my (22nb, 22ftm[?]) friend mark (20m) lived in poland since he was 4. he speaks russian, polish, and english.
his English isn’t the best sometimes, and he has foreign accent. he is in love with a woman (24f) he wants to date, but she only speaks English and his family only speaks russian and polish too. he is almost always talking to family on call the whole time in russian, and it gets awkward because she also can’t understand it.
What language(s) does she speak? If it’s English, he’ll just have to learn it anyway eventually so what better motivation than to date someone who only speaks English. International relationships where the partners have different motherlanguages and different degrees of fluency in a shared language are not uncommon.
I am just very confused where the two keep meeting with him being on call with the family all the time. Are you in Uni and he’s constantly on the phone during lectures or what?
What language(s) does she speak? If it’s English, he’ll just have to learn it anyway eventually so what better motivation than to date someone who only speaks English. International relationships where the partners have different motherlanguages and different degrees of fluency in a shared language are not uncommon.
apparently, he just said she speaks russian but not fluent
I am just very confused where the two keep meeting with him being on call with the family all the time. Are you in Uni and he’s constantly on the phone during lectures or what?
i live in us, him in poland. he tells me he usually calls the woman in front of his parents
So he speaks russian and a bit of English. She speaks English and a bit of Russian. Sounds to me like they could get along and teach each other. So wait, he has regular phone calls with her? So the communication is working somehow? I’m even more confused. Do they even meet in person sometimes?
From what I understand of the situation I’m not sure you could say he’s in love. He can hardly communicate and only speaks to her on the phone. Sounds to me like nothing more than a crush, they can’t even talk properly. I feel like before he talks about being in love he should meet her more often and figure out ways to communicate.
