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pronounce it. Welcome back to another episode this is part 2 of episode 3 of
the podcast the Tsar Experience podcast so as I said last week it's actually a
little bit too long this to do in one episode when we came to the editing
it together I'm actually no longer in Brussels in Belgium I'm in Odessa in the
south of Ukraine lots of great content coming from here so if you're new to the
channel I'm Conor and yeah go ahead and subscribe to the channel so you get and
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there's new videos uploaded with that said let's get into today's episode how
much Russian do you need to know I mean like is it feasible to say that you just
won studied Russian for a few months then you come to Odessa and you're like fluent in Russian. HO
much do you do you that's a real good question ... how much do you need to do anything I think you
need to get up to an intermediate level yeah I think you'll have already like
what normally happens in my experience with language learning is that you have
when you learn that initial stage from zero to beginner like say high beginner
you get a huge boost they are exactly you got this and you're super motivated
because it's like a honeymoon period everything is exciting it's new you get
you couldn't see your progress very easily because you start from zero so
you start from very low base then you have the intermediate phase where I
think it's really complicated because your
progress is very slow and you make a lot of mistakes and you actually kind of go
down in your social social interaction to a certain extent because you have all
these new problems give you complicate everything and then you come out of that
and then you were into the advanced stage and then boom you get so much extra
value in your experience once you get that so you got an intermediate stage
that's tricky I think you need to be a little bit past that beginner level I
think the beginner stuff will give you a huge boost actually again you can buy
train tickets for example you don't sit at train stations waiting for your buddy
to communicate actually drivers there may be all the things in restaurants but
if you really want these deeer connections with the people want to hook
up with someone who doesn't speak English.
Yeah, if you want to have a romantic experience with someone who doesn't speak your language I don't want
to hear any bullshit about the language of love and it's just all about like
miming or something like that ...
my first girlfriend didn't speak any English but I learned Chinese so maybe yeah maybe get
a girlfriend who doesn't speak in English that would help a lot in terms
of like but know if you can have a real meaningful conversation with a person
then that obviously brings things along way okay some people have some Russians
or Ukrainians are gonna be curious still a little bit about meeting a foreigner there
are a lot of foreigners by the way in Ukraine so don't think if you travel
there and even if you speak some Russian that you're gonna be some sort of
superstar in Odessa people are not gonna care they're like millions of foreigners
visiting and a lot of them do speak Russian and a lot of Turkish guys learn
Russian yeah yeah they're a lot of connections between the countries and they're
like I don't know tens hundreds of thousands of you Turkish guys who go to
Ukraine to look for a wife or girlfriend or hook up or whatever they're looking
for sex and you know it's a whole mixture obviously but a lot of them do
learn Russian so don't think just by learning Russian you're automaticallu you're
gonna get all these kudos but it does help and this will help you set you apart and
I think especially with Ukraine having a certain reputation for sex tourism I
think if you show up and only speak English the probability of being
perceived as someone who is maybe a sex tourist is a lot higher if you do not
speak Russian than when you speak Russian then if you speak Russian
it's like oh okay you obviously didn't just show up for
the weekend yeah but was invested time into learning the language you either
hang out here either you have a business years here so you are also interested
in the culture maybe yeah and then you're less likely to be perceived that
dramatically less likely in my experience and I think that helps a lot
with my interactions regardless of the level but yeah definitely if you get it
up to the high beginner you go you're gonna get that boost you're gonna be
able to do a lot of things but I think to really have the deep connections you
need to go a lot further and the problem with the intermediate phase just to
warn you is that you do at times have this like drop drop in my experience in
your social interaction because you over complicate things but and that process
yeah it can take a while to get over and boom you're over that hump so yeah
that's what I think about the level of Russian you guys out there are gonna
need when you come to travel in the region so Jan what else can we say
about our experiences for learning languages in these ... how did you find
Romania because we've been talking about Ukraine and Moldova I think what well we
had a fantastic time I didn't stay very long we went to
Transnistria it was all very exciting maybe we could explain that to
people like we went to Transnistria we'd read online that you know they would
point a Kalashnikov at you the soldiers to explain about that back
story to Transnistria it became de facto independent in the early 90s from Moldova
there was a war and it's not rec ... internationally-recognized but and there
are Russian peacekeepers in inverted commas who are there legally there a
certain number them at least are legally there under the terms of the peace
keeping mission and but there are a lot of members he was a pro-russian
politically territory and we'd read that basically if we went there that we will
have guns pointed us and then we'd be expected to pay money no, that was not true we are a little
bit scared because we didn't know anyone we didn't know anyone who had been there
before right we were like that the pioneers at least like and within the
people in there community and we are all among the
people that we know yes everything was fine right we arrived at the border what
happened at the border? Wasn't so we had discussed before him what we would do if
we were stopped so basically we decided right if they ask us for money we're not
gonna pay and if they cart us off to prison that will make this story a lot more
interesting so like alright fine we're just not gonna bribe him whatever happens
and we're gonna film right so we only had like we didn't have a vlogger set up
we just had our cellphones and it was like early like iPhone 5s or something
maybe even iPhone 4 the quality was gonna suck with that anyways so we
arrived we were like okay these soldiers are there actually I think the first one
was pretty girl I was like whoa I hope she detains it and interrogates us that would be
very interesting but then there was another male soldier he was like
you can't film here we were like with our cellphones like this then we said all
okay we put them down then we walked like another 20 meters where we had to
go to the passport control and get this little slip of paper as an immigration card
and we turned on the cameras again and no one really cared. It was a little bit of
an anticlimax we were like yeah i think these stories these rumors are just like
made-up it's actually completely fine but someone actually wrote to me
said that's not true I had to pay fifty euros and I was like
why would you pay fifty euros oh they told me to yeah I guess I spoke in
Russian and they were like yeah if you look like it ... if you look like a
tourist you get there like when you own your sandals and with a nice yellow hat
yeah but it also I think if this see that you are afraid and them may be more
likely to charge you right but we were there very relaxed and well we were
pretty well read about the whole situation at the border so yeah
Transnistria I'm gonna make another video about how many times have you been there actually?
Because you went many times but after after I actually saw a dated a girl who was from Tiraspol
so I actually went a few times to Transnistria afterwards
after that trip it's like the next summer I think and then I you know it's
like there's a group the airport up until recently when they opened a new
terminal in Odessa was better in Chisinau so I used to take the flights
out of Chisinau and then I always had at least transit through Transnistria but we had
other we stayed a few times in Hotel Russia where we stayed yeah and we
partied there a couple of times with friends I brought a British friend there
went with my Italian buddies once so I've been through the territory I think like
30 times but then you never had a problem. No, actually Transnistria it was
completely fine so if you think you're gonna Transnistria yeah then I'll make a
good travel vlog this summer and you guys can all go check why should people
go there I mean like what can you do there in Transnistria?
I mean it has a lot of the paraphernalia from the Soviet era because it's in
their flag do you have their own currency it's just like a little bit of
like a mysterious places yeah and people don't really think it exists but it does
people are really friendly they get even less tourists than anywhere else because
there's no airport there so basically you gotta be either in Moldova in Chisinau
or in Odessa and you want to take that trip so I think like the least
visited country country in Europe is Moldova. Belarus but Belarus changed their visa laws
recently and maybe they actually have caught up and overtaken Moldova
in the last year or two but so local people is like I would describe them
like a typical post-soviet Russian town that's what it looked like I see don't
have their own passports right yeah their passports we saw copies of
them when we were there and local people because there are so few visitors are
really curious and their faces were light up like you know brighten up and
they'll be so excited to talk to you that was our experience when we went there so
it yeah it was like complete opposite of what we'd read online it was like now
this is probably the friendliest place I've been. Belarus is also I think in
that level Belarusians are so welcoming and friendly so it's kind of
giving you that experience so you go to Eastern Europe so less
visited part the road less traveled in Eastern Europe you just you know what a
you should definitely go to Kiev Lviv
Moscow Odessa as well but if you want to go to places that are less traveled then
Transnistria definitely and Tiraspol the capital was definitely a good overnight trip to
make like stay overnight and get to see the nightlife
so I think we summed up the reasons why Russian what do you think about Romanian
do you think you should bother with Romanian ... learning Romanian yeah
obviously if you like Romania you want to spend more time at and I think it's
gonna make sense fun for me personally I think we'd rather hang out in Ukraine I
think you get more I think you get more value for money and then countries like
Ukraine and Romania I don't know really no I haven't spent too much time in Romania. I mean
I've only been there with you for four days so I can't really say by the
impression that I had I mean I spent also spent a month in Lviv last
year or two years ago you can't just you know every morning you go out for
breakfast and a lunch and then again in the evening you go out for dinner like a
really nice restaurant so for a lot less than five euros you have a really good
meal with a glass of wine taxis are super cheap I don't think
Romania is at that price level.
No definitely not yeah and it's also like Odessa Kiev but also Lviv
like beautiful towns not not touristic well maybe Ukrainian tourists but
not many foreigners there a lot of Turkish guys I think in my experience
because I actually spent a good bit of time in Romania
I think Transylvania is one of the most beautiful regions in all of Europe I
think if you're interested in travelling the region go to Transylvania I
think that's really the highlight and they have beautiful towns they're like
Sibiu, Brasov and Sighisoara amazing city yes these are not huge
cities they're like you know a few hundred thousand people at most I think
even less than they're like two hundred thousand and definitely if you're gonna
spend time there then it's good to learn Romanian as a language of course for
communication Romanians tend to be more multilingual than
Russians or Ukrainians or even Moldovans they tend to speak a lot of Romance
languages because pretty easy with the Romanian to learn Italian Italian as I as
you saw because I spoke an Italian in Romania and some French Italian
Spanish and French on that trip and young people tend to
speak more English and they're super excited to speak English a lot more than
in Ukraine or Russia or further East but definitely if you learn Romanian it also
helps of course when you're spending a lot of time but I would only do it if I
really enjoyed the country and I think Transylvania is the best reason to go
there and actually I'm going back to improve my Romanian for two weeks in
Sibiu during the summer so I'm gonna do that but I understand what you mean
price level Romania is significantly more expensive than Ukraine but if
you're flying from Western Europe or North America you're still gonna find it
extremely cheap so yeah basically don't expect it to be as cheap as they used to
be in Romania I also think that Ukrainians and Russians are more open and
friendlier in general than Romanians Romanians tend to be a bit more reserved
so I think the overall experience as a traveler
especially when you learn to the local language is better in Ukraine and Russia but on
the other hand people in Transylvania are friendly and friendlier than I think
it's only an issue in Bucharest I think in the south of Romania people are less
open and less friendly than in the provinces further to the north or the
center of Romania Bukovina people are so friendly in Bukovina in the north of
Romania Maramures also a bit more friendlier and Transylvania as well but
I think overall yeah unless you really love Romania and you can obviously speak
with less people if you learn Romanian versus Russian my advice to you is like
for travelling reasons Russian first for sure and then learn the other languages
if you like that country in particular and you spend time there but there are a
lot of good reasons to love Romania and to learn Romanian how did you find the
girls in in Romania Jan. Man we only spent four days that I can't really tell
I guess I have to get I have to go back to Romania with
you someday Conor but we can do that that can be arranged
somewhere can be arranged and I guess you the listener or the watcher who wants
to go yeah you know who to call ... exactly Jan it's been great as always to catch
up and to have you as the first guest the first interview on this podcast
that's the end of today's podcast so I trust you got good value if you're still
here at the end go check out Jan's ... I'll put a link below he's helped me with my
first 500 words in Ukrainian when I was on that language project that I had
and he can help you with many other languages because he has them in obviously
French German Italian Spanish and I think and also on our YouTube channel
channel. There are like lots of free videos where we give you best tips and tricks on
language learning motivational videos everything is there for free we also have
a lot of content for language specifically so for Italian French also
for Russian there's lots of stuff out there check that on the YouTube channel
to go check him out give him some love and that's the end of today's podcast
has been great to have you have stayed until the end well done as always this
we're recording this in May 2018 this podcast and I've actually recently
launched a language course which is up and running and you can check that down
below and either the show notes or in the description to this video
if you're watching it on YouTube where I bring you through step-by-step how to
learn any language so not just for Russian or Ukrainian or languages like
Romanian in the region but also and generally be able to apply those also
just opened up the beta version of my new course about traveling to Eastern Europe
also going to find details on that in the description so if you're considering
traveling to Eastern Europe you really want to get in on our program I'm gonna really
help you and make your experience phenomenal Jan has to leave and
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