His Mum and Dad probably kept up the Russia at home.

Скажи спасибо, что на трассе не брали

Then why does he have such a thick accent?

Dann warum hat er solcher Akzent?

Тогда почему у него такой акцент?

@@dair1770 большую часть жизни он жил в англоязычной среде и не пользовался русским. Язык довольно быстро забывается без постоянной практики.

He speak not very well in Russian, with American accent

QHYUWEISPOJKCNE his thought pattern in Russian is impeccable so you're wrong - his Russian is perfect, and I say it as a Russian-speaking person myself. A minor accent is nothing.

severusthegreatest I am Russian and I cannot agree with you: his Russian is just like intermediate, not more. I met many Americans who spoke Russian a lot better and they only learned it for a few years. It seems like he's forgotten a lot of the language since childhood.

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philaman1972 he's got his parents ;)

My mom moved from Russia to Sweden when she was 3 years old. She speaks Russian without an accent today, but she reads with great difficulty and can't write at all. She does find it difficult to speak with Russian-speakers who don't know Swedish, because she often uses Swedish words in her Russian speech. Although, if she speaks with a non-swedish-speaking russian-speaker for about 2 hours, she'll be speaking pure Russian as if she never left Russia. She grew up here in Sweden with her two sisters, her mom and her dad. I rarely hear mom speak Russian to her sisters though, but that's the only language she uses with my grandma, and used with my grandad (he's sadly passed away). Oh, I also speak Russian btw, but not because mom taught me, rather because I taught myself. I don't speak it fluently yet, and I do still have an accent, but at least I can read and write (by hand, in a cursive/non-cursive mix) at the speed of a native, as long as I know the words I'm reading.

I would think his parents wanted to emigrate from Soviet Union because of antisemitism specifically and for better life in general. No one was actually forced to as you say. Also, he is absolutely an American. He is Russian Jewish American, no less than an Italian, Irish, German or any other American. Or, as I prefer to think, all Americans are simply Americans no matter were our families are originally from.

***** Mustafa, I must infer from your comments that you hail from the Garden of Eden. Why do the people of the previous 2+ MILLION years of human existence not receive the same divine property rights as that of the "native?" Is history a game of musical chairs (I'm not sure if you have a word for that), and wherever you happened to be at the time that Columbus set sail in 1492 was now YOUR LAND ad infinitum? Your Marxist bullshit falls apart when you are forced to answer the following question: Does the "American" midwest belong to the iroquois or the Aztecs? Furthermore, do you think that nobody lived in the lands captured by the Ottomans and Ivan the Great during that period? Why do THOSE "natives" have no right to THEIR land?

@gbcoolsag other americans have lived in america for ages and they dont have any real connecitons to their homeland this guy clearly has so he is russian not american fuck off

I think he does not want it.

There is a good Russian comedy where one of the main characters does not like Jews. Later he discovered that his family are Jews and he is a Jew too. It was hilarious.

That's a huge stretch, to presume that most russians have jewish blood in them. Based on my personal 23_and_me test and the ones that were reviewed on youtube by russians to have 90+% eastern european genome is super common. Which makes russians one of the least polygenious people (japanese can probably top that up). And it makes sense from historical point of view: russian peasants (which made up 95% of population almost up to revolution) didn't have ethnic options available when it was time to get married. After revolution antisemitic views were commonplace. On the other hand until Revolution Jewish people were limited to western provinces which aren't even within current Russian borders (google Pale of Settlement), wouldn't have a geographical opportunity to mix with russians. Not to mention that based on religion prejudices it was expected for them to stay away from bloodmixing. This is not to support any nationalistic views. I'm just anal about facts, which i probably inherited from my jewish/armenian god-mother.

his r (p) is not strong though.

He has accent a liitle bit (some sounds are not natural for Russian), but he speaks correctly, his speech is literate, grammar is proper. To have this level of Russian it is needed to study Russian for a decade, imo. I would say he speaks like a Russian who has lived abroad for many years, and does not practice Russian.

@@evgeni-nabokov Would it help that he's Russian?

@@Davbach01 he's a Jew actually

Мама и папа евреи, а он вдруг русский. Странная метаморфоза.

sam ti лох. Чтобы определить - писать глагол с -тся или -ться, спросите себя, на какой вопрос отвечает этот глагол - "что делать?" или "что делает?". Если в вопросе есть мягкий знак, значит он есть и в глаголе.