Hi Olga. Interesting video, thanks. Before my first visit to Ukraine (in 2015) I tried to learn a little Ukrainian, only to be surprised when I got there that most of the people where I was spoke Russian as their first language, not Ukrainian. I thought it strange that they would speak the language of their neighbours rather than their own language, but then realised I do the same! I live in Scotland but speak English!! After my first visit I started to learn some Russian, but actually preferred Ukrainian language. After another couple of visits I noticed more and more speaking Ukrainian and obviously now after the start of the war that has been even more the case. So now I am concentrating on just Ukrainian language to communicate with my Ukrainian friends. 🙂

@Olga_Reznikova

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I agree that Ukrainians are guilty by themselves that they are not appreciating and not value their own language, preferring to speak the language of their enemy. At the end, Russian language was one of the tool which Russia was using in their propaganda. Not just directly, but indirectly - by letting people read and understand all that BS which Russia is spreading in the media.

@TheFrewah

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The wonderful thing about the English language is that no country owns it. Broken English is the most common language in the world.

One day I said to my Ukrainian pen pal you live in Ukraine but you speak Russian. She said you live in America but you speak English. That's when I knew I was talking to a smart Ukrainian Lady.

I am an American guy living in Odessa. I speak Russian (C2) and Ukrainian (B2). Today I ordered some food in a cafe speaking in Ukrainian. The waitress repeated back my order to me speaking in Russian. For the rest of the time I was there, I spoke to her in Ukrainian, and she spoke to me in Russian. Strange situation with languages here, when an American wants to speak Ukrainian more than a Ukrainian does 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Olga_Reznikova

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Yes true!

@gtrguyinaz

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❤❤❤she needs to head north…

@arthurlenko9598

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Stockholm syndrome.😝

@aprilgeneric8027

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might be all she knows. also she is from the region, can you spot KGB/FSB just from looking at them? how about talking to them. to fight with russians, there are no rules, everything goes, especially any trick that wins the fight first and fastest. my german ancestry can be traced back to 12th century.

@RW4X4X3006

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Yeah. I just decided to speak English, to everyone's delight. Odesa and Dnistrovskyi are awesome places.

Interesting video. I am Russian. I've never happened to go to Ukrain. But I started learning Ukrainian language on You Tube after the war started so I could understand the you tubers in Ukrainian and so I would be able to understand and talk to the refugees here in England. After a while I started understanding Ukrainian really well. But I still feel a bit embarrassed speaking and writing in Ukrainian because I am worried that I will make mistakes and I might come across stupid. It feels so good now to be able to understand Ukrainian. It's great the Ukrainian language got preserved despite Russia trying to oppress it.

@Olga_Reznikova

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It is very nice that you tried to learn it!

@adrianr650

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So useful to translate for Ukrainians in England never mind a few mistakes.

@OlgasBritishFells

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@@adrianr650 for translation I really try in Ukrainian but very often they see that my Ukrainian vocabulary is not very extended and they tell me that I could just switch into Russian, I mean they say they are ok if I translate it from English into Russian and other way around. I keep pestering with Ukrainian though. I asked all my Ukrainian friends here to try to only speak Ukrainian with me so I can learn it quicker.

@APlusRussian

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@@OlgasBritishFells that is amazing, Olya - we also want to learn it this year! Did you use any apps (like Duolingo) in addition to youTube?

@OlgasBritishFells

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@@APlusRussian I don't use any apps. I learnt the basics on line and I just watch a lot of interesting Ukrainian You Tube channels. I learn best when I surround myself with the language. I often work out the meaning and the grammar rules myself just from hearing the language being spoken or written down but I learn best when the content is interesting because I don't even notice then that I am learning. For example, I am subscribed to this Ukrainian lady, who is a psycholinguist. And a guy, whose channel is about different nuances in male and female relationship but it's all in Ukrainian. My brain just absorbs the gist and over the time I worked it out myself what the words meant from the context.

I'm Norwegian so I speak Norwegian and I find it easy to understand Swedish and Danish.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Nice!!!

Putin on 24th February talked about "denazification" by meaning "de-Ukrainization"/"Rusification" of Ukraine.

@Olga_Reznikova

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After they invade each city, first thing they do is changing all signs and everything to Russian language. If they have no problem with Ukrainian nation, but with government - they should have no problem with Ukrainian identity. But it is clear they are not.

I studied in Ukraine 4 years long and spoke almost fluent Ukrainian. Unfortunately now without practice I am losing my skills a bit, but its always nice to hear Ukrainian on the streets where I currently live. Even where I work i can understand some basic Polish because of my Ukrainian knowledge! :D

@Olga_Reznikova

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Nice!!!

@Booz2020

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When it comes to a foreign language, use it or lose it‼️ It's better for you to speak that language to yaself 🗣️ while others may see you as Nerd 🤓

In my experience Ukrainian language is easier to learn and much more Beautiful than Russian, words are much much easier to pronounce and names are very cool (for example: Volodymyr instead Vladimir). Not only that, Ukrainian is very ancient language with traces from year 1011!! The only bad thing about Ukrainian language is that there are not many teachers or resources :(

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thanks!!!!

@amaromem1

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@@Olga_Reznikova 😘

@Chaldon-hl6yk

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Volodymyr is old-russian style ))

@Cynthia_Blackraven_666

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@@Chaldon-hl6yk old slavic, not "russian"

@voyagersquaremuzika

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@@Cynthia_Blackraven_666 Vladimir also in Croatia and Serbia ,usual name, this is old-slavic name , when we were much closer to each other

I am praying everyday for peace for all Ukrainians. On the lighter side, I am seeking a beautiful English speaking Ukrainian bride who is a crazy lady military tank driver. We would always get a good parking space and never have to wait in line very long at all restaurants. She could whisper crazy passionate sayings in my ears. LOL 😂❤

Olechка, thank you for the historical overview! And for explaining the balance of two languages in Ukraine!! I also live in the West now, and actually teach Russian on KZread. But most of our Russian-speaking friends here are Ukrainian! In 2023, my husband and I want to learn Українську мову - so that we could speak their Mother tongue, not the other way around 💙💛

@Olga_Reznikova

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Great!! Very appreciated!

@Booz2020

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Bring Marina Mogilko and Venya Pak Olga 🤠🇺🇸

@SpencerG89

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Olga (A+ Russian), much respect to you! Feelings are generally strong against Russia (and anything Russian) in many Ukrainian-supportive circles today, and even my young nieces and my nephew had gotten the idea in their heads that the Russian language was almost an evil thing. (I corrected them on that- the language itself is not evil, and there are many wonderful people who speak it, like yourself…) I do agree that it’s a good thing for Ukraine to be able to embrace their language and their cultural heritage as that’s something that’s been suppressed for centuries, so in a way I’m glad to see more and more Ukrainians speaking Ukrainian and latching onto their own cultural identity. But hopefully some years after all this is over, Russia can become a more normal place, and people’s feelings in the international community can soften towards the Russian language and from the constructive parts of Russian culture. Hope this post was well received, and wanted to let you know that I respect you for your sensitivity to the situation and your support of Ukraine, as an American who has had a number of Russian friends in the past but who is frustrated by the indifference of the greater Russian population. 😒 Also, I have been learning Ukrainian as well in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, plus I want to go over and visit when this is all over and to be able to speak their language. All the best to you!

@APlusRussian

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@@SpencerG89 Appreciate you very much, Spencer, for your nuanced approach 💙💙

@zetristan4525

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Enjoyed your mixing of Latin and Cyrillic script in Olga's name😄

Anything Russian is dead to me…

@Olga_Reznikova

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Good hehe

@gtrguyinaz

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@@Olga_Reznikova I always enjoy your vlogs… it is not personal.. this war and the war crimes have changed me forever..

Excellent video! Thank you!

@Olga_Reznikova

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Glad you liked it!

Hi Olga, similar things in Moldova, Moldova doesn't have their own language, they speak russian and Romanian, which maybe the only country to have Cyrillic and Latin based language 🤔 but USSR created a hybrid Cyrillic language for them which used russified words, and as you said, they were told not to speak Romanian as it wasn't a true language! 2 questions, does Ukranian have 3 or 4 more Cyrillic letters than russian alphabet? And off topic, where has your bookshelf gone 🙂 Thanks Olga, stay safe 💜

@Olga_Reznikova

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I guess we have same amount of letters, but some letters are different))

@Ultra-Violet

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@@Olga_Reznikova I watched a video a while back, it's a really very interesting channel all about languages, this is where I learnt about different alphabet, I hope you don't mind if I post the link here to the Ukranian/Russian example, much is how you have said Olga, I think the alphabet comparison is around 05:30. kzread.info/dash/bejne/dYWAr5hropjUfKw.html

Estonian and Finnish are similar. There are many words that sound very similar. The sound may be similar but the meaning is very different.

@JohannesNikitin91

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But Finns and Estonians do not do the same what Ukrainians do. I speak to you in Ukrainian and you answer me in Russian without there being anything special about it. Finns and Estonians switch to English wich is so sad. Only old people will mix Finnish and Estonian. For Finn one day in Tallinn does not maybe feel that language is easy to understand but when you really spend two weeks you really can understand almost 75% of all conversations. And even better if you know Russian or German also because there is some loanwords (Potato = (Fin. peruna Est. kartul Ger.Kartoffel)) and some words just have just Russian logic (Ambulance (Fin. ambulanssi Est. kiirabi Rus. skoraya pomosh = which mean literally "fast help" in Estonian and in Russian)).

@ingetest8312

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@@JohannesNikitin91 Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, probably other Eastern European countries. It's so you speak Estonian or Latvian or Lithuanian . And they still answer you in Russian. So what if you don't speak the Russian language yourself.

@JohannesNikitin91

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@@ingetest8312 Well Russian and Ukrainian are both eastern slavic languages. Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian are not. I said that its sad that Finnish and Estonian people do not mix Finnish and Estonian together.

@ingetest8312

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@@JohannesNikitin91 Sorry I misunderstood you earlier. Yes, it's true that Estonians and Finns don't mix up their languages. But go to Germany or France, for example. Then people often don't know where Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are. In the Baltics this is a problem. We have people who have lived here for years. Even decades and don't know the local language. But then there are Ukrainians who moved here less than a year ago and already know a bit of the local language. They are learning. It rarely happens that a person of another nationality makes the effort to start learning the local language as soon as they move here.

Hi Olga, I am Ukrainian, born in Kharkiv but came to the US in the 90s as a child after the Soviet union collapsed. I grew up around many people like me, refugees from Ukraine. Only thing is that we only ever spoke Russia. No one taught me how to speak Ukrainian. Most people my age who immigrated from Ukraine as kids also don't know ukrainian. I am now teaching myself how to speak Ukrainian because one day after the war I want to visit, and its more respected to speak ukrainian.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Yes, unfortunately soviet policy affected people a lot. Different situation in Canada, where people immigrated before USSR and they maintain Ukrainian language. You will not find there Russian speaking Ukrainians (out of old immigrants)

Thanks for sharing. Keep up your great works. Glad to see you are doing fine. God bless you and your family and all Ukrainian. Be safe love you all gene Krouse

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you! You too!

Russian and Ukranian languages have some similarities but are different. Look at some basic words. Hello in Russian is Privet. In Ukranian it's Privite. Goodbye in Russian is Do Svidaniya. In Ukranian it's Do Pobachennya Furthermore, you are likely to upset a lot of Ukrainians if you say Russian and Ukranian are the same. Нехай Бог благословить Україну.

Thank you, Olga!

I am Spanish, primarily we would understand Portuguese and Italian I can understand and talk and conversation can go but we would need to use body language sometimes secondly would be French.. some vocabulary is similar but you would need to learn the language in order to fully understand and third would be Romanian it’s very familiar to me but some words are like mixed with Latin and Slavic maybe.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Interesting!!! Thanks for your input!

I stopped speaking Russian on the 24th of February 2022 kaput! As soon as I saw russia invade Ukraine that was enough for me, cut off my Russian friends who support the war and Putin's government speaking a language of an invader is not something I want to be part of, been learning Ukrainian for about 3 months online and what has been even better I met a Ukrainian family in my city who teach Ukrainian. Миру та незалежності України 🙏🇳🇿🇺🇦

I am 74 yrs young and decided to learn Russian, I had friends in Yekateringburg and thought of visiting, but it is not the easiest to learn ....🤔😘

@Olga_Reznikova

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Yes, compare to English it is not such easy.

I’m living in Lugano 🇨🇭and we have lots of Ukrainian refugees here : I use public transport and really ALL OF THEM speak Russian, ONLY RUSSIAN, in almost 11 months of war I haven’t heard any Ukrainian word!!! 🙈Very strange , isn’t it?😮

@Olga_Reznikova

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Well, and here in UK most of refugees speak Ukrainian, even from Mariupol, from Kharkiv and other regions.

Thank You For The Explanation.

@Olga_Reznikova

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You are welcome!

Another nice video, thanks Olga.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Many thanks!

This has been interesting for me too, I’ve been studying Polish for a year now and getting more exposure to Ukrainian due to, well, events and have been pleasantly surprised at how much I understand. My tutor is very careful to correct my pronunciation if I say anything that sounds “too Russian” though 😅 I learned Italian as a child and while I don’t remember specifics I did have a very easy time with Spanish and French in high school.

You are so good at explaining stuff to us, thank you, the fake news doesn't tell us much. I speak English and surrounded by Spanish speaking people, I should probably learn that one 👍

Thanks for explaining that Olga. As an american who doesn't know anyone from that part of the world, it really helped fill a knowledge gap that I had. Now I understand better what is at stake in this conflict.

Ukrainian sounds a lot nicer than russian. Russian sounds so harsh.

@Cynthia_Blackraven_666

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Thats what happen when your language is mostly spoken by tyrants, criminals and depressed slaves.

As a native Spanish speaker I could understand Italian if it were spoken slowly to me

That was a great video, great explanation! Thank you Olga 🙂

@Olga_Reznikova

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You're very welcome!

So clearly put. And entertaining too. As a former student of Russian I picked up that bias against Ukrainian. You are absolutely right about it.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Wow, good you noticed that. Majority don't!

@SigMaQuint

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@@Olga_Reznikova we were even told that it had to be NA UKRAINE not V UKRAINE.. that is On Ukraine, not In Ukraine. Some students asked if there existed a Ukrainian language, and we were told there is a dictionary of eight volumes, but not much to pay attention to.

In Louisiana USA, Cajun French speakers have a similar experience. They use similar words and grammatical structures. However people from France and Canada have a limited understanding. Cajun french is separated by almost 400 years since their arrival in the America's

You are always well worth listening to Olga... Thank you for explaining so well :-)) xxx

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you!

Olga Reznikova always put out interesting videos. Thanks Olga.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you too!

Very interesting. Thanks Olga. 🌹

Started to learn Russian way before March 22 but now have switched to learn only Ukrainian 🇺🇦

@Olga_Reznikova

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Great!!!

Thank You Olga for another great talk. I sure agree with your last statement about putin driving the Ukrainian nation together.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you!

Very interesting Olga. Thanks

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you for watching!

I was born in Soviet Georgia, I am Georgian, my specialisation is English Language but I understand russian much better than English because in my childhood almost everything was in russian on TV, in the street, everywhere. A lot of russians lived nearby, soviet army consisted mostly of russian-speaking people and I started learning English with dictionaries, textbooks and all other learning resources in russian. So, I learnt English through russian too.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Yes! Nowadays I guess everybody in Georgia speak Russian too, but the good point that once you come to restaurant - you will find menu in Georgian)

@janisjersovs2441

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Strange, back in USSR times Baltic States have own TV channels in own languages, same with schools. Russian was thought as 2nd language. In army everyone from USSR spoke Russian as it was international language so everyone understood each other. Same now in UK, all Eastern Europeans speak Russian between themselves as otherwise they will have to learn all 15 USSR republic languages to communicate. Nowadays in Russia have similar situation, Russian language is like a bridge between all 120 local languages there.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, DEAR OLGA, for this AMAZING video!!! I have been studying the history of Ukraine for several years now, and I LOVE that I can watch your videos to understand your history even BETTER! The LANGUAGE history is SOOO INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE, And coincides with what I have learned so far. I have come to TRULY LOVE AND DEEPLY ADMIRE, RESPECT, AND APPRECIATE THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE, And all that the Ukrainian people have gone through to preserve your history, language, and culture, And have FALLEN IRRETREIVABLY IN LOVE WITH UKRAINE!!!💖💖💖💙💛🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦💙💛🇺🇦

Very informative!

@Olga_Reznikova

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Glad you think so!

0:21 'Do Ukrainians have THEIR own language?' That's your English lesson for the day. 😉

Great video. Ukranian language have sweet melodic

Thank you for that lesson. I am American and think German is closest to my English but I cannot understand or speak German. Maybe a few words which are the same I understand but they pronounce them different. I would love to understand Ukrainian.

@Olga_Reznikova

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I can not understand German as well. But as per info, the closes to English is Dutch, but German is very very different.

Interesting! I'm from Poland and I can understand much of spoken Ukrainian. I'd say Ukrainian and Czech are the two Slavic languages I understand the most, not so much Russian.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Good!!!!

Thanks for enlightening me. I was wondering what the language situation in Ukraine was all about.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Glad it was helpful!

That's so interesting video ! Thanks for sharing this.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Glad you enjoyed it

I am mexican. Spanish speaker and undertand very well portuguese from Brasil but not the same with Portugal. I arrived in South America many years ago and in some countries it was difficult for me to understand the same Spanish, sometimes because they speak it at high speed

@Olga_Reznikova

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nice to know that! Yes, Russians and Ukrainians also can understand each other in a general sense, but if you need to have 100% understanding, you must learn the language.. It can not be done just by intuition.

@Booz2020

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Yo queiro TACO 🌮 Bell 🔔

Very interesting video, Olga!

@Olga_Reznikova

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Many thanks!

Hi! Your eyes seem especially bright and blue today! Thanks for sharing!

You should teach you children Ukrainian. No matter which country they are living in now. They must be able to talk Ukrainian fluently. No other language is more important than one’s native. Now is a good time to start as your daughter already knows what’s going on and the importance of Ukrainian language. Best wishes. Pete :”)

you are appreciated! ... да)

2:30 - I live in Southern part of Brazil, I can easily understand Uruguayan and Argentinian Spanish but not mexican spanish

@Olga_Reznikova

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nice!

Very many Ukrainians work in the company I work at, and 98% of them speak Russian, and they don't know Ukrainian.

As an outsider and seeing the laws from centuries ago, it is nothing but if a street gang had the biggest powerful gun, they would use it against another gang to toplle it.

Millions of Ukrainians left Ukraine in 1880s And don't speak any Russian. I guess that's why Soviet Union in 1922-89; changed that.

@Chaldon-hl6yk

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in 1880s western Ukraine belongs to Austro-Hungary

@ultimatewarrior3310

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@@Chaldon-hl6yk Hungary "Hungarians" are NOT Indo European language they belong in central Asia. and are not indegenious to European land. You learned something

@ultimatewarrior3310

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@@Chaldon-hl6yk not all came from western Ukraine. My dad was Orthodox Ukrainian. He came from black sea area. Stop being ignorant.Ukrainians lived all over Ukraine....

@Chaldon-hl6yk

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@@ultimatewarrior3310 Russians is also ugrofinns, no indoeuropeans ))

Dobre,Dobre ! Thank you, Olga, for sharing the details of the ukranian language. You are a precious gift to the YT community .

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you too!

@rudolfkasanpawiro644

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@@Olga_Reznikova 😊

Olga, I so enjoy watching and listening to you. Thank you.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you too!!!

Very good video and informative. Thanks!

Olga: excellent video!!

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you!

The Ukrainian language was a native language of the people of Kyivan Rus'---Russian was a Slavic language (from Old Church Slavonic) which was imposed upon non native speakers---Finno-Ugric peoples who lived around Muscovy! A native language develops with time. An instructed language develops more slowly (and artificially) as rules are taught (imposed)! So there is a bigger difference between Ukrainian and Russian than between Ukrainian and the other native Slavic languages.

@Chaldon-hl6yk

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IRL Ukrainian language its just south-rural dialect of Russian.

@Cynthia_Blackraven_666

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@@Chaldon-hl6yk IRL russian is mostly spoken by criminals.

Two branches of my ancestral family came from Ukraine. They were Jewish and, even though they knew Russian, their main spoken language was Yiddish.

Wow 😍😍😍

Velika žalost , slavenski bratski narodi a u konstantnom konfliktu , kao Srbi i Hrvati kao i Rusi i Poljaci ... velika žalost!!! 😥

Polish undrstand Slovakia very much.this is the closest to Polish version

@Olga_Reznikova

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Nice to know!

@kamilaroz8297

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@@Olga_Reznikova i am London and i talked to one lady from sumy (in london)- i understood Tatiana about 50 or 60%. She spoke Ukrainian.and I spoke Polish language

Thank you for the great information. Take care and God bless.

Great video! I think many who don’t know the difference between the Russian and Ukrainian language should see this. Unfortunately because of the bride agency commercial it’s to embarrassing to share it:(

Hi Olga very interesting video 💙💛

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thank you! 😃

I really loved this video! You discussed many things I did not know. In the end, I think it would be great if the Russian language was pushed out of Ukraine. Thank you!!

@Olga_Reznikova

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I Am happy you found it useful!

I'm curious. Are there still Tatars living in Ukraine or Crimea as well? This is a great presentation..There is a long-established Ukrainian community here in Minneapolis- great people!

@Olga_Reznikova

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Tatars are living in Crimea, because it is their motherland. But they are facing a lot of troubles from Russia, and their organisation (which always existed under Ukrainian government) now announced as terroristic organisations and banned in Crimea. Should we say that those organisations was mostly about culture and religion, but not about anything related to terrorism??

I started to learn Russian and is almost the same as Bulgarian. It is simpler. It is just removal of some features of the gramar and some different words in the vocabulgary. Maybe with the other languages is the same. While I was in the UK I was able to read Polish withouot learning it strangely. However, the Balkan people looks more Mediteranian than slavic most of the cases.

Thank you Olga, very interesting I love Ukraine and the people

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thanks for watching!

History of both nation was related and connected..

@Olga_Reznikova

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history of so many nations are connected and related. For example, history of Germany so far impacted half of the world... or at least the whole Europe.

Olga thank you for trying to help me i love you

Superb 🤩🤩🤩

Even before the war, I noticed Ukrainian was a lot more popular with younger Ukrainians, especially from Western Ukraine. Russian was much more common in Odessa area and the east, as well as amongst the older generation. I generally preferred Russian, since it is more universal (and I worked a bit in Russia as well). However, I'm not sure how people confuse the two languages...they are similar but also distinctly different.

How widespread is the linguisitic shift of people switching from Russian to Ukrainian since the invasion? Is there a noticeable difference on the streets in terms of language use? Is it possible that Ukrainian will become the dominant spoken language in Kyiv? (or has it already?)

Can you also explain how Ukrainians developed as nation and used own language while being part of Poland.

Great video about this topic Olya, good to see you shedding some light on this. Also I think we enjoy to see more videos about Ukraine) as an American with a Ukrainian wife who was raised in a Ukrainian speaking family (from Ternopil Oblast) I can say that Russian and Ukrainian are NOT the same. Yes there are some similarities but in truth I can barely understand Russian language and I have been learning Ukrainian for 5+ years now. I’m at about 50% proficiency and Russian is still so hard for me and also for my wife who has 90% proficiency in Ukrainian language. After being in Ukraine last September I can confirm that so so many Ukrainians are now switching from Russian to Ukrainian from the war. They usually say “why should we speak the language of our enemy?” Or that “Russian language is a remnant of the Soviet Union and Stalin policies” I’m so happy to see Ukraine claiming and clinging to its identity. Before as an American I was raised that Russia is also our enemy (because we were at war with them for 45+ years from the Cold War) and I had no desire to learn Ukrainian. I never understood why Ukraine didn’t push for Ukrainian language more but it’s because it was convenient for them and it was present in eastern regions especially and even Kyiv quite a bit. Also I want to congratulate you because your English is getting even better after being in UK, this video made that very clear to me.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Ukraine didn't push for language, because it was under constant Russian control all those years

@WhiteBirdPlays

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@@Olga_Reznikova yeah, I don’t know if you mentioned in here but at one point (under Stalin) it was illegal to even speak Ukrainian. I know eventually later during Soviet times it was taught in schools but definitely not until some time after Stalin had died

@user-ge6eh3fg2b

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Come on, Вася, старайся не трусити попіл! Добий, бродяга, п'ятку і поїдем В файне місто Тернопіль!)))

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@@user-ge6eh3fg2b я Андрій, не Вася брат 😂😅 але я вже маю дружина за тернопіля і ти правильно говориш що це файне місто і також люди. Я так люблю цю област і як всі люди звідти говорить такою чистою українською мовою)

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English people who come to settle in Wales also refuse to learn and speak Welsh language; in fact they vehemently refuse to do it regarding it as inferior peasant language,insisting that the locals talk to them in English

Like all Dutch people understand German but Germans not necessarily Dutch.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Interesting to know!

Pryvit Olga...where we can learn 1000 Ukrainian words for primary routine speaking?( for example a pdf file) Spasybi❤❤

@Olga_Reznikova

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I am not sure really...

There were many Ukrainians here... there was always a Ukrainian family in every community. We never heard them speaking Russian. I guess the ones that came here from C.C.C.P. left it, and Russia, behind.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Good!

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Между национальными интересами поляка и национальными интересами украинца есть огромная разница. Поляки настоящий народ с древней историей. Украинцы - на ходу создаваемый этнос с на ходу создаваемыми победами и обидами. Их интересы подложны, их национальные инстинкты ложны до самооборачиваемости. Всё ещё будет, но за это придётся заплатить страшную цену. Как всем настоящим народам - русским или тем же полякам. Если украинцы решили стать страдающим меньшинством, - что в смысле фантазирования гораздо легче и проще позитива, - то, как говориться, Бог в помощь. Поскольку, за исключением галицийцев, никогда в обозримом периоде мировой истории они таковым не были, то ещё не понимают, насколько это унизительно и больно. Это впереди. (2014)

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I guess Ukraine is proving to all the world that they are nation. Older or younger - what does it change? If people identify themselves as nation and wants to be independent - it is their right.

I used to watch Орёл и Решка on KZread, until covid seemed to shut most of it down. Most of the spoken language was Russian. I don't remember ever hearing any Ukrainian spoken on it, although maybe I would have just thought they were speaking some Russian that I didn't understand. I don't really understand a lot of the Russian anyway without subtitles, though I can get the gist of some of it. But I always wondered if the main language was Russian in order to appeal to an audience outside of Ukraine, or if that's the language that all of the presenters knew, or what. I know that since the war at least one of the presenters has been an outspoken opponent of the invasion. (I think most of them had some ability to speak in English, too.) If that program starts up again after the war, do you think it will use Ukrainian as the main spoken language?

Thing is that with slavic languages all of them have some common ancestry and some mutual inteligibility even distant ones but problem is when one variant of Slavic languages is politicaly used as main language while neglecting other variants, that's what Russia for sure did, variants of Slavic languages even small ones, even dialects are good thing, maybe having lingua franca is good but not if it destroyed all other languages.

Interesting. I am British and studied Russian some years ago. I have never studied Ukrainian but find I can understand some Ukrainian when it's written down but not so much when it's spoken as stresses often appear to be different.

@Olga_Reznikova

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At the end, 62% similarity is not small number as well!

Дитина - Дитя Чоловiк - Человек Дiвчина - Дивчина Лiкар - Лекарь Very similar pronounciation, although some of these words considered obsolete in russian

@Olga_Reznikova

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where is modern Russian language in this??? Show me at least one example of such words in modern Russian language, not from 18 century))

"As you can see, it's a bit not similar". Yes, but what is interesting is that every example you gave has a similar word in Russian. While "rebyonek" (baby) is not similar to "ditina", "detya" (which means child, which can include a baby) is. While "mushina" (a man) is not similar to "sholovik", "shelovek" (person/man) is. While "vrach" (doctor) is not similar to "likar", "lekarstvo" (medicine) is. I honestly don't see how "devchina" and "devoshka" are that different, but all the same, Russian also has the synonym "devchonka", which is not all that different from "devchina". Indeed, Ukraine is its own language very different from Russian. Moreover, even though I know Russian on an advanced level, I would say that Ukrainian and Belarusian are a bit more attractive to listen to. Nevertheless, I felt it only fair that those who don't know Russian or Ukrainian ought to be more informed. Peace

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the 60% dutch with english is true, talking with dutch people for years and being an american i could understand the subjects and direction of the conversation with out having to know a word of dutch because of most of the commonality of their words with americans speaking polluted english.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Good to know! I should visit Netherlands and see how it will go! ;-) When I was in Denmark, I noticed in supermarket that many words make sense in English as well, but they pronounce them in different way and for sure once you hear the speech - you can not get any single word.

I know many word in German, Greek, French, and Spanish; but, I wouldn't speak those languages... I don't know the grammar. But... more importantly... I don't know the semantics. In whatever language we speak, we can agree that a rock is a rock, however you call it... but beauty, love, and belief... those are not so easy to comprehend across languages.

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Speaking about language families and mutual intelligibility I can state that pretty much all of what you said is also true for romanic languages. I am fluent in Spanish and Catalan, and speak a little bit of Italian and French. While Catalan and French share concepts not present in Spanish, Catalan, Italian and Spanish seem to share about 70 -80% of their vocabularies and a large part of the grammar. The same is true for other bridge languages. As a native speaker of German a lot of Dutch is pretty well understandable for me - maybe like the difference between Spanish and Catalan. To me, the cultural meaning of sharing a language with others seems to have a great importance. Colonizers have always attempted to erase the languages spoken in their colonies, and that was always done with an intent to subdue others and destroy their identity. I hope Ukraine will find a good middle way after this horrible nightmare and integrate its Russian community in a respectful and forward looking way - including their language, their poems, literature and love songs and make this become a shared heritage for all Ukrainians. Hatred will not be the answer and surely not every Russian is a bad person.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Thanks! This was very interesting comment!

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1 more thing Olga how u stay so positive with what go on now just wondering?

Spanish and Italian can understand the other language. German und Dutch can too IF they get used to the different pronounciation. Many words are very similar, but differently pronounced. You will recognize them at once when written but sometimes not when pronounced in normal speed language. человек can be used for a man too, if you not focus on his gender, it has a broader meaning. Even google translates it like that. The scope of the word has been shifted, but it's not an example for a completely other word, I think. English: guy / man. Same for лекарь . It's not so common as врач, but can use too. In English it is same difference like physician and doctor.

@Olga_Reznikova

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Russia get out of those words centuries ago and replace them with some other words. Sure you can say лекарь, along with око, почивать, лепший, свара, but it will sounds like you came from the 17 century or try to replicate old language. Nobody nowadays using those words in modern language.

Olga I speak Spanish