How Well Can MILA KUNIS Speak Russian?

Hello friends How are you Dear Mila can you say something in Russian I heard that you speak the language quite well Thank you You know I'm just talking to my parents I came to America when I was seven Seven or eight years so I stopped studying Russian at the end of first grade So I can't write but I read a little I can speak But you have excellent Russian I came to America at seven years old Seven or eight years so I stopped learning Russian at the end of first grade One thing I want to mention before we start doing this Her Russian is excellent Because You see it's not about how well she speaks but how grammatically correct she sounds but it's what she says And if she can express her thoughts correctly She is talking about her Russian language talking to her parents She stopped learning Russian when she was in first grade So she can express her thoughts incredibly well This is the only thing I look at when I see someone speaking especially with our students Can he express his thoughts well If the answer is yes then his accent and possibly his ability to do it correctly A structured sentence this is indeed illegal So first and foremost she can express herself quite well And her you know statements make sense One thing however about her accent Of course when you've lived in the States for a long time when you're an adult when you grew up in the States You don't hear so much Russian language and sometimes your English accent can come to the Russian language So she has that A-sound Russian language at the end of first grade so First grade right Grade So we're saying that we don't have this "A" sound Class That's the American "A" Class I can't write Writing See That will be writing That will be a lot It's less stressful It's less noticeable But of course it's just a small thing So that was the only thing I wanted to show from this interview because it's just 15 seconds Okay so let's move on to the next one which is four and a half minutes This interview with Mila Kunis Let's look and show a few things here and there Yes and I saw him for the first time last week But of course you know it's all still understandable So for all of you guys learners make sure that you learn proper prepositions Whenever you learn how to tell time and how to talk about you know last week last month yesterday in a year last year things like that Because for example we say "na proshloy nedele " which is like "on last week " but we say "v proshlom mesyatsye " In last month So what's the difference between a week and a month There's not really much difference but in Russian we do separate the prepositions from each Just a small thing for you guys to remember and take away So no comments right there in that little section because she wasn't making mistakes like that And her vocabulary is very good very good I think if you go back to the video That we made about Mila Jovovich right here in the information card Mila Jovovich is using much easier vocabulary than Mila Kunis She's going for much more complicated sentence structure I would guess that maybe she speaks more Russian than Mila Jovovich I'm not sure exactly bu You can tell that she is using her Russian a lot in her everyday life because certain sentence structures are more complex and she' s not making mistakes in that which is awesome Let's go for a few more minutes and there's going to be a couple of things there that I think all of you guys can also take away Okay so there So she says twenty-two twenty-three Of course you know in Russian our quantities quantity of one from two to four and five and onwards all have different changes that the word has to undergo So with the age if your age ends one like twenty-one we say year Right so the word is year If it's two to four it ends on two three or four it's years So twenty two years And then if it's five and onwards including a zero it's years So twenty-five years So as you can see year years and years three words Well of course in English we only have years I was twenty-one years old I was twenty-four years I was thirty years old so it doesn 't really change And she's getting that confused which is you know not that big of a deal but still For all of you to know that you know our age changes if the last digit changes All the time I say "let" and "god " I don't understand how to But anyway twenty-two twenty -three And he first started talking about it and asked me who I think will be a good actor who is twenty-eight twenty-nine thirty years old and we started talking about people who I like who were very funny I think And the more time The older I became the more I realized It's something that's stopping me from understanding her So if you guys are worried about oh my gosh I sound like an American I sound like an English-speaking person Person I sound like a Spanish-speaking person when I speak Russian because of that sentence structure it's okay People will still understand you because sometimes the logic may be different but the overall The meaning is the same so don 't worry about that too much I didn't even hear that because I said the same thing so it happens when you speak another language and certain phrases that are kind of like filler words like I mean or anyway you guys probably heard that before she also said okay anyway and then she continued with her thought in Russian again And now she says I mean in English Those words are kind of filler words and they're not like meaning-carrying words So she replaced a Russian word with an English Automatically subconsciously without even thinking about it So that's something that can also happen as well So only two interviews and I think the overall theme and our What's the verdict How good is her Russian Her Russian is awesome because she can express herself well She goes for complex sentences and she does it well Of course you could hear her accent Of course certain sounds would be good would be bad would be interesting would be different So of course that's going to be a natural thing because when you spend 90% of your time speaking another language your muscles will develop in a certain way So when you try to speak another language It won't be as good it won't be as easy flowing And of course even though she was born in Ukraine even though she spoke Russian when she was young and the When she moved to the States she also spoke Russian to her family if your primary language is different you will have that accent eventually So it's not something that really anybody should Be worried about it It's a natural thing Of course you can work on kind of removing that accent but she's probably focused on her own career and her family versus Her not sounding American when she speaks Russian So it's all about priorities But her Russian is awesome Mila I'm glad that you're speaking Russian because A lot of people who move places forget their mother tongue and I'm glad that your family has also enforced Russian in their house So it's great And I'm just happy to hear my native language from people of that high kind of status or famous people which is awesome That's it guys Thank you so much for watching I hope you learned something today And I'll see you over at the 30-day speaking challenge Join us and get closer to how Mila sounds and learn how to speak in the same way as she does