Donk’s English is slowly getting better and it’s actually fairly passable now, but *holy shit* are those long-term interviews always awkward when a Russian-speaker is invited. It takes all of the host’s energy and skill as a presenter to wrangle useful answers out of Russians. And it’s not like they’re stilted, asocial people in general – Spirit’s YouTube channel recently uploaded a 36-minute sitdown with donk, sh1ro and zont1x where they discussed the pro scene and recent CS updates, and they’re perfectly eloquent there.
I’m an interpreter. I’ve studied English (being a native Russian-speaker) for literally 20+ years, from elementary school to a bachelor’s degree in university to now doing it for a living, and even I still get lost in the fine details of grammar or exotic vocabularies on occasion. Foreign languages are hard, especially if you’re used to a completely different grammar structure and even script (Cyrillic to Latin). I have all the respect in the world for these late teens-early 20s kids who can barely attend school *at all* because they’ve no-lifed CS since they were 8, having to answer complex questions in a foreign language, even if they already know the basics of English CS terminology having played EU Faceit for years. *Anything at all* is impressive as hell.
Few_Particular_896
Would be a very scary trio if ever on the same team , controlled aggressions, best lurk, raw aim
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Niko really glazing Kyousuke.
Donk’s English is slowly getting better and it’s actually fairly passable now, but *holy shit* are those long-term interviews always awkward when a Russian-speaker is invited. It takes all of the host’s energy and skill as a presenter to wrangle useful answers out of Russians. And it’s not like they’re stilted, asocial people in general – Spirit’s YouTube channel recently uploaded a 36-minute sitdown with donk, sh1ro and zont1x where they discussed the pro scene and recent CS updates, and they’re perfectly eloquent there.
I’m an interpreter. I’ve studied English (being a native Russian-speaker) for literally 20+ years, from elementary school to a bachelor’s degree in university to now doing it for a living, and even I still get lost in the fine details of grammar or exotic vocabularies on occasion. Foreign languages are hard, especially if you’re used to a completely different grammar structure and even script (Cyrillic to Latin). I have all the respect in the world for these late teens-early 20s kids who can barely attend school *at all* because they’ve no-lifed CS since they were 8, having to answer complex questions in a foreign language, even if they already know the basics of English CS terminology having played EU Faceit for years. *Anything at all* is impressive as hell.
Would be a very scary trio if ever on the same team , controlled aggressions, best lurk, raw aim