How Different Are Russian and Ukrainian???

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  @Langfocus · 1 year ago · pinned

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• CO

  @commercio3564 · 4 years ago

  Well, we are gathered here by the Algorithm.

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• HE

  @helvette31337 · 7 years ago

  i&apos;m belorussian, and i must say that russians poorly understand belorussian and ukrainian, but we and ukrainians understand each other very good

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• DR

  @drewboyd7508 · 7 years ago (edited)

  Great video. Very informative. As a British guy who learned Russian while living there for 6 years and then moved to Ukraine where I&apos;ve lived for 15 years I&apos;d just like to add my opinion. <br>Pretty much everybody in Ukraine is fluent in both languages (except for the far East and West of the country) and they effortlessly switch between both. There&apos;s a myth in Russia that Ukrainians hate Russian speakers. This is nonsense. The biggest language crime here is speaking &quot;surzhik&quot; - mixing the two. This is frowned upon as being uneducated. People pride themselves on &nbsp;speaking &quot;pure&quot; forms of both languages. <br>A typical situation might be, that a person speaks Ukrainian at work to clients, but Russian to colleagues. They might write in Ukrainian a lot but speak more Russian. It&apos;s very common for people to speak Russian to one set of grandparents but Ukrainian to the other. <br>Russian speaking couples sometimes consciously chose to switch to Ukrainian after having a baby to give their kid a head start in school as lessons are taught in Ukrainian. People also change their language depending on geography. I remember driving out of Kyiv with a friend who I&apos;d only ever heard speak Russian. We stoppped to ask for directions and he spoke Ukrainian. I asked why, he shrugged and said - coz we&apos;re in the countryside now - we were only about 20km out of the city! <br>The key thing to remember is that it&apos;s not theat people in the East speak Russian and the people in the West speak Ukrainian. People tend to switch between both languages based on a huge variety of factors many of which they don&apos;t consciously think about. It was very, very confusing for me when I first arrived here but now I love it. <br>The only down side for me is that although I can more or less understand Ukrainian (except the form spoken in Zakarpatiya) I can&apos;t speak it as I know that all Ukrainians understand Russian. Every single day I have conversations where I speak Russian but get a reply in Ukrainian as people just expect that you&apos;ll understand.

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• BR

  @BroMaximus13 · 1 year ago

  As a native Ukrainian speaker I can confidently say that this is correct

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• PE

  @PerryPerry93 · 7 years ago

  as a Persian, I must say,,, I really don&apos;t know why i&apos;m watching this video comparing russian and ukranian. <br>I guess i&apos;m kinda addicted to this channel.

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• JI

  @Jiffzzy · 5 years ago (edited)

  I am from the Netherlands and if I got a euro for every time someone told me: &quot;if you speak German, you basically speak Dutch, trust me.&quot; I would be rich. I imagine it is kind of the same for Ukraine. The fact that it sounds the same at first doesn&apos;t mean it is the same. XD

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• KO

  @Korwinexile · 4 years ago

  I am a linguist and a historian who speaks Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian and Polish languages of which the first two are my native languages, and I endorse this video as correct, well researched and informative. &nbsp;Well done!

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  @1606ua · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQLM62r5nLI&amp;t=642">10:42</a> I will tell more about Ukrainian language:<br>I will eat - Я їстиму [Ya yistymu]<br>You (one person) will eat - Ти їстимеш [Ty yistymesh]<br>He/She will eat - Він/Вона їстиме [Vin/Vona yistyme]<br><br>We will eat - Ми їстимемо [My yistymemo]<br>You (many people) will eat - Ви їстимете [Vy yistymete]

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• VA

  @vasylpryimachuk5205 · 7 years ago

  As a native Ukrainian speaker from Western Ukraine I can read, write and speak Russian easily (though speaking is harder to me as I don&apos;t do it often). Probably because of heavy exposure to Russian speaking tv programs in childhood. I also studied Russian for two years in high school.<br><br>I barely understand Polish. Though some of my friends know Polish really well.

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• SV

  @SVARO0G-UA · 6 years ago

  I am Ukrainian, but before the the school I have spoken only Russian. I love my native language, but still speak Russian the most. I have never met Ukrainians, who didn`t understand Russian, but almost every Russian didn&apos;t know Ukrainian. Those languages are really similar, but I hate, when anyone says, Ukrainian is Russian`s dialect. I&apos;m trying to speak only Ukrainian. Thank you for video. And sorry for my English.

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• AL

  @alexfisher7575 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I grew up in Belgium. My mother tong is french. My second language is ukrainian. I don&apos;t speak russian but I understand it a little bit. But for me Polich and Belarusian is easier to understand.

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