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It's ironic, seeing tons of exclusively russian-speaking immigrants not being able to learn the native language after decades living in the country. But it's n
by koiueo 10mo ago
It's ironic, seeing tons of exclusively russian-speaking immigrants not being able to learn the native language after decades living in the country.
But it's not about complexity really. I think it's more caused by the deeply ingrained superiority complex in most russians.
And just in case, most russians != every russian.
- mlrtime 10mo agoI was surprised as well living in Hong Kong that many kids grow up never learning Cantonese being born there (Non Chinese heritage). Their parents spoke their native language, and they learned English in a private school. You could live there until very late in life never needing to know more than a few sentences.
- eudamoniac 10mo agoI don't think I've ever seen this in my life from a Russian. I do see a lot of Spanish and Chinese speaking immigrants with no interest in learning English though.
- koiueo 10mo agoI realized, I don't know many cases of Spanish or Chinese people not learning the language. My hypothesis: I understand russian and register cases like this easily. Otoh, I don't understand Chinese, so the ones with whom I have ever had any communication, are the ones who learned any of the languages I understand. Similar story with Spanish, my level is ~A2, so there's bias here too, although slightly less prominent. Do you understand russian?
- tguvot 10mo agoit's a thing. there are russians that think that they have superior culture and learning some other barbaric language is beneath them. so they either don't learn native language of the country where they live or learn it to bare minimum