No friendship with terrorists

Yeah, sure...

I hope so too, do a follow-up Eli!

A follow-up would be cool!

Same!

This is correct what you said about Poles understanding Ukrainian, but Ukrainians have hard time to understand Polish language--a strange phenomenon . Cheers from Canada.

As Russian who never studied Ukrainian specially and never lived on the Ukraine - i just understood everything that Ukrainian girl said here. quote myself : " It depend on your size of vocabulary of native language too. :> And on acumen. And, probably, a few literature scope. "Dobry den", hah... well, it's not the "Zdrastvute", yee, - it's just the Russian "Dobry den" (Good day). :> "Jak spravi?" well, i don't know any Russian who don't know what is it means "jak" like ukrainism, - kak (how/what) and is words like - spravni,is-pravny, spravitsa, etc... what have relation with deals. Ok, it's more complcated. "Laskava prosimo v Ukrainu" - Russian "Laskovo prosim" :))) how you can didn't understand this? :> Other accent in word "Ласково"? :> Of course we say - it's not a "completely different", we shall say - it's practically equally. :> What she said about her - it is just clear :)))) : "Меня звать Юлия, Мне 22 года, я народилась в( фига - НА!) Украине, но с 15 лет живу в России, я обучаюсь в университете, в магистратуре, изучаю психологию, буду работать психологичным (-ческим, конечно :>) консультантом" HOW... YOU CAN NOT UNDERSTAND THIS? :))) I NEWER LEARN UKRAINIAN ! :))))) You are kidding us... or deceiving? well, "працую" - ну хорошо, с этим могут быть проблемы (если не слыхала "без працы ни бенды кололацы" что такое :>), хотя по смыслу всей речи догадаться о сём - без проблем... Но остальное? :> Да ты паришь... :> Гоголя читать надо, и Катаева; и вообще побольше читать. :> Даа-ааа ладно, сказку она не может прочитать... : "Жили cебе дед да баба. Уже и стары стали, а детей нема.Журятся( "не журись", "пожурился", не слыхала никогда такого?:>) - Печалятся дед да баба - Кто за нашей смертью приглядит, раз у нас детей нема? Вот баба и просит деда..." Я не знааааааю просто ... для меня эти украинизмы или архаизмы - вещь привычная, на самом деле... Но никогда я специально украинский не учил и на Окраине не жил... :> Well, this girl Eli just cheat you all, people! With her "misunderstanding". I suppose... No, it's not "completely different language", and it's not "difficult for Russians". бачить - видеть. Украинизм."

@@Pilum1000 You understand everything ? Really ? How about months' names in ukrainian ? The same language ? Не смеши ! Here, in Poland, I met many people from east Ukraine not speaking Ukrainian, only Russian. And lerning Polish always was terrible work for them. But these, who speak Ukrainien - start speaking Polish after 1 month of living among us. What conclusions ?

@@kazimierzgaska5304 see above, the IQ=2. и мне плевать - кого ты там встречал или "встречал" или не встречал, и что ты думаешь об этом - подобное не имеет никакого значения в данном вопросе и имеет массу иных объяснений ;> Причем тут вообще твой польский - он не критерий :>

​@kazimierzgaska5304 months is one thing which is 100% completely different between Russian and Ukranian

Kocham to ! Pozdrav iz Srbije ! :) ))

@@goranjovic3174 Pozdrowienia z Polski Goranie.

@@ThePolishlucca Srdačni pozdravi iz Srbije ! :)

I'm russian and i understood everything said in ukranian too ._.

Ukraine was once part of the Polish Empire

Same here. I was a Navy cryppie for 25 years. Basic and intermediate, 1980 and 1989. I adored many of my teachers. Salt of the earth. And I loved Monterey. Absolutely fantastic place to live.

@@remaguire you both are lucky.

Hihhiiiihehheeh

Thank you very much!

I'm from New Zealand and met my Russian Wife in Thailand back in 2002, when visiting Moscow I happened to sit next to an older gentleman in a coffee shop on Tverskaya street, he too was an American and fluent in Russian from his military days. I felt like a very small fish in a really big pond!

There's actually no enemity between Russian and Ukrainian people in general, it is mostly a propaganda war by the sanctioners 😉

It still is. Basically half of Ukraine is pro-russia. The other half never liked Russia or Russians anyway (mainly western Ukraine)

@@tropicalpalmtree Don't confuse relations between individuals with national sentiment about a state

Right. Love how you can’t really tell them apart based on appearance😎

@@tropicalpalmtree yeah dude ... i am sure those "pro-russian" ukranians in eastern ukraine are thrilled by russains bombing the sht out of their homes and killing their loved ones! They just LOVE IT!

The funny thing is, we usually don’t hear any difference between Russian and Ukrainian. We don’t even notice the similarities between Polish and Ukrainian. But it really is like (to generalise a lot) ”Polishfied Russian.” Belarusian to me is a lot more similar to Polish and I can hear the similarities a lot clearer. So that, I would call ”Rusified Polish” instead. xD

As to how see the Ukrainian language, it is mostly a mix of Polish and Russian. So no wonder you understand only one half. A native Russian speaker would understand the other half.

That is an interesting remark, thanks. I know a little bit of Polish, and Russian but Belarussian is completely unknown to me. I have a Belarussian teacher, theaching me Russian. I will ask her more about Belarussian.

I agree that people Eli is interviewing are from Moscow and in her age and that does not represent Russians in general. But maybe it is intentional, because most viewers are probably also young and are interested in what young people think. But you still do not get opinions of people in other cities and from rural areas.

@@qlango Seriously? I've watch a couple dozen of her videos now, and really enjoyed them, and in addition to some places outside the Russian Federation she goes all over Russia and the old Soviet Union and talks to people from all walks of life and all age groups. I think you've focused on a specific portion of her work.

Hi Roger, I am an "Olde Fossil" @ 74 years and have viewed most of Eli's Vlogs, which IMO are excellent! Just as an aside, the "bias" towards the russian language in the Slavic Coutries was imposed upon the people of the U$$R by the CR€ML!N where jail was meted out to nonconforming individuals!

Awesome video btw

Zdravo, ja sam Eduardo, drago mi je!

@@eduardoschiavon5652 bok

Slovenian here, I could not make head or tail from Ukranian, but could catch some Russian, never learned it though.

How did you learn the Russian alphabet?

But there are different synonyms in Ukrainian. For example, instead of dyakuyu you can use spasybi, instead of trymaty - derzhaty.

@@vyrobnyk6362 if ppl say spasybi or derzhaty it means the speak in 'surzhyk'

@@andriyos45 ні, це не суржик. Держати таке ж українське слово, яке у нас із прачасів, а спасибі - спаси Боже, тобто прийшло з Християнством

We are the same ..we are common people .. those political elite just device and rule 😂 ... My land was trone into 3 pieces ...

Досить вже говорити про ми однакові. Ми всі різні, і ніхто нас не ділив

for me, as a Ukrainian speaker, Slovak is understandable like for 99% 😹 Vitannia z Ukrajiny Slovaččyni! 🇺🇦🇸🇰

Hi Peter. Do you live in Slovakia? It would be great to make a cultural exchange. I speak 4 languages and French is one of them.

@Моль и Окурок ахаха окраинец, ты несколько веков был под монголами и турками, пока вас русские не приютили и не "отмыли" ваши гены

I totally agree. This is my experience as well. Especially, if you come from eastern part of Slovakia and was exposed to the eastern dialect as well as Ruthenian, you'll have easy time understanding Polish or Ukrainian.

@@wilsonball7171 hello bot

Who said they're enemies?

@@NoamTheGOAT50 I don't necessarily mean the girls themselves, I mean that Russians and Ukrainians shouldn't be enemies. They are cousins. They are neighbors. Many Ukrainians have Russian family members and many Russians have family in Ukraine. War is usually senseless but this one is especially senseless.

@@chaos-kun7310 that's a better way to rephrase it. Thank you.

@@chaos-kun7310 - I very well understood what you meant to say without the explanation response to Noam Ben-Shalom. I completely agree with you. This current war isn't their fight, it's Putin's grudge and his war alone. Too bad that young Russian men have to be his puppets with guns.

The Russian and Ukrainian people are not enemies. That war is the result of one person, Putin. He is just trying to make a name for himself, unfortunately he dose this with other peoples lives. Everyone including the people of Russia and Ukraine are against that war. It is not Russians vs Ukrainians, It is the result of a mad man in office.

Are there many Slavic people living in Montana?

@@irinaivanovic9792 Probably not. In the USA most Slavic language speakers live in the Chicago and New York City areas as that is where multiple generations of Slavic immigrants have accumulated over decades. There are some in other US cities but few cities have large Slavic communities like Chicago and NYC. In these communities immigrants can live and work successfully and never learn English if they do not care to for their entire lives because they only trade or do business with other Slavs. It’s the same for many Asian immigrants in the US, especially Vietnamese, Chinese, and Koreans. They become Americans but English is unnecessary to earn a living in their communities if they do not care to.

@@ElifromRussia , privet Eli, Видите ли, в бывшей Югославии говорили на одном языке: сербский, боснийский, хорватский, словенский, черногорский и македонский. И все они понимали друг друга.

@@irinaivanovic9792 , koliko Srba zivi u Montani i imali pravoslavna srpska crkva, Pozdrav

Cześć!! Pozdrawiam z Polski!

Удачи в изучении всех этих языков!

Good luck with it haha polish is the most coplicated language in the eu. I once bought a book for beginners for polish and also had help of my that time still fience, native polish girl, - and still did not made it till page 2 of this book. Maybe its just me, you may think. Well try it your self ;)

@@MMAptou complicated* ... Btw are you American or British? Polish isn't complicated compared to Hungarian or Finnish lol

@@aeganratheesh why are you trolling?

Not anymore. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014, many Ukrainians switched from Russian to Ukrainian because as Russian speakers, they did not want Russian troops to come and "protect" them.

@@volodymyrdrobot9454 Read the comments to the video, foreigners, while in Ukraine, want to learn Ukrainian, but they can't, because everyone speaks Russian. The junta seized power in Kiev in 2014, staged a civil war, killed tens of thousands of people, forbids speaking in their native language, changes history,.................

@@BibEvgen if this is a "civil war" as you claim, why is Russia getting sanctions for that? Maybe, because everyone knows that it is not really a civil war? Since 2014 many Ukrainians switched to Ukrainian as their primary language. Because they don't want to wake up one day and see Russian troops on their streets that were sent to "protect" them.

@@volodymyrdrobot9454 Sanctions were imposed on Russia, but rather restrictions, economic barriers, always, before 2014 and after. Russia also had (has) sanctions that were inherited from the USSR. The exchange of prisoners of Ukrainians is changed to Ukrainians, see the lists. For seven years, in fact, there is no evidence of the participation of Russian troops (mobile phones, satellites,.................), there should be thousands of video clips, there are none. Ukrainian, this is citizenship, not nationality. Ukraine is a multinational country, for most Ukrainian is not a native language.

@@volodymyrdrobot9454 please Stop miss information the government made policy to abandoned russian ... I know English how the fuck I can forget it or stop using it i need it ...even those fucker destroyed my country for 200 years .. in that part of the world they need it ... Please put facts and analysis before consuming propaganda ... Every media in the world is that .. be save my friend

she said she is no interested in politics. Would that mean she does not care?

@@victor.popovici i understand the political and human rights environment is not conducive to free expression. I understand Elina's condition for an ordinary red haired youtuber.

@@allennorfad2649 this girl is living in Russia since 2014 and entered russian citizenship.

Unme con Tigo sería el mallo Plase

@@victor.popovici Safe to say they’re not friends anymore.

I think they were from Zaporizhya or Dnipro region, there was German colonies

Not so. The percentage of the general vocabulary of Ukrainian and Russian is 86%, Russian and Polish 77%. Main problems of mutual understanding are different pronunciation of word, which complicate the understanding of other Slavic languages. P.S. Sorry for Google translator

@@arsenic5249 I can see why with the Ukrainian and Russian being higher than I said. Russian and Polish I would have to learn more Polish. P.S No problem, I have to consult a translator for the languages mentioned above

@@alexmercer4515 Learning Polish would be a valuable experience for you, just like learning Ukrainian or Russian for me, a Pole.

@@arsenic5249 source?

Also, exposure to other Slavic languages makes big difference. For example, Slovak and Czech are exposed to each other language through television and general cultural closeness, that the intelligibility between the languages goes well beyond the similarities in vocabulary. Someone from Slovenia would be exposed a lot to Serbo-Croatian, or someon from Ukraine is often exposed to Russian through media or education. Another issue is so-called "false friends", similar words in two languages with fairly different meaning. Czech and Slovak actually has few false friends, but Slovak and Polish for example has tons.

nie jest to prawda... język rosyjski jest zupełnie inny od języka polskiego i może czasem nawet utrudniać naukę... już szybciej nauka języka ukraińskiego vs języka polskiego vs czeskiego vs białoruskiego vs słowackiego... nauka któregokolwiek z nich pozwala zrozumieć komunikatywnie pozostałe języki... zdziwiłbyś się jakbym powiedział to samo co Ukrainka po polsku używając podobnych słów których użyła w swojej rozmowie...

Spanish and Portuguese are not good examples as, in fact, they are quite similar.

What? Family? Tell me would you be family with a killer?

@@user-cr5jw6pc2g I understand you because there are many people who, for example, saw their families burning while they were still alive, but people like Eli have nothing to do with it. They not supporting any war.

@Nemam Ime Don't call me a family with russians

@Nemam Ime a family that only the russians want, like Cain and Abel

@Nemam Ime None cares about the common ancestors, when your home is bombed by your "cousins". And they have also genetic differences. Russians were ruled by the mongols for centuries, ukrainians by the poles or the germanic populations. May East Ukraine is closer to Russia, but the West is very different. Anyone knows, protecting the russian minority, was just a lame excuse to attack. Ukraine and Belarus want to move to the west and the EU. Russia is far less rich and attractive to keep her former puppet states, so they have to use the military power to block this process. It's the only chance they have, so they are using.

Do you not hear the difference between Ukrainian and Russian at all??

@@interestingproducts304no one foreigners cannot hear the difference between Russian and Ukrainian

Stalin made Russian mandatory even in East Germany.

As a Ukrainian , I think it really has more similarities with Polish than with Russian. I finished playing Witcher 3 in Polish and had no troubles understanding most of the dialogue throughout the game after 20-30 minutes to adjusting to the phonetic differences.

As for me Russian, Polish is about 40-50% intelligible. Less, than Ukrainian, but much more than German for example

@P.I Vught Russian is based of Old Church Slavonic (South Slavic) and both Ukrainian and Belarus are based on the Rus' common people language. Naturally, Ukrainian is closer to Polish and Slovak. Especially if we take the PLC time in to account

@@amalgama2000 Almost, Russian was formed through a tug of war between church Slavonic and native east Slavic dialects. If you where to remove all church Slavonic from Russian, you would very likely end up with something very close to Ukrainian.

@@amalgama2000русский не основан ни на каком южнославянском и старославянский был для всех славян, а не только для русских, а вот насчет украинской мовы то это был малороссийский говор который захотели превратить в монстра сегодняшнего

God bless President Putin💜

Hmmm, what happened in 2014?

@@mitchyoung93 Nazis took over with the help of Nuland a.k.a. the US

@@mitchyoung93 Russia invaded (annexed) Crimea.

@@jonbasa Russia sent troops there. Once the Ukrainian enforcers were gone, the populace voted overwhelmingly to join Russia because...you know...they are Russian. It was never Ukraine until the Soviets gave it to the Ukrainian SSR

Yeah about as mixed as Ulster and Dublin.

Stalin made Russian mandatory in all lands it ruled.

@@ElifromRussia Thank you. Hopefully someday soon I will be able to visit Russia.

Do you speak Russian a little now ? Do you know such a book by Lev Shestov: "Dostoevsky and Nietzsche. The Philosophy of Tragedy" ?

@@kazimierzgaska5304Ty for the book recommendation, and will try to find an English translation. Only the most basic Russian I know 😂, as in, the labels on the popular Russian vodkas at Las Vegas Clubs. Wish I could read Dostoevsky in Russian as well as your book suggestion on Dostovesky's profound influence on Nietzsche. The Russians have such a profound, deep perspective, and window on the world in the arts and literature. Best Regards and Vodka cheers for a relaxing weekend.

Sounds like you are describing Eli.

We in Ukraine to have name for this, but it't different - "Surzhyk"

Especially with the attempts by Russian occupation forces to suppress the Ukrainian language

The same April, 2024.

Well.....that all depends. Either You are normal or not

Bosnian language doesn't exist, the same as with Austrian or American. In Bosnia people speak a rendition of a Serbian language.

@@schmucker1989 I agree that Serbian Croatian, and Bosnian are similar.

@@konradkhuslivski7822 not similar, its the same language

@@schmucker1989 you don't have to call it serbian, its one language but what its called depends on the country. In croatia it croatian, in bosnia its bosnian, in serbia serbian, but its the same language with minor differencies, which is normal to exist in every language.

Nowadays if you are not fluent in English, you are f... let's just say you'd better start studding it ASAP :D

Yup, I live in Kyiv and it’s now about 70/30 % ratio of Ukrainian to Russian speakers here.

@@sashaweber3663 Thanks for the update. Just as I thought

You mentioned that наступна is completely different from следующая, but for us Russians it's easy to understand, because we have the similar word наступающий that means "upcoming", but we use it the different way, for example С наступающим, that means Happy new year (upcoming year)

Russian is overrated.

Calm down, of course. She missed it because she's not competent. Very poor preparation, embarrassing.

@@amjan No, he will not CALM DOWN alright?!