How to read the Ukrainian Alphabet. Part II
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Дякую Інна!! Дуже добре. I am trying my best to master these sounds and I find your videos very helpful. Still have issues with И, Й,Ш,Щ але I will get there. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦.
Hello my Canuck buddie. I am fairly good with Russian and now have to quickly acquire some basic Ukrainian to be able to work with the war refugees. You might also prove to be an asset by being able to speak this cool language which Inna tells is easier then Russian Dont fret over pronounciation but as Inna says Russian is harder than Ukrainian
Maybe helpful .. although I am also a novice
Ш and Щ
I think that Ш is the same as the first syllable of the name Charlotte:
'char' saying the r softly.
And Щ is as though you insert a 'y' (from yes) sound into the name to make Chyarlotte.
'chyar' saying the r softly
O Canada
'Й' can be easy, (IDC) try to reverse word 'boy'.
'Щ' really sounds almost as two sillables 'СЧ' or 'ШЧ' / 'sch'.
I don't know if you did this intentionally, but each new word you bring in uses letters that have mostly already been explained. This makes it really fun to try and work out how to pronounce the word before you say it. I get a little jolt of happiness when i get it right!
Same!
She is very professional, thanks a lot
Фарба (paint) sounds very similar to the German word for color: Farbe
That's what I thought!
Ukrainian has many other loan words from German: дах (Dach), крейда (Kreude?, chalk), фарба.
And Polish Farby (y=i)
Die fahne hoch, die reihen fest geschloßen!
@@alonasychevska2237 Kreide
In Ukrainian letter щ indeed officially represents a combination of sounds шч and both sounds are always hard (unlike in Russian where the same letter щ represents the unique soft sound щ). So when you see щ in Ukrainian just read it as шч and always hard. The softening of this combination of sounds is typical for Russian speaking people who try to speak Ukrainian. So e.g. площа sounds like плошча and never as площя.
That's really different to the Polish language, and sounds really uniquely Ukrainian to my ears. By contrast, the sound would be represented by ,,szcz" in Polish and one has to make a "sh" sound immediately followed by a "ch" sound, and it was one of the harder consonant clusters to learn how to pronounce for me. Like in ,,szczęśliwy", I don't think I need to tell you what this word means!
You do realize we are at the ABC level, right?
The Belarusian language doesn't even have the letter щ in its alphabet for the same reason. And the words are spelled as "плошча" (płošča) or "шчасьлівы" (ščaślivy).
Щ has as softer sound than ШЧ.It's like "shch" in English, not szcz in Polish.
i will move to ukraine one day when this war is over. i will help you clean up and rebuild and i hope i can stay and live there with you all. i am learning your language now so i can make friends now
I really like how you broke the two parts up - I find the first part a lot easier to memorise than the second part, so this was really helpful
Practice makes progress. same there. It’s always hard at the beginning.
My breakthrough with pronouncing "Щ" was to say "Khrushchev" over and over (Хрущев) until pronouncing the letter became second nature. It also helped me to think of the letter as "с" followed by "Ш" and pronounce it as if those two letters were glued together. I know doing it this way probably sets off several linguistic alarms, but it worked really well for me, and now I can spit out "Щ" like I'm a native speaker.
I was wracking my brain to come up with a better example and what I came up with was "Fish Shop" vs "Bishop" if these were Ukrainian words (and fish shop was one word)
I'd spell "Bishop" as «Вiшoп»
But "Fishshop" as «Фiщoп»
I think your example is better though. I remember Nikita Khrushchev so it's probably a more accurate pronunciation and seeing his name in the Cirillic script has helped a great deal.
Thank you so much! This helped greatly in my pronunciation and memory of the Ukrainian alphabet!
Чудово! Я сам з України, прийшов сюди просто подивитись). Дуже цікаво, як нашу мову вчать) дякую.
Are u ok over there?
@@mikaiharmon727 sure! Thanks god, my city isn't under occupation now
My first video in an attempt to learn a language. You are an excellent teacher by all standards!
I've been trying to learn Ukrainian for a bit over a week now using Duolingo. It's tough going.
Of the letters, I really struggle to hear a difference between ш and щ, but I'm sure it will come with practice. Someone mentioned to me a couple of days ago that in Cyrillic there are effectively 2 alphabets. There's the printed letterforms, which are the ones you showed, and different ones used for hand writing. Is this correct? Hand writing I find д hard to reproduce and my б looks more like a Greek lower case sigma. Definitely need practice.
ETA Day 51 and still struggling.
Yoo i learnt so much in this 30 mins, I can't believe that you made it so simple 🤗 I can't wait to be fluent in ukrainian soon.
I will cheer for you.
Love you from india 🇮🇳🇮🇳Дякую❣️❣️🇺🇦
I am learning to speak Ukrainian and these videos were really helpful, thank you!
I'm learning Ukrainian to try to impress a girl, and you're videos are extremely helpful. Thank you!
I’m learning for when I go over there for humanitarian work.. and to impress a girl there
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did it work? 😅
You have helped me learn the most of any videos I’ve watched so far. Thank you
Great intro to Ukrainian usage of the Cyrillic alphabet. Similar to Russian, except I was very surprised to learn of a reversal of the mapping between letters and sounds for certain pairs of vowels, such as "е" and "э". In a similar twist, it appears that in Ukrainian, the letter "и" makes the preceding consonant hard, while in Russian that character makes the preceding consonant soft. Understanding these differences in how to pronounce the Cyrillic alphabet are essential for someone who has studied Russian to understand how to pronounce the name of the capital, Київ.
Pointless job, much more useful to learn Russian.
In think in Russian having "и" prounounced like "ы" exist too but as the letters "ж, ц, ш" for example "жизни" the first "и" sounds more likely the Ukrainian "и"'
Thank you so much for your help. You Are Great Teacher In The World.And You Looking So Beautiful.
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Wow, two years before the war started. Your English is okay here. You definitely have a stronger Ukrainian accent then as opposed to now.
lol I laughed when you went the same way that my mind did when you described how to pronounce the p in pyka. I'm from Texas and it's almost impossible to never pick up any Spanish at all if you live there. That particular pronunciation is something that's always stuck with me.
Wow what a beautiful host 😍😍😍
I'm not sure but I think щ is pronounced like Polish "szcz", e.g. in szczęście(=luck). I always have problems in saying that 😄
Rather ść or perhaps just ś I'd say but I am not an eastern Slav
Amazing teacher, you where the one who has multivated me to learn Ukrainian, thanks for your amazing teaching tecniques. Bila Tserkva
thank u ,very interesting lesson.
Thank you for explaining it well!!!! I will just practice my pronunciation!!🤗
Hi! If you want to improve your speaking skills I will be glad to help you)
Since Russian invasion of Ukraine, we, in Canada have learned so much about Ukrainian culture. I just feel I have to learn this beautiful language. 💙💛
If using a Spanish example, the Spanish letter "rr" is a closer match to Ukrainian's 'r'. Single Rs are only rolled at the beginning or end of words in Spanish. Pardon my nitpickyness.
thanks 🙏 for your lesson in Ukrainian language, I really appreciate your effort, I got know about it recently although I speak Russian language fluent but I wanted to move into Ukrainian language now.
Hi. I want to help with the letter "щ" on the video incorrectly. this letter sounds like two letters "ш and ч" together)
Your face is funny every time you introduce a letter not in the Latin alphabet, like you already know my reaction is: 😳🤬🤪😫😭
Thanks! Im learning Ukrainian language!
Thanks for your video🙇🏻♀️ got mix up with ж, ш, Щ so easily🙈🙈they sound similar to me😂
The Ukrainian letter "и" is pronounced incorrectly in this video. The author uses the Russified version which originates from the Russian "ьi". In Ukrainian, a language I learned from infancy and am very fluent in. this letter has only one correct sound and that is identical to the short i in English which occurs in words like: lit, skit and ill, among many others. Unfortunately the Ukrainian language has, since Czarist times, suffered from Russification. The Soviet regime made every attempt, in fact, to eliminate the Ukrainian language by forcing children to learn exclusively in the Russian language.
Thank you very much, дякую! I find ‘И’ the most difficult letter to pronounce. It sounds like English ‘ih’ but slightly different and uncomfortable. Hopefully practice will help though!
Hi, if you want to improve your speaking skills i’ll be glad to help you
Same! I find P the hardest tho..
Yes, there isn't straight equivalent to 'И'.
stay strong ukraine 💙💛
Hi! I just figured out how to spell my name in Ukrainian. So my name is Bella and how I think it is spelled in Ukrainian is Белла (I just added the Ukrainian keyboard on my phone). My most difficult letter to pronounce is Р and it’s kind of ironic because I’m 50% Hispanic but it’s also not because I don’t really speak Spanish
Щ is one of the more difficult letters, but with practice, I am sure I will catch on. Дякую
Щ = Shch
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I believe in you!
Try using first wowels from 'ship' and 'chair'.
“Born Brave”… That’s a Ukrainian shirt if ever I saw one!! Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦!!
What a great idea!
thank you i learned a lot from you
awe nuts I thought I finally found a language with no rolling R's Im doomed
"What is the most difficult letter for you?"....all of them 😂
But seriously, you're a great teacher! Thank you
I struggling with Щ= Sh+ch. Thanks for this teaching.
In Ukrainian letter щ indeed officially represents a combination of sounds шч and both sounds are always hard (unlike in Russian where the same letter щ represents the unique soft sound щ). So when you see щ in Ukrainian just read it as шч and always hard. The softening of this combination of sounds is typical for Russian speaking people who try to speak Ukrainian. So e.g. площа sounds like плошча and never as площя.
I think it’s like the sound you make with a word that ends in -tion, like “colonization.” It’s like the normal sh but your lips are less tight or something.
@@georgesracingcar7701 There is letter Ш in this word again. Щ is a combination of Ш in colonization and Ч in word cheese. It's exactly the combination, they have to be pronounced together, not like something between Ш and Ч, but like both of them together in this order shch (шч). Fre(sh ch)eese . This is exactly the Щ, you pronounce it clear and hard and it will be just perfect👌.
thx but it seems u to have move my tongue & throat at the same time?!it s hard for my silly tongue!>
Not trying to put hate your way, this is only meant out of constructive criticism. As an English speaker I think that Ukrainian>English letter comparison would be a "native" H for your X because most North American speakers (speaking as a North American myself) will pronounce Bach like Arnold Schwarzenegger's back in "I'll be back" from Terminator II. IDK maybe you are confusing English to German which is kind of valid as it is Germanic in origin but also not really valid because they are not the same language (ie: Ukrainian is not Russian even tho y'all share alphabets, English doesn't even use the whole German character system, etc). The English H is pronounced the same as your X in words like hole, how, and him; though not at at the end of the word (English is a confusing language).
I do appreciate your content as my exposure to Ukrainian was very seldom during childhood and also Ukrainian content with subtitle here on TH-cam. My Great-Grandmother (Babka we called her), G-d rest her soul, was one of only ones I'd hear Ukrainian from growing up. I have cousins who still speak it in Canada but my Grandma didn't use it for her children and thus not for my siblings because my dad didn't speak it.
Слава Україні! It's interesting how similar the language is to Polish. So many words are familiar with slight variations in pronunciation.
Yes, they are sometimes very similar. The funny part is there are words which sound the same but have totally different meaning. It always puzzles me.
Не знаю навіщо я це дивлюсь, але букву щ пояснено трохи дивно:)
Можливо це через діалект, але ваша щ звучить як шь, що не є правильним і має твердо звучати як шч
This is my second video and my favorite part about this is to figure out how to pronounce the Ukrainian word without any help. There are letters that I haven't seen yet but I got "Фарба" right. You're a great teacher!
Very well done, Sister! Your English language skills are very, very good. You have helped me very much in brushing up on my Ukrainian Language abilities. Thank You!
The word for paint looks like a borrowing from German Farbe (colour)And the word for chess looks very like the German Schach.
Yes. And Zucker = цукор. There is some amount of common words or imported with some products.
My second aha moment with similar words in German and Ukrainian was also фарба and "Farbe," as someone else mentioned. :-o THEN I saw "цукерка," which is so much like "Zucker" in German (and 'sucre' in French). :-o Before it was Люди, which looks like "Leute" for "people". I love the little bridges between languages.
Thanks for your content! I found your channel via your Ecolinguist videos. I know a few Ukrainian people and used to teach English to Ukrainians, and I wish I had found this channel before It gives good insights on where people are "coming from" if they speak Ukrainian.
Bravo! And "цукерка" comes from "цукор" which is Sugar :)
I hate the p sound, I well never😞😢 get it right
You are very helpful and beautiful!
In Spanish we pronounce péro, with the stress in the first syllable. We also distinguish between pero and perro.
I like hearing Spanish. IDC why it sounds so good and lovely to me. And it seems to me we have almost similar sounds. I mean there isn't strange or impossible sounds/syllables in Spanish for me as Ukrainian (or any other slavik-speaking people).
щ is very difficult to pronounce
"Дякую", що спаклюжили літеру Щ, вона чітко і ясно має вимовлятися ШЧ, ніяк інакше
Переведіть, будь-ласка, слово «спаклюжили» англійською або російською мовою. Дякую!
@@TheLillyana89 осквернить, to seduce
@@pavlo_atman спасибо! Дякую!
Щось я не помітив великого паплюження.
6:38 you say it sounds ‘Ha’ but also say it sounds like ‘ch’. YOU CANT THE SAME SOUND FOR 2 DIFFERENT LETTERS!
Two descriptions for the same sound, neither of which may help you get it alone, but together they have a better chance of helping you "get" it. You can't do it if you don't try, or are too stubborn to make new intermediate sounds.
I'm making vegan Борщ today! 🌱🍲
Thanks a lot for these two amazing videos about the Ukrainian alphabet! I've just started learning, and I love it a ton so far! Thank you very much !!
Thanks for the lesson.
So is not щ a combine between ш and ч,but a stretched sound of ш?
Francesco Laruffa Yes, the letter Щ combines of two sounds in Ukrainian “Ш+Ч”. The English equivalent of the sound is “sh+ch”.
@@SpeakUkrainian Дуже дякую
Francesco Laruffa Будь ласка!
i started learning 4 day ago to show my support on the people.
Привіт . Мене також вчили англійської мови . За допомогою української мови 😂😂😂😂
having learned Interslavic, I already know some of the letters, but there are a few differences:
*н, о, п, р, с, т, у, ф, х, ц, ч and ш are exactly the same.
*for "щ", Interslavic instead uses "шч". for example, Ukrainian "ще" in Interslavic is "јешче" (resembles Polish "jeszcze").
*"ю" and "я" are not used in Interslavic. instead, they were written with two letters: "ју" and "ја". for example, Ukrainian "юний" (written "junyj" if we use Latin script with Czecho-Croatian rule) in Interslavic is "јуны" ("juny" in official Interslavic Latin script); both mean "young".
P is the same as how we pronounce r in Welsh
The soft sign is bothering me lol
Thank you for these uploads! I am terrible right now...but hope to get better 💙💛
hi Inna I have to say that the spanish sound of ''r'' i Ukranian is double r ''rr'' but in ukranian its a bit smooth sound
Possibly she said it too hard, like stressed double rr. We typically have soft r but it may sound as long stressed R (rr), it means the same.
Ви не праві! Це не українськаабетка.Це російський «ГРАЖДАНСЬКИЙ ШРИФТ» Поцікавтесь історією письма
ш means Tea in Portuguese
After learning the Russian alphabet the Ukrainian alphabet is very similar and is not as difficult as I thought.
thank you a lot!, i was looking for learning a new language and this video helped me to decide. My main language is spanish, so aswering your question the most difficult letters for me are ш and щ sound way similiar
Igual por acá jajaja, sólo logro diferenciar como una "i" entre la "sh" y la "a" en la letra щ "shia", algo así.
Thank you very much
Чарівна ІННО ,про українську абетку загляніть у ЮТЮБ «РУТЕНІЯ ШРИФТ» ТЕ,ЩО ВИ ПРОПАГУЄТЕ Є «РУССКИЙ гражданский шрифт»
Inna,р,ш and щ are difficult. And people think that German is hard to learn. Deutsch ist einfacher als Ukrainisch. German is easier than Ukrainian. Have a good day. Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇺🇦💙💛💙💛
Trotzdem kannst du viele ähnliche wörte in Ukrainisch finden, als sie deutsche Herkunft haben. Das hilfst dir ein Bisschen)
@@Костя-г8с1ч Thanks for emailing in German. The letter р is difficult for English speakers as we don't have this sound in our language. They have this rolling the r sound in German, but I still have difficulty with it. I hope all is well with you. I am disgusted with what the Russians are doing to your Country. Economic sanctions are not enough. I wish that special forces dressed as civilians go into Russia and place bombs in major buildings in Moscow and St. Petersburg to show Putin that the world has had enough of his tyranny. Take care, keep safe!!!
Hi. I want to help with the letter "щ" on the video incorrectly. this letter sounds like two letters "ш and ч" together)
Doing geart job
Your videos are great! My 2nd language is Spanish, so I hope I may offer some help with your comparison with the UA letter Рр:
In Spanish, there are (2) letters, R and RR
The UA equivalent is RR, as in “perro,” which means dog. “Pero” is a different word, meaning “but.” It was a challenge to stop thinking in Spanish and remember that it’s always a “rolled” R in UA. Thank you again, and please forgive me if someone already pointed this out pray 🇺🇸 🤝 🇺🇦
17:00 я з України і мені не треба вчити свій же алфавіт. Але я бачу, як складно вчити наш алфавіт великобританцям. Напевно найскладніша для них буква щ. I am from Ukraine and I do not need to learn my own alphabet. But I see how difficult it is to teach our alphabet to the Britisch. Probably the most difficult letter for them is shch.
Can you please give the ISBN number and/or complete Name of the BUKVAR book. I could not find it on AMAZON.
Про літеру Щ інформація некоректна, вона читається як ШЧ, а не як в російській мові
Скажіть будь ласка, як називається цей буквар ? ( Такий був у мене в дитинстві).
Пам'ятаєте те відео, де Ви спілкувалися з колегами і намагалися порозумітися між собою (коли кожен розмовляв своєю мовою: українською, польською, російською та словацькою).
Дуже цікаво дивитися як люди зі всього світу вчать твою рідну мову 🇺🇦 і пригадуєш як сам вчив ( вчиш) мови!
Дякую! 🕊️♥️🍀🌞
"Hic" is a bad Ukrainian example word because it makes the sound нь, not н. That's confusing for English speakers.
For a sign that makes no sound of it's own that "Знak M'яkшeння" is quite a mouthful for us poor English speakers. Would I be close with "znak Myakshcheenya" ?
I'm from Ukraine you can read the my text: привіт ти можеш вимовити слово паляниця з суницею і медом🇺🇦🤝🇺🇲🇬🇧
Inna, i triés to Buy your master ukrainien cases ans also the bykvar boom on Amazon.
One ia put of stock
The other Says it is a Russian edition.
Amy chances you also sell the bykbar boom on your site too.
I stand every day for Ukrainians.
Сдада Україна (by myself with the Ukrainian keypad installed)
Someone told me to learn the difference between the sound Ш and Щ with the words shop and ship.
The “Ш” sound should be pronounced like the “sh” sound in “shop”
While the “Щ” sound should be pronounced as the “sh” in “ship”
Idk how accurate it is, but to me it sound right. Anyways I hope this helps to anyone who is struggling with the difference.
It's bit easier, Щ is a combination of two sounds Ш and Ч. It sounds exactly like ШЧ (shch).
Yes, Щ is Ш (sh) plus Ч (ch).
Take first sounds from ship and chair (sh + ch), and you get Щ.
P is also easy for a scottish person
You want you are fav food borsh.
Actually im indian i interest you are class. Thank you. You are good teacher.
Regarding ц , 'ts' never appears at the start of a native English word but nowadays we know tsunami, which also appears in Ukrainian цунамі.
I love your posts. thank you. Apologies - but sometimes on many of your pronunciations, you close you mouth immediately, and sometimes you do not, so it sounds like the letter or word ends in an english "M". Perhaps consistency might help us. My wife and kids say the the same thing, in fact, my 3 boys brought it up : ) NO disrespect. Still THANK YOU, from all of us in this house.
Щиро дякую!
🙏🌹💛💙
Inna, I have watched several of your videos and I must say you are the best.
I decided to try to learn Ukranian because of a woman I am dating. I know you dislike people like me, but I plan to keep trying to learn your language.
My interest in Ukraine started in 2013, when I was working at a jobsite in Connecticut and would eat many meals at a Ukrainian resteraunt. I got to know many Ukranians personally.
I met my girlfriend in an online game, and we quickly became friends.
Thank you for posting these videos. My progress is painfully slow, but I try every day. I am still working on the alphabet and vowels, and I watch these videos every day.
Best of luck to you, it seems you have been through a lot, and I pray for you and Ukrain every day.
Excellent presentation, keeping it slow and concise. Dyakuyou.
I joined here new and like it. But when I watch and hear you in my kitchen, a sound like 'tick-tock' disturb me and I checked my combi, refrigerator and eggs on the oven so I understood that this noise comes from my mobile phone, your video.
Please stop it. I listen to you carefully, even my eyes and ears on you completely.
And thank you for these useful videos. Greetings from Turkey
The Best and Clear presentation. Very easy to learn the pronunciation of each letter. Best Wishes Madam!!!!!!!
Hi. I just thought I’d Google the Ukrainian alphabet to see if I could learn anything. You help a little bit but the two W’s - W and W_ i found to be more difficult for me. Thanks Joseph
Thank you for sharing. I'm new to speaking Ukraine and this has helped me a lot. In just 1 hour I've managed to understand each letter.
Push Chair (buggy) is often compressed into "Pushchair" as a noun in speech. A better example for "shch" I think. I hope that you are keeping safe Inna.
Thank you so much, Inna! I just signed up a few weeks ago as a volunteer to help Ukrainian middle school students learn math here in the U.S. I have been working with Duolingo on learning the alphabet but I am so happy to find your site. You are such a good teacher and it is so helpful to watch your mouth as you pronounce the letters so clearly.
Юнак sounds a lot like the English word for something that most юнаки would never want to be.
b is the hardest
It seems the П sound is the same as a French P, or the Thai ป for the majority of learners already versed in Thai. Meaning a B mimicking the mouth position of P, or a P without any forced ariflow.
Б is a sound from 'be' or 'bee', and 'P' is a sound from 'Peter' or 'pee'.
It's summer break and I have wanted to learn a language for a while! I recently tried to learn dutch but lost interest. So since my family is ukrainian I've decided to learn ukrainian instead. The hardest letter for me is the one where you roll your r. I dont have a ukrainian keyboard so I cant type it. But I just can't seem to be able to say it right, but it will take time. If anyone can give me tips on how to stay motivated please tell me! Other than that, awesome video!