Chekhov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC6W8J0j8Co

I just finished doing a conversational English session via Skype with a student in Moscow. He did not say a lot. I had to prompt him with questions. When he did speak his accent was not a problem for me in understanding him. He plays video games in English and likes American music but does not watch American Movies or TV shows. I would be tempted, next time, to send him a YouTube Video to watch before the conversation so that we can have something more definite to talk about. He was fun for me to talk to because he sounds exactly like the character “Chekhov” in the original “Star Trek” TV show that I watched as a teenager. It was a running joke on Star Trek that, according to Chekhov, everything of any significance was invented in Russia.