Your average westerner would not survive a year even in the Moscow burbs.
Not to mention that government policies,visas, and residency requirements regarding foreigners change every time the winds blows. And those changes come in official Russian language documents only.
The US foreign service classifies Russian language as a category 4 difficulty for English speakers on a scale of 5. Don't believe the bullshit you've heard, there is no English spoken or written in Russia outside of a few urban neighborhoods.
The US foreign service classifies Russian language as a category 4 difficulty for English speakers on a scale of 5
Weird, the DoD had it as a 3/5 along with Farsi and Korean (North); Pashto, Arabic, and Chinese were 4s, Tagalog was a 2, and the Romance languages were 1s. I dont' think I even saw a 5, so perhaps they're using a different scale entirely, or they re-scaled things at some point.
We lived in Russia for years, 2003-2008.
Your average westerner would not survive a year even in the Moscow burbs. Not to mention that government policies,visas, and residency requirements regarding foreigners change every time the winds blows. And those changes come in official Russian language documents only.
The US foreign service classifies Russian language as a category 4 difficulty for English speakers on a scale of 5. Don't believe the bullshit you've heard, there is no English spoken or written in Russia outside of a few urban neighborhoods.
Weird, the DoD had it as a 3/5 along with Farsi and Korean (North); Pashto, Arabic, and Chinese were 4s, Tagalog was a 2, and the Romance languages were 1s. I dont' think I even saw a 5, so perhaps they're using a different scale entirely, or they re-scaled things at some point.
The DoD must be saving 5 for the extraterrestrial languages.