Це чудово, що ви вивчаєте українську. Бажаю вам натхнення та успіхів!

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

Дякую!

Ви надихаєте! Дякую Вам!

I can't wait for my semester to finish so I can finally start my 90-days Japanese challenge I hope I will be able to learn from a meaningful context after that, because I am sick of the beginner lower lower intermediate stuff

Yes! another 90 day challenge! I'm doing my 90 day german challenge along with you! Los geht's!

so cool!

Hi Steve! I have been following on your posts for a while! I am native Ukraine so if you need someone to practice I would like to help you. And actually I impressed about your decision to learn my native language.

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

I mostly just listen and read, but have had a few conversations with one of our Ukrainian members at LingQ. If you have the time, we could have a chat on Skype. That would be great.

@vladimiryakimenko9319

10 жыл бұрын

Yes sure! Just send me your skype name (or send me invitation, my skype name is vov4ishka88) so I can add you and let's schedule skype call.

Man you are cool))) Ти молодець!!!

Steve can you, please, do a series on Esperanto?

As someone who was born in Lviv and practice both Russian and Ukrainian languages at a native proficiency level, I can relate to the difficulties of learning both languages that look deceptively similar but are so different. Good luck with your acquisition of the Ukrainian language.

Steve, you are an inspiration to me! I love languages and enjoy watching your videos. I have a question I am learning spanish and also italian at the same time because of the need in my life to know them both. How would you recommend me going about it? Would this 90 day challenge work well for a solution to help me improve and learn both languages better? Thank you for your time!:) Languagelover

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

You can try learning them both, or you may find, like I do, that it is better to concentrate on one at a time. Say 80% English for 3 months and then 80% Italian for three months.

@languagelover2

10 жыл бұрын

ok thank you so much! :)

Мені було б цікаво почути як ви розмовляєте Українською!

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

Ми могли б говорити трохи в скайпі, якщо ви хочете.

@user-pd8kj8cw5y

10 жыл бұрын

Добре, ми можемо спробувати! my skype: deymos1994

***** I have a question. How long does it take you to actually start feeling your target language, i.e. feeling poetry and having a potential/ability to write it in the target language? By the way, happy to hear you are into Ukrainian.

I'm a bit curious what it would take to get Vietnamese on lingq, and if there is a way I could help

Steve, how can we get more languages on LingQ? I know that you are the founder of LingQ, but what process needs to be done to get more languages on the website?

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

Somewhere on the site is a list of all the content that needs to be created for a supported language. Which language are you interested in. I suggest you get on our Forum and talk up our language.

8:20 Finland mentioned?! See you at market square!! -Finnish proverb

Will there be beginners content for Ukrainian on lingQ soon? Also the 90 day/ 3 month with a language thing is something that Moses McCormick does when he learns languages.

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

Beginner Ukrainian? Only if someone creates some, i.e. a member.

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

Where are you finding Ukrainian audio content WITH ALSO the transcript?

Sir thank you! Дякую вам пане за рекламу українській мові!)

Цікаво слухати вашу українську мову. Успіхів у навчанні!

У вас дуже гарний акцент. Бажаю успiхiв!

@vladfedotov8462

8 жыл бұрын

а у вас дуже дивне ім'я.

Great ukrainian accent :D

You do have Arabic on LingQ, Steve. Why Farsi and not arabic?

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

Yes we have Arabic. Farsi because we have lots of Iranians in Vancouver, because it is an Indo-European language and may be easier, and because I would learn in both Arabic script and maybe Cyrillic using Tajik sources. Bu then I may still learn Arabic first.

@Virusnzz

10 жыл бұрын

Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Hi Steve, you might know this but Persian is still quite different, and also shares a lot of Arabic words. If you're interested, our community has a thing called Language of the Week where natives come and talk about their languages and people ask about it. This week it's Persian, so I'd be stoked if you even came over just to have a look. You can find it here: www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/28ads3/%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%B4_%D8%A2%D9%85%D8%AF%DB%8C%D8%AF_this_weeks_language_of_the_week_farsi/

@zagadkamisteriya

10 жыл бұрын

Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve recommend to compare the phonology of both accents. Standard Farsi in Iran is quite different from Standard Farsi in Tajikistan. The difference is that Tajiks did not undergo the vowel change that happened in Iran; so they have that classical Persian accent and old words. Example: the word "нанг" (IPA:/næŋg/) means honor, however the same word "ننگ" ( IPA:/naŋg/), in Iranian standardised farsi, means dishonor or shame. this difference is because in the old fashion/classical it does mean honor, but Farsi in Iran did undergo a lot of change in comparison with the Farsi in Tajikistan. But the reverse is also visible in Afghanistan Farsi. In Afghanistan when you say the word "بچه" (IPA:/bæt͡ʃæ/) it means boy; however in Iran and Tajikistan the word "Бача" (IPA:/bæt͡ʃæ/) or "بچه" (IPA:/bat͡ʃε/) means child or kid.

Assimil's L'Ukrainien is great but might not be as useful for someone who already knows a great deal of Russian.

@mesofius

3 жыл бұрын

depends what your intention is, if it's to read, listen and watch Ukrainian-language content, then it is very useful, lol

Privit,Steve! I cant figure out how to use LinQ. Any suggestions?

Please tell me why I can't find Ukrainian language at LingQ?

@Thelinguist

6 жыл бұрын

look under beta languages. It is there.

Do these challenges really work? Like on a scale from 1-10 how well do you know Korean from your 90 day challenge?

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

Big improvement in comprehension, speaking and enjoyment. 10/10 for enjoyment and satisfaction.

@robnoftz

10 жыл бұрын

Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Good response. I'm working on improving at Spanish and I started watching telenovelas. I can tell my comprehension has improved as the months have gone by but I couldn't put a number on it. I just find that more and more I understand what is being said and what is going on. Reading and listening definitely help.

@francisco1962ify

10 жыл бұрын

Steve. Why don't you try with www.euronews.net in Ukrainian? You have the audio, video and text.

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

I can't figure out how to download the audio from that site. Any idea? And thanks by the way.

@matthewjohnson3764

10 жыл бұрын

Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve I would suggest an open-source KZread-MP3 conversion software in order to convert the video to audio.

Do many young people in western Ukraine or Kiev speak Russian, i.e, people born after the fall of the USSR?

@terugi

10 жыл бұрын

I don't know much deeply about this, but russian is supposed to be to ex-USSR countries something like English is to us in the major part of the world.

@anonymousbloke1

10 жыл бұрын

ALL 100%

@IfTheApocalypseComes

10 жыл бұрын

Yes everyone generally speaks russian, but learn Ukrainian in school, I'm from there :)

@olegnovitski6987

10 жыл бұрын

I would say at least 90% of young people to the west from Kyiv speak Ukrainian as their native language. Also most are passive bilinguals, which means their understanding of Russian is at native or near native level, but not many can speak very fluently.

@nastiahoncharuk6285

9 жыл бұрын

100geemo78 in Eastern Ukraine -in Russian, in Western Ukrainian people speaks Ukrainian, in central Ukraine mixed- especially in small towns or villages. But people easily understand each other and are fluent in both.

Ukrainian is very close to Czech, but Belarusian is considered to be the closest language.

You should try Hebrew Steve.

Can you beg for Farsi? :)

У меня бабушка живет в Крыму, где я проводил все детство и летние каникулы. Часто слышал украинскую речь и мог без проблем ее понимать, но никогда не пробовал начинать говорить по-украински, кроме, как в шутку. После ваших подвигов в изучении мовы стало стыдно и сегодня я размолвляю украинской))) Дюже цикаво!

@Alina190995

6 жыл бұрын

Castle Coins дУже, почему Ю?)

Russian is more firmly, Ukraine is soft in sound.

I´d always admired Steve and found him a polite,well educated guy till he ignored the comment I wrote on one of his last videos.It won´t matter to him,not even to me,but he´s losing one subscriber.

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

I try to answer the questions I get, but I certainly miss some, and make no promises that I will reply to all. Just what was your question?

Слава Україні!

@safronio

10 жыл бұрын

Позор тем, кто убивает мирных граждан, сбрасывает бомбы на города

@skarlett4039

10 жыл бұрын

ГЕРОЯМ СЛАВА

@vladfedotov8462

8 жыл бұрын

+Sergey Safronov позор тем кто по наглому отжал Крым который никто не заберал. И позор тем кто отправляет или поддерживает тех кто отправляет оружие "мирным шахтёрам". А потом ещё говорит:"ну мы же братья".

@user-fx1sc7uc4o

4 жыл бұрын

@@safronio Здохни мокшанська собака!!!

It's a little bit offensive to say that Ukrainian is similar to polish... D:

@anonymousbloke1

10 жыл бұрын

Cuz' polish is west slavic, ukrainian- east slavic, like russian and byelorussian...

@Thelinguist

10 жыл бұрын

I was just referring to information on the lexical proximity.

@anonymousbloke1

10 жыл бұрын

Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve I'm trying to learn some polish and I'd say it seems to be similar at first, but... there are LOTS of different things... Maybe that's because I speak "Eastern" Ukrainian...

@mesofius

3 жыл бұрын

Ukrainian is still farther from all other Slavic languages than Spanish is from Portuguese. People often say how similar the Slavic languages are, but the Romance languages are far closer together in their vocabulary than any of the Slavic languages are. Ukrainian is relatively close to Slovakian too.

ukrainian is more like Belorussian than polish and very far in pronunciation than Russian.