I’m half-Ukrainian, half-Russian, and I find pop songs in English basically ‘comfortable noise’, in French ‘beautiful exercises in phonetics’ (since French ‘r’s are strikingly different to what I am used to), in Russian ‘depressingly monotonous/how do they even think this is to my tastes?‘, and in Ukrainian… I either think of them as ‘derived from Russian’, or wait for my favorite lines without paying attention to the rest:)
I’m half-Ukrainian, half-Russian, and I find pop songs in English basically ‘comfortable noise’, in French ‘beautiful exercises in phonetics’ (since French ‘r’s are strikingly different to what I am used to), in Russian ‘depressingly monotonous/how do they even think this is to my tastes?‘, and in Ukrainian… I either think of them as ‘derived from Russian’, or wait for my favorite lines without paying attention to the rest:)