Comment by volemo
8 hours ago
> You can, and should, speak Russian with a permanent broad smile
Funnily enough, I was told the exact same thing about English when I was learning it as a Russian native.
8 hours ago
> You can, and should, speak Russian with a permanent broad smile
Funnily enough, I was told the exact same thing about English when I was learning it as a Russian native.
I learned it on my own... always imagined it as "speaking without letting the heat out"
In contrast, see “Why Russians never smile”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27317859
Yeah, that's the point - you shouldn't really smile, it's about relaxing your mouth
On a tangent - I've moved abroad to work in a multinational corporation, and I noticed that similar cultures cluster together. I spend most of my time with other Eastern Europeans.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-segregation
This is why forced mass immigration will never work and will only lead to disaster.
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Are we trying to make psychopaths? That’s sounds very unsettling for conversation.