Poliglots from fish market

Yet another thing that continues to amaze me in Europe are the
linguistic abilities of the local population. The population of every
country we visited is almost 100% bilingual and in many cases people are
fluent in 3, 4 and sometimes even more languages. Nowhere I found it more striking than at the fish market in Bergen, Norway. (of all the places, huh?)
The stalls here are loaded with countless varieties of sea food,
including at least a dozen of distict types of what I can only describe
with one word: 'lox' (all of them, btw, taste fabulously good). But
even more impressive than the flavors of the fish are the menus
displayed next to each of the stalls. These menus advertise not the
fish but the languages spoken by the vendors. As a rule there are at
least as many languages as there are types of fish for sale. We gave
some of the vendors a quick linguistic test and in every case they
passed it with flying colors. The most remarkable was the conversation
with a German girl (who now lives in Norway). She spoke the purest,
cleanest, accentless Russian I've heard in a very long time. I wish I can speak
Russian as well as she does! The only time it became aparent that
Russian is not her native language was in the following dialogue:

-Nu kak tebe kopchenniy kit?
-Da tak sebe, ni ryba ni myaso...

After that she looked a bit confused:

-U etogo vyrazheniya est' esche kakoe-to znachenie, da?