English speaking room

Wow! What a sparkling conversation we have here. Bye-bye housekeeping.

Maru
"Sometimes my accent betrays me, and people can tell that they can hear my accent" - works all the time for me.

"we have invented our own Russian-Italian language (mixed grammar and words) comprehensible only to us I think." - you are lucky yo have a good language practice at home, My husband is Russian still we have the same pigeon language at home mix English and Russian.

"I" ve read that you can say that you speak really well (perfectly, I do not understand this term, too relative and subjective) when you are able to think in this language (I do, I sometimes even dream in Italian) and to express yourself when you are angry / afraid or so on (in critical situations in a word)."

I absolutely agree ! or tired after long work day.



Nataly

"But we for whom English is foreign simply can't do it if (I repeat it, sorry) we don't live in this language environment." and it's actually good.
Sometimes it is really confusing when you think in English and have to translate to Russian because all of sudden you understand that you are having conversation in Russian.


"I'm proud of my country and treat people from other countries with respect."
So we do. As' well as many other emigrants here and around the world.