I Quickliest

As many of you know I have two host brothers here in Ukraine: Arsen and Bohdan. Arsen is 19 and attends Ternopil State Economics Institute in, you guessed it, Ternopil. And Bohdan is 15, so he is starting to get one of those scary boy mustaches and his voice drops daily. He is one of my 9th graders. I adore these two, almost as much as my brother Phil.
I love my host family, I now longer live with them but I try to see them often. But sometimes I don't go often, I make myself "village busy" and don't particularly want to have to converse in Urkainian. I acustomed to it but sometimes I find it exhausting. But everytime I go there I wonder why I stayed away at all. They are the most wonderful people and my brothers make me laugh. But my general love for them makes me a very bad teacher. They are both very smart and know a lot of English, the language we generally speak at their request, but they make a lot of grammar mistakes. But I find these mistakes so charming and them in general so charming that I don't correct. Bohdan has a habit of saying "I quickliest." Whenever he beats me in one of our little competitions, as he often does. And I love that express so much I never correct him. Both boys omitt the "to be" verb in the present tense (am) as there is not word in Ukrainian or they forget to use articles (the, a, an) as they also are absent in the language and their teachers taught them to translate directly from one language to another which I can tell you only causes problems when I do it from English to Ukrainian.
It drives me crazy when Ukrainians make these mistakes, but not when the boys do it.