Curious cases involving foreigners in Russia

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Often, a lot of fun to watch, as foreigners are one on one with the features of Russian traditions and way of life, which for us are considered to be quite commonplace; for them the - often very strange!


  Russian Spiderman
  "Show me how you walk on the walls!" This issue is a 6-year-old girl, who arrived from Germany, embarrass her Russian relatives and domestic cat. Some days no one could understand that the baby has in mind is not the cat began to tear the claws on the carpet hanging on the wall in the living room! Indeed where else will you find such an element of decor, as a floor mat in a constant horizontal position ?!



James Bond in Russian
The end of the eighties, the Soviet Union: a studio apartment caught off guard a Turk. Being the first time in Moscow, while visiting friends of his wife, he suspiciously walked around the house in search of the secret door. I was looking for at least one bedroom. That's because in Turkey one big family live in a studio apartment - nonsense!





German pedant, who survived the dashing 90th in Russia
  There are cases where the national mentality alien adapts indigenous Russian traditions in their own way. Especially when it comes to young Germans: liver he still fresh, so a drink with new comrades "in Russian," he would not mind! The only difference - the bottle under the table, he adds, as the pins: rovnenko and orderly. Where do without pedantry, gentlemen!




Learn African Russian mat - a real pleasure!
  I had a student body of each of Africa. The university course, he studied Russian language, but lacked a few "strokes", which the audience can not hear.

  Somewhere in the hostel came to his Russian mat. He became interested in them, I tell you, with unprecedented fervor. The first thing he asked us with his neighbor, because it is the word "f ... .ts"! Wildly funny to hear the emphasis with which he uttered the word.
Naturally, we began to explain. First, in the course went classical explanation, saying that when the car breaks down, it is "very sad", as if with a sense and short, just "n ... n"! For, so to speak, consolidate the material gave a couple of definitions: Tragedy! It's over ... and divorces hands.

  He seizes on the fly!




Severe Russian children through the eyes of Greek
  Genuine Greek shock: that's what a Muscovite can see that brings foreign husband for the first time to their homeland.

  They were walking late at night in freezing temperatures in the park. Then the foreigner stood as if turned out to be an eyewitness to the crime!
But he saw only a pram. He appeared unaware that young kids can walk in freezing temperatures, because in Greece at least ten degrees moms with strollers walking is not something that is not accepted, and almost criminal! Well, the wife is not from the Far North was.





  Japanese women in the Russian bath
  Transported in 1991. Japanese students have led to the bath. The first thing that was not so easy to convey to the foreign girls, so it's necessary to undress before the goal. But this is nothing, if they have not started to anneal on: stand on all fours and using a broom as a fan!




  American underground "good" in Moscow
  1999. Californian Robert arrived in Moscow. Moscow Metro greeted him powerful cotton door throughout the area of ​​the body. Well, they have not decided to maintain the door in front of a man going, what can you do ?!




Tea bag as a psychic trauma
  Beginning 90. The Frenchman wanted to help at a party in the afternoon and decided to throw in the trash of used tea bags, but the hostess with shouts and with the operational and special forces rushed to save the "British tradition"! "Brew tea bag twice ?!" - surprised the Frenchman. Why not?




Spin can not poke
  The hotel in Khabarovsk in 2009 to one of the rooms the latest technology and have not reached. This became clear when perturbed postoyalitsey from Japan to make a claim that can not press the numbers on the disc (!) Phone.



  English Panic
  This funny incident occurred in the same favorite contact the Moscow metro. As is often the case with foreigners, a young Englishwoman could not deal direct with the scheme. She tried to stop passers-by, so they helped her to understand and asked the same question: blow ACNP Inglish? Almost all answered "the EU do ah" and passed! Russian habits are so funny, and so tragic for the poor foreigners. Incidentally, the foreigner still found an English-speaking companion, so nothing to worry about.




  Do not try to fool the Russian teacher!
  Similar stories with an attempt to "namahat" teacher in the exam are not new, but when it tries to make a foreigner, it is fascinating due to its naivety.

  A student from Africa. He studied well. But sometimes I love pribednyatsya richness of his "great and powerful", especially when poorly mastered the subject. So: the exam in algebra our African friend suddenly "floated". The last thing he could save, it's pretend, "I understand your not in Russian."

  The teacher was not taken aback, and asked in English. That, they say, do not know English, only French. Carats the eyes of foreigners began to increase when the same question in algebra university lecturer polyglot asked in French.
A few moments later the poor man was already disappointed the door to the exit. But it was something to laugh all present!