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I was reading the short story <Слон> by Куприн from my Russian reader, and there is a part of it in which a German is talking, and is making mistakes, such as carrying the indefinite article into Russian (ex. Ещё один вопрос: позволит ли хозяин вашего дома вводить в свой дом один слон?).  This got me to wondering: are any grammitical mistakes that Russians typically associate with English speakers? Or are there any errors that you frequently hear English learners of Russian making? 

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Oh, for heaven's sake. Needless generalizations badly mislead leaners :) Of course "я имею что-либо" instead of "у меня есть что-либо" sounds quite unnatural in Russian, but one must have a quite spoiled mind to suspect "I f**k" in every "я имею" :)))

Reminds me of that old joke:
- О чём думаете, товарищ сержант?
- О бабах, товарищ лейтенант.
- Как, под обстрелом - о бабах?!
- А я о них все время думаю, товарищ лейтенант.

(What are you thinking about, sergeant? -- Women, lieutenant, sir. - How? Thinking about women under the enemy's fire? -- That's what I think about all the time, lieutenant, sir.)