During an interview in Moscow for "Friends With Benefits", Mila has a short conversation with the Interviewer in Russian. Mila was born in a small town in the Ukraine. When she moved to the US, she spoke no English.
Justin Timberlake was trying to play it cool, but his face was like:"That's so fucking awkward, I don't understand anything. What the hell did she just say?"
Jamie Newton she just say she came at the age of 7-8 to america she only speaks home with parents russian , and she can a little read but not write. :D best woman russian and beautiful
As a Russian myself I can tell you her Russian is very good and this is what she says: "Thank you.You know, I speak Russian only with my parents.I moved to the US when I was 7, so I stopped studying Russian then.So I can`t write and only read a bit, but I can speak." Then the interviewer tells her she`s got a wonderful voice. I adore her so much! She`s lovely.
I am from Ukraine... I speak Russian from my childhood.... and I am sure the dialog is: He: Mila, can you say something in Russian? I heard,your Russian is not bad. Mila:thanks, I just speak to my parents.I moved to USA when I was seven, seven-eight. So I stopped learning Russian at the end of first grade therefore I can't write and can read a little bit. I can speak. He:You speak Russian magnificent and magnificent tone of voice.
Ведущий ей польстил. У Милы грубоватый голос и тембрально и интонационно (как выше заметили, довольно типичная интонация для евреев с Украины). Красивый русский у Кейт Бейкинсейл.
I don't know a single word of Russian, and after literally spending one day in Russia on vacation, I could figure out the phonetics of the word. Same in Greece. I am sure it takes practice to read it fast or write it correctly, but it's really not that hard to just look at a word see how it's pronounced, especially if you know Russian.
It's actually so easy to forget a language especially when you learned it at a young age. I spoke Armenian fluently when I was younger until my mom put me in a Russian class to brush up on my Russian and now it's harder for me to speak Armenian because I focused more on learning Russian as a kid, so I understand how she could have spoke a lot more fluently before since after practicing and adapting to so much in English she got weaker in her russian skills hence the slight accent in Russian
Wow. My experience is the opposite. I took French from second grade through sophomore year in college. I've been to France twice, but other than that have never had to use it. Yet I can still speak it well enough to make myself understood, if not proficiently, 45 years after my last class.
it's very impressive she can speak Russian fluently. It's a hard language to learn. I think it's admirable when someone can speak more than one language. Kudos Mila
Ukranian is even more challenging. They say Russian is like going to the dentist, but Ukranian is like poetry. Ukranian and other East European languages like Czech and especially Belarussian share a majority of vocabulary. Russia lb the other hand only shares about 40% of words with Ukranian, the the Cyrillic alphabet has differences. Russian has a lot of Asian words. Really most of "Russia" isn't actually Russian but ethnic peoples Russia colonized.
@@malaha84он говорит полную чушь. Россия моноэтническая страна, 82 процента это русские по нации, ещё 5 процентов это украинцы и белоруссы, т.е. близкие нации. Да в россии много других наций, больше 100, но основную массу населения составляют русские. И все говорят по русски, это единственный государственный язык. Украинский язык примерно на 90 процентов состоит из русских слов. Я много изучал украинских словарей классических. У меня есть словари 1898 и 1918 годов, я знаю что говорю. Когда говорят украинцы, то 90 процентов русскоязычных понимают их речь наполовину легко. Сейчас украинцы стараются не употреблять русские слова и придумывают новые слова из чешского, венгерского, польского и еврейского языка идиш (немецкий). Я смотрел спутниковые каналы из украины в 2005 - 2010 годах, я понимал почти всё, 90 процентов. Остальное можно было догадаться. Сейчас, когда я смотрю ютюб каналы из украины, я понимаю далеко не всё, примерно 30 процентов. А неподготовленный человек врядли поймёт и 10 процентов. Очень много посторонних для украины слов.
Ты знаешь отличие нации, национальности и этноса? США тоже мононациональное государство, хотя там люди со всего мира. На счет украинского языка ты прав. Он поменялся со времен СССР. Много иностранных заимствований.@@floks700
What gets me is the way her whole personage changes when she's talking Russian. Her facial expressions, her gesticulations, her tone... Everything is different.
Well, she learned it naturally as a child and then spoke it only with her parents. So perhaps this is sort of her "natural" speaking mode, or idk "child" mode. Language of comfort, so to speak, like old slippers. Maybe she is in a more relaxed mental state when speaking it. It's just my uneducated theory though, so pay no attention. lol
That's so awesome to hear her speak Russian. I saw in a different interview, she didn't seem to be as fluent as all the sites and reports have said but with this, I was wrong.
I moved to the USA from Ukraine when I was 7 years old!!! And I also only speak Russian with my parents Wow, I didn't even know I had this thing in common with Mila Kunis, that's so cool
I've watched Russian documentaries or interviews with Russians and I find it a beautiful language to listen to :) So naturally that works in the favour of seeing a woman that you normally see talking English fluently speaks Russian =)
Hispanics and Asians speak dual languages in America on a regular basis and nobody gives two shits. Mila Kunis speaks her native language and everybody goes gaga over her.
Gregorius Stefanovski Her region-Chernovtsy-Chernivtsi-Czernowitz is not Jewish.It is Ukraine now.But she was born when was Soviet Union and urban population of this city spoke russian.Finally she has russian jewish accent.Similar accent have jews from Odessa.
For context: Mila Kunis is an FSU Jew (FSU = Former Soviet Union). She and her family fled to America as refugees in 1991, when she was only seven years old.
Почему ? Русский - ее родной язык ... Она уехала в Америку, когда ей было 7 лет, но не перестала разговаривать на русском со своими родителями в Америке. Так что я не понимаю удивления. Если русский - ее родной язык, это очевидно, логично и естественно, что она хорошо знает этот язык... 🤔🤔🤔🤔😒😒🙄🙄
Many people in Ukraine speak Russian. Pre full invasion there were far more schools using in Russian than Ukranian, and it's a common language in Ukraine. Thanks to brutal aggression, Ukranians are increasingly choosing to speak Ukranian. The Baltics are beginning to head on that direction also.
That's what happen with spanish and portuguese haha My first language is spanish. I don't speak portuguese but I do understand a little bit when I hear it xD
I’ve been learning Russian for a while now and what I understood from her was that she living in the US hadn’t practiced much of the language yet she took a class in order to practice it. Can’t really write well but she can read and speak it fine. The man compliments her Russian and she thanks him
This makes me wish that I could speak more than one language besides English. Besides English I know a little bit of Spanish from my coworkers they teach me Spanish I teach them English in return. I also know a little bit of Sign Language. That's all the languages that I know of. I find it amazing how Mila Kunis can speak Russian really well as well as English really well.
@@Comprends-ton-Dim I haven't really thought about looking up of how to say phrases and things in different languages on google but in the words of Jim Carrey ALRIGHTY THEN!!
@@Comprends-ton-Dim yeah I know I just don't have the time to learn a new language. RU-vid is the only social media that I have at least most videos on here are free to watch.
This is not American accent actually, this is southern (Ukrainian) Jewish accent with little American fleur. When she speaks Russian she is not associated with typical American pronounciation - rather with Odessite or Galizian.
@@dmitrys.2932 well they must be similar accents then, because the way she pronounces her vowels is the same as an American would when speaking English and Russian. It makes sense since she lived majority of her life in the USA.
@@Kai-ew3zi ну во первых она не поддерживает окраину Российской Империи, во вторых там войны нет, там просто укробендеровских нацистов добивают которых не добили в 45-ом. в третьих на вопрос что вы любите из русской кухни Мила прекрасно ответила что любит пельмени и борщ.....поддержка только в твоей обоссаной фантазии ципсо-бот обосраный
OMG, she speaks with this southern (malorussian) accent! This is so cute! You listen for five seconds and you know that she's of Jewish descent from Ukraine. I went to Wikipedia and yep. Anyhow she speaks really good for a kid raised off Russia. It does deserve an admiration. Mila rules!!
@@anneneville6255 Take any geographically widespread language, you'll find distinguishable regional accents. Some of those regions may accidentally have historical cultural or religious dominance. Here you have it.
Interesting I've always heard that the Russian language doesn't have accents. I've always thought its impossible since so many people speak russian. I'm american and even a Ukrainian woman told me Russian doesn't have accents, but in my mind if you invade a country and impose your language the people there are gonna speak it with an accent
@@yourmajesty122 I’m not an expert and my linguistics is very rusty. As I understand, there is a potential confusion between dialects and accents. In Russian, commonly people say “dialect” in situations when in English people would say “accent”. Russian doesn’t have dialects like say German or Japanese. Despite the vast geographical spread and the substantial history, Russian is very uniform. There are a few easily distinguishable regional accents, though. For instance, there is this Moscow accent. There is the archetypical mid-Russian (Volgian) accent. There is the southern (like Mila’s) accent. These are all native accents. For instance, the southern accent overlaps with the Ukrainian one, but people talking with the southern accent may not speak Ukrainian fluently, if at all. The regional Russian accents seem to dissipate but I didn’t travel across that part of the globe for quite a while, so that’s just my guess. And then there are accents, which are backed by different native languages. For example, the Caucasian and the Ukrainian accents.
@@yourmajesty122 learn history a bit ... half of those "ukrainian citizens of today", are actually russians since 1000 years ago. so, russia didn't invade some new lands, as britain invaded india.
