I am in Australia. Your Chinese is excellent. I wished I could speak Russia. My father can and fluent. But I could not. I went to Belgium to study in 1990 by train through Moscow from Shanghai (I needed to change trains). Some of Russians were very friendly. They helped my luggage to the platform (I had to change train at Moscow to Belgium via Germany). We could not communicate, but they said "Mao"... I could understand what they wanted to say and why they helped me.