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Can You Speak English?

Maksim appeared on this very popular Japanese talk show featured on NHK on the 25th of October 2004.

Maksim Maravitsa. A London-based classical pianist who also performs crossover music. And to interview him... actor Bessho Tetsuya. At university, he was a member of an English drama circle. How's his English?

Bessho Tetsuya: Hello.
Maksim: Hi. Maksim. Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you. Thank you for having time for us.
No problem. Thank you.

You are very tall. How tall are you?
Two metres.

Two metres?
Talking about your fashion, and your style in a concert, you already said about that, a little bit about the style of the concert.
Different costumes, yeah.

What kind of costumes do you wear?
I mean, I would never come probably in jeans because... especially in classical concerts, because I think it's a disrespect to the audience. But I really don't like suits.

You don't like suits.
Yeah, black and white suits in concerts. And I stopped wearing them probably 10 years ago.
Even before, when I was in my home country doing classical concerts, I always tried to do something different. So I would start doing some like multimedia shows in my classical concerts like laser shows before the concerts, or a different lighting system or I would dress differently.

Maksim was born in Croatia. He began studying the piano at age 9, and dreamed of making the piano his life. But when he was 15, civil war broke out. His devotion to the piano kept him going. He practiced in the basement of a music conservatory.

Why did you do that? Because maybe your parents or your family or even your friends think it was so dangerous for you to play the piano in the basement, you know, that the bombs were coming and.... It's a little bit like a battlefield right?
Yeah, at first they weren't happy because I had to go like to music school and as soon as you leave the basement it's very dangerous because you can get hit with the grenades. And I remember a few times we were running out from my city to the islands. We were refugees. And I couldn't stand more than five days without the piano so by myself alone, I would go to Sibenik, my town, to my house to practice the piano, and two days and then I go back.

Wow. You learned English in Croatia.
I studied it in Croatia, but since I was probably 10, in school.

In school.
Yeah.

So you don't have any difficulty speaking English?
No. I mean, basically before, when I was in Croatia, when I was traveling, I was used to American English because we have films which are not [lip-]synchronised, so I'm used to American accents. And before, I had an American accent. So when I came to Great Britain I couldn't understand a thing they are saying on television, because it's completely different accent, especially like...

That's true.
...Scotland or somewhere.

Oh, yes.
It's like a different language.

In Croatia, how can you say thank you?
Hvala.

What?
Hvala.

Koala?
Hvala.

Oh my god.
Yeah, it's very difficult.

Hvala, Maksim.