I'm learning Polish... first 30 years were the hardest (I am Polish).

As a Ukrainian who lived for 4 years in Poland can say that When I moved to Poland i needed 1 week to adapt to their language, meaning it felt the same as listening to some strange unknown slavic language and the only thing i could get from their language is the idea. After 1 month i could speak Polish with mistakes, but overall could express my thoughts. After 4-5 months i was able to speak almost freely without big difficulties to express myself, but with a clear accent. I must say that even living for 4 years in Poland, it was and still is quite hard to read Polish.

I am Polish and grew up around Ukrainians. We all hung out together and most of my Ukrainian friends spoke Polish with a heavy accent. The ones who did not speak Polish, we could still speak our native languages and understand one another fairly well. I am Polish with partial Ukrainian decent and love my Slavic brothers 😊

I'm a Ukrainian with C1 level in Polish. It took me two years to learn Polish from 0 to C1, having 3 group lessons a week in Kyiv. For comparison, learning Japanese to N1 Japanese Proficiency level (I guess it's somewhere close to C1) took me around 6 years, and the worst part is that I tend to forget Japanese very quickly, while I still remember Polish even without much practice. The funniest case was with the verb "ruchać", that has some sexual connotations in Polish, but means innocent "to move" in Ukrainian. So such phrases as "Stop moving it" literally translated from Ukrainian usually sound hilarious to Polish. And vice versa, the slang word "pierdolić", which in Polish means the f-word and can be used as a metaphore in any context, like "pierdolić samochodem", in Ukrainian is close to the word meaning "fart", so hearing "pierdolić samochodem" will cause incontrollable laughter among Ukrainians who don't know Polish.

Generally Slavic languages are more difficult to learn for me who speak an Austronesian language as my mother tongue because of how huge the difference between the languages. But other that than that I find slavic languages amazing and beautiful. And as someone who is slowly learning Polish with my own I can say it's hard but fun at the same time. Pronunciation and reading Polish at first was a nightmare but after months of practicing I can do it way better now but still there are some words that I really need to look at it slowly to properly read. Pozdrawiam z Filipin!

For me, the funniest is how we diverted from one common (and still known as official/poetic) "niechaj" / "нехай" (let) into a short form, but in PL it's "niech" while in Ukrainian it's "хай", everyone has their part of the word.

Greetings from Ukraine (Odesa). Thank you very much to the person from Australia who tells us the difference between Polish and Ukrainian.

im polish and i started to watch ukrainian youtube, after 1 year i can understand about 90 % with no lessons no school etc , now im watching only ukrainian news

I'm swedish and started learning ukrainian when I missed canceling a trial subscription to a language app, wanted to get some value from it and thought "Hey, Ukraine is a cool place!" 😂 And I was hooked. Half a year later russia invades and I just accelerated my studies - it became like a personal act of love and commitment for Ukraine, like going all in on the Ukrainian future. It's difficult with an entirely different language group and alphabet, and the cases are just melting my brain, but I really love this language. It's flexible and expressive, and it sounds beautiful - both melodic and distinct. Like bouncy air, or like tight, well defined clouds.

Im Ukrainian and when I first got here I had a funny situation in cafe(I were asked with what flavor I want ice cream) So basically in Ukrainian the word "Fruit" translates as "Фрукт" (sounds like frukt), however on Polish "Fruit" translates as "Owoc". And funny fact is that "Owoc" in Ukrainian means "Vegetable", so when I`ve been asked in cafe "With what Owocze do I want an ice cream" I were a bit confused because for me it meant "With what Vegetable do I want an ice cream" To sum up on Ukr "Fruit" is "Фрукт" (sounds like frukt)= PL "Owoc" and Ukr Овочі (Owoc) = Vegetable

I studied basic Ukrainian and planning to learn Polish, both languages are beautiful

I'm from Ukraine, live in Poland now. Love this country and people.

Also, Ukrainian has two different future forms: compound "буду робити" and "робитиму". And you would expect them to convey a slight difference in their meanings or for one of them to be dialectal, but I don't think either is true: both are used and seem to be interchangeable (source: I made it up, but I am a native)

Being Polish and learned Russian at school it makes easier for me to understand Ukrainian. At least I know most of Ukrainian letters and a lot of words - I have impression that it's possible for me to talk about basic things and be mutually understable. I never thought about learning Ukrainian but last year there are so many people from Ukraine in Poland that it makes sense to learn at least very basic words and phrases - like "bud' laska" for our "proszę" :) to make their stay more polite in such hard times for them.

Great video! Surprisingly, as a native Polish speaker, I've learned a new Polish word from it - 'kawon'. Somehow I don't recall ever hearing it before, but it apparently indeed is another word for watermelon in Polish.

Amazing! No, I haven't run into funny situations yet. Recently I've watched the film "Щедрик" ("Carol of the Bells") created in Ukrainian-Polish co-production. There Ukrainian, Polish and sometimes Russian and German are spoken. None of the foreign languages are dubbed for the Ukrainian audience, and almost everyone understands Polish even without subtitles (though they are given). Polish isn't as similar as Belorussian to Ukrainian, but still very close. By the way, I strongly recommend "Щедрик/Szczedryk" for watching. And thank you for the great video!

For me, as a Ukrainian native speaker, "zapamiętałem" (remembered) and "zapomniałem" (forgot) are the pain in my neck

Great video, as a Ukrainian can say that it's spot on! Please do more comparison of slavic languages, would love to hear about serbo-croatian

Very cool video! I just want to clarify some details. 1. The Ukrainian language also has an alternative form of the future tense. For example, "буду співати" (I will sing) (pol. tr. budu spiwaty) can also be replaced by the expression "співатиму" (pol. tr. spiwatymu). It is formed from the infinitive, "м" (m) and the personal ending (in "у", "еш", "e", "емо", "eте", "уть"). 2. Although it has already been said about the counterparts, nevertheless, in one fragment (6:45) it would be better to compare "będzie pisać" and "буде писати", because the ending "ć" and "ти" (ty) are more correlated among itselves. Thank you very much for the material. I hope you will take note of the comments!

as polish person i can tell that you did good work with reading

Great video! As for false friends, зараз is "now" in Ukrainian, but the Polish word for "now" is teraz, and zaraz means something like "in a moment"/"about to". Not the flashiest one of them, I admit, but it did manage to confuse me at least once :D And for some reason I find it marginally funny that Polish chwila (minute, moment) and fala (wave) both became хвиля in Ukrainian (because colloquial Ukrainian doesn't like its f's I guess)

for me, as a Ukrainian from the west of Ukraine, Polish vocabulary is very familiar. In my region, Polish words are often used in conversation😅

Here in poland recently interactions between ukrainian and polish speakers are quite common i have witnessed and been a part of many conversations in which one person talked in ukrainian and the other responded in polish and both sides were able to comunicate this way relatively well

I will never forget, when I first visited Poland and I had to go by bus to Jelenia Góra. I was asking the driver, if that was the bus to Jelenia Góra and I heard "tak, tak, będę tam jechał". And I was confused by the combination of "będę" and "jechał", which was so ancient to me hearing something that would be unacceptable in Czech language (I refer to combination of "past" and "future" together). Ironically, I speak like this normally now, yet in my first experience with Polish language, I was pretty buffled!

Since I currently live in a Polish-Ukrainian mixed household, I can comfortably say that the languages are mutually intelligible if you speak slow enough and are good at catching contextual meaning. And that you can learn one rather easily if you know the other.

Після початку війни, моя сім'я перебралася до Польщі. І тепер я хочу вчити мову країни яка прихистила мене і моїх рідних! Вчити мову народу, який нам допоміг! 🌾🌻🇺🇦❤🇵🇱🌻🌾

3:01 as a Polish person from Warsaw I've never heard of the word kawon 3:14 in Polish there's "anielski" which means angelic

6:45 you did not mention that in Ukrainian there is another form of the future, which is built with the addition of the suffix, without "bude"(will). 1)буде писати. 2) Писатиме. And we have Напише(will have written)

A note on false friends thing: in some Polish dialects word "sklep" is used in the same meaning as in Ukrainian.

Я не поляк та не українець, але обома мовами володію більш-менш добре. Вони справді дуже схожі, але водночас мають багато розбіжностей. Красно дякую за цікаве відео. Nie jestem polakiem, nie jestem Ukraincem, ale dosc dobrze znam jezyk polski a jezyk ukrainski. Oni naprawde sa bardzo podobni, ale jednoczesnie bardzo sie roznia. Dziekuje za ciekawe video. I`m not Polish, I`m not Ukranian, but I can speak in both languages fluently. They are really very simmilar, but in the same time there are a lot of differenses between them. Thank you for an interesting video.

One thing that is a difference I think is which words can be ommited in Polish and in Ukrainian. In Polish we ommit subject pronouns - it is actually a stylistical mistake to say "I" without a reason, because the form of the verb shows who you are speaking about. From what I managed to hear when I listen to Ukrainians speaking either Ukrainian or even Polish, I suppose that in Ukrainian you can ommit "be" verbs. So while in Polish you would say something sounding like "am ready" in Ukrainian it would be "I ready" (I guess, this is just based on my observations). While the meaning is clear for anyone, it may sound strange because in Polish ommiting verbs is often associated with low language skill (e.g. in cartoons or other fiction characters who can hardly speak would say things like "ja głodny" - "I hungry"). At the same time keeping the pronouns when context and grammar form make it clear who is spoken about, is clear indication of either foreigner or someone who speaks other languages a lot and copies the style (unless subject pronoun is said for emphasis or other stylistic purpose).

Loving this channel's content ❤️

I could not be happier right now, thank you for uploading :D

I'm from the west of Ukraine, I know Polish quite well. Since I was watching polish cartoons in childhood :)

this is a really good channel, i'm looking forward to more content! good job!

this video format reminds me of Langfocus and I like it a lot incredible video and love your channel, keep it up mate

I am an Ukrainian speaker, never learned Polish but I can understand the most part if it is spoken slowly. I love Polish people and Polish language

I am currently learning Polish because I study in Poland I can say that with 6 months gone its not any easier, but you make good progress if you actually do try

i can understand polish by reading very easily. by hearing it can take a couple days to get used.languages is a gate to new world. i speak ukrainian (my mother tongue) hebrew, russian, english and a little spanish. i love polish. it is song to my ears.

As a Czech i tried learning Polish, but uh, i went to Oświecim (Auschwitz) and when i arrived in a random polish shop, i was really scared to say something like „dziękuję” 🤣 I said it and it sounded like Džienkujii ☠️

As a native Polish speaker I can say that both understanding and avoiding false friends are *much* easier if you learned Russian in the past. Familiarity with it, even if mostly forgotten and not active (yeah, I'm old enough to have learned it as a mandatory subject in school), helps a lot, making it actually easier to understand than Czech. I guess that's because if a Ukrainian word is different than Polish, it's most likely similar to Russian. This is by no means a rule, but for common words it works often enough to make a significant difference. It's the same effect with other languages, moving around a family becomes easier as you learn more members. Example - written Dutch (let's forget about spoken, as pronounciation makes things even more difficult) is impenetrable to an uneducated Pole. However, if you know both English and German... it's mostly readable. Knowing just one of the two may not be enough.

Success in mastering a foreign language is mostly a question of motivation and mindset. Some Ukrainians speak fluent Polish after several weeks in Poland and some after many years can just "Trochu rozumieju". For Ukrainians Polish is not this kind of foreign language like German or Portuguese. Already with some adjustments in grammar and pronunciation, you can easily communicate.

Italian-English bilingual here, been learning Ukrainian for the past year with no prior knowledge of Slavic language. Thanks for the video, very interesting and well produced. The funny thing is that, while I'm still a bit slow at reading and writing/typing in Ukrainian cyrillic, I find it a lot easier on the eye than any Slavic language that uses the Latin alphabet! That's one of the reasons I've never considered learning Polish even though I like the sound of it and have a number of great colleagues who translate from Polish. However it's exciting to think that once my Ukrainian is more fluent, I'll be able to go to Poland and get by 😊

You have a very good pronouncing of Ukrainian words. :)

Jestem Polakiem i od niedawna uczę się ukraińskiego. Bardzo piękny język! 🌾🌻🇵🇱🤝🇺🇦🌻🌾

7:43 - several years ago I read that "będę śpiewał" and "będę śpiewać" were 2 different tenses once, with "będę śpiewał" being an equivalent of English future perfect, but they merged in one tense. I'ts a very interesting issue how most slavic languages like Polish, Czech and Russians lost those additional tenses known from English and romance languages like the imperfect, future perfect etc. Usually only past perfect/plueperfect which is very rarely used (and usually incorrectly in Polish -_-) is mentioned.

As a Ukrainian, I can understand 20% of Polish when I listen to it, and 70% of the text if I read it twice or more.

This is so fun. Thank you!! More, please.

Great video ! This was very interesting!

Last year when there was in my class a girl from Ukraine, one time on geography we had topic about agriculture in Poland and the teacher said something about cattle and this is in polish-bydło, but there is in russian world быдло, which means a group of people who behave in an uncultured, rude, vulgar manner. In polish we can say the same bydło for that group, but we also use this word for cattle(and I think that we use it more often). The girl understood what the teacher said, but later told us that it was kinda funny hear this word from teacher😂🐄

As a native speaker of Ukrainian I have no difficulty to understand Polish.

Very interesting and well done!

Czech has a lot of fake friends too. For example, sklep means cellar, magazyn (magazín) means magazine. But there are words that have the same meaning in Polish and Ukrainian but have different meaning in Czech. Promień (promiň) means sorry, rzecz (řeč) means speech or language and szukam (šukám) means... I'm fucking. It's not that long ago that šukat meant running around and cleaning up. Learning about the former meaning in elementary school during the Czech class in the book Babička (Grandma) by Božena Němcová, where the grandma fucked quite a lot, made the class more interesting. This word also helped create the Czech-Polish hit Szukam cię Miłoszu! by Nicky Tučková about the Czech finally-ex-president ❤

to add to the "false friends" list, Ukrainian word for sofa is диван (dywan), while in Polish dywan means a rug

Here in Ukraine we actually had (and still have) an idea of Ukrainian latin version of alphabet. It’s interesting how difficult it would be for poles to read and understand this verse from T.G. Shevchenko: Jak umru, to pochowajte Mene na mohyli, Sered stepu szyrokoho, Na Wkrajini myłij; Szczob łany szyrokopoli I Dnipro i kruczi Buło wydno, buło czuty, Jak rewe rewuczyj! Jak ponese z Ukrajiny U synieje more Krow worożu, ottohdi ja I łany i hory - Wse pokynu i połynu Do samoho Boha… Pochowajte ta wstawajte Kajdany porwite, I wrażoju złoju krowju Wolu okropite! I mene w semji wełykij, W semji wolnij, nowij, Ne zabud’te pomjanuty Nezłym tychym słowom!

im a native polish speaker and at my job ive run into many funny situations talking with some of the ukrainian workers there. many times the conversation goes something like this: - i say a sentence - they are a bit confused and say a ukrainian word that sounds similar to one i said - i correct or try using a different word with similar meaning until we finally come to agreement the sklep/magazyn false friends came up a lot due to nature of my job but i learned to correct it

Both of these languages have 70% of common lexicology. Polish was called Polish language (Polski język), while Ukrainian was called language of Rus (Руська мова) until XX century, because in the past Ukrainian country had another official name - "Rus" (Русь) since the start until 18th century.

So Poland is that one weird here - sklep means underground in Czech and Slovak too

Great video. Thanks for that. One correction: Ukrainian has one more form of expression of the future: I will sing = "я буду співати" (as you stated) and "я співатиму". The second one is very useful and uniq among other slavik languages as far as I know.

Awesome video!

Okay, a few corrections: 1) damn, that West/East classification is so redundant. It's more of a political concept and a result of r*ssian colonisation and influence on Western sciences than anything linguistically correct. 2) Ukrainian pretty much does not have рь (soft r) unless they are loan words. In native Ukrainian words it can only be softened, but not truly soft. 3) Ukrainian is known not to devoice consonants at the end of the word (if anyone knows other languages that do that, tell me, because I do not). But in the middle of the words it occurs all the time. 4) Ukrainian has analytical and synthetic future forms. You mentioned only analytical. Synthetic used suffix -m- to denote it (писатиму, робитимеш, співатиме).

Couple of false friends: розбиратися [rozbyratysia (pl script)] = to figure out rozbierać się = to undress чашка [czaszka] = a cup czaszka = a skull кімната [kimnata] = a room komnata = a chamber покої [pokoji] = chambers pokój/pokoje = room/rooms рухатися [ruhatysia] = to move ruch_ć się = to f_ck

The word "ангельский (anhelskyj)" isn't Ukrainian, it's Russian. Ukrainian word with the same meaning is "янгольський (yanholskyj)"

I love the fact that Ukrainian can help you understand Western Slavic languages though it is Eastern Slavic language. P. S. For me the easiest Slavic language to learn was Belarusian 😅

False friend: "Dywan" In Polish its a carpet, in Ukrainian it's a sofa. Polish landlords are often confused why Ukrainian want them to provide a carpet, even if they saw the flat, and it has a wooden floor ??? 😅

Please make more videos talking about grammar in Polish! It’s so interesting! Dziękuję!

Hi. Great video! But you didn’t mention that Ukrainian has 2 future tense forms that can be used mostly interchangeably. As in “I will write” - буду писати (budu pysaty) and писатиму (pysatymu). Also vocative is also considered a case form so there are 7 cases in Ukrainian.

I'm from Ukraine and i was in Poland once, but now there are quite high prices to rent a flat (because of the refugees i understand so) so i came back to Ukraine. It's the most beautiful country what i have ever seen and there are very intelligent and kind people 💟I hope i will come there again after finish the war.

As a Polish person who had some interactions with Ukrainian refugees after the war started the two languages are completely different. I met a boy from Ukraine who is incredibly good at Polish, since he moved here a few years before the war, he even won multiple language comptetitions (competing with Polish native speakers) Yet the first time you meet him, you can barely understand a word he's saying because of the accent.

I'm learning Ukrainian (not very actively, but bit by bit when I have the time and energy). It's a beautiful language, I have felt a lot of satisfaction being able to understand it when hearing it and use it myself (although in very primitive sentences) when I went to volunteer at the Front Line Kitchen in Lviv. The hardest thing for me is that there aren't simple case tables that I could memorise and use, at least I wasn't able to find them. Remembering the cases is tricky for me, because unfortunately I haven't put much effort into studying yet, but I improvised and got buy - even when I had to call a bus company to figure out where the bus stop was 😄 So, yeah, I think even learning a bit is great on DuoLingo or elsewhere if one isn't ready to fully commit to in-depth learning at the moment.

Ukrainian has two ways of expressing the future tense, and both are commonly used. I can't believe you did not find this out, especially considering that you pointed out the existence of the almost-extinct pluperfect tense!

when I have learned Polish, my teacher asked about numbers and i forgot how to say 200, and i said "dwista" instead "dwieście". She had laugh so hard🤣 Also she told our class one story when one ukrainian (her student) with his polish friend walk across a bridge, he was convinced that polish words are the same as ukrainian word so all you need to do just stress on the last vowel and he have said "Zobacz jaki tuman" and he got a punch from stranger, then he said "Dlaczego pan jest taki agresywny? ja tylko powiedział: zobacz jaki tuman" and he got another one punch. Because the stranger thought that he talk this about him. Then his polish friend asked him if he knew the meaning of the word "tuman", thats how he found out that "tuman" means "stupid person" and a fog in polish will be "mgła". Then they have apologised each other and parted peacefully👍

Great video

thanks for video)

Jak się to fajnie ogląda :D

oh, that linguist's superpower of speaking any language without the accent thanks of the IPA. Hi from Ukraine🇺🇦, your Ukrainian is awesome!

Myślałem ze jak podawałeś przykład z ‚szukać’ to dodasz 3 język o którym wspominałeś w temacie podobieństw było by 😂 ciekawie mam na myśli - čeština.

The editing style was familiar to me, yet I do not accuse you, the style is pretty nice.

Thanks to the Poles for their support! I'm from Ukraine, I've never studied Polish, but I can understand what's being said if peoples speak slowly.🇵🇱🇺🇦❤️🫶

In Ukrainian shop is also Kramnytsia, not only Magazyn

I'm from Ukraine and your Ukrainian Pronounce is amazing. I dont even know where are you from

Can you please do a video about other Slavic languages? I would love it so much!

Cheers 🍻 I was in North Slovakia from South Poland. The language was very similar to my local dialects

I was tricked by polish 'owoce'. It is spelled and pronounced almost as ukrainian 'овочі' (vegetables) but actually means 'fruits'

As an immigrant in Poland who speaks Polish rather poorly, I found a lot of mutual intelligibility with Ukrainian speakers when talking to refugees at the outbreak of the war. Indeed, in many cases, I actually found it easier to understand Ukrainians than most Poles because the Ukrainians were coming into the interaction expecting some degree of friction, so they tended to be better at choosing simple lexis and structures that were easier for me as a non-native speaker than Poles who often speak to me as if I were more proficient than I really am. It really surprised me just how easily I could discuss simple topics with Ukrainian speakers. Although my native Polish friends tell me they have some limited mutual intelligibility with Russian, too, with my weaker Polish, I was able to manage effectively zero with Russian-speaking Ukrainians. If they couldn't switch to Ukrainian, then I was better off hoping for the best with English. I've also had a harder time with mutual intelligibility with Czech than Ukrainian, which surprised me at first, but probably shouldn't have. You should look into more recent phylogenetic models of language evolution. The "three branches" model of the Slavic languages is rather outdated, and Czech is not grouped with Polish in these newer analyses from what I've seen. There's a good paper by Gray, Atkinson, and Greenhill from 2011, for example, that you can easily get your hands on. Phylogeny is the best methodology for describing "relatedness", but mutual intelligibility is, of course, more complicated because of contact influences. Ukraine's deep history of contact with Polish, especially during the Commonwealth period, doubtless partly accounts for why the mutual intelligibility is better than one might expect looking strictly at relatedness.

Loving Langfocus' content i'm amazed by this video

дякую за ваш розбір і роботу

Generally, the video is good. Still, it would be better also to mention these Polish-UkrInian grammar similarities an differences like: 1) The Polish and Ukrainian commonly and widely use the same forms of superlatives with prefixes nai- (най-) and similar suffixes ( szy -(щий). Also, the comparatives have generally the same suffix "-szy", - ший like in " mnieiszy", менший. Also the languages commonly put the some word for "whether" ("czy", "чи") in the front of some questions). 2) The existence of the synthetic imperfective future tense in Ukrainian ("I will sing" - "співатиму") unlike Polish. 3) The Polish is more "prodroping" language concerning the subject of the sentence. In Ukrainian it is not rare in practice but not as often and almost permanent like in Polish ("Pisalem" vs "Я писав"). These verbs in "prodroping" sentence have often different forms to their Ukrainian counterparts. And maybe they have additional arkhaic root "im" or "yem". 4) In Polish reflexive particle "sie" is separate word is written before verb. But in the Standard Ukrainian there is just cognate morpheme of a reflexive verb ("Jak to SIE robi" instead "Як це робитьСЯ" ). 5) The copula "to be" in present time is necessary to use in Polish while in Ukrainian it is not always necessary. 6) The adjective may be much situated after noun in a Polish sentence than in a Ukrainian sentence. Concerning the vocabulary: If the "false friends of translator" are originated from the same root they are always part of these 30% of the lexical distance according to the Ukrainian professor Tyshchenko. And if the word has two meanings one of which are overlapping (like Ukrainian богато in the meaning of "richely" or "plenty") and Polish "bogato") and the other is not (Ukr. "багато" in the meaning of "many" and Polish "wiele"), these different meanings of words are probably compared with each other and calculated as separate words. On the contrary, these "false friends" which originated from different roots are not always "lexical distance". So, "angielski" is "lexical similarity" to Ukrainian "англійський" unlike багато (in the meaning of "many") and "bogato" (in the meaning of "richely") or "wiele". Despite there are basically similar plusquamperfect, the Polish and Ukrainian words for "to be" are "non-cognates" (byc' - бути, byl - був) It is because the Ukrainian word underwent the irregular sound changes under influence of the future form "буду". The irregular sound changes are forbidden for "genuine" cognates. So, the Ukrainian word is in 30 % of this Polish-Ukrainian lexical distance as well as it is in 38% of the Russia-Ukrainian lexical distance

Please do the same type of video with Belarusian and Polish/Ukrainian

Nice video

As a native Russian speaker, hardest thing for me when studying Ukrainian was to get rid of "surzhyk" words. Knowing Russian and knowing Ukrainian, even before mastering it completely, gives the learner an easy access to Belarusian.

Дякую❤

I am Polish and spent 3 years learning Russian in junior high. I did not apply myself much, and while I can speak a little Russian and can also understand some. I found that I can understand Ukrainian better. I cannot speak a word in Ukrainian, but I can understand it pretty well, while I can say some things in Russian but understand very little. Sidenote: I can also understand Belurisan quite well. Same premise.

Nice comparison, thanks. For Polish I can only remark on: PL has got 5 genders (3 for singular and 2 for plural), wąs is not pronounced with an N, but wątły indeed is.

Супер!!! Мы должны учить языки друг друга!

I am Ukrainian, I have been to Poland many times, during the whole time I learned one phrase in Polish that can characterize all my dialogues with Poles "Wszystko rozumiem po polsku ale nic nie mogę powiedzieć" it can be translated as "I understand everything in Polish but I can't say anything". I think Poles can say the same about the Ukrainian language

There was Ukrainian family living at my home couple months ago. One of Ukrainians said that she had great time sleeping with my sister husband (it was just after Christmas dinner). It was really hilarious xD the mistake came from word "spółkować" which in Polish means "having sex with someone", and in Ukrainian (or russian, they were speaking in surzhyk) it means spending time together, talking.

I'm native Polish speaker and i have to say this is hard language. We have a lot of grammar rules and forms. I'm almost 16 now and I still do a lot of mistakes. If someone (who isn't native Polish speaker) is learnig Polish I wish you good luck.

Understanding Ukrainian (as any other language) depends on the speaker. I often view materials of blogger Sternenko. He speaks slowly and clearly and I can understand almost every word. However, I already had some idea idea about corresponding sounds (most important being o/ó:i, ie:i and rz:r).

I remember once I was talking in Polish with a Ukrainian woman and the topic was the tram ride time. I totally marveled how she was riding such a long distance so fast because she said something like "czas piętnaście minut". What's in Polish literally means "Time fifteen minutes". It turned out later that in Ukrainian "czas" (I don't know how it's written in Cyrillic) it is "one hour". So it was really longer...