How is Taya? I'm not going to donate money to you. I'm just donating the information that no one else dares to tell you directly. Like it or not: Am I right that you will never learn fluent English? I understand very well that a low-quality school has a low-quality English teacher whose language is quite a knot compared to the English language - and I understand that the students imitate their teacher in their stupidity. But what I don't understand is why you (English based video content producer) don't regularly spend your time listening to fluent English from the media... If you did, it would be obvious that you would learn to pronounce even close to normal English pronunciation. It is shocking to watch and listen when talking is so painful! Do yourself a favor and spend regular time every day listening to good English. If you want to do it with TH-cam, you're guaranteed to hear good American English on many channels: youtube.com/@movies-series-films But dear Taya. I can understand if you're so lazy that you don't want to do anything but sit in your seats year after year... And I understand if you don't care at all, because you manage your business incredibly well without having to do anything about it.
Your Beautiful, intelligent and smart....good vlog. Whoever is born will die. This is the law of the nature. We pray that there should be peace in the world and also in Russia and Ukraine. Regards From 🇮🇳 - ( India )
@@Pareshgadhavi-s8y Most people believe that "Whoever is born will die" is a law of nature. And so it is with all other created things, such as animals and plants. If you study the Bible, you can learn that the Creator of all things - God - created man to live forever on Earth. Our Creator has only one truth, about which he has told people everything they need to know in the Bible: - Absolutely reliable predictions of what will happen. - The victories and defeats of the kings of Israel - all honestly, unlike the chronicles of other nations, which boast of great victories but do not tell of defeats unless the defeat is so great that it cannot be hidden - in which case it is attributed to some enemy. - How a person should behave and how he can be a friend of God. - You will clearly learn that God created man in his own image and that man was to take care of everything else that God created here on Earth. - You will learn a reasonable reason why we do not live forever as we were meant to, and why the problem has not yet been fixed. The Bible does indeed tell us all this in an understandable way, but even the Christian churches do not want you to learn the truth about the Bible and our Creator. You can always pray fervently to your Creator - God, to give you wisdom and to guide you to act according to his wisdom. It is available to every ordinary person if he humbly and sincerely wants to know God.
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I have no clue of either language, but if I want to distinguish Ukrainian from Russian texts, I look for an ’i’, which the Russian alphabet doesn‘t have.
@@я.киша I look at different letters. The letter i existed in the Russian language as well, but because of the spelling reform in 1917 that letter has been removed.
An interesting Wikipedia article is the following: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography Now I start to wonder, was there also a kind of Ukrainian spelling reform?
There are quite a few Ukrainian speakers here in western Canada. Two former premiers, one of Alberta and one of Saskatchewan only spoke Ukrainian until they were about five years old.
@@heronimousbrapson863 That's probably one reason that Alberta is a great province...when you have a leader that understands what tyranny is like, and whose family was able to escape that part of the world.
Children can learn new languages without old native language accent until around 12 or puberty onset. After that only people with ear trained by music, as musicians/singers and ballet dancers seem to retain ability to hear and use nuances of pronunciation, with RARE exceptions.
@@arthouston7361 you mean the part of the world West is tyrannizing to provide "good quality of life" to the tiny minority of world's population? he didn't escape anything he just became tyrant himself.
@@arthouston7361someone forgot that Alberta has oil - 20% of the budget directly plus easily double of that indirectly. The oil is explored on the land of indigenous people and Ukrainians are practically used to drive those people out. Many of those Ukrainians are descendents of Nazi soldiers who escaped prosecution and as the world learned Canadian government is happy to applaud their crimes. You don't like to look into the mirror, don't you? Everything works to substantiate Rusophobia, Arabophobia, Serbiphobia, Chinesephobia, etc.
@@P00009 A lot of those Ukrainians came before ww2 and were part of the Austrians-Hungarian empire. Modern day fascist are in russia, or moscovites their true name
As an older person from the US, I'm just now beginning to be able to pick apart the various Slavic languages. This started with the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s when Yugoslavia broke up. But has now accelerated. Thanks for this very much, Taya!
My Ukrainian neighbor retired and moved. I miss them. Appreciate explaining the different alphabet. Direct descendant of St Olga, I think it’s far enough removed from me that I’d have trouble learning it. Currently learning my mother’s Cherokee language.
Hello Taya I recognized your ukrainian word "misto" = "gorod" (russian). Misto is more familiar to west slavic languages like polish "miasto" or tchecz "mesto". But there the word "hrad" = "grad" exist for english "castle" or german "Burg" (for example "Hradshina" in Prague. Best greetings Adrian
The Belarusian language has both "miesta" (city) and "miesca" (place). The former is admittedly archaic and mostly replaced by "horad" (city) nowadays. However "miastečka" (town) still exists and it is basically a diminutive form of "miesta". The Belarusian word "hrad" means "hailstorm". And yet another similar word "harod" means "garden".
I can hear lot of similarities with Polish language, sentence structure, accent and pronunciation. In addition, every second or third word is familiar to me, since I can speak Polish. ❤
Ukrainian language is jus a artificial bastardization of Russian and Polish. Created in Galicia in 19th century by Austria-Hungary. As a part of their "divide and conquer" strategy, they wanted Ukrainian nation that was neither Russian nor Polish. And of course hostile to both.
I have often experimented using google translate. If you select a word in English and translate it into Russian and listen to the translation, then translate the same English word into Ukrainian and listen to the translation, the Ukrainian translation sounds more pleasant.
Quite interesting. I know some ethnic Ukrainian expats from Melitopol who did not speak Ukrainian at all, only Russian and English. One of their family moved to Kyiv about 12 years ago and had to learn Ukrainian to attend university.
The Soviets "planted" Russian speakers in the non-Russian "republics" of the Soviet Union. So now there are Russian minorities in Latvia, Ukraine, etc. If they think Russia is so special, why don't they all move there? Because they know Russia is a poor excuse of a country and the places they live in now are not.
That's what the whole thing is about. When you see a map of Ukraine which shows the share of the population who speaks Ukrainian, it will probably make you think that most of the people there speak it. But they don't. I used to live in a small town in the Eastern Ukraine and we always spoke Russian. Even ethnical Ukrainians spoke exclusively Russian. I had to leave for Russia in 1995 when our school was about to switch to Ukrainian as a language of instruction. This wasn't the only reason, but one of them. And there is also a huge stratum of the population who speak a mixed language with various percentages of both. For the political reasons they are put in the category of Ukrainian speakers.
@@HoundGrinThink of Irish people, they have been pushed to English as mother language. They are considered anglophone but their hearts are truly Irish
@scottrobinson3281 The Ukrainian nationalista banned the use of the Russian languages in Universities in 2016. This created a mess because very little of the bibliography was in Ukrainian.
This is an interesting topic and there is a lot to say about it. First point: if you learn another language you hear it through the air, but when you speak you hear your own words through your head. You will be surprised how different it sounds if you hear your own words from a tape recorder! Second point: even though languages have the same origin they will develop differently and become separate even if a third person might have difficulty to make the difference. Also it may reflect in the written language. Example: Danes have æ and ø, Swedes have ä and ö. In principle they should be the same, but the pronunciation is quite different. Third point: Ukrainian is part of the Slavic subgroup of the Indo-European languages. We actually have a lot of words with a common origin, especially when it comes to farming. 4:21 Milk, mjölk (Swedish), mælk (Danish), Malako (Russian), Moloko (Ukrainian) is a good example. I was surprised when I realized that sne in Danish and sneg in Russian both means snow.
A linguist at the beginning of the war described Ukrainian as a dialect of Russian with some Polish. The New ultranationalists in power after 2014 set about embedding the differences as a new language. Please direct me to some Ukrainian poetry and literature from 100 or 200 years ago. I'll wait.
@@margaretcaine4219- I am on deep water here since I do not know what is or is not translated into English. Based on my Swedish book about the topic (M. Ehrenpreis och A. Jensen: "Ukrainarna", Nationernas Bibliotek bd. 4; Stockholm 1921) I would suggest you look for these: - Ukrainian folksong "Stjenevmerla Ukraina" (words: P. Tubinskij, music by M. Verbytskyj. The titel translates to "Ukraine is still alive") - Song "Oj, Moroze, Morozenku ty preslavnyj kozatje" (titel translate to "O Moroz, you brave kosak, freed through battle") - Song "Marusenka" But you can also try to look for works by Taras Sjevtjenko (1814-1861), Ivan Franko (1856-1916) and Tymotej Bordulak (born 1863). The book, I referred to, have some of their works translated into Swedish, but I do not dare to make a further translation into English. Another female poet, whom I recommend to seach for, is Lesia Ukrainka, who wrote at famous poem, "Contra spem spero". I hope that this can be an introduction for you, but there is much more out there. Perhaps a qualified librarian can help you further.
Difference is smaller than Australian and American English. But let us repeat to infinity how different they are. It might become truth, because it suits western policy of divide and conquer.
Being a Hungarian I learned Russian close to perfection. Based on that knowledge I decided assuming Ukranian , too. I gave up after a while, It was a long time ago, but remember the difficulties I had with these close, but different words. Highest respect to you, you mastered it !!!
I'm terribly sorry how superficial I am. I am aware of the fact that Ukrainian and Russian are not the same, and while you are no doubt doing a good job of explaining the difference, it is wasted on me. I actually came across a linguist on TH-cam (Langfocus) that managed to explain the difference in more manageable terms, at least to an outsider like me. Linguistic differences aside, I just want to get across my admiration of you Ukrainians: The way you have managed to thwart the Russian aggressors is admirable and EVERY European country is doing their best to support you in your struggle. My country, Iceland, is tiny, with no military resources to speak of, but we have welcomed every Ukrainian refugee coming to our shores, and will support you all the way.
Good explanation for the FAQ. When I see this question I usually just say that russians don't understand Ukrainian. Just like we Finns don't understand Estonian although it's very similiar and have lots of same words.
I'm familiar with the languages of Western Europe, and speak a little Spanish. I really never learned about any of the differences between Russian and Ukrainian until now. Thanx. But I really do enjoy listening to their accents when they're speaking English.
I'm American. I spent some time in Russia many years ago. I know enough Russian language to buy things I need, get on the right train, and to stay out of trouble. The reason the Ukrainian language is important now is because of the current situation. There is a lot on TH-cam from inside Ukraine and I can't understand anything. This is a great video. Thank you! By the way all my Russian friends have been able to leave except one. She's an older woman and it's not likely she will be able to leave. I hope you can stay safe.
Like in English where we use a schwa sound for unstressed vowels like in "ago" and "level." It seems like the Russian language has a similar thing. An example is moloko/"malako." Ukrainian retains its full vowel sounds.
The other confusing part is native speakers do not think about the grammar it just flows when you construct a sentence what sounds right and when you try to do this in ukrainian forget it the endings are different sometimes to a point where the core word becomes foreign.
@michaelfisher9267 You are on the right track. Vowel duration has 3 levels in Russian with increasing vowel quality with vowel duration. All three levels occur from shortest to longest in moloko. The first "o" indeed a schwa and still would be if the "o" was replaced by another vowel. This feature of the Russian language is generally not perceived by Ukrainian speakers or southern Russian speakers.
Yes when one learns English they teach that. However in some areas such as southern Siberia they use 'okanye' to...that is they dont reduce the unstressed o.
you are really a smart person. We don't say MALAKO - we use shwa sound but it's unclear for those who use just phonetical writing in their languages. Real languages have always differences between spelling and pronunciation
I'm in Canada, Manitoba specifically. We used to have a lot of broken english. I don't know much Ukrainian at all but my grandma spoke it, grandpa did also with a mix of Polish and Austrian. Others around here did the same. I look up words I grew up with on translation and they don't come up as Ukrainian. Wait, go, look here, for example show as ruSSian or slightly different Ukrainian. I'd like to learn it and there is one program offered but it's in the evenings and that's when I work.
To untrained American ears the two languages sound almost identical. Also, the fact both of them use a Cyrillic alphabet adds to the confusion. The only reason I can tell any difference is because I've been studying Ukranian for about two months. The names of the months are a complete giveaway.
That's because you have chances to hear only Russian speakers speaking "Ukrainian. Their phonetics are world apart. Ukrainian doesn't have so many soft consonants also the voices are lower.
Very interesting. My wife has been studying Ukrainian using a language app since the war started, and has noted some of the same differences you describe. Thank you!
she sounds like a loser 🙄 why does she want to learn a dying language that no one speaks and has no value it’s like me wanting to learn Armenian. What’s the use?
Cyrillic alphabets are not too difficult if practiced regularly, especially Ukrainian language. Ukraine is a very beautiful country, peoples are also very good and their traditional clothes are very beautiful. May the war end soon as forever, and may Ukraine regain its lost lands. Love for Ukraine💙💛 from India🧡🤍💚.
Hello Taya, I'm writing this in regards to the recent intrigue regarding differences between Ukraine and Russia. It might make us sound ignorant but I'll be completely truthful with you: most Americans didn't even know that Ukraine existed until the war. In fact, when talking about the Chernobyl catastrophe, most assume this happened somewhere in Russia. So, now we want to know more 😸
Haha I know about this! I was making videos on TH-cam 10 years, and foreigners don’t understand what’s going on in central and Eastern Europe. And that’s fine, I’m here to teach ❤
Funny they say Russian is more simillar to South Slavic or Bulgarian but in general it seems both are simillar but in different way, for example Gorod/Grad and Misto/Mjesto are both present in South Slavic, Grad is a City but Misto/Mjesto is a Place, a Town, a spot (Tvoje misto na kauču) to sit or something like that . Ukrajinski Sounds a more musical almost like people are singing a bit.
I am from America and have always thought Ukrainian sounded more melodic, smoother, softer on the ear than Russian. Russian just sounds a little harder on the ear. A more beautiful sounding language
Thanks for the nice video :) I am from Germany and someone who is really interested in languages. I studied the Russian language in 2007 and 2008 :D (a long time ago) At the moment I also study Polish and when you talked about the months a lot of them reminded me on the polish names :) (especially "Listopad" is the same) My main question was always if the unstressed "o" sound also sounds like an "a" :) but as you mentioned "moloko" it was clear that you are not doing it like in Russian :) It would be great to see more videos like that in the future :) it is really interesting - Thanks so much
@@barbarcreighton6726 thats nice :) but not in polish ... a friend told me that the word "list" only means "letter" not "leaf" :) but maybe "list" is an older version of the word - because it works in Russian :D
The months' names are old-Slavic and their names mean natural phenomenons and activites that are happening during each month. For example Polish listopad is made of words "liść"/"liście" (leaf/leafs) and "padać"/"opadać" (to fall), because in listopad leafs are falling from the trees. The same meaning hides in Ukrainian листопад.
It is interesting that there are some similarities to Western Slavic like Czech. They have city: mesto and hrad=forteresse, while grad exists in Serbian as well. Also in some other words there seem to be similarities to Czech. However, each of those languages has something exceptionel unique, too. I once heard an example of Ukrainian on the web and that did not sound similar to Russian at all. Maybe it depends a bit on the background of the speaker/subject/region, but in that case I was really surprised how different it was. In other cases it was less obvious and the words are almost the same. In your example my attribution failed. I think I would need quite some amount of conversation to distinguish it savely from Russian, but that is lack of experience and I never learnt one of the two languages.
The months in Russian are the result of Orthodox Church adopting the Byzantine tradition in the 10th century. This pretty much explains why very few people in Russia understand the Slavic month names. If this were just a 18th century change people would be widely aware of the lexics.
Part of Ukraine was once under the Austrian Hungarian Empire. The Austro Hungarian empire didn’t apply any sort of bans on language, or prevent publishing books in Ukrainian and teaching and speaking it like Russia did. This helped the Ukrainian language survive and its literature to even flourish. Ironically at the time Russia was claiming to be the defender of Slavic unity. The letter was pure propaganda.
It's a bit more complex, since the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was also applied bans, but for different reason. Here (I'm Hungarian) the Government tried to reach that Ukrainians were assimilated through heavy methods and also any literature in Ukrainian about Slavic unity was banned also (The then rusin movement in West Ukraine, now a dialect and a part of Ukrainians are named Rusin), while the situation was opposite on the Russian side. They've banned the literature mainly about Ukrainian sovereignty. The later era ( Ukraine in SU), also had different politics about ukrainization and deukrainization in different times. Being a student in SU at 80-ies, I was very surprised to find out that in the education at university level (IT at that time) books in Ukrainian were used in Harkov and Kiev, since I'd expected that in SU everyone uses Russian before I've got there. On these towns however people on the streets were speaking Russian, so the environment was real double (even if very similar) language.
@@gyorgyschiff7684 You miss the point. Russia actually banned the actual teaching of the Ukrainian language. Austria Hungary did not ban the language. The Hapsbergs were happy with a multi-ethnic empire. Arch Duke Ferdinand even married a Czech. Russia for a long time banned printing in the Ukrainian language and also banned importing books printed in Ukrainian. These restrictions were only partially lifted in Tsarist controlled Ukraine till 1905 and even then it was not permitted to make public political statements in the language. They did not end until Russia's defeat in WW1 and the Armistice of Brest Litrovesk Germany compelled forced Russia to give Ukraine independence. The Austro Hungarian Empire never banned the language itself. Russia did. -The political literature on slavic unity was to a large part Russian propaganda directed at expanding the Russian empire and had little to do with actual Slavic unity. Russian propaganda is not new. Its been around since the Tsars.
Thats very interesting. for the difference in the alpabet imedatly as comparion to Ukrainan -Russian , German - Hungary came to my mind. both have the latin alpabeth but in hungarian some letters exist (often combination of two letters) who doesn exist in the german alpabet or some who are differend pronunced. For the spken language diffrencs and partial whole diffrence words between russian and Ukrainan it remindes me about the diffrence between Swiss German and written German /Germanys German.
8:30 That's called a shibboleth, during war time they would use such words to differentiate between people who looked 'the same' and they wanted to find out their ethnicity using language. In Japan and Korea during WW2 they used 'nijyuu en gojissen' (something like 20 yen and 50 cents).
I really enjoyed this video. I’m an American living in Central Europe. I have Russian and Ukrainian friends here. My Russian friend was learning Ukrainian which really surprised me. I had thought Ukrainian was a Russian dialect. My friends explained to me that they are different languages and gave me some examples with the alphabet that you showed in your video. I grew up when both were part of the USSR, and of course Russia being the biggest part. So I wrongly assumed that most people that were Soviet citizens spoke different variations of Russian. My friends kindly helped me understand how wrong I was. But great video and it reinforced what my friends told me.
We ask about the difference because Ukraine was part of Russia at one time. 😍 I really love the small town Ukraine videos. These really are very interesting and soooooo peaceful to watch everyday normal small town life. It is as if time has stood still or we have traveled back in time when life was so much more simple and beautiful this way. There is no detail too small about this small town farm life that is not interesting. I also love to see everyone sit down to the table with all that yummy fooood! :) :p You could make a video of small town farm life in Ukraine every day - and I would watch every day! :)
You’re a Canadian, eh? And Ukrainian communities are all over Canada. If Ukraine was part of Russia, then wouldn't these be Russian communities instead? I think you might be confusing Russia with the Russian Empire (India was part of the British Empire) and the USSR. Ukraine was one republic of USSR and Russia was another. Ukraine became fully independent in 1917 and in 1991 again. So, it's more accurate to say that Ukraine was under Russian or Soviet control at various points in history, but it was never "part of Russia." If you still disagree, I invite you to walk into any Ukrainian-Canadian church, restaurant, or organization and loudly declare, "Ukraine was part of Russia." Or, if you want a similar experience, try walking into an Irish pub and say, "Ireland was part of England." I hope you're a fast runner. Frankly, I’m surprised to hear this from a Canadian. I’d expect this foot-in-the-mouth from an American.
Saying that Ukraine was part of Russia once is like saying that Scotland is part of England. Nope, that only reflects on the ignorance of the speaker. Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, and then a republic of the USSR, but always a separate part than Russia.
8:29 - 8:31 What Ukrainian word do you mean? Is that Паляниця? I know, the combination ця is normal in Ukrainian but not in Russian. Ц can never be soft in Russian, although it is possible to write це and ци, but it is pronounced as if цэ or цы is written.
Very. very useful video, Taya! Long time I was looking for such explanation to be able to catch the differences in spoken language, and you hit the nail! Thank you.
Interesting. It's dusch in Swedish and Dusche in German. After studying a bit of Russian I have seen that it has more similarities to German or Swedish than to English. ( Which are the languages I know ) With that said most words are not the same...
I started to learn Ukrainian some time ago and I was very surprised how fast was able to tell the difference. I am still learning but I really wish I had a friend who speaks Ukrainian to learn with.
Both languages were quickly put together, without thorough analysis. This was organized by Kopitar, who was employed in Vienna in the Slavic counter-propaganda department. And they prevented the transitory Greek-Catholic religion from changing to Catholicism, as in the Balkans, because they prevented the unification of Poles and Ukrainians into one larger nation. Kopitar also organized the creation of the Serbian language as a counterweight to the Croats who created the Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages because they wanted to unite with the Croats. Thus, it was easier to rule several smaller nations than one large one. The French and the English did the same by dividing the German and Italian language, which have now virtually merged into one.
That is some of the dumbest horseshit I have ever heard in my entire life. How do you think we did this to the Germans, did we give every single German state a slightly different copy of the Bible, did we? Our behaviour must have seemed very confusing for the Germans at the time, considering that they actually invented the printing press. And the Lutheran bible. And the Hochdeutsch which was meant to bridge many different Germanic dialects together. What else are you going to credit us nefarious Anglo-Saxons with, the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire? What about the Peloponnesian wars?
@@rorychivers8769 You haven't read the history of how disputes between the various German and Italian kingdoms were settled. England even had a part of Germany under its rule. Alliances and bribes fueled disputes and mistrust, as in the colonies, when small tribes were put in power, thereby securing tribal soldiers to fight for the imperialists. They potentiated ethical divisions for their own benefit, where two argue, the third profits. England changed its religion because the king wanted to divorce and had a religion made that allows it and of which he is the head.
Germans are Germans, and Italians are anything, but no Germans, why the hack they have to be merged? By the way Anglo-Saxons are Germans, and yet they merged with Celts (Scottish, Welsh), not with Germans. Maybe geography has something to do with it somehow?
@@rorychivers8769 No, not the foundation but destruction of it. Also the Ottoman Empire and genocides of Turks, Armenians etc. And the creation of several little proud useless Nazi States that followed.
Originally, Greco Catholic rite started after Norman reconquest on Southern Italy around year 1000 which used Byzantine Rite in church, but then restored communion with Rome. Long story, way before Habsburg rule in South-East Europe.
Why do we think it's interesting? Well, for some people, languages are interesting. That just about sums it up. Thank you so much for explaining some of the differences between Russian and Ukrainian.
Usually you can hear the difference in the way the two flow. Ukrainian is much more of a singing language because it flows much more smoothly. Russian language tends to be much more choppy or harsh sounding in that respect. If it sounds more Italian than Spanish, it's probably Ukrainian.
@@Qvadratws you couldn't be more wrong. They indeed are very much different languages. They may have similar roots, and overlap each other in many cases, but they are absolutely different languagrs regardless of any politics. The same way Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian languages are not the same even though they overlap each other to a large extent.
@@VKla-js3bd not even close. it is more like Hoch Deutsch and some Bavarian dialect. Italia has completely different history than Spain, not speaking about Romania. Which is completely different people even genetically. And the languages themselves are more than thousand years apart. And they always had their very own literary tradition unlike Ukrainian.
After this lecture, I am beginning to think that in the USA they speak american, in Canada canadian, in Australia australian, in N. Zealand they speak new zealand, in the Falkland Islands they speak falkland! Am I right? 🧐
An older teacher of mine (a physicist), was once employed during soviet Union period as translator of russian. He pointed out that Females and males speak that language very differently. Although during this invasion period, I hear many males and females of Ukraine speak, I do not hear such a difference. Do you feel that way about male/female pronunciation of russian, or Ukrainian? Modern Greek uses month words much like Russian, which was a surprise, but modern Greek probably imported those words from Latin or all Europe. Hearing Romanian, i was SURPRISED how many understandable Latin words are in that Slavic language. Ukrainian still sounds more like west Slavic languages, even though russia since Peter imported so many more western European words. Even though i am US native, with only French and some Spanish, and very little of some of our native indigenous and Hawaiian Polynesian, I am now offended when US news media uses russian word for Kyiv (Key-Ev, to them) and other Ukrainian place names. This seems to indicate bias on their part toward russia, immediately in my mind. (Being biased, I do not capitalize the word russian, as i think "muscovite instead)
I'm SE Asian and I must say，both sounds the same in my ears since I don't understand both。It would be like a European listening to an incomprehensible Malay，Thai，and Tagalog that lead to hasty conclusion that these 3 languages sounds so similar while the reality is opposite，despite being within the same SE Asian region。However，I studied few vocabularies of both Slavic languages and it already broke my early presumption of similarities。
Здравствуйте я Jardel я из Бразилии, anyway I am a beginner but the phrases that you say to guess each country was I could identify it, is so satisfying, поздравления fot the video спосиба больше
It is now even worse. When I said to a russian that I was about to change to Ukrainian this russian literally said: "Why do you need that shit?". I am glad I changed. Слава Україні.
what kind of reaction you expected from him after saying that you want to "change to ᵘKRAINIAN"? lol it's like saying I don't want to talk to you anymore and I think I am better than ʸᵒᵘ. Some people are really surprising.
@Qvadratws You can't explain anything to the average Anglo-Saxon-they just parrot whatever the neocon Deep State feeds them. Now they're all about backing "heroic" Zelensky and "independent" Ukraine fighting "evil" Russia. Never mind that Zelensky is just a Western puppet on top of far-right nationalists, or that Ukrainization is wiping out not only Russian but Rusyn culture too. Doesn't matter that his regime jails hundreds and uses state-sponsored assassins against opponents-none of that registers.
@Qvadratws You can't explain anything to the average Anglo-Saxon-they just parrot whatever the neocon Deep State feeds them. Now they're all about backing "heroic" Zelensky and "independent" Ukraine fighting "evil" Russia. Never mind that Zelensky is just a puppet on top of far-right nationalists, or that Ukrainization is wiping out not only Russian but Rusyn culture too. Doesn't matter that his regime jails hundreds and uses state-sponsored assassins against opponents-none of that registers.
Russian made a leap in vocabulary 200 years ago, thanks to Pushkin who could speak an excellent French. He really enriched his own language by adding thousands of foreign words. The same way as Shakespeare in England, centuries before. When I studied Russian, I found that at least 12% of the words look exactly like those of my language. Is it the same with Ukrainian or do you keep more slavic roots? Words endings (declensions) are painful to learn, but the two word aspects are even less natural for Slavic languages learners. NB: I am French and live in Poland now.
My mother was german and born 1932 in a german village next to Odessa (Brinowka). She spoke both german and russian and worked in a russian kindergarden (and leader of a group in the komsomol) before the war. After the war she flew to Germany. She also told me that they had friends in "russian" villages around. My grandmother was expelled to Kassachstan after the war and came to Germany in 1970. I still remember that she always used the russian word "televiser" for TV even when she spoke german. Both are dead now. When the recent war started I asked my 90 year old mother whether she spoke ukrainian or russian. She was a bit confused and told me that she speaks russian. But from what I know now those villages must have been ukrainian, or better belonging to the USSR, so perhaps "ukrainian" was not an option. Could it be that there where villages with russian speakers? Or was it ukrainian what she spoke. The russian "televiser" of my grandma must come from her long stay in Kasachstan, as there where no TVs in 1930 in Ukraine. Any thoughts on that?
There are villages in many parts of Ukraine where Russian was the predominant language. Especially under the Soviet Union (and even under the Russian Empire) Russian speakers were settled into many of those areas. Also some Germans were settled there at times in the 18th and 19th centuries, as noted in your family history.
I have to admit, that I hardly can tell apart slavic languages at all. But by watching street interviews with Ukrainians and Russians I noticed the differences between Ukr. yes - tak - and russ. yes - da resp. no - njet / ni . Or, as you mentioned, the difference between the h-sound and the g-sound ( _propahanda_ vs. _propaganda_ ). Interestingly the Ukr. word for roof is practically identical to the German word (Dach). That comes probably from the Austrians.
Thank you for this interesting video. As I've been watching many videos of soldiers speaking Ukrainian and Russian, I was wondering how different are those languages. We Spanish speakers have only 5 vowels and no proper diphthongs, so we find those subtly different vowels extremely hard to pronounce, or even distinguish. Greetings from Chile.
My wife is from serbia and so I speak a little bit serbian as well. Ukrainian seems to be more close to serbian than russian. Specially the silly discrepancy between orthography and pronuncation.
As a kid in 1970s I visited Lviv area with my Mum from Poland. I thought i would practice my Russian there, but nobody would want to talk to me in Russian. I didn't know any history. Way later I found out my grandmother was Ukrainian, most likely. I was lucky to meet her cousin in Parma Ohio, who told me my grandfather would beat here because she didn't speak Polish at 5 years old. He ended up in Australia and barely acknowledged family forced to relocate to west Poland. What a twisted history. Sad.
Thank you for posting this video and please continue with other aspects of Ukrainian culture which are unique to your country. I am an enthusiastic amateur linguist and this question of what difference there are between your maternal tongue and Russian is one that I have wondered about. So here is a question: how is it that very many Ukrainians know Russian, but not the reverse?
@@RobertSeviour1 here you need to know the history to understand:) Ukraine was under Russian occupation for many years-Russian empire, Soviet Union etc. I think that’s the shortest answer to your question
I am an English speaker, but my native language is Italian. I have no problem pronouncing "palyanitsa". We have the word "Palio" in Italian. I just change it to "palia" and add "nitsa". Easy.
You just have a innate gift of picking up languages easily. After listening to you explain the difference between the Ukraine and Russian languages, I bought me a bottle of Hard Liquor to drank because my head was spinning. You are a very talented and intelligent and beautiful person. Take care,be safe.
As an English speaker, Ukrainian sounds nicer and more melodic than Russian. I have Nothing negative to say about the Russian language by itself, it mostly sounds quite neutral. But compared to Ukrainian it sounds more harsh and the difference between syllables is much stronger. Whereas Ukrainian seems to flow easier from syllable to syllable. I'd compare Ukrainian to something like Greek or Spanish- softer sounding. Whereas Russian is more like German- harsher, but not necessarily negative.
@@Randomstuffs261 Russian is famous to be the softest sounding Slavic language while the Western Slavic ones are harder especially Czech. That has nothing to do with charakter of the people. I found mostly nice people in Czech and the same in Danmark even if Danish sounds as if someone gets chocked on first glance. I rarely had the impression Russian sounds harsh except it was meant to be...
You are absolutely correct. Its 100% true. Ukrainian is one of the soft languages and it tends to flow. Its much more of a singing language as well. Another interesting thing is that supposedly Ukrainian has much more words than the Russian language.
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Am I right that you will never learn fluent English? I understand very well that a low-quality school has a low-quality English teacher whose language is quite a knot compared to the English language - and I understand that the students imitate their teacher in their stupidity.
But what I don't understand is why you (English based video content producer) don't regularly spend your time listening to fluent English from the media... If you did, it would be obvious that you would learn to pronounce even close to normal English pronunciation.
It is shocking to watch and listen when talking is so painful! Do yourself a favor and spend regular time every day listening to good English. If you want to do it with TH-cam, you're guaranteed to hear good American English on many channels: youtube.com/@movies-series-films
But dear Taya. I can understand if you're so lazy that you don't want to do anything but sit in your seats year after year... And I understand if you don't care at all, because you manage your business incredibly well without having to do anything about it.
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Whoever is born will die. This is the law of the nature.
We pray that there should be peace in the world and also in Russia and Ukraine.
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@@Pareshgadhavi-s8y Most people believe that "Whoever is born will die" is a law of nature. And so it is with all other created things, such as animals and plants. If you study the Bible, you can learn that the Creator of all things - God - created man to live forever on Earth.
Our Creator has only one truth, about which he has told people everything they need to know in the Bible:
- Absolutely reliable predictions of what will happen.
- The victories and defeats of the kings of Israel - all honestly, unlike the chronicles of other nations, which boast of great victories but do not tell of defeats unless the defeat is so great that it cannot be hidden - in which case it is attributed to some enemy.
- How a person should behave and how he can be a friend of God.
- You will clearly learn that God created man in his own image and that man was to take care of everything else that God created here on Earth.
- You will learn a reasonable reason why we do not live forever as we were meant to, and why the problem has not yet been fixed.
The Bible does indeed tell us all this in an understandable way, but even the Christian churches do not want you to learn the truth about the Bible and our Creator.
You can always pray fervently to your Creator - God, to give you wisdom and to guide you to act according to his wisdom. It is available to every ordinary person if he humbly and sincerely wants to know God.
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I have no clue of either language, but if I want to distinguish Ukrainian from Russian texts, I look for an ’i’, which the Russian alphabet doesn‘t have.
That is what I do
@@я.киша I look at different letters. The letter i existed in the Russian language as well, but because of the spelling reform in 1917 that letter has been removed.
An interesting Wikipedia article is the following:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography
Now I start to wonder, was there also a kind of Ukrainian spelling reform?
Be aware of Belarusian, they have it too.
@@golden_smiles Ah, good to know.
There are quite a few Ukrainian speakers here in western Canada. Two former premiers, one of Alberta and one of Saskatchewan only spoke Ukrainian until they were about five years old.
@@heronimousbrapson863 That's probably one reason that Alberta is a great province...when you have a leader that understands what tyranny is like, and whose family was able to escape that part of the world.
Children can learn new languages without old native language accent until around 12 or puberty onset. After that only people with ear trained by music, as musicians/singers and ballet dancers seem to retain ability to hear and use nuances of pronunciation, with RARE exceptions.
@@arthouston7361 you mean the part of the world West is tyrannizing to provide "good quality of life" to the tiny minority of world's population? he didn't escape anything he just became tyrant himself.
@@arthouston7361someone forgot that Alberta has oil - 20% of the budget directly plus easily double of that indirectly. The oil is explored on the land of indigenous people and Ukrainians are practically used to drive those people out. Many of those Ukrainians are descendents of Nazi soldiers who escaped prosecution and as the world learned Canadian government is happy to applaud their crimes. You don't like to look into the mirror, don't you? Everything works to substantiate Rusophobia, Arabophobia, Serbiphobia, Chinesephobia, etc.
@@P00009
A lot of those Ukrainians came before ww2 and were part of the Austrians-Hungarian empire.
Modern day fascist are in russia, or moscovites their true name
Very interesting topic! Thank you!
Very interesting Taya, I’m glad you had the time to do this😊
As an older person from the US, I'm just now beginning to be able to pick apart the various Slavic languages. This started with the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s when Yugoslavia broke up. But has now accelerated. Thanks for this very much, Taya!
My Ukrainian neighbor retired and moved. I miss them. Appreciate explaining the different alphabet. Direct descendant of St Olga, I think it’s far enough removed from me that I’d have trouble learning it. Currently learning my mother’s Cherokee language.
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Hello Taya
I recognized your ukrainian word "misto" = "gorod" (russian). Misto is more familiar to west slavic languages like polish "miasto" or tchecz "mesto". But there the word "hrad" = "grad" exist for english "castle" or german "Burg" (for example "Hradshina" in Prague.
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yeah, and mesto in Russian means place so it's not that hard to guess.
The Belarusian language has both "miesta" (city) and "miesca" (place). The former is admittedly archaic and mostly replaced by "horad" (city) nowadays. However "miastečka" (town) still exists and it is basically a diminutive form of "miesta". The Belarusian word "hrad" means "hailstorm". And yet another similar word "harod" means "garden".
Very interesting indeed Taya and I’m very glad to first and foremost see that you are safe and well! 😊💙💛
I can hear lot of similarities with Polish language, sentence structure, accent and pronunciation. In addition, every second or third word is familiar to me, since I can speak Polish. ❤
Ukrainian language is jus a artificial bastardization of Russian and Polish. Created in Galicia in 19th century by Austria-Hungary. As a part of their "divide and conquer" strategy, they wanted Ukrainian nation that was neither Russian nor Polish. And of course hostile to both.
I have often experimented using google translate. If you select a word in English and translate it into Russian and listen to the translation, then translate the same English word into Ukrainian and listen to the translation, the Ukrainian translation sounds more pleasant.
The Russian consonants are harsher, especially for a Russian speaker from the north.
I don't like the Ukrainian language.This language is more rural, like village language.
Just the voice of Russian lady Google is using is a bit annoying.
@@СерёгаСерегин-р8б russiaans like yourself like to delude themselves with that sort of chauvinistic BS
@@kevin.keen.socialmediaThat's objectively false. Great Russian has way more palatized consonants than Ukrainian
Quite interesting. I know some ethnic Ukrainian expats from Melitopol who did not speak Ukrainian at all, only Russian and English. One of their family moved to Kyiv about 12 years ago and had to learn Ukrainian to attend university.
The Soviets "planted" Russian speakers in the non-Russian "republics" of the Soviet Union. So now there are Russian minorities in Latvia, Ukraine, etc. If they think Russia is so special, why don't they all move there? Because they know Russia is a poor excuse of a country and the places they live in now are not.
That's what the whole thing is about. When you see a map of Ukraine which shows the share of the population who speaks Ukrainian, it will probably make you think that most of the people there speak it. But they don't.
I used to live in a small town in the Eastern Ukraine and we always spoke Russian. Even ethnical Ukrainians spoke exclusively Russian. I had to leave for Russia in 1995 when our school was about to switch to Ukrainian as a language of instruction. This wasn't the only reason, but one of them.
And there is also a huge stratum of the population who speak a mixed language with various percentages of both. For the political reasons they are put in the category of Ukrainian speakers.
that sounds fascistic to me 🫣🇺🇦🖕🏻
@@HoundGrinThink of Irish people, they have been pushed to English as mother language. They are considered anglophone but their hearts are truly Irish
@scottrobinson3281 The Ukrainian nationalista banned the use of the Russian languages in Universities in 2016. This created a mess because very little of the bibliography was in Ukrainian.
This is an interesting topic and there is a lot to say about it. First point: if you learn another language you hear it through the air, but when you speak you hear your own words through your head. You will be surprised how different it sounds if you hear your own words from a tape recorder!
Second point: even though languages have the same origin they will develop differently and become separate even if a third person might have difficulty to make the difference. Also it may reflect in the written language. Example: Danes have æ and ø, Swedes have ä and ö. In principle they should be the same, but the pronunciation is quite different.
Third point: Ukrainian is part of the Slavic subgroup of the Indo-European languages. We actually have a lot of words with a common origin, especially when it comes to farming. 4:21 Milk, mjölk (Swedish), mælk (Danish), Malako (Russian), Moloko (Ukrainian) is a good example. I was surprised when I realized that sne in Danish and sneg in Russian both means snow.
A linguist at the beginning of the war described Ukrainian as a dialect of Russian with some Polish. The New ultranationalists in power after 2014 set about embedding the differences as a new language.
Please direct me to some Ukrainian poetry and literature from 100 or 200 years ago. I'll wait.
@@margaretcaine4219- I am on deep water here since I do not know what is or is not translated into English. Based on my Swedish book about the topic (M. Ehrenpreis och A. Jensen: "Ukrainarna", Nationernas Bibliotek bd. 4; Stockholm 1921) I would suggest you look for these:
- Ukrainian folksong "Stjenevmerla Ukraina" (words: P. Tubinskij, music by M. Verbytskyj. The titel translates to "Ukraine is still alive")
- Song "Oj, Moroze, Morozenku ty preslavnyj kozatje" (titel translate to "O Moroz, you brave kosak, freed through battle")
- Song "Marusenka"
But you can also try to look for works by Taras Sjevtjenko (1814-1861), Ivan Franko (1856-1916) and Tymotej Bordulak (born 1863). The book, I referred to, have some of their works translated into Swedish, but I do not dare to make a further translation into English. Another female poet, whom I recommend to seach for, is Lesia Ukrainka, who wrote at famous poem, "Contra spem spero".
I hope that this can be an introduction for you, but there is much more out there. Perhaps a qualified librarian can help you further.
Hi thank you for explaining the difference it's very complicated I'm still trying but slowly understanding
Fascinating, thanks for the video. It's so nice that Ukranians take a pride in their language, as part of their national identity.
Difference is smaller than Australian and American English. But let us repeat to infinity how different they are. It might become truth, because it suits western policy of divide and conquer.
@@OleDiaBole Ha ha very funny. Show me divided and conquered in the West "by the West" and I'll show what's under Russia's rug
Being a Hungarian I learned Russian close to perfection. Based on that knowledge I decided assuming Ukranian , too. I gave up after a while, It was a long time ago, but remember the difficulties I had with these close, but different words. Highest respect to you, you mastered it !!!
Do Hungarian understand mansi language? Maybe couple of words?
I'm terribly sorry how superficial I am. I am aware of the fact that Ukrainian and Russian are not the same, and while you are no doubt doing a good job of explaining the difference, it is wasted on me. I actually came across a linguist on TH-cam (Langfocus) that managed to explain the difference in more manageable terms, at least to an outsider like me.
Linguistic differences aside, I just want to get across my admiration of you Ukrainians: The way you have managed to thwart the Russian aggressors is admirable and EVERY European country is doing their best to support you in your struggle. My country, Iceland, is tiny, with no military resources to speak of, but we have welcomed every Ukrainian refugee coming to our shores, and will support you all the way.
Good explanation for the FAQ. When I see this question I usually just say that russians don't understand Ukrainian. Just like we Finns don't understand Estonian although it's very similiar and have lots of same words.
Those darn Babylonians and their tower! ;)
I'm familiar with the languages of Western Europe, and speak a little Spanish. I really never learned about any of the differences between Russian and Ukrainian until now. Thanx. But I really do enjoy listening to their accents when they're speaking English.
Thank you for explaining the difference between the Ukrainian and the Russian language to us, Taya.
@@simonebest6013 Do you mean tak?
I'm American. I spent some time in Russia many years ago. I know enough Russian language to buy things I need, get on the right train, and to stay out of trouble. The reason the Ukrainian language is important now is because of the current situation. There is a lot on TH-cam from inside Ukraine and I can't understand anything. This is a great video. Thank you! By the way all my Russian friends have been able to leave except one. She's an older woman and it's not likely she will be able to leave. I hope you can stay safe.
Thank you, Taya -- I really liked this video :)
Like in English where we use a schwa sound for unstressed vowels like in "ago" and "level." It seems like the Russian language has a similar thing. An example is moloko/"malako." Ukrainian retains its full vowel sounds.
In russian you pronounce maloko but still spell moloko. A other example the word what in russian you pronounce shto but write chto.
The other confusing part is native speakers do not think about the grammar it just flows when you construct a sentence what sounds right and when you try to do this in ukrainian forget it the endings are different sometimes to a point where the core word becomes foreign.
@michaelfisher9267 You are on the right track. Vowel duration has 3 levels in Russian with increasing vowel quality with vowel duration. All three levels occur from shortest to longest in moloko. The first "o" indeed a schwa and still would be if the "o" was replaced by another vowel. This feature of the Russian language is generally not perceived by Ukrainian speakers or southern Russian speakers.
Yes when one learns English they teach that. However in some areas such as southern Siberia they use 'okanye' to...that is they dont reduce the unstressed o.
you are really a smart person. We don't say MALAKO - we use shwa sound but it's unclear for those who use just phonetical writing in their languages. Real languages have always differences between spelling and pronunciation
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
I'm in Canada, Manitoba specifically. We used to have a lot of broken english. I don't know much Ukrainian at all but my grandma spoke it, grandpa did also with a mix of Polish and Austrian. Others around here did the same. I look up words I grew up with on translation and they don't come up as Ukrainian. Wait, go, look here, for example show as ruSSian or slightly different Ukrainian. I'd like to learn it and there is one program offered but it's in the evenings and that's when I work.
To untrained American ears the two languages sound almost identical. Also, the fact both of them use a Cyrillic alphabet adds to the confusion. The only reason I can tell any difference is because I've been studying Ukranian for about two months. The names of the months are a complete giveaway.
Yes I understand that, that’s why I made this video 😊
That's because you have chances to hear only Russian speakers speaking "Ukrainian. Their phonetics are world apart. Ukrainian doesn't have so many soft consonants also the voices are lower.
Ukrainian so called language is a dialect of Russian. It was a Russian language that got influenced by Polish and Serbo-Croatian.
@@frostflower5555 orc
@@frostflower5555 Misinformation. Do some study.
Thank you for this! I am learning Ukrainian ( I am still quite new to it). I think Ukrainian is a beautiful language.
I’m also thinking of learning Ukraïnsky from Russian, my native tongue.
Hi taya, Nice, it was interesting vdo for me now iam little aware differences between both countries n ur language skill r really great
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Very interesting. My wife has been studying Ukrainian using a language app since the war started, and has noted some of the same differences you describe. Thank you!
she sounds like a loser 🙄 why does she want to learn a dying language that no one speaks and has no value it’s like me wanting to learn Armenian. What’s the use?
Duzhe kruto! Dyakuyu!
Hello Dear Taya, happy to see you again and you look great, very useful video!! Love and Greetings from Hellas!
3:49 The word 'chai' is neither Ukrainian nor Russian. It is chinese that's why it is the same :)
But 茶 doesn't have a y [j] sound at the end.
@@atdzsny ok, yjen it comes for sure from hindi there is the same sound at the end :)
Very interesting. Thank you..
Very clear explanation👍
Cyrillic alphabets are not too difficult if practiced regularly, especially Ukrainian language. Ukraine is a very beautiful country, peoples are also very good and their traditional clothes are very beautiful. May the war end soon as forever, and may Ukraine regain its lost lands. Love for Ukraine💙💛 from India🧡🤍💚.
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Hello Taya, I'm writing this in regards to the recent intrigue regarding differences between Ukraine and Russia. It might make us sound ignorant but I'll be completely truthful with you: most Americans didn't even know that Ukraine existed until the war. In fact, when talking about the Chernobyl catastrophe, most assume this happened somewhere in Russia. So, now we want to know more 😸
Haha I know about this! I was making videos on TH-cam 10 years, and foreigners don’t understand what’s going on in central and Eastern Europe. And that’s fine, I’m here to teach ❤
Funny they say Russian is more simillar to South Slavic or Bulgarian but in general it seems both are simillar but in different way, for example Gorod/Grad and Misto/Mjesto are both present in South Slavic, Grad is a City but Misto/Mjesto is a Place, a Town, a spot (Tvoje misto na kauču) to sit or something like that .
Ukrajinski Sounds a more musical almost like people are singing a bit.
The South Slavic influence in Russian comes from Church Slavonic.
@@stefanreichenberger5091 Which is close to Bulgarian or some even say it is old Bulgarian
Grad becomes hrad in some Slavic languages and means castle. One finds cities occurring near castles. Prague has two.
@@kevin.keen.socialmedia Grad is a City or a Castle but it is also Hail at least in Croatian, other name for Hail is Krupa/Tuča
Ukrainian sounds like dog barking to me. Its just twisted Russian words that they invent every day.
I am from America and have always thought Ukrainian sounded more melodic, smoother, softer on the ear than Russian. Russian just sounds a little harder on the ear. A more beautiful sounding language
Thank you!
Thanks for the nice video :) I am from Germany and someone who is really interested in languages. I studied the Russian language in 2007 and 2008 :D (a long time ago)
At the moment I also study Polish and when you talked about the months a lot of them reminded me on the polish names :) (especially "Listopad" is the same)
My main question was always if the unstressed "o" sound also sounds like an "a" :) but as you mentioned "moloko" it was clear that you are not doing it like in Russian :) It would be great to see more videos like that in the future :) it is really interesting - Thanks so much
It means " leaf fall" - like Americans say " fall" .
@@barbarcreighton6726 thats nice :) but not in polish ... a friend told me that the word "list" only means "letter" not "leaf" :) but maybe "list" is an older version of the word - because it works in Russian :D
@@erichsuft6595 it is leaf. Poles just lost it's original meaning.
@@erichsuft6595 oh they say "liść". Russian(and not only) "T" often turns into "Ch" in Polish. they just love to hiss.
The months' names are old-Slavic and their names mean natural phenomenons and activites that are happening during each month. For example Polish listopad is made of words "liść"/"liście" (leaf/leafs) and "padać"/"opadać" (to fall), because in listopad leafs are falling from the trees. The same meaning hides in Ukrainian листопад.
It is interesting that there are some similarities to Western Slavic like Czech. They have city: mesto and hrad=forteresse, while grad exists in Serbian as well. Also in some other words there seem to be similarities to Czech. However, each of those languages has something exceptionel unique, too. I once heard an example of Ukrainian on the web and that did not sound similar to Russian at all. Maybe it depends a bit on the background of the speaker/subject/region, but in that case I was really surprised how different it was. In other cases it was less obvious and the words are almost the same. In your example my attribution failed. I think I would need quite some amount of conversation to distinguish it savely from Russian, but that is lack of experience and I never learnt one of the two languages.
Thank you for this short overview. To me the difference between Dutch and German seems to be bigger. Furthermore, see the Italian dialects.
The months in Russian are the result of Orthodox Church adopting the Byzantine tradition in the 10th century. This pretty much explains why very few people in Russia understand the Slavic month names. If this were just a 18th century change people would be widely aware of the lexics.
In Ukrainian, soft t's and d's are much rarer. The infinitive suffix is a good marker to distinguish the two languages.
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Part of Ukraine was once under the Austrian Hungarian Empire. The Austro Hungarian empire didn’t apply any sort of bans on language, or prevent publishing books in Ukrainian and teaching and speaking it like Russia did. This helped the Ukrainian language survive and its literature to even flourish. Ironically at the time Russia was claiming to be the defender of Slavic unity. The letter was pure propaganda.
It's a bit more complex, since the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was also applied bans, but for different reason. Here (I'm Hungarian) the Government tried to reach that Ukrainians were assimilated through heavy methods and also any literature in Ukrainian about Slavic unity was banned also (The then rusin movement in West Ukraine, now a dialect and a part of Ukrainians are named Rusin), while the situation was opposite on the Russian side. They've banned the literature mainly about Ukrainian sovereignty.
The later era ( Ukraine in SU), also had different politics about ukrainization and deukrainization in different times.
Being a student in SU at 80-ies, I was very surprised to find out that in the education at university level (IT at that time) books in Ukrainian were used in Harkov and Kiev, since I'd expected that in SU everyone uses Russian before I've got there.
On these towns however people on the streets were speaking Russian, so the environment was real double (even if very similar) language.
@@gyorgyschiff7684 You miss the point. Russia actually banned the actual teaching of the Ukrainian language. Austria Hungary did not ban the language. The Hapsbergs were happy with a multi-ethnic empire. Arch Duke Ferdinand even married a Czech. Russia for a long time banned printing in the Ukrainian language and also banned importing books printed in Ukrainian. These restrictions were only partially lifted in Tsarist controlled Ukraine till 1905 and even then it was not permitted to make public political statements in the language. They did not end until Russia's defeat in WW1 and the Armistice of Brest Litrovesk Germany compelled forced Russia to give Ukraine independence. The Austro Hungarian Empire never banned the language itself. Russia did.
-The political literature on slavic unity was to a large part Russian propaganda directed at expanding the Russian empire and had little to do with actual Slavic unity. Russian propaganda is not new. Its been around since the Tsars.
Ukrainian so called language is a dialect of Russian. It was a Russian language that got influenced by Polish and Serbo-Croatian.
@@frostflower5555 Don't annoy us with your nonsense. Educate yourself.
Just The same Ukrainians did in past years. If you go back you will also find similar oppression done by every state and nation
Thats very interesting. for the difference in the alpabet imedatly as comparion to Ukrainan -Russian , German - Hungary came to my mind. both have the latin alpabeth but in hungarian some letters exist (often combination of two letters) who doesn exist in the german alpabet or some who are differend pronunced. For the spken language diffrencs and partial whole diffrence words between russian and Ukrainan it remindes me about the diffrence between Swiss German and written German /Germanys German.
Very good explanation, Taya!
Always interesting Taya. You have amazing language skills.
8:30 That's called a shibboleth, during war time they would use such words to differentiate between people who looked 'the same' and they wanted to find out their ethnicity using language. In Japan and Korea during WW2 they used 'nijyuu en gojissen' (something like 20 yen and 50 cents).
I really enjoyed this video. I’m an American living in Central Europe. I have Russian and Ukrainian friends here. My Russian friend was learning Ukrainian which really surprised me. I had thought Ukrainian was a Russian dialect. My friends explained to me that they are different languages and gave me some examples with the alphabet that you showed in your video. I grew up when both were part of the USSR, and of course Russia being the biggest part. So I wrongly assumed that most people that were Soviet citizens spoke different variations of Russian. My friends kindly helped me understand how wrong I was. But great video and it reinforced what my friends told me.
... Excellent description of differences. Far more coherent than me trying to explain how people in New Orleans talk. Good work Taya 👏
I think you summed it up at 1:28😂 But, yes, I do understand the differences somewhat since you explained it😊
We ask about the difference because Ukraine was part of Russia at one time.
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I really love the small town Ukraine videos.
These really are very interesting and soooooo peaceful to watch everyday normal small town life. It is as if time has stood still or we have traveled back in time when life was so much more simple and beautiful this way. There is no detail too small about this small town farm life that is not interesting. I also love to see everyone sit down to the table with all that yummy fooood! :) :p
You could make a video of small town farm life in Ukraine every day - and I would watch every day! :)
@@CanadianEh And vice-versa. It is a complicated relationship
Ukraine was never a " part" of Russia.
@@vidong1704 ???
You’re a Canadian, eh? And Ukrainian communities are all over Canada. If Ukraine was part of Russia, then wouldn't these be Russian communities instead?
I think you might be confusing Russia with the Russian Empire (India was part of the British Empire) and the USSR. Ukraine was one republic of USSR and Russia was another.
Ukraine became fully independent in 1917 and in 1991 again. So, it's more accurate to say that Ukraine was under Russian or Soviet control at various points in history, but it was never "part of Russia."
If you still disagree, I invite you to walk into any Ukrainian-Canadian church, restaurant, or organization and loudly declare, "Ukraine was part of Russia." Or, if you want a similar experience, try walking into an Irish pub and say, "Ireland was part of England."
I hope you're a fast runner.
Frankly, I’m surprised to hear this from a Canadian. I’d expect this foot-in-the-mouth from an American.
Saying that Ukraine was part of Russia once is like saying that Scotland is part of England. Nope, that only reflects on the ignorance of the speaker. Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire, and then a republic of the USSR, but always a separate part than Russia.
8:29 - 8:31 What Ukrainian word do you mean? Is that Паляниця? I know, the combination ця is normal in Ukrainian but not in Russian. Ц can never be soft in Russian, although it is possible to write це and ци, but it is pronounced as if цэ or цы is written.
Very. very useful video, Taya! Long time I was looking for such explanation to be able to catch the differences in spoken language, and you hit the nail! Thank you.
Never realized that the "new" Croatian months draw a lot from the form used in Ukraine.
Palianytsia! Dobroho ronku!
Syktyvkar
for 'shower' dush its close to the latin languages. in portuguese its ducha
Interesting. It's dusch in Swedish and Dusche in German. After studying a bit of Russian I have seen that it has more similarities to German or Swedish than to English. ( Which are the languages I know ) With that said most words are not the same...
Умница. Хороший, понятный английский.
Nice and short languages' difference explanation
I started to learn Ukrainian some time ago and I was very surprised how fast was able to tell the difference. I am still learning but I really wish I had a friend who speaks Ukrainian to learn with.
There are many narratives from Moscow about the Ukrainian language. Many txs for your enlightening info!
Both languages were quickly put together, without thorough analysis. This was organized by Kopitar, who was employed in Vienna in the Slavic counter-propaganda department. And they prevented the transitory Greek-Catholic religion from changing to Catholicism, as in the Balkans, because they prevented the unification of Poles and Ukrainians into one larger nation. Kopitar also organized the creation of the Serbian language as a counterweight to the Croats who created the Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages because they wanted to unite with the Croats. Thus, it was easier to rule several smaller nations than one large one. The French and the English did the same by dividing the German and Italian language, which have now virtually merged into one.
That is some of the dumbest horseshit I have ever heard in my entire life. How do you think we did this to the Germans, did we give every single German state a slightly different copy of the Bible, did we?
Our behaviour must have seemed very confusing for the Germans at the time, considering that they actually invented the printing press. And the Lutheran bible. And the Hochdeutsch which was meant to bridge many different Germanic dialects together.
What else are you going to credit us nefarious Anglo-Saxons with, the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire? What about the Peloponnesian wars?
@@rorychivers8769 You haven't read the history of how disputes between the various German and Italian kingdoms were settled. England even had a part of Germany under its rule. Alliances and bribes fueled disputes and mistrust, as in the colonies, when small tribes were put in power, thereby securing tribal soldiers to fight for the imperialists. They potentiated ethical divisions for their own benefit, where two argue, the third profits. England changed its religion because the king wanted to divorce and had a religion made that allows it and of which he is the head.
Germans are Germans, and Italians are anything, but no Germans, why the hack they have to be merged? By the way Anglo-Saxons are Germans, and yet they merged with Celts (Scottish, Welsh), not with Germans. Maybe geography has something to do with it somehow?
@@rorychivers8769 No, not the foundation but destruction of it. Also the Ottoman Empire and genocides of Turks, Armenians etc. And the creation of several little proud useless Nazi States that followed.
Originally, Greco Catholic rite started after Norman reconquest on Southern Italy around year 1000 which used Byzantine Rite in church, but then restored communion with Rome. Long story, way before Habsburg rule in South-East Europe.
Why do we think it's interesting? Well, for some people, languages are interesting. That just about sums it up. Thank you so much for explaining some of the differences between Russian and Ukrainian.
My from Nigeria i love your video
@ 0:19 Got a cheat-sheet of UA & RU alphabets. )
5:37 Ukrainian | Russian | English
To be honest the two sound very similar to me.
Usually you can hear the difference in the way the two flow. Ukrainian is much more of a singing language because it flows much more smoothly. Russian language tends to be much more choppy or harsh sounding in that respect. If it sounds more Italian than Spanish, it's probably Ukrainian.
because they are the same language. it's all just politics.
@@Qvadratws you couldn't be more wrong. They indeed are very much different languages. They may have similar roots, and overlap each other in many cases, but they are absolutely different languagrs regardless of any politics.
The same way Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian languages are not the same even though they overlap each other to a large extent.
@@VKla-js3bd not even close. it is more like Hoch Deutsch and some Bavarian dialect. Italia has completely different history than Spain, not speaking about Romania. Which is completely different people even genetically. And the languages themselves are more than thousand years apart. And they always had their very own literary tradition unlike Ukrainian.
@@Qvadratws so you speak both Russian and Ukrainian?
After this lecture, I am beginning to think that in the USA they speak american, in Canada canadian, in Australia australian, in N. Zealand they speak new zealand, in the Falkland Islands they speak falkland! Am I right? 🧐
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I’d love to hear more sentences compared so I can learn to identify which is which when spoken.
Love you❤❤❤ from india
I still wish that u people can come to terms together because this war is nothing but fraternal
Which is the easiest Slavic language for a beginner to learn to a basic level?
For Romance languages, I would recommend Italian.
Just learn Interslavic.
An older teacher of mine (a physicist), was once employed during soviet Union period as translator of russian. He pointed out that Females and males speak that language very differently.
Although during this invasion period, I hear many males and females of Ukraine speak, I do not hear such a difference. Do you feel that way about male/female pronunciation of russian, or Ukrainian?
Modern Greek uses month words much like Russian, which was a surprise, but modern Greek probably imported those words from Latin or all Europe. Hearing Romanian, i was SURPRISED how many understandable Latin words are in that Slavic language.
Ukrainian still sounds more like west Slavic languages, even though russia since Peter imported so many more western European words.
Even though i am US native, with only French and some Spanish, and very little of some of our native indigenous and Hawaiian Polynesian, I am now offended when US news media uses russian word for Kyiv (Key-Ev, to them) and other Ukrainian place names. This seems to indicate bias on their part toward russia, immediately in my mind.
(Being biased, I do not capitalize the word russian, as i think "muscovite instead)
Question: what if you add month names in Old Russian to your table? Just curious.
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I'm SE Asian and I must say，both sounds the same in my ears since I don't understand both。It would be like a European listening to an incomprehensible Malay，Thai，and Tagalog that lead to hasty conclusion that these 3 languages sounds so similar while the reality is opposite，despite being within the same SE Asian region。However，I studied few vocabularies of both Slavic languages and it already broke my early presumption of similarities。
My favorite Ukraine lounge sweet heart Taya ❤😊
Здравствуйте я Jardel я из Бразилии, anyway I am a beginner but the phrases that you say to guess each country was I could identify it, is so satisfying, поздравления fot the video спосиба больше
It is now even worse. When I said to a russian that I was about to change to Ukrainian this russian literally said: "Why do you need that shit?".
I am glad I changed.
Слава Україні.
Another round of Western manipulations. If you didn't catch her point, Russian is actually more of a Western European language than Ukrainian.
what kind of reaction you expected from him after saying that you want to "change to ᵘKRAINIAN"? lol it's like saying I don't want to talk to you anymore and I think I am better than ʸᵒᵘ. Some people are really surprising.
@Qvadratws You can't explain anything to the average Anglo-Saxon-they just parrot whatever the neocon Deep State feeds them. Now they're all about backing "heroic" Zelensky and "independent" Ukraine fighting "evil" Russia. Never mind that Zelensky is just a Western puppet on top of far-right nationalists, or that Ukrainization is wiping out not only Russian but Rusyn culture too. Doesn't matter that his regime jails hundreds and uses state-sponsored assassins against opponents-none of that registers.
@Qvadratws You can't explain anything to the average Anglo-Saxon-they just parrot whatever the neocon Deep State feeds them. Now they're all about backing "heroic" Zelensky and "independent" Ukraine fighting "evil" Russia. Never mind that Zelensky is just a puppet on top of far-right nationalists, or that Ukrainization is wiping out not only Russian but Rusyn culture too. Doesn't matter that his regime jails hundreds and uses state-sponsored assassins against opponents-none of that registers.
@@Qvadratws Not knowing the context doesn't help, but taken on face value, the Russian's response was damned ignorant and chauvinistic..
Russian made a leap in vocabulary 200 years ago, thanks to Pushkin who could speak an excellent French. He really enriched his own language by adding thousands of foreign words. The same way as Shakespeare in England, centuries before. When I studied Russian, I found that at least 12% of the words look exactly like those of my language. Is it the same with Ukrainian or do you keep more slavic roots?
Words endings (declensions) are painful to learn, but the two word aspects are even less natural for Slavic languages learners.
NB: I am French and live in Poland now.
ukrainian is arcaic rural dialect of russian
Ukrainian language is much more related to polish than to russian. Months and the word MISTO is just the same! Amazing video!
My mother was german and born 1932 in a german village next to Odessa (Brinowka). She spoke both german and russian and worked in a russian kindergarden (and leader of a group in the komsomol) before the war. After the war she flew to Germany. She also told me that they had friends in "russian" villages around. My grandmother was expelled to Kassachstan after the war and came to Germany in 1970. I still remember that she always used the russian word "televiser" for TV even when she spoke german. Both are dead now. When the recent war started I asked my 90 year old mother whether she spoke ukrainian or russian. She was a bit confused and told me that she speaks russian. But from what I know now those villages must have been ukrainian, or better belonging to the USSR, so perhaps "ukrainian" was not an option.
Could it be that there where villages with russian speakers? Or was it ukrainian what she spoke. The russian "televiser" of my grandma must come from her long stay in Kasachstan, as there where no TVs in 1930 in Ukraine.
Any thoughts on that?
There are villages in many parts of Ukraine where Russian was the predominant language. Especially under the Soviet Union (and even under the Russian Empire) Russian speakers were settled into many of those areas. Also some Germans were settled there at times in the 18th and 19th centuries, as noted in your family history.
I have to admit, that I hardly can tell apart slavic languages at all. But by watching street interviews with Ukrainians and Russians I noticed the differences between Ukr. yes - tak - and russ. yes - da resp. no - njet / ni . Or, as you mentioned, the difference between the h-sound and the g-sound ( _propahanda_ vs. _propaganda_ ).
Interestingly the Ukr. word for roof is practically identical to the German word (Dach). That comes probably from the Austrians.
müssen, zwibbel, weile and so on. they actually have more German loans than Russians. the girl is just ignorant. )
Thank you for this interesting video. As I've been watching many videos of soldiers speaking Ukrainian and Russian, I was wondering how different are those languages.
We Spanish speakers have only 5 vowels and no proper diphthongs, so we find those subtly different vowels extremely hard to pronounce, or even distinguish.
Greetings from Chile.
Greetings from Slavic Croatia
thanks a lot ! very interesting !
My wife is from serbia and so I speak a little bit serbian as well. Ukrainian seems to be more close to serbian than russian. Specially the silly discrepancy between orthography and pronuncation.
Cool video Taya, always love learning things like this!
As a kid in 1970s I visited Lviv area with my Mum from Poland. I thought i would practice my Russian there, but nobody would want to talk to me in Russian. I didn't know any history. Way later I found out my grandmother was Ukrainian, most likely. I was lucky to meet her cousin in Parma Ohio, who told me my grandfather would beat here because she didn't speak Polish at 5 years old. He ended up in Australia and barely acknowledged family forced to relocate to west Poland. What a twisted history. Sad.
Love your videos sister
Apostrophe ( ' ) is pronounced Ah pahs tra fee with the stress on the second syllable, "pahs."
your accent is so cute lol
Thank you for posting this video and please continue with other aspects of Ukrainian culture which are unique to your country. I am an enthusiastic amateur linguist and this question of what difference there are between your maternal tongue and Russian is one that I have wondered about. So here is a question: how is it that very many Ukrainians know Russian, but not the reverse?
@@RobertSeviour1 here you need to know the history to understand:) Ukraine was under Russian occupation for many years-Russian empire, Soviet Union etc. I think that’s the shortest answer to your question
I am an English speaker, but my native language is Italian. I have no problem pronouncing "palyanitsa". We have the word "Palio" in Italian. I just change it to "palia" and add "nitsa". Easy.
You just have a innate gift of picking up languages easily. After listening to you explain the difference between the Ukraine and Russian languages, I bought me a bottle of Hard Liquor to drank because my head was spinning. You are a very talented and intelligent and beautiful person. Take care,be safe.
Hahahah
As an English speaker, Ukrainian sounds nicer and more melodic than Russian. I have Nothing negative to say about the Russian language by itself, it mostly sounds quite neutral. But compared to Ukrainian it sounds more harsh and the difference between syllables is much stronger. Whereas Ukrainian seems to flow easier from syllable to syllable. I'd compare Ukrainian to something like Greek or Spanish- softer sounding. Whereas Russian is more like German- harsher, but not necessarily negative.
@@Randomstuffs261 Russian is famous to be the softest sounding Slavic language while the Western Slavic ones are harder especially Czech. That has nothing to do with charakter of the people. I found mostly nice people in Czech and the same in Danmark even if Danish sounds as if someone gets chocked on first glance. I rarely had the impression Russian sounds harsh except it was meant to be...
@@florianmeier3186 It definitely sounds harsher than Ukrainian or Polish. I'm not familiar enough with Czech
@@Randomstuffs261 Polish lol. "I have Nothing negative to say about the Russian language by itself..." Sure. haha
You are absolutely correct. Its 100% true. Ukrainian is one of the soft languages and it tends to flow. Its much more of a singing language as well. Another interesting thing is that supposedly Ukrainian has much more words than the Russian language.
@@Qvadratws I literally don't though.