i'll give you an example...my mom is italian and has spent more than half her life living in the UK. she only speaks italian when she visits her family back in Italy...which means, when she does speak it, she sounds a little wierd and doesn't know the right words sometimes because she can't remember or because the language has changed a little...and also because she doesn't have a native accent anymore having lived in a different country. So my question re Maria is this - does she or doesn't she sound like someeone who lives abroad or does she sound like a true Russian who lives there everyday.

 Thanks my lovely Russian friends.

that doesn't answer the question. my question is purely out of linguistical interest. i speak four languages and know how difficult it is to speak well and  fluently. just because maria's mum made her study her russian, doesn't mean she speaks it fluently like the other girls. speaking fluently means thinking, dreaming, knowing all the nuances and slang and all the rest. when you live in a country you pick all these things up naturally - look at how well maria speaks english. so.........my question is still unanswered....how russian is her russian??

thx very cute

[quote user="@Sweet Cleopatra@"]спасибо [/quote]

ı лове ёу мариа шарапова . ыес ёу беаутифул.

Your writing in Russian why?

[quote user="Saint"]why are you all writing Russian here??[/quote]

necessary.because russian video

        We know that but the problem is that we don"t speak Russian.What we have to do about that?.

     Maria is the apple of my eyes

[quote user="Saint"]learn it, if it was only that easy[/quote]

very correct ---- (веры цррецт)