OK, in Latvia, do not speak Russian

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3-04-2009 @ 8:40PM

online said...

To the author: if you speak russian well you probably know some things about russian culture (or it's lack) as well. Russians are probably the biggest nationalists in the world, they always make joke about other nations, feel superior to the whole world and say the world should learn their language. Wherever they go - they expect to be understood in russian.

Forget russian when you go to Baltics - it's not welcomed there, anything but russian, they suffered enough from them.

3-07-2009 @ 10:11AM

Jeff White said...

Well, as I state pretty clearly in the article, I do not speak Russian well at all. We're talking phrase book basics at best, with a few slang sentences thrown in thanks largely to hearing Russian friends speak. "Where is the bathroom," that sort of thing...

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