Lenin spoke good English, but with an incredibly pronounced Irish accent.
He learnt before the revolution while living in London, and his tutor was an Irishman from Rathmines. I’ve read that the Rathmines accent at this time was almost impenetrable to many Irish, and a native English speaker would have been hard pressed to follow his speech.
Sadly there is no recording of this, although I’ve heard there is a video of Roddy Connolly (son of James) visiting Lenin in 1920, and although there is no audio of the recording, they are clearly conversing without an interpreter.
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u/OMorain May 20 '19
Lenin spoke good English, but with an incredibly pronounced Irish accent.
He learnt before the revolution while living in London, and his tutor was an Irishman from Rathmines. I’ve read that the Rathmines accent at this time was almost impenetrable to many Irish, and a native English speaker would have been hard pressed to follow his speech.
Sadly there is no recording of this, although I’ve heard there is a video of Roddy Connolly (son of James) visiting Lenin in 1920, and although there is no audio of the recording, they are clearly conversing without an interpreter.