I thinks "YES" is the word I hear the most in English. And your variations, like "Yeah" and "Yep". In German, "yes" is "ja", but you say "yah". In Russian - since now I'm living in Moscow - "yes" is "da", or "Да" - cyrillic alphabet.
It feels for me a little hard to say "Да" more often. Even almost every Russian don't speak English, they understand "yes", but I try to not say it all the time. Then, there's the German "ja" or "yah". What makes it hard? "Yah" is the "I" in Russian, like "I am ...", "I can ..." - Я, in the cyrillic alphabet.
On my first shopping or whatever that involved money spending adventures, I could process questions like "Do you want a bag?" or "1 ticket?", so, what was my answer? "Я" - "yah", because even "yes" or "Да" weren't coming out.
My landlord doesn't speak English. Whenever we talk, we do through online translators. Me with my computer and him with his smartphone, since my computer doesn't have the cyrillic alphabet. Whenever I ask a question and "yes" is the answer, he uses "yes" instead of "Да". Thank you for confusing me even more!
I confess that "Да" is coming out more often than "yes", "yeap", "yeah" and "ja"-"yah". Even happier that what confuses me with the yes isn't sounding like "I want to have sex with your monkey".
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