We Poles have similar jokes, like claiming German written in cyrilics is official language of hell.

@@mareczek00713 do those jokes accuse the Moscivites in Inventing the damned, bad and cursed alphabet? Also tell me how it is convenient to both have numerous of additions to the best and only viable alphabet, yet having all those infamous digraphs? Very convenient and intuitive, right?

@@worldoftancraft Contrary to popular belief those digraphs have sense - for exaple RZ is often used where Ż is supposed to be slightly longer yet without accent. Not to mention it's centrainly more convenient to use slightly modified version of alphabet everybody uses for the sake of learning multiple languages over having to learn two entire alphabets.

@@mareczek00713 I’d love to know how Poland can be so slavic, and as we just found out the language is very close to Ukrainian, and yet Polish uses latin characters instead of cyrillic ones. How did that happen? Was this a Roman Catholic thing coming up from Italy?

@@mareczek00713 «Not to mention it's centrainly more convenient to use slightly modified version of alphabet everybody uses for the sake of learning multiple languages over having to learn two entire alphabets.» And simultaneously fail to understand what reading rules to use? All those absolutely diferent many-symbolic graphs: only CH has no less than 5 reading variants - that's what you call convenient? Also why everyone must use one alphabet. Since when foreigners are the decisive factor? I heard all stories of ethnogenesis are, who'd think, ethnocentrical, just as all spelling systems are created for users of language.

I agree with you on Ukrainian humour. It can be very subtle but this makes it even more delicious.

And beautiful women 🤠

@@gabyd5662 either keep your alien-exotic safari fetiche at the bay. Or go shamelessly show-off in some less decent places.

@@worldoftancraft I think you were trying to be nasty, but it is hard to understand what you write. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Lesson: write in a language you master, as this guy does. Or even better: don't write anything, it is not very useful/ constructive anyway.

@@prody666 thanks 🙏👍

Ruzzia still continues with revisionist history. Thank you again for keeping it real with truth!

That's exactly correct, Putin has managed to unify a country previously divided by region and language.

@@zakwan10 They called him the Great Calculator before this war. More like Miscalculator.

More than the unification of a country, I’m pretty sure Ukraine has many more fans worldwide because of their strong approach to dealing with Vladolf Putler. Slava Ukraine! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

@@Decadentwest This is unprecedented. Of course, modern technology helps but nevertheless, this kind of global support is unheard of.

Well, indeed they are different. What do you expect from Language that largely lost the diversity of vowels and shifted them all foward? And what are other languages accents in Italian? Also which one Italian? Or you imply it's a *uniform* language?

@@worldoftancraft: I’m not sure what your native language is, but the meaning of your comment is entirely unclear in English. If you wish to be understood, you really ought to clarify your sentences and use English syntax.

@@salyluz6535 I am sorry to communicate this to you, but I don't have even remote understanding where you failed to read. You could bother to describe, but you prefered to left only «I don't understand juuu, pleaz ripit, uze Inglis sintaks». What do other major languages speakers are sound to you when they try to speak your indefinite Italian, just speak about what you can recall? And it would greatly appreciated if you would specify what is the Italian you are talking about. Sardinian or Corsican? Pehaps, Neapolitanian? Tuscanian? Milanese? Italian is a typical European language with dozens of dialects which have very different levels of mutal intelegebility - it is not Russian where you cannot find such thing as dialects. What exatly Italian whey were trying to speak, and are you sure that they all been trying to speak the same italian? ... or you are going to tell the fairy tale «Italian is a uniform language»? Please, no.

I THINK we have enough

Orcs failed in so many ways, but one of the unexpected is launching Ukrainian culture into the stratosphere! A lot of people got interested in their country, language, music, and culture in general. They presented themselves as a civilized society, unlike the hordes from Mordor they are fighting. I speak one of the Slavic languages and never suspected I would be able to understand Ukrainian half of the time ;)

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I’m currently learning Ukrainian on Duolingo (not an endorsement, but if anyone else learns it there and wants to link up that would be good). The main struggle I’ve had so far is getting used to the Cyrillic characters, there’s a number that are close enough to Latin characters that my muscle-memory tries to make me write the Latin character. Also, today it threw the Ukrainian for hat at me that in Cyrillic looks similar to a mildly profane British insult (that is the characters are different from but look similar to the Latin characters).

@@StephenBoothUK That anecdote made me laugh 😅 I tip my Шапка to you 😁

@@StephenBoothUK if everyone around you would have only this *problem*. Nonetheless, perhaps you mastered a convenient *reflection* of Ukraînian into Latin symbols?

@Stephen Booth Yeah, I’m learning Ukrainian too right now and I have the same issue sometimes… I’m making sure to type all my exercises nowadays to gear my brain into thinking of them in the right way. I still confuse the б and в sometimes when I’m not careful. Interestingly enough, I lived next door in Hungary for two years over a decade ago and learned Hungarian, so it’s kind of fun seeing words come up that are similar or the same. The word for “hat” is actually the same, but written as “sapka” in Hungarian. Also cabbage is “káposzta” (pronounced “kaposta”, vs “kapusta” in Ukrainian), and “grandchild” (Hungarian is gender neutral) is “unoka” in Hungarian vs. “onuka” for granddaughter in Ukrainian. So that can both help and, at times, confuse. It makes it enjoyable though.

To be clear, though, Ukrainian and Hungarian are very different languages and are in completely different language families. There are some words borrowed between the two languages though, and some possible false cognates.

You beat me to it!

GOOD!

You failed.😊 Slava is a Slavic word means "glory" and used by Eastern Orthodox Christians as the glorification of family's patrons saint. In other words, Slava is a church word, and it is used by Russians and Serbs as well. Also, Slava is a masculine name in Russia.

Sure bruv, go further and openly manifest that Ukraine is an English dialect, mister learner. What kind even of food you're going to buy with those very meaningful words? Or what you are going to say to the competent organs if you'll make a mistake? "Sorry I am just sure I should know only the appealing Zest, and shan't waste my life getting to the Content and that's it. Also speak English, barbaric peasant!"? And don't forget to shower me with excuses, and telling me "hey I just joked". You comprehend that jokes are only funny because they mirror the life, do you?

@@kingdomofgeorgia1751 so where is the failure? Slava means "glory". Slava Ukraini = glory to Ukraine. Who cares if it is a masculine world in Russian? Ukrainians speak Ukrainian, not the language of Mordor.

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Welsh is making a comeback. The language of the young, educated and those who want certain jobs (eg in BBC), not only the old. It will flourish again. Although there were some attempts to suppress the Welsh language (eg the "Welsh Not" that my grandmother told me about), the real problem was that Wales (& Scotland) were right next door to a united massively rising economic and military power (England) and the English language which has ultimately spread throughout the world. People who "wanted to get on" learned English. Being next to England, rather than aggressive action by the English, was behind the problems the Welsh language had but, hopefully, it will be possible in 100 years to show the problem is no more. Maybe a bright young adult from Cardiff, Pembroke or Caernarfon will speak Welsh, English & Spanish fluently, and perhaps other another language or languages of their choice. Good video by Anna though....

Duolingo has a Ukrainian course, it took me about 3 months to be able to understand and participate in basic conversations.

@@Urkinorobitch Thank you for the sugguestion- I may look into it, but in general I tend to stay away from language learning apps for privacy reasons. I have been trying to go ground-up with self study. Harder for sure, but I want a good depth of knowledge.

Speak Ukrainian is a good channel for that, though she moves a little fast if you're a beginner.

As am I. Meanwhile, a couple of other YT channels that I can recommend are "Speak Ukrainian" kzfaq.info and "V E R B A" kzfaq.info.

@@VerticalBlank Yes I definitely follow a few different Ukrainian channels. Before all this madness, I had started to learn Russian, and I found the youtube channel realrussianclub to be one of the best organized and clearly presented channels for that language. She really goes through everything systematically and carefully. I only wish someone had a channel that well set up but for Ukrainian.

Simp much?

I believe the country should be referred to as Ukraine (no the). 'The Ukraine' is used by Russians/Soviets to designate a region they consider part of their country and not an independent state as it indeed is.

Any other race there too?!

@@marks7167 what do You mean with 'race'?

@@kronsild People other than white

@@marks7167 So, You're a racist, right?

I grew up (partly during the Cold War) more or less assuming that, too. I'm happy to now derussify my assumptions and pronunciations, even this late in my life.

I too looked at the Ukrainian language through the Russian lens for too long. That was out of ignorance. When I first heard Ukrainian spoken, it was a revelation. Sounded way more like Polish.

У свiтi багато малоосвiдчених людей, тож ви на жаль були не однi

How can the Ukrainian language, which has approximately 256,000 words (not including 400,000 words that have been withdrawn from use as obsolete, that is, archaisms), be a dialect of the Russian language, which has only 115,000 words, including all its dialects?.. This question is rhetorical! )

We might have a chance with speaking Ukrainian if Anna teaches us.

The USA will leave your country into An Afghanistan like all the other countries that they bring",democracy " to

That's amazing from a country whithout an official national language ! And so cruel to the people !

Mes salutations à tous les Acadiens ou Cajuns de Louisiane. La langue française doit être protégée, parole d'un Québécois.

@@cecile-p: That was directly related to what was going on in Europe at the time- Fascism was taking over many nations during the Great Depression, and I believe the US was afraid of that taking hold here amongst the population who still spoke foreign languages. Several US social policies sought to create unity by imposing uniformity. I remember hearing from my German American grandparents and great grandparents that they quickly began speaking English as much as possible, so they would be considered less suspicious. Their children (some of my grandparents, parents, aunts & uncles) did not learn their parent’s native language. It’s a sad loss.

All of these languages Belarusian, Polish and Russian are slavic languages, and some more: Czech, and Slovak ; Slovenian, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, Macedonian, and Bulgarian. When it comes to Russian ethnicity DNA mapping showed that there are less than 40% of ethnic slaves in the country, but the people are mostly of Turkic / Mongolic origin - like Mongols, Tatars, Bashkirs, Avars, Chechens and so on... Maybe Anna could give us a lecture about it. Please :)

To give any lessons about language you must not "speak" it, not "be a naCHive speaker" or whatever. You should *know* it from bottom to top and actively research it, being a man of knowledge. Sadly, present day humanity is morely rich on Very Smart people, who're demonstrating indigenousness not by being indigenous, but by comparing oneself with others and calling it a day. Saying that "wow, who'd name this item «časy» when there's word «godynnik», such a inferior language" without even trying to include «časovnik» from Bulgarian into their "comparison". And I've seen the same done the other way. Nationalist idiots never change, just as their little guerras

@@harrymandel and Finno-Ugrs, which you kindly forgot to mention. But don't forget to tell *them* about this, mister Internet jEkapêrt.

@@worldoftancraft Kacap :)))

@@harrymandel nêokrêstjânin bêz uma, no s âzykom. Hlopaû v ladoši sêj smêlosti Vêlikogo Uma. Čto êŝô?

I’d recommend starting with some apps duolingo, drops, mango languages. After doing that for a while I would recommend a in person class if possible, live on-line class if in person is not feasible.

I have started with Duolingo, and the KZfaq channel called Speak Ukrainian is also excellent.

Дякую!

This process happens in many other languages. It can be attributed to the mental laziness of the young, although I would be careful with that conclusion. Maybe the youth will change the way they speak when they mature? I would slap my younger self if I heard him speaking the way he did. What you describe in "every language provides a unique philosophy and understanding of the world" sounds like Sapir-Whorf hypothesis or linguistic relativity - the language is the glasses through which you see and understand the world.

@@mesopotamianmessenger5830 I hope you're right about the youth, but youth is very long for many people on this topic ! I don't know this hypothesis (but I'll look for it, it sounds very interesting !). I meant every language has its own mechanisms, rythm, vocabulary which influence the way we think. And the more languages we learn, the more subtilities we appreciate !

@@cecile-p If you didn't know the hypothesis you can treat yourself because you independently reached the same conclusion as Sapir and Whorf.

@@mesopotamianmessenger5830 Oh! I suppose I agree with them ! It will still be interesting to read, I really like this topic. Thank you for bringing me this information !

@@cecile-p Just don't forget your critical thinking. It feels unnecessary to say this to a French but I keep this in case somebody else is reading it.

A mi tambien me interesaria mucho saber un poco mas sobre la gastronomia ucraniana !

@@cecile-p Puedo decir que las tartas son impressionabtes y formidables. Una Mujer de Ukraine es la panadero, su hijo nos trae algunos. Son honesty, trabajan y amicable gentle. I hope you understand my Spanish, a long time ago I talked some Spanish.

@@anjaoldnettle2841 Si, hablas muy bien ! I plan to travel through Ukraine when it's safe, I'll try tartas ! Thanks for the advice !

Me tambien gustaría saber más sobre la comida de Ucrania.

To my ears, Ukrainian when spoken is much more melodic than Russian. I can speak a functional form of Russian, but Ukrainian throws me. Gotta be there around Ukrainians for a bit, to fall into the jest of it.

I've just bought that book but haven't started reading it yet.

@@caw25sha I am plodding through Plohky but am still stuck in the 17th century....a lot like Vlad.

They already did a joint interview on starsky channel.

@@erikrehtlane4890 I know but I find it interesting when they talk about all things Ukrainian.

This time in Ukrainian. Nobody has interviewed Starsky in his own language.

@@pixielove2000 👍

@@erikrehtlane4890 yes, and Starsky had a smile on his face all the time 😍😁

Kitty Anna Manx, It is said, “That which you “Persist” in doing, becomes easier; not that the nature of the “Thing”, has “Changed”...but your “Ability-to-Do”, is “Increased”. As you "Persist"...you WILL become Proficient in the Language of the Beautiful Country of Ukraine... With Great Confidence in You, Jed August Los Angeles, CA USA

Yes, I was in Slovakia and was surprised I understand a lot

Please mention your education. Do you have a humanities degree? In linguistics? That was a tremendous education for me