Mine is Aleks. He's a Stalker himself, and a former soldier who defected for reasons. He's what you'd call a veteran Stalker - someone who's spent a lot of time surviving in the Zone and knows their way around pretty well. He's Russian, so occasionally, I'll just replace an English word with a Russian one for reasons. As I mentioned, the Lingua Franca is Russian. What nationality is your character? Note that if your character doesn't speak Russian, Aleks has a hard time with English, usually needing someone who's fluent to help him recall certain words from their Russian counterpart. Of course, there's Ukrainian, which is a secondary language in the Zone, since - you know - we're *in* Ukraine. Most text (I.e. signs, books, plaques, etc) will be in Ukrainian. My character is receptively bilingual - he can read and translate Ukrainian to Russian, but he doesn't speak it.
