only if you speak it well, speaking it badly apparently has the same effect on them as seeing misspelled profanities spray painted to a wall does to many Americans :tongue: ).
Though be warned: here in the USA the Eastern Orthodox (especially when it consisted of mostly expats from Communist countries) tended to gather in one church as there wasn't enough to go around. I heard once that a woman greeted some Ukrainians at the Russian Orthodox church in (very poor) Russian. A Ukrainian woman (*) asked her what she was doing and the American said, "Greeting you in your native language." Luckily the Ukrainian woman's husband was able to restrain his wife until the American could flee.
(*Ukrainians tend not to like Russians, and Russians don't seem to like them back, having long ago traded the term "Little Russian" for more unflattering names. And Ukrainian women, deserved or not, have a wild reputation for being violent, and it's even said that even the women who marry athletic men will beat them if their husband loses in a game. Think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon where a woman utterly destroys a restaurant because it has the same name as her husband.)
Oh, tip...back when I was trying to learn Russian one woman commented that I "butchered" the language and had an atrocious accent (I guess Russian doesn't sound right when delivered with a Texas accent very similar to Janis Joplin :tongue: ), but one day I ended up getting plastered and I swear my Russian improved, and thinking it was my imagination the other Russian Americans agreed, and also said my terrible accent went away. I didn't let them know that I didn't consider it a coincidence that the drunker I got the more I sounded like a true Russian. :tongue:
Though be warned: here in the USA the Eastern Orthodox (especially when it consisted of mostly expats from Communist countries) tended to gather in one church as there wasn't enough to go around. I heard once that a woman greeted some Ukrainians at the Russian Orthodox church in (very poor) Russian. A Ukrainian woman (*) asked her what she was doing and the American said, "Greeting you in your native language." Luckily the Ukrainian woman's husband was able to restrain his wife until the American could flee.
(*Ukrainians tend not to like Russians, and Russians don't seem to like them back, having long ago traded the term "Little Russian" for more unflattering names. And Ukrainian women, deserved or not, have a wild reputation for being violent, and it's even said that even the women who marry athletic men will beat them if their husband loses in a game. Think Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon where a woman utterly destroys a restaurant because it has the same name as her husband.)
Oh, tip...back when I was trying to learn Russian one woman commented that I "butchered" the language and had an atrocious accent (I guess Russian doesn't sound right when delivered with a Texas accent very similar to Janis Joplin :tongue: ), but one day I ended up getting plastered and I swear my Russian improved, and thinking it was my imagination the other Russian Americans agreed, and also said my terrible accent went away. I didn't let them know that I didn't consider it a coincidence that the drunker I got the more I sounded like a true Russian. :tongue:
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