On August 15, 2015 at 15:02, FP Crazy said...
My Russian GF, although she does have pretty good command of English, doesn't understand many idioms and colloquialisms. I told her the other day that some guy I knew kicked the bucket. She looked matter of fact at me and asked "why he kick this bucket?"
And she calls a knee a K-nee (same with knife). I keep trying to tell her the k is silent.
When she wants me to turn on a light, she asks me "Can you make it more light" or when she is hot "Can you make it more cold".
Talk to an ethnic German about getting their hair cut and they'll refer to "getting them cut" as a group. Hard g at the end of words, different syntax and phrasing- they all makes their way into the languages when people have to learn a new one and many languages don't use any silent letters.
