Ukrainian Lesson #2 - Year, month, week, day

[pb4ugo012]

I'm truly grateful for these lessons you provide.My grandparents and great aunts and uncles all spoke Ukrainian fluently. My grandfather who is the only one alive his memory isn't what it use to be, so I couldn't learn the language from him. So Thank you for these learning vids. :) You're doing a wonderful job! :)

[marfabuchanka]

All Slavic languages are similar - in one way or another. My Croatian neighbor understands a lot of Ukrainian words when I speak Ukrainian. There are many similarities as well as differences between Russian and Ukrainian: long story short - Cyrillic alphabet and the same linguistic roots - are the biggest similarities. Differences: several letters and some sounds are totally different or absent, as well as vocabulary (maybe third of it?! - never found such study) also is differ.

[Punorss]

@marfabuchanka Look at English as spoken in England. If a man from the south of the country went up north to the city of Newcastle, he would not be able to understand what anybody was saying. The same language is been spoken but with such a strong accent on the vowels or sometimes changing the vowels complelely that it sounds totally different!

For example Doon=down, Toon=town, Wor=my, Ganna gan =going (I am going)

Had on= wait a moment, Neet=night, Tha neet=tonight, Tha morra= tomorrow.

[CupisHomines]

pretty language. i'm not too sure if it's any prettier than croatian--my favorite slavic language. what's the difference between ukranian and russian?

[punk4gun]

I'm croatian and i've been looking at these videos and i do understand a lot of words :D

[2060strawberry]

@CupisHomines Theres a difference beacuse there both different languages && ukraine & russia are different countries.