VLOG: How and when I started teaching Ukrainian language as a second one

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@phylliswillmoth4270 2 жыл бұрын

Dear Inna, it was so lovely to hear your story about teaching Ukrainian. You have done so well, and hooray for us introverts and it is not easy starting out in a career. I have spent a lot of time being anxious, training to be a nurse. But it makes you more perceptive and aware. And I love temporary tattoos.

@BigAndTall666 2 жыл бұрын

Dear woman, just stay safe!!!

@qrsx66 2 жыл бұрын

It's a good thing you remarked that Ukrainian may lack learning material and decided to do something about it. I think more people that can do the same with other less favoured languages should do the same. [Cantonese, Taiwanese, Kurdish, ... need more ressources quantitatively and qualitatively

@JCtheMusicMan_ 2 жыл бұрын

я вчу українську. Я щодня слухаю виступи Зеленського. Я хотів би вчитися у вас, коли можу собі це дозволити. Я теж хочу одного дня відвідати Україну. Вічна пам'ять усім полеглим за Україну! Слава України! 💜

@chrisdeehan3374 2 жыл бұрын

It's been a great inspiration to me seeing how you have dealt with all you have over these past months I think your an inspiration.all my love and light Cxxx 💐🌹💚🇬🇧

@giacomomencarini8799 2 жыл бұрын

I understand you Inna. I am not a teacher, I'm actually a chemist, but I decided to help Ukrainian refugees with Italian language. I have to teach them in Russian, because most of them speak only Ukrainian and Russian, but it's hard . It's hard for me, because italian grammar is very complicated and I sometimes don't remember how to say words or explain concepts in Russian.

@bradjames3096 2 жыл бұрын

You are such a beautiful individual and a very inspiring teacher and person your strength is what gives you hope to everything else especially when it’s not looking the best! Normally I would give up on learning a language if it’s hard and I will tell you Ukrainian is definitely a lot harder than other languages but it’s not so bad once you dive right in! Thank you for giving me the strength, the belief and the power to do something I never thought I would do, love and peace from Canada💙💛❤️🇨🇦🍁

@jeffericsson7780 2 жыл бұрын

It is people like you that I met in Ukraine that makes me want to come there again. I love your culture and the Ukrainian spirit. I hope to visit again and maybe someday live there.

@user-wj8lt4is7h 2 жыл бұрын

Welcome. I think you will love Ukraine

@jeffericsson7780 2 жыл бұрын

Your husband is correct about the tattoos, I am sure you are a patriot ( a person who loves there country) but you do not know what the future may hold. I once believed in my government being honest. But I do not hold that belief any more, things will change with time and they will not always be good changes. I hope that your country wins this war and that you celebrate this victory for many generations because in war there are no winners, both sides loose.

@Dqtube 2 жыл бұрын

It was a pleasure to find your channel. You were the first person on the Ecolinguist channel that I knew before.

@bordergore1395 2 жыл бұрын

Stay safe Inna, hope your family will also be alright

@user-wj8lt4is7h 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your story

@claudiahansen4938 2 жыл бұрын

Btw, green dress is pretty!

@kazlidz4015 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your journey Inna. You are beautiful inside & out and teach with such passion & authenticity. I am so happy to be your student and feel inspired by you everyday. Be safe always. Love & peace to Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛

@1rsalc 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story about becoming a language teacher. Enjoy the sunny weather. Stay safe!

@APlusRussian 2 жыл бұрын

12:05 - it's sweet that he is looking out for you and I'm glad you are doing what's best for you and your family 🙏

@SigMaQuint 2 жыл бұрын

I enjoy your vlogs. I started out with Czech, but my interest in what is happening to people I might know in Ukraine, brought me here.

@claudiahansen4938 2 жыл бұрын

Yes. You made the right choice. The universe collaborates with those who have a dream, and everything happens when you have the courage to try. You are an excellent teacher! Thanks for switching to Ukrainian only.

@SteeGrav 2 жыл бұрын

Happy that you have great weather! In in my town of Sherbrooke, in the Province of Quebec, Canada, we have a miserable 12 degrees Celsius with wind and rain! I admire your entrepreneurship! You create your own opportunities and exploit your potential very well! I wish you success! You (and your school) are the only serious resource for foreigners to learn Ukrainian. PLEASE! Continue uploading video lessons! I watched all your videos and they are good and professional. I don't have the money to become a student although your pricing are very good. I will buy your book in the future when the budget permits it. Respect and admiration from Quebec. P.S. if you want to share your recipe for borscht, please do it! In Ukrainian so it is more challenging! ;_)

@abhilashagnihotri2390 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Inna, nice to know about your journey of becoming an Ukrainian teacher. Thanks for all the Ukrainian language videos that you have been posting, I have learnt a lot from them.

@lunalunatic312 2 жыл бұрын

You look very beautiful in green, wishing you safety and prosperity

@SheikahMapping 2 жыл бұрын

You always motivate me to learn Ukrainian. Love from Germany! 🇩🇪❤️🇺🇦

@meganromano9582 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! I’m an introvert also, and I have had to learn to teach classes for my job. I’m more comfortable speaking in front of people now, but I still hate recording lessons! Talking to a camera that doesn’t give feedback is so awkward. Sometimes I get my colleague to come in and be my “audience” 😄

@manuelvargas7664 2 жыл бұрын

Inna you should come to the USA 🇺🇸 you are welcome

@MikeOxlong- Жыл бұрын

Hi Inna! What a beautiful story! I just discovered you (literally hours ago), but I’m quickly getting up to speed from the videos of yours that I’ve watched. I can tell that you have a lot to offer this world, and I hope you succeed. I’ll try to leave another comment later as I have some questions I’d like to ask (although I’ll try to see how many can be answered by just reviewing your content). Hope you are doing well this afternoon, and the same for your family and especially your husband! 💙💛 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦❕

@bouboulinadecirta9302 2 жыл бұрын

🌻🌻🌻💛💙

@bowrudder899 Жыл бұрын

What a great story! Thank you for sharing it!

@LearningSpanishwithDrL 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story! You are an inspiration to me!

@johnrelins4282 2 жыл бұрын

That is an fantastic where you started. Well done. I have been following you videos now and do hope that one day I could speek Ukrainian well.

@KitiaVicious 2 жыл бұрын

My grandmother had a tattoo put on her in WWII when she was put into a work camp (pretty sure from the Russian side). She got it cut off once she came to Australia. Don’t let the enemies decide the choices you make with your body. Stay safe, of course, and always do what is right for you and your family. The dress is beautiful on you. don’t feel guilty for needing new things. Whatever surplus you have at the end- you’ll find someone who can use it after you.

@user-cj3dw1jf1v 2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏻❤️🇺🇦

@EliDeNeige 2 жыл бұрын

I think you are lovely and doing so so good. Hello from Canada.

@spencerdavies5661 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Inna great video and very interesting to hear how you started teaching online. The internet really does open up the world for us all creating many opportunities. Being introverted is something I can relate to also when I was a child. I think in life it is so important to have a job that you enjoy and I can see you love your teaching and you are so passionate about it ! It is a pleasure to watch your videos and in doing so to learn the Ukrainian language. You are professional and beautiful Inna and a brilliant teacher. Enjoy the beautiful weather and I hope you and all other Ukrainians will be able to go back to your homes safe very soon 🙏

@JamMan6string 2 жыл бұрын

I, you, he, she, it 🤣So, your first English student was taught 3 pronouns and 1 bad word. We laughed at that as kids. I'm more mature now 😉. Thanks for sharing. Much respect to your entrepreneurial spirit!!!

@petterherlofsen7269 2 жыл бұрын

Слава Україні🇺🇦

@alexbondarenko2055 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Inna, I so look forward to your lessons on KZfaq. I think you are a very brave and resourceful young woman to carry on as you have during these hard times. Forgive me but I do not think you need any tattoos to prove you are brave. Your presence here and your determination is all you need. My mother is from Odessa and my father is from Sacnovshchina in the east. If they were still alive they would be absolutely heart broken with what has happened in their homeland. My heart aches for what is happening to you, your family and the good and brave people of Ukraine. Stay strong and Slava Ukraiini 🇺🇦🇺🇦❤️ by the way, that green dress suits you ✔️

@anitadoyle9839 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story, I’m very happy for you that teaching Ukrainian has turned out to be such a success.

@HaleyMary 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story, Inna. I love your videos where you teach Ukrainian and I am always taking notes from those videos. I found your channel from hearing on the news what is happening in Ukraine. I think you'll be a wonderful teacher because you make Ukrainian easy to understand with your videos.

@timethemarket4897 2 жыл бұрын

Wow this is Great

@eddyanckaert7763 2 жыл бұрын

privet from eddy in belgium flanders

@AJ-Lohinska 2 жыл бұрын

Inna, that is so endearing to hear how your husband wants to keep you safe. One can see why he does what he is doing now, he has a good heart, bless him. Being an introvert is a good thing in many ways, and I think where teaching is concerned, it makes the teacher more approachable; which is far more beneficial for the students. I love the way you present your KZfaq videos on the Ukrainian language. They are very well thought out and uncomplicated. Mostly I like your clarity from the oral language perspective. Ukrainian is such a quickly-spoken language, and you slow it down nicely to a fair pace; which makes it so much easier to connect what we hear with what is written. That may just be my personal preference because of how my logic works. My theory is that as children, we first learn to speak before we learn to read and write the language we have become accustomed to. I love that you followed your bliss and are on a career path that brings you so much joy. I encouraged my own children to do what makes them happy to earn a living because we have to work (almost) daily for many years!!! Secondhand is cool, it's healthier for the environment these days... plus, I really like your Summer dress on you, it suits you well... and I like green so I am biased)) I hope you giggled, when you watched this back, as much as I did in watching it. The gentleman and the child making an appearance made you show off your fabby high cheekbones that we with Ukrainian genes are often blessed with. It's good to see you spontaneously smile when you can. 💙💛

@irenemcnamara9699 Жыл бұрын

You are helping me consider teaching English and Russian. The only problem is the application process.

@boleczzz 2 жыл бұрын

Inna, I think you are very brave, keep on with your mission :) I hope Kherson will be liberated soon.

@LunaGem98 2 жыл бұрын

It was very interesting to hear your story, Inna. I've done a bit of teaching online myself, it's always super scary at first, I'm still not super comfortable doing it. I think the tattoos are cute! But of course your safety is important.

@davidb5477 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your back story. I am sorry you can not make the personal choices that you want for body art. I pray one day soon you will have this type of freedom again.

@thelittlemermaid6645 Жыл бұрын

Djakuju . Ne imam Cirillicu ale ucu vase jezik♥️

@AndyBonesSynthPro 2 жыл бұрын

Harnenʹka divchyna. Я любив слухати вашу історію. З лютого я є передплатником, налаштований вивчати українську мову, але мій прогрес обмежений. Моя перша мова - англійська, я американець, але з середньої школи розмовляю іспанською, французькою, німецькою та трохи італійською. Слов’янські мови фонетично (і алфавітно) складніші. З 2014 року я навчився, що можу ідентифікувати себе з Україною культурно. За межами мовного бар’єру та невдалої географічної близькості, яку Україна має з Росією, це колір неба, пейзажів, будівель, людей, вашого одягу, стиль життя майже взаємозамінний з тим, що я знав усе своє життя в Каліфорнії. Порослий травою пагорб, на якому ти сидиш, виглядає так само, як той, який я знаю в Левкадії, моєму прибережному рідному місті. До речі, це дуже гарне плаття, а твій лак для нігтів èn pointe Inna! Залишайтеся стильними, будьте в безпеці, і дуже дякую, що поділилися. [Eng] Sweet girl. I loved hearing your story. Since February I've been a subscriber, determined to learn the Ukrainian language but my progress is limited. My first language is English, I'm an American but I've been speaking Spanish, French, German since middle school and some Italian. Slavic languages are phonetically (and alphabetically) more challenging. What I have been learning, really since 2014, is that I can identify with Ukraine culturally. Outside of a language barrier and the unfortunate geographic proximity Ukraine has with Russia, it's the color of the sky, landscapes, buildings, the people, your clothes, the lifestyle is almost interchangeable with what I've known my entire life in California. The grassy hill you're sitting on looks just like one I know in Leucadia, my beachside home town. By the way that's a very pretty dress, and your nail polish is èn pointe Inna! Stay classy, stay safe, and thank you so much for sharing. ✌️ for 🇺🇦 💙💛

@celticsanster 2 жыл бұрын

Andy, the Ukrainian landscape also resonates with me. I live a little south of you, same county, semi-coastal. To me, our region has a very distinctive color of blue sky and no matter where I travel, I know that color when I return. I thought that I was seeing things in terms of colors when watching other videos of Ukraine as the summer approached. Not to mention that some of the Ukrainian countryside looks like our own backcountry open areas in the spring. But looking at the sky in Inna’s video and your comment made me realize I wasn’t seeing things! It brings home that although we are thousands of miles apart, we indeed share the same sky with Ukraine. Dear Inna, please know that my thoughts and actual prayers are with you, your husband and your family. I hope you can go home soon!

@pqsk 2 жыл бұрын

Nice nail polish 🇺🇦. I must say that that's insane the last part about showing patriotism. Your husband has a point. As a combat veteran I have to say that war is not something that anyone should have to go through. Lovely story by the way. I do have 1 question, are you still shy and just do a better job of hiding it now? I read somewhere about Harrison Ford that he is so shy. He admitted it in an interview. I'm curious if you're like him and do a good job at hiding it now.

@dymytryruban4324 Жыл бұрын

A person who is about to get a bachelor degree is still an undergraduate student. A completed bachelor degree is a prerequisite for postgraduate studies.

@SS-tg9rt 2 жыл бұрын

Great video. I'm curious, how common is it for people to speak Ukrainian as their native language in Kherson? (when I say "native language" I mean the language people actually speak most often in daily life, not which language they consider to be their historic language.) When living there, did you mostly use Ukrainian in your daily life? (with friends, family, at work, school, in public etc.) I'm also curious to know about how common it is these days for Ukrainians who spoke Russian before the war to now start switching to speaking Ukrainian in daily life. Is this a common phenomenon these days? That would be an interesting subject for a video actually, to discuss with people who have switched to Ukrainian about why, how, was it difficult, etc. Anyways, thanks for your content. Very interesting.

@Tom-od3eb 2 жыл бұрын

I like your pretty green dress. Your husband is a good man. He is concerned about your safety.

@BillRiesKnightSteelhoof 2 жыл бұрын

Please. Increase the volume gain when processing your videos. Hard to hear your words given the system defaults for laptops phones and the KZfaq system.

@user-wj8lt4is7h 2 жыл бұрын

I understand you speech but don't understand native speakers