Привет из Днепра!
Greetings from Dnipro in Ukraine and in today's video with me Conor Clyne we're going to dive into the five
reasons why you need to learn Russian now as a Westerner let's dive into today's Tip Thursday
Поехали!
So the first reason that you need to learn Russian to dive into is for the superior dating options as
a guy compared to the West the countries where Russian is spoken a lot like Russia the former
Soviet Union obviously here in Ukraine being part of that it is the best place in terms of dating
options as a single guy basically you will be presented with way way way better getting options
as a single guy here then you are going to be in the West and the language that those girls speak
is in general Russian or they can speak Russian it's the lingua franca of the region
where the highest concentration of hotties is in the world now before you tell me hey Conor but I
don't need to learn Russian because they speak English well some of them do that's for sure
but you definitely can't be as successful without Russian I'm not saying you there's a zero chance
I have clients to come obviously with me and live the tsar experience they also even got married and
they did not speak Russian with someone from the region so you can obviously get by with English
but the difference is you leaving money on the table and expanding your options in the dating
market here if you first of all learn Russian and actually come and spend more time here now
obviously the more time you spend more options that you can create that's pretty logical but
also it goes a little bit deeper than that in terms you're not a tourist especially here in Ukraine
it's pretty tough on the dating market if you are just flying in for a weekend or a week basically
there's a perception that guys who fly into Ukraine even if they're not wife hunters we'll
say but they're here they're kind of seen as bit like sex tourists and you don't want to be put in that
category so speaking Russian definitely on the dating market a huge advantage to get yourself out
of that box it's also the best scammer defense the scammer girls basically don't bother guys
who speak Russian because they just don't think they're going to be the low-hanging simp fruit
from the West that they can exploit that's going to be another reason I also have clients who have
done well even using English but told me that they know they would do way better if they could speak
Russian so overall basically the place with the highest number of beautiful women concentrated on
the planet is in these countries where Russian is widely spoken so stand out from the crowd
give yourself that competitive advantage and invest in learning Russian for the dating scene
So there you had Ben from Bald and Bankrupt Soviet adventurizing using the Russian language
like would his channel have the same character if he didn't speak Russian in not just obviously in
countries where Russian is the official language but also in the former Soviet Union where he's
traveling and he wouldn't be able to connect with the local people at all it wouldn't be
the same vibe on this channel so I think actually his channel is a really good advertisement for the
value of learning Russian for travel in the region now not only can you use Russian obviously in the
former Soviet Union you can also use it in places where Russians go on holiday quite frequently
so places like the Dominican Republic are quite popular obviously Egypt Turkey so that
could be obviously you're traveling somewhere else and you meet some hot Russian chick then
speaking Russian is always going to be useful for you there
Otherwise, I've made a lot of friends actually by being able to speak Russian where I was living before when
I was living in Brussels for example I became really good friends with another Russian lawyer
we actually worked together later on so I built these connections and part of the reason why we
were able to develop a friendship I mean he spoke English fluently and so did my other
Russian friend there but the fact that I was interested in Russia in the Russian language
and actually learning it definitely helped create a bond between us and that's still a
strong friendship I have even today definitely don't think that Russian just limits you
to the countries where Russian is actually spoken as an official language they also for travel
it's still a massive massive language and really super useful to invested time and in learning
So the third reason to learn Russian is for relocation now that's not going to be
for everybody might be for you might be something considering it might not but keep it in mind that
it may become something that you want to consider doing in the future especially how things have
been going in the West basically for guys who are planning to move here you need to have a solution
to overcome the language barrier because it is very significant here the level English is not
very high there's this company Education First who I quote a lot I cite them a lot in my videos
because they rank the level of English proficiency across the world and they put Moscow, Minsk and
Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine in their fourth out of five categories so obviously number one is the
highest and the best you can have countries like Scandinavia or the Netherlands there even I think
Poland crept into that so there you have a big divide you're definitely going to need a solution
and the bottom line is if you are relocating for the long term you might as well just get cracking
and learn Russian because you're going to need it of course here in Ukraine Ukraine is official
language so all the documents are going to be in Ukrainian and whatnot but unless you're living in
Lviv in the West then normally you should start by learning Russian because it's the language
used most in common life in everyday life here in most of the city so I've seen some of my clients
who have relocated and they've even though they weren't super excited about learning necessarily
a foreign language some of them had no experience before they basically accepted that the benefits
were gonna outweigh the negatives of having the best time to learn Russian and in fact there is a
I guess he's a marriage marriage agency owner or a matchmaker here who is married to a Ukrainian and
does not invest his time and basically he has to rely on his wife for everything and with a
60% divorce rate in Ukraine I'm not so sure I would be investing I would be relying on my my
Ukrainian wife in terms of being able to handle everything for me for the long term here rather
than just getting cracking and learning Russia yeah if you're going to have to learn eventually
just start doing it now
So the next big reason to invest in learning the Russian language is for the
business opportunities now it's true that the West in general is wealthier than Eastern Europe
but things are improving here there are lots of opportunities you can do things for example
that have already been on the West and worked and replicate them here that's something I talk about
good bit in my high level consultation groups Slavic Utopia Secrets whether that's for Ukraine,
Belarus or Russia I'm gonna link all those down below so if you're interested and say
moving to the region and taking advantage of the business opportunities then that's
a good option for you to get a head start but basically there are so many opportunities in
terms of marketing also products to Russian speakers whether it happens to be here or
in other countries like give me let me give you a few examples when I was in Cyprus a few years ago
there were so many advertisements for real estate in Russia so a lot of Russians were moving their
money out of Russia to keep it safer they thought in Cyprus and buying real estate obviously a
pleasant climate there but it was obviously a massive opportunity to the Russian-speaking market
you can look at say the diasporas for Russian speakers things like in Miami or Brighton Beach
there are a lot of Russian-speakers because there are a lot of people who have money obviously you've
heard of the number of oligarchs in Russia so there is a class people with a lot of money if
you can market those people you can obviously do good business I remember there's actually another
youtube channel with from a matchmaker marriage agency he basically said the longer you stay here
the better things get and part of that is being able to take advantage of things like speaking
the language and the business opportunities and the dating opportunities so definitely business
it is maybe not so talked about but that is a huge huge huge reason to learn Russian as well
So the fifth and final reason that I'm going to go into in today's video why you
should learn Russian now is the access that it will give you to Russian culture
the window onto the Russian soul now normally when people start to talk about Russian culture
and the language they normally refer refer to the literature in particular like Dostoevsky and many
other famous authors but to be candid and frank in my experience the Russian culture that you're
probably going to be more interested in is going to be the more modern Russian culture like maybe
popularized by Pewdiepie with Russian swear words like suka blyat and etc so that's probably going
to give you that kind of more motivation to get into it or more relatability than you know some
staid book from the 19th century can also be in Russian film of course you have a lot of
films that are interesting and good to watch tv series in Russian when you go and look but also
the caricature of the Russian baddie you know swearing in Russian rough gopnik style also
popularized by Ben from Bald and Bankrupt a bit with his three stripes for life and I know that
it's an internet meme from gaming I have a lot of these Russian swear words and this image of
the Russian kind of petty criminal the gopnik so actually quite a few of them around here
in Dnipro it's not just a meme or a stereotype they're definitely backed up by reality in some
parts of the former Soviet Union so you get access to that of course so for you just learning
Russian that you can have that relatability also with the people then when you come here you'll
have a little bit of a cultural nexus and yeah you can practice your Russian swearing so suka blyat
There you have my five reasons that you have to learn Russian or that you should learn Russian
as a Westerner now so the next question is are you going to go about that so I have done plenty
of videos on my channel before because actually before I started focusing on lifestyle here in
Eastern Europe I actually had a language learning blog so I focused on I didn't focus on any language I
had lots of languages there and I'm a big language geek as you probably guessed from this video
but I have reviewed a lot of different products I did I still have those up on this channel
now so I'll link them below some of the different products that I've used or services in terms to
learn Russian in particular all down below you can go and take a look at those videos up in
cards I'll put a few if I still have some space at the end of this video but going forward I am going
to design a solution for learning Russian for beginners and I will release that in a few months
that opportunity to join that so it's going to be able to help you to get up to the very basics in
Russian probably if you're planning to move here you know the basics you need to start off with or
if you're coming for a trip gonna have you covered for that and the way to get in on that and be
you have the opportunity to enroll in that when it's open it's been being on my free
mailing list I only open up my new programs to my most loyal fans who are on that list so
I have a link below there's actually a I made a general language learning free course so you can
go and just look at that it's free it's a bit of a no-brainer for language learning some tips on that
so go down below you type your email address and then you confirm your email and then you that arrives
in your inbox and later on you will be notified when I launch that new program and we together can
learn basic Russian and maybe in the end I'll design another course after that to help guys
go to that intermediate phase so they're the five reasons it's an absolutely glorious day the weather
and the climate is not always the biggest attraction of Eastern Europe it's obviously
very cold in the winter but when you get weather like this on the banks of the mighty Dnipro River
it definitely is классно so see you in the next video this video до свидания from Dnipro in Ukraine!