My sister moved to the UK, now we only communicate on the net:
I understand that this is real English, but it is very difficult to get used to. It feels like an Englishman has put oatmeal in his mouth in the morning and goes with it all day. You approach the police officer:"Can you tell me how to go to the library", and he, through his full mouth, says:"Fir-fir-bir-fir-nam".
I got a taxi driver yesterday. I tell him, and I explain where to go, I try to say as clearly as possible - zero. I hear that it has some accent, but I still don’t know what. I wrote the address on the paper – wow, I understand! And then he got under his nose in Russian: "Dirty chicken, drumming and drumming, you can't find out a hero! " So I wanted to knock him with a umbrella - I couldn't get out sooner that I didn't suffer?! But I’m learning to be a real English woman, so I didn’t even blink with my eye, and I’m mourning with a brick: “Nipanatna,” say.