His two girls were born in Greece and of course also come from Russia, specifically Yalta. Their one grandmother and their great-grandmother are also there, but as he himself revealed Ivan Svitailo the little ones don’t speak Russian. And this was a decision he made because he himself, as a bilingual, had a hard time.

“No, it’s not bilingual. Do you know why? Because I had a hard time with this topic. Why bilingual children have the risk of not developing both languages ​​to 100%” he said as a guest on the show “Morning in sight”

-You who made it difficult for you…

“It took me more time to feel safe. Different things come out in your scene, a vowel may come out differently. In Russian, for example, if e is not stressed it is pronounced defeat and o is not stressed it is pronounced alpha. That’s why Russians can sometimes tell you to drink a little… If I talk to my mother a lot, let’s say the next day, I might miss something…”

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-Is your mother coming?

“Of course. Both grandmothers are crazy about their granddaughters. My mother meanwhile had two boys and always wanted two girls. So he comes and goes because he also has my grandmother who is 92, in Crimea”

– Do you miss them?

“For me, Yalta is an Ithaca. That’s where my relationship with Greece was born, because we were of Greek origin, my mother was a history teacher who then switched to philology and did a PhD in Philosophy on linguistics. That’s where the bond was made.

I was 10 years old when I came, a Russian girl, I didn’t speak Greek, I entered the third grade and I didn’t understand what the teacher was saying. I used to tell my mother that she speaks very fast, as if I didn’t understand that it was another language. Maybe that’s why I was scared. Although children are sponges.

I remember we came on April 6 and in the summer I went to a camp and then in the summer I spoke. Of course there are still things that I don’t know how to say in Russian or I don’t know how to say in Greek”