Re: "to be" and not to be in the world's languages

Russian can be difficult for some, depends on back ground. I can
do some, but helps got exposed to it some when I was younger,
father was a russian/german/spanish linguist in the Army, as
well as Alaska has a russian/ukrainian communite, so if you want
to hear russian and other language of the orthodox church, you
can listen in on a service and hear how things are, not just the
individual words but the whole language.

Also things change, the old way of "Welcome Friend" Privi
Tovaraich, is being replaced, it seems, cause the old way was
often used for what we would say "hello comrade" and now that
the Soviets are gone, things that tied the language to then, is
changing, or so I was informed? But will see, we still have
small enclaves of old Believers, who came over in the 1800s as
well as colonies of Russians who came over back in the later
1700s when Alaska was part of the Russian Empire.

Mike

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