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Hi Johny, great vid in your style. Been watching for a while and if you'd let me make a constructive criticism, Id like to help you improve your audio. 2 things, better recording & take the time for some post production audio correction. A little Rode mic on your smartphone w/ a wind shield (dead cat), would make a big difference. Also for interviews the Rode Wireless Go II are good. Look them both up. The Go II means more editing ti combine audio in post. But the single most important thing that can improve your audio is a high pass filter (cuts the low rumble and traffic) & then some compressors in post (evens speech). If you dont have a program or want to hands on, then an upload service like VEED does it for you. Cleaning your audio would make your vids so much better as it's the most important aspect especially when you have interviews where they cant be heard. Hope you can look into this & keep up the great vids! Good luck learning Ukrainian! Slava Ukraini!
On holiday/vacation in Rhodes Greece in 2009, the only guy left at the bar with me at 5am was a Ukrainian dude and me Scottish, both didn't speak either's language but we drank vodka and whisky for hours and nearly went to Faliraki when the bar closed, good guy hope he is safe! I hope Ukraine rebuilds quickly my heart hurts for the situation its terrible.
Learned alot in this video, I'm learning Ukrainian through Duolingo as a Dutchie. She sure is well educated about her country and a really nice person. She is also very pretty, and I liked her dress 😁
'Everything will be Ukraine' is like a Ukrainian modification of 'Everything will be alright' phrase, it's not necessarily mean territorial sovereignty, just something patriotic to say, when talking about Ukraine, like during some tournaments, games, politics, etc.
It's funny, in Sweden we do the same thing. We say "Hej hej" (hi hi) with a higher pitch voice because it sounds more polite than just "hej". Swedes and Ukrainians seems to be so much alike, we even have the same flag almost haha and there is even a Swedish village in Ukraine called "Gammalsvenskby" (Old Swedish village). Kinda cool! :)
Ukrainians, and Russians for that matter are cousins of the Swedish Vikings who travelled east 1,000 years ago. “Rus” mean to row (a boat) as in, the land of the boat rowers (Vikings).
You can get by just fine speaking only Russian there for the most part. Since the war started back in 2014 more and more people are using Ukrainian language which is the right thing to do in my opinion.
Inna Is the absolute best!! I'm glad you were able to do a video with her. She has a heart of gold, and is the best Ukrainian language teacher around! Much love ✌🏽
according to recently applied language law, all businesses required to talk with clients in ukrainian language by default, only if the client starts conversation on another language they have a right to respond on the client's language
Hi Inna, thanks so much for teaching this Ukrainian resident Ukrainian Gotta love the echo when you guys walk through the passageways 21:40 Not bad 2 weeks from the US. I sent a package from the US to Ukraine once and it took a month.
Nice video, but she made a mistake in translation - соловей is not a sparrow (горобець), it's the nightingale, and accordingly, солов'їна мова = nightingale language, as they say about the Ukrainian language.
Classic American: mate, knowing 5-10 words in Russian and wondering why nobody gets you doesn’t make you a Russian speaker. On a side note, Ukrainian is indeed linguistically closer to Belarusian and Polish than to Russian.
It's closer to Belarusian but not at all close to Polish. There's a lot of similar vocabulary but grammar is still Eastern Slavic (meaning it's similar to Russian and Belarusian) Source: I speak Russian, Ukranian and a bit of Polish)
I always wanted to learn Ukrainian Language. Just a shame my 🇺🇦 Wife still won't teach me☹️ Thinking because she will know what she is saying to me and our daughter 😂 Stay safe Johnny 🇬🇧🇺🇦
sms is in latin because it is allowed about 70 characters for cyrillic and 130 for latin texts for 1 message. they save x2 when writing ukrainian words in latin
So you're telling me that you, an American, who are known for their absolute ignorance, can distinguish Russian and ukrainian? And you want us to believe that? :D
Thanks for this video and watching you trying to learn Ukrainian. I have been putting learning Ukrainian off partly out of fear of making mistakes in pronunciation. You just showed me that it is fine to make mistakes and not to be afraid of sounding incompetent in Ukrainian. Thanks Johnny.
@@RitzOriginal1 Sure keep thinking that. If I were you I would be more worried about the attacks in Crimea, Kherson and the implementation of the Lend Lease Program of the USA. In next month or so. That equals more HIMARS. Ha ha
@@RitzOriginal1 I agree war is not a good thing. I have a Ukrainian wife. This war has caused a delay in reuniting with her, death of her family friend and the friends little brother only because she came back to get her little brother to take him somewhere safer. Russia has shown itself under President Puttin to be an war hungry imperialist power only concerned with keeping sovereign countries under its sphere of influence. It seems the only way Puttin will understand this is unacceptable is to beat him in Ukraine. I despise this war and feel sorry for both sides for all the pain and suffering it causes on both sides. Though as I said Russia has to change its imperialistic nature and unfortunately this seems like to be the only way under President Puttin and I and many other don’t think he will stop with just Ukraine.
You’ve been in Ukraine for years and barely speak an ounce of Ukrainian/Russian. What’s the point of living there if you always need to take a translator with you to pay for a service
@@ukrainewarroom He can not speak Russian. Maybe a broken distorted phrase here and there. Its just so bizarre. He often complains about people not understanding him when maybe he should put in the effort to learn the language after years of living there. But it’s his life I guess.
Ukrainian language is closer to Croatian as well to Serbian language then Ruzzian. She will agree for sure if she has a chance to read this comment. Regarding this video big 👍
No it's not. There is some vocabulary found in Ukranian that's also found in Serbo-Croatian and not in Russian but that doesn't make the languages similar.
I am Ukranian heritage. I learned Czech in the military and it sounds like Ukrainian at times. It also uses the Roman alphabet, not cyrillic. One tip to teaching our friend. Slow down when you speak a phrase and make him say each word slowly and then speed up when it can be pronounced at speed..
Funny I just listened to her video on question words this morning. Didn't know she was in KYIB. I might come there from the states in a month or so, might have to hire her there to teach me.
Hi Johny, great vid in your style. Been watching for a while and if you'd let me make a constructive criticism, Id like to help you improve your audio. 2 things, better recording & take the time for some post production audio correction. A little Rode mic on your smartphone w/ a wind shield (dead cat), would make a big difference. Also for interviews the Rode Wireless Go II are good. Look them both up. The Go II means more editing ti combine audio in post. But the single most important thing that can improve your audio is a high pass filter & then some compressors in post. If you dont have a program or want to hands on, then an upload service like VEED does it for you. Cleaning your audio would make your vids so much better as it's the most important aspect especially when you have interviews where they cant be heard. Hope you can look into this & keep up the great vids! Good luck learning Ukrainian! Slava Ukraini!
As a russian speaking Ukranian (born in russia) I do support speaking Ukrainian, russian should be a foreign language, like e.g. Chines or German. russia use language as a weapon in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, etc. We need to get rid of the influence of that crazy fascist people and country 👍👍👍👍👍👍
22,33 tnx for the compliment about turkish coffee jhonny as a turkish guy who lives in ukraine almost for 3 years i am very happy about that i have started to learn ukranian and still keep learning it, not russian. essipecially after the inavation, russian is the language of our enemies and i do not wanna talk any word of it
Duolingo has a limited amount of Ukrainian since it was made by the peace corp back in 2014 so there is no updates. Then I found Inna's youtube which has helped me a lot.
@@beyondappalachian8218 I'm sure he is nice. That has nothing to do with my statement. Women are attracted to bad boys. It's possible to be both nice and a bad boy. I don't think Johnny has it in him. Because of that, the nice guy gets friend-zoned a lot.
0:25 It's not that uncommon to hear something like 'Hello' twice. Where I come from there's an informal form of Hi that can be interpreted both as a 'Hi' and a 'Bye'. So you can say it twice fast when passing by someone you know.
@@yespeace2000 -- Yeah, they're all from the original proto-Slavic language. Ukrainian is closest of all to Belarusian (only 16% of the language is different), and then Polish, Slovak, Bulgarian and Czech are all less than 30% different. To give perspective, Ukrainian vocabulary is roughly 38% different from what is in ruzzia, which means that Spanish is closer to Italian (only 33% different) than Ukrainian is to ruzzian.
I'm a child of the 80s and my native language is Bulgarian. I've never had to study Russian(I was in the first agegroup when it was no longer mandatory. Guys 1 year older than me had to study it), but it was still always around in the early 90s post-communist times. We had it on TV, my parents and grandparents had tons of books in Russian and so on. So I did get some exposure to it as a kid and I still understand a lot, but I cannot say I can speak it. I later got the same if not more amount of exposure to Serbian(well serbo-croatian or whatever you want to call it) in my teens in the mid-late 90s and early 00s trough music and movies. I can say I'm somewhat fluent in it as vocabulary is a lot closer. Then life did it's weird thing and I ended up living in the Czech Republic in my early-mid 20s in the late 00s(exposure to Slovak and some Polish apparently came with it). Now I discover the beauty of Ukrainian(I've been watching both yours and Ina's channels even before the war). I find Ukrainian sounding somewhere in the middle between Russian and Polish/Czech with a surprising amount of vocabulary being the same as Bulgarian/Serbian instead of Czech/Polish/Russian. It's a bit odd to hear so many south slavic words pronounced in this northern/eastern way. From my point of view both Ukrainian and Russian are soft. You should hear us balkanites speak. Johnny heard it in Bosnia and Croatia :D
The southern Slavs arrived in the Balkans in the 6th century (from the territory of modern Ukraine and Poland), the tribes started to cross the Danube and settle there after the collapse of the Roman Empire. So many words are similar, but when the southern Slavs speak, it's very hard to understand them for the eastern Slavs ( I could not understand those southern slavic songs at Eurovision, only occasional words).
Oh my God! I couldn't even think that foreigners are so bad with Slavic languages😱. I am a Ukrainian and until February 24, a resident of Kyiv (my hometown), usually when I went to the store or walked around the city center, I was always angry at foreign students: they did not understand a word in Ukrainian or at least in Russian! Of course, I can try to answer their question in English, but this confuses me a lot. In fact, I know 4 languages (ideally Ukrainian and Russian, average English and also average Japanese), I started learning Polish a month and a half ago, and now I can easily go to the store, ride the bus, and enjoy many benefits without any problems. People learn languages it's quite interesting, so learn them!
@@osnapitzbry Because they don't make any attempt to learn the local language even at a minimal level. Now in Poland I see the same thing, foreign students (probably Chinese or Thais), the seller in the store asks them: "how much meat do you need?" They don't answer at all, they just mumble! And, all you need to say is something like "proszę pół kilograma" or "proszę kilogram" (One kilogram please!). All this can be learned in a week or two, but they are used to being understood in most cases, and do not want to learn anything more. That's why i'm get angry!
@@osnapitzbry however, many residents of Ukraine do not speak Ukrainian, after 30 years of living in the country! (For example, my grandmother) Pensioners, especially those who lived in the USSR, are sincerely believe that they do not need to know more than they already know. It's sad!
Ukrpochta was one of the worst post office experiences in my life in Kiev . They do not speak English there at all and will reuse to help you but keep bumping you to another worker just to avoid helping you . That does not show me that Ukrain is part of Europe . Most Europeans speak at least 2 foreign languages
Inna only uses "tak". I notice on videos people using both "tak" (так) and "da" (да) for "yes". The situations are very informal, just wondered if "da" is informal in Ukrainian, like "yeah" in English, or is "da" a Russian invader word? [I'd stick to tak, as a foreigner.]
If I can give a little advice, please make sure you pronounce the whole word. For example, for "I am tired" you have to say "vtomlenyj." You cannot say "tomlenyj". That "vt" is difficult for an English speaker, but it must be there. Same thing with "excuse me" -- "vybachte." It should be "vy - bach - te," 3 syllables, clearly pronounced. Same thing with "I need." You have to say "potriben," with a clear "n" at the end. It's harder in the beginning, but if you learn to pronounce things clearly, it will get a lot easier later. Also, Ukrainian is one of the hardest languages in the world, particularly when it comes to grammar. Spanish is easy in comparison. Best,
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So, you're gonna compare two cute girls speaking Ukrainian to two gopniks speaking Russian? 🤦♀️ Even if Ukrainian _is_ "more melodic" (and it very well may be!) that comparison doesn't do much to prove the point 😏 Also, 4:35 - Russian "is getting less useful" because of the war? Isn't the opposite, actually, true? 🤷♀️
Ukrainian is beautiful. I love how the months of the year represent what happens to the nature like November means falling leaves. I think Russian is beautiful too though and for me I prefer to learn rather than Ukrainian.
Being a native Russian speaker, it's really hard to learn how to speak and properly pronounce Ukrainian because the accents are never where I think they should be, so when I read Ukrainian, I usually read and pronounce it like a Russian speaker, which is incorrect; super frustrating!! But now I'm going to subscribe to and watch Inna's videos. Thanks Johnny!!☺
Hey Johnny - I'm looking for a Ukrainian family that wants a sponsor/host in USA under the U4U program. Do you know of any families with small children that need to escape the war? We would prefer to host a family that lost their home to war and the father is fighting in the military, but that's not a requirement. I've joined several FB groups and websites but I was thinking maybe you have first hand experience since you're in the country. Thanks!
Old Slavonic was the written language of the Orthodox Church, but the Old Slavonic is based on Bulgarian, since the Bulgarians were the closest Slavic neighbours of the Byzantine Greeks. So the Bible was translated from Greek into Slavonic and than the missionaries spread out and brought Christianity and together with it this form of Bulgarian to all the other Eastern Slavs. But those Slavs did not speak Slavonic. They spoke something related, so that the Slavonic in the church was somehow intelligeable for them, but the different East Slavic tribes had their own dialects or languages. But from those languages we have very few written traces, since Old Slavonic was used almost exclusively by the few people who could actually read and wright, who were mostly priests and monks, like Latin was used in the Catholic West throughout the Middle Ages. So Old Slavonic is not the mother of Ukrainian or Russian but the former written roof language (Dachsprache). Later the Eastern Slavs developed their own written standard on their own languages, since Old Slavonic became more and more harder to understand for them and they also wanted to emancipate themselves from this honorable but still a bit foreign Old Slavonic language.
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That was interesting. Russian always sounds like the speaker is angry to me. Ukrainian does sound much better. I like the way Bald approaches Russian without regard for Grammer. I'll have to take his word for it, I don't speak Russian. Anyway, good video. 🇺🇦🇺🇸
You think that we believe that an AmeriKKKan can distinguish the difference between ukrainian and Russian? Mate; you'd even have a hard time hearing the difference between Polish and German.
@@markmitchell457 Russia was colonised by the Slavic tribes of Ukraine (Slavic expansion to north and east), Moscow did not exist before 13th century. Yes, most of Europian territory of russia was populated by a bunch of unorganized Finno-Ugric and later Turcic tribes.
@@markmitchell457 Russian language is synthetic mix of Church-Slavonic, local Finno-Ugric languages, old Ruthenian from territory of Rus (Ukraine and Belarus) and some non slavic Tatar languages. The Muskovy stoled the name of Rus (Russia in Greek), the name of language, the symbols, the history of real Rus only in 1721. The history of Russia as an Empire is huge levels of lie, manipulations and fakes. Old Rus-Ukraine is not real ancestor of modern Russia. The heart of Russia - Moskow is Finno-Ugric land, not Slavic. A lot geographical names near Moskow and name of this capital is Finnish.
I'm sure that Inna is an excellent teacher, but it's still quite difficult to take her historical statements about Ukrainian and Russian languages seriously. “Modern Russian and Ukrainian languages came from Old Slavonic language”. Actually both of them came from Old East Slavic (or Old Russian). Old Slavonic (or Old Church Slavonic) was used for church service and to translate the bible from Greek. Besides it was rather literary language for long time so that ordinary people didn’t speak it. I mean, it was two completely different languages which existed in parallel. Old Church Slavonic is a predecessor of “modern” Church Slavonic language which still used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in different countries for liturgies. It’s like “Slavic Latin”. And at the same time Old East Slavic is a predecessor of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages. “Ukrainian is older than Russian language”. Why is it so? We know for sure that Old Russian broke up into these three languages (Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian) after Kievan Rus was divided between various states in the middle of the XIV century, such as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and a conglomerate of northeastern Russian principalities, who fell into dependence on the Golden Horde which later will become the Moscow Tsardom. It is quite difficult to determine the beginning and end of any language. But it can be said for sure that the formation of the Russian and Ukrainian languages took place at about the same time, since people who used to speak Old East Slavic (Old Russian) ended up in different states and were influenced by different cultures. I’m Russian and i wholeheartedly support the Ukrainians in their fight against Putin and his army. I understand that most Ukrainians do not like Russians and I can understand their hatred. However this is not a reason to adjust history to fit their political position. Слава Україні!💙💛
Modern Ukrainian language has about 250000 words, modern russian has less than 200000. Only that indicates that Ukrainian is older. In a nutshell russian has been created artificially for church purposes, while Ukrainian has been formed naturally and much older than russian.
Research has shown that Old East Slavic grammar and vocabulary was much more like modern Ukrainian than modern Russian. As a matter of fact Ukrainian is the closest modern Slavic language to Old East Slavic.
Ukrainian is such a beautiful language - It is ironic that Putin's effort to eliminate Ukraine has resulted in so many people all over the world uniting to support this country and becoming inspired by its people to learn their beautiful language.
Ты живёшь так давно в Украине и так плохо говоришь? Серьезно? Твой русский хуже чем украинский… Ты каждый день носишь украинскую футболку но не можешь связать двух слов в разговоре. Какой смысл?
"не можешь отвечать речь на улице"? А собственно ты почему такой безграмотный, раз кичишься и укоряешь других? Или как это обычно бывает, в своем глазу бревна не видишь?
@@Howsitgoing-wy8iy ну вот, а Джони пытаешься что-то выставить в упрек, твой уровень не лучше чем у него, по крайней мере используя переводчик он мог бы написать не хуже чем ты, а отвечая на вопрос, правильная конструкция предложения была бы: "но не можешь *ответить* (или " *говорить* *с* ") прохожим( *и* ) на улице" или куда лучше бы звучало "не можешь связать двух слов в разговоре". И второе, твой ответ мне должен был бы быть написан как: "а как мне правильно сформулировать то, что я имел ввиду?"
This was really helpful. Дякую! As you were saying, back when I visited Ukraine in 2004 and 2005, the business language was Russian, so that’s the language I started learning. I picked it back up after the war in the Duolingo app, and thankfully Ukrainian was offered too. I’m further along in my Russian lessons, but the longer the Russian war lasts, I’ve wondered if there would be a shift in willingness for Ukrainians to speak Russian. I know not every Ukrainian will feel the same, so I need to learn both. This video encouraged me to spend more time catching up with Ukrainian lessons. I hope to get to visit Ukraine again in the future, after the war.
I am Afghan and in this war I support Ukraine 100%. However, I find the Russian language more elegant and beautiful that the Ukrainian language. I lived in Moscow and Kyiv.
Johnny, thank you for the info about sending pkg from USA to Ukraine using Novo posta. I have one question I hope you can answer... I want to send my friend in Kyiev Ukraine a sterling silver necklace from USA. Will it be confiscated by customs even though it is probably considered costume jewelry and not fine jewelry? I understand you cannot send fine jewelry to Ukraine from usa.
Whats in the box? DONT open the box! uhhh....whats in the boooooxx??? Trust me DONT open. The box! Come on, whats in the booooxxxxx??? I would have laughed myself ailly if you ordered Seven(film) just to make the joke for us xD
To learn Spanish the first thing you need is the accent. Maybe should pretend to speak English with an Ukrainian accent and the sound will be not so English ….just saying what I would do.
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Hi Johny, great vid in your style.
Been watching for a while and if you'd let me make a constructive criticism, Id like to help you improve your audio. 2 things, better recording & take the time for some post production audio correction.
A little Rode mic on your smartphone w/ a wind shield (dead cat), would make a big difference. Also for interviews the Rode Wireless Go II are good. Look them both up. The Go II means more editing ti combine audio in post.
But the single most important thing that can improve your audio is a high pass filter (cuts the low rumble and traffic) & then some compressors in post (evens speech).
If you dont have a program or want to hands on, then an upload service like VEED does it for you.
Cleaning your audio would make your vids so much better as it's the most important aspect especially when you have interviews where they cant be heard.
Hope you can look into this & keep up the great vids!
Good luck learning Ukrainian! Slava Ukraini!
@@donaldperson948 he just uses his phone lol
Damn she's fine
On holiday/vacation in Rhodes Greece in 2009, the only guy left at the bar with me at 5am was a Ukrainian dude and me Scottish, both didn't speak either's language but we drank vodka and whisky for hours and nearly went to Faliraki when the bar closed, good guy hope he is safe! I hope Ukraine rebuilds quickly my heart hurts for the situation its terrible.
You don’t need a lot of grey matter to drink like a sailor 😂🤣
@@ИннаШерифа I lost the brain cells I had lol
Дякую, Johnny for a nice walk and talk. It was a pleasure to teach you some Ukrainian. Guys, would you like to speak Ukrainian with me?
Definitely
Can you teach me hebrew?
Соловей - nightingale 😉👍
100% так :)
yes please
Learned alot in this video, I'm learning Ukrainian through Duolingo as a Dutchie. She sure is well educated about her country and a really nice person. She is also very pretty, and I liked her dress 😁
I could listen to Inna speak all day. She's intelligent and her speach cadence is awesome.
'Everything will be Ukraine' is like a Ukrainian modification of 'Everything will be alright' phrase, it's not necessarily mean territorial sovereignty, just something patriotic to say, when talking about Ukraine, like during some tournaments, games, politics, etc.
Thanks for the clarification!
OK and Ukraine sound kind of similar. And the meaning of that phrase is exactly that "Everything will be OK" with the extra touch of patriotism.
It's funny, in Sweden we do the same thing. We say "Hej hej" (hi hi) with a higher pitch voice because it sounds more polite than just "hej". Swedes and Ukrainians seems to be so much alike, we even have the same flag almost haha and there is even a Swedish village in Ukraine called "Gammalsvenskby" (Old Swedish village). Kinda cool! :)
Lol, we can say "Hej hej" in Poland as well.
Ukrainians, and Russians for that matter are cousins of the Swedish Vikings who travelled east 1,000 years ago. “Rus” mean to row (a boat) as in, the land of the boat rowers (Vikings).
@@jonaskessler326 The first UA kings (kniaz) were the Normanns from Sweden.
@@jonaskessler326 which makes it even more ridiculous that they are killing each other in huge numbers.
Maybe Swedish viking where in Ukraine 🇺🇦
Bruh, you own a house there, have lived there for years, and you're just now realizing you should learn the language?
he knows, he just pretends he does not)
@@ottoreitstock2465 wrong
You can get by just fine speaking only Russian there for the most part. Since the war started back in 2014 more and more people are using Ukrainian language which is the right thing to do in my opinion.
Inna Is the absolute best!! I'm glad you were able to do a video with her. She has a heart of gold, and is the best Ukrainian language teacher around! Much love ✌🏽
I’m so happy for you finding Inna:). What a lovely and beautiful person 🤗
Currently learning Ukrainian on Duolingo. So I can keep up with the telegrams and videos. :p
Same here!
according to recently applied language law, all businesses required to talk with clients in ukrainian language by default, only if the client starts conversation on another language they have a right to respond on the client's language
Hi Inna, thanks so much for teaching this Ukrainian resident Ukrainian Gotta love the echo when you guys walk through the passageways 21:40 Not bad 2 weeks from the US. I sent a package from the US to Ukraine once and it took a month.
Nice video, but she made a mistake in translation - соловей is not a sparrow (горобець), it's the nightingale, and accordingly, солов'їна мова = nightingale language, as they say about the Ukrainian language.
Oh thanks for that!
Couldn't agree more
Oh wow! I love her channel! This is such an awesome opportunity for her! Johnny you're a good dude.
Classic American: mate, knowing 5-10 words in Russian and wondering why nobody gets you doesn’t make you a Russian speaker. On a side note, Ukrainian is indeed linguistically closer to Belarusian and Polish than to Russian.
At least he tries…
It's closer to Belarusian but not at all close to Polish. There's a lot of similar vocabulary but grammar is still Eastern Slavic (meaning it's similar to Russian and Belarusian)
Source: I speak Russian, Ukranian and a bit of Polish)
@@radex__ I studied Slavic languages. But I am sure you know it better dude.
I always wanted to learn Ukrainian Language.
Just a shame my 🇺🇦 Wife still won't teach me☹️
Thinking because she will know what she is saying to me and our daughter 😂
Stay safe Johnny 🇬🇧🇺🇦
sms is in latin because it is allowed about 70 characters for cyrillic and 130 for latin texts for 1 message. they save x2 when writing ukrainian words in latin
Ukrainian sounds smoother to my American 🇺🇸 ear. Not as nasal or hissing or guttural as Russian. Russian sounds like a verbal sneer to me. My opinion.
So you're telling me that you, an American, who are known for their absolute ignorance, can distinguish Russian and ukrainian? And you want us to believe that? :D
@@osnapitzbry Been listening to both nonstop for at least 6 months.
Ukrainian is one of the most melodic languages in the world along with Italian, the sounds are very clear.
Thanks for this video and watching you trying to learn Ukrainian. I have been putting learning Ukrainian off partly out of fear of making mistakes in pronunciation. You just showed me that it is fine to make mistakes and not to be afraid of sounding incompetent in Ukrainian. Thanks Johnny.
Hhahaa thank you? 😂
@@RitzOriginal1 Sure keep thinking that. If I were you I would be more worried about the attacks in Crimea, Kherson and the implementation of the Lend Lease Program of the USA. In next month or so. That equals more HIMARS. Ha ha
@@RitzOriginal1 I agree war is not a good thing. I have a Ukrainian wife. This war has caused a delay in reuniting with her, death of her family friend and the friends little brother only because she came back to get her little brother to take him somewhere safer. Russia has shown itself under President Puttin to be an war hungry imperialist power only concerned with keeping sovereign countries under its sphere of influence. It seems the only way Puttin will understand this is unacceptable is to beat him in Ukraine. I despise this war and feel sorry for both sides for all the pain and suffering it causes on both sides. Though as I said Russia has to change its imperialistic nature and unfortunately this seems like to be the only way under President Puttin and I and many other don’t think he will stop with just Ukraine.
This lady is a charming and friendliest teacher. Thanks Johnny!!!
You’ve been in Ukraine for years and barely speak an ounce of Ukrainian/Russian. What’s the point of living there if you always need to take a translator with you to pay for a service
He speaks Russian, as you will have heard if you watched any of his videos
@@ukrainewarroom You can that speaking Russian?
@@ukrainewarroom He does not speak Russian🤣
@@ukrainewarroom He can not speak Russian. Maybe a broken distorted phrase here and there.
Its just so bizarre. He often complains about people not understanding him when maybe he should put in the effort to learn the language after years of living there. But it’s his life I guess.
The trolls are thick today.
Ukrainian language is closer to Croatian as well to Serbian language then Ruzzian. She will agree for sure if she has a chance to read this comment. Regarding this video big 👍
No it's not. There is some vocabulary found in Ukranian that's also found in Serbo-Croatian and not in Russian but that doesn't make the languages similar.
Якщо казати про базову лексику-це брехня. Але ми схожі морфологією
Inna's channel is great - it was nice seeing you both chatting in Kyiv. 👍
@Nikolay Morgan *yawn
I am Ukranian heritage. I learned Czech in the military and it sounds like Ukrainian at times. It also uses the Roman alphabet, not cyrillic. One tip to teaching our friend. Slow down when you speak a phrase and make him say each word slowly and then speed up when it can be pronounced at speed..
Funny I just listened to her video on question words this morning. Didn't know she was in KYIB. I might come there from the states in a month or so, might have to hire her there to teach me.
Hi Johny, great vid in your style.
Been watching for a while and if you'd let me make a constructive criticism, Id like to help you improve your audio. 2 things, better recording & take the time for some post production audio correction.
A little Rode mic on your smartphone w/ a wind shield (dead cat), would make a big difference. Also for interviews the Rode Wireless Go II are good. Look them both up. The Go II means more editing ti combine audio in post.
But the single most important thing that can improve your audio is a high pass filter & then some compressors in post.
If you dont have a program or want to hands on, then an upload service like VEED does it for you.
Cleaning your audio would make your vids so much better as it's the most important aspect especially when you have interviews where they cant be heard.
Hope you can look into this & keep up the great vids!
Good luck learning Ukrainian! Slava Ukraini!
As a russian speaking Ukranian (born in russia) I do support speaking Ukrainian, russian should be a foreign language, like e.g. Chines or German. russia use language as a weapon in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, etc. We need to get rid of the influence of that crazy fascist people and country 👍👍👍👍👍👍
too many of those crazy fascist people in Latvia
Johnny FD, keep the great content coming, watching from rainy Scotland! Stay safe mate.
Used to live in Scotland for a few months -near Aberdeen -such an incredible country!
@@eugene8524 Quiet, boring and predictable when you are young but looking at the world today that may not be a bad thing!
22,33 tnx for the compliment about turkish coffee jhonny
as a turkish guy who lives in ukraine almost for 3 years i am very happy about that i have started to learn ukranian and still keep learning it, not russian.
essipecially after the inavation, russian is the language of our enemies and i do not wanna talk any word of it
Duolingo has a limited amount of Ukrainian since it was made by the peace corp back in 2014 so there is no updates. Then I found Inna's youtube which has helped me a lot.
Very nice collaboration, Inna and Johnny. Also this was a very useful lesson for Ukrainian language.
Glad you enjoyed it
Timothy Snyder’s lectures on RUclips - a good way to learn more about history of Ukraine.
Agreed. His Yale course was fantastic.
Johnny one of your best videos, a very great and friendly and super charming co-host Inna ! 😃
Glad you enjoyed it!
You seem like the type who gets friend-zoned a lot.
Он нашёл «друзей» из-за бабки….
@@beyondappalachian8218 I'm sure he is nice. That has nothing to do with my statement. Women are attracted to bad boys. It's possible to be both nice and a bad boy. I don't think Johnny has it in him. Because of that, the nice guy gets friend-zoned a lot.
@@beyondappalachian8218 My point exactly. Women like men.
0:25 It's not that uncommon to hear something like 'Hello' twice. Where I come from there's an informal form of Hi that can be interpreted both as a 'Hi' and a 'Bye'. So you can say it twice fast when passing by someone you know.
Thank you Johnny for this introduction to Ukrainian language. I already understand a lot although I just started studying in July this year.
Linguistically, Ukrainian is closer to Polish than it is to ruzzian.
And I can understand it much more than polish, sounds much like the dialect spoken in the eastern part of 🇭🇷
@@yespeace2000 -- Yeah, they're all from the original proto-Slavic language. Ukrainian is closest of all to Belarusian (only 16% of the language is different), and then Polish, Slovak, Bulgarian and Czech are all less than 30% different. To give perspective, Ukrainian vocabulary is roughly 38% different from what is in ruzzia, which means that Spanish is closer to Italian (only 33% different) than Ukrainian is to ruzzian.
You are a fat ameriKKKan writing ruzzian? Don't you have your own country to focus on, big boi?
true
I can’t believe I’m seeing you two in the same video 🥹 Inna is an amazing teacher everyone, go give her a follow if you want to learn ukrainian! 🤍✨
I'm a child of the 80s and my native language is Bulgarian. I've never had to study Russian(I was in the first agegroup when it was no longer mandatory. Guys 1 year older than me had to study it), but it was still always around in the early 90s post-communist times. We had it on TV, my parents and grandparents had tons of books in Russian and so on. So I did get some exposure to it as a kid and I still understand a lot, but I cannot say I can speak it. I later got the same if not more amount of exposure to Serbian(well serbo-croatian or whatever you want to call it) in my teens in the mid-late 90s and early 00s trough music and movies. I can say I'm somewhat fluent in it as vocabulary is a lot closer. Then life did it's weird thing and I ended up living in the Czech Republic in my early-mid 20s in the late 00s(exposure to Slovak and some Polish apparently came with it). Now I discover the beauty of Ukrainian(I've been watching both yours and Ina's channels even before the war). I find Ukrainian sounding somewhere in the middle between Russian and Polish/Czech with a surprising amount of vocabulary being the same as Bulgarian/Serbian instead of Czech/Polish/Russian. It's a bit odd to hear so many south slavic words pronounced in this northern/eastern way. From my point of view both Ukrainian and Russian are soft. You should hear us balkanites speak. Johnny heard it in Bosnia and Croatia :D
The southern Slavs arrived in the Balkans in the 6th century (from the territory of modern Ukraine and Poland), the tribes started to cross the Danube and settle there after the collapse of the Roman Empire. So many words are similar, but when the southern Slavs speak, it's very hard to understand them for the eastern Slavs ( I could not understand those southern slavic songs at Eurovision, only occasional words).
Those who want to be good at something new must first know that they will be very bad at it first.
Oh my God! I couldn't even think that foreigners are so bad with Slavic languages😱. I am a Ukrainian and until February 24, a resident of Kyiv (my hometown), usually when I went to the store or walked around the city center, I was always angry at foreign students: they did not understand a word in Ukrainian or at least in Russian! Of course, I can try to answer their question in English, but this confuses me a lot. In fact, I know 4 languages (ideally Ukrainian and Russian, average English and also average Japanese), I started learning Polish a month and a half ago, and now I can easily go to the store, ride the bus, and enjoy many benefits without any problems. People learn languages it's quite interesting, so learn them!
Why would you be mad when foreign students don't speak the language?!
@@osnapitzbry if they study in that country for 5 years, they should know the basics
@@osnapitzbry Because they don't make any attempt to learn the local language even at a minimal level. Now in Poland I see the same thing, foreign students (probably Chinese or Thais), the seller in the store asks them: "how much meat do you need?" They don't answer at all, they just mumble! And, all you need to say is something like "proszę pół kilograma" or "proszę kilogram" (One kilogram please!). All this can be learned in a week or two, but they are used to being understood in most cases, and do not want to learn anything more. That's why i'm get angry!
@@osnapitzbry however, many residents of Ukraine do not speak Ukrainian, after 30 years of living in the country! (For example, my grandmother) Pensioners, especially those who lived in the USSR, are sincerely believe that they do not need to know more than they already know. It's sad!
Turkish coffee is an acquired taste, haven't had it in years, but drank it all the time when I was in the Air Force in Germany at Frankfurt.
I have been waiting for so long to watch you both together … I watched most of your vlog …! 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Yay! Thanks for watching!
Johny is hopeless when it comes to learning ukrainian))
Agree)
No one is hopeless. I’m 61 and learning Ukrainian for the last 4 months with Inna’s videos. It just takes exposure and time.
The Kings and Generals youtube channel has a few cool videos on the ancient ukranians and how they lived, if your interested in the history.
Ukrpochta was one of the worst post office experiences in my life in Kiev . They do not speak English there at all and will reuse to help you but keep bumping you to another worker just to avoid helping you . That does not show me that Ukrain is part of Europe . Most Europeans speak at least 2 foreign languages
Inna only uses "tak". I notice on videos people using both "tak" (так) and "da" (да) for "yes". The situations are very informal, just wondered if "da" is informal in Ukrainian, like "yeah" in English, or is "da" a Russian invader word? [I'd stick to tak, as a foreigner.]
Tak-літературно, ta-популярно на Галичині, da -нормально тільки для Волині та тих хто живе біля росії(інакше-це помилка)
Johnny , your gonna have to do some tongue exercises to get those letters rolling ...🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
If I can give a little advice, please make sure you pronounce the whole word. For example, for "I am tired" you have to say "vtomlenyj." You cannot say "tomlenyj". That "vt" is difficult for an English speaker, but it must be there.
Same thing with "excuse me" -- "vybachte." It should be "vy - bach - te," 3 syllables, clearly pronounced.
Same thing with "I need." You have to say "potriben," with a clear "n" at the end.
It's harder in the beginning, but if you learn to pronounce things clearly, it will get a lot easier later.
Also, Ukrainian is one of the hardest languages in the world, particularly when it comes to grammar. Spanish is easy in comparison.
Best,
I use those solar panels on my Japan cars and Japan car cigarette plug does not link to battery after igition switch is off and only when switch is on position than cigarette link to battery, so I had to wired to to constant hot wire like door switch.
Inna is MY teacher too!
Noway my ukrainian online teacher !! Your with Johnny who did the tour of that mansion leshenko built with tax payers money !!!
So, you're gonna compare two cute girls speaking Ukrainian to two gopniks speaking Russian? 🤦♀️ Even if Ukrainian _is_ "more melodic" (and it very well may be!) that comparison doesn't do much to prove the point 😏 Also, 4:35 - Russian "is getting less useful" because of the war? Isn't the opposite, actually, true? 🤷♀️
Russian sounds gutteral no matter who speaks it. Same as how German sounds angry even if it is paying you a compliment.
@@ukrainewarroom Oh please. Russian sounds horrific while Ukrainian sounds like the language of angels? What?!
Yes, and the gopnik has some kind of accent and parodic aggression
I thought the same.poor comparison. The Russian of Pushkin's poetry is beautiful
@@osnapitzbry yes.
Are you seriously trying to tell me how my own ears and perception work?
Ukrainian is beautiful. I love how the months of the year represent what happens to the nature like November means falling leaves. I think Russian is beautiful too though and for me I prefer to learn rather than Ukrainian.
Inna is a good guest. Looki g forward to your next video tigether.
Being a native Russian speaker, it's really hard to learn how to speak and properly pronounce Ukrainian because the accents are never where I think they should be, so when I read Ukrainian, I usually read and pronounce it like a Russian speaker, which is incorrect; super frustrating!! But now I'm going to subscribe to and watch Inna's videos. Thanks Johnny!!☺
Hey Johnny - I'm looking for a Ukrainian family that wants a sponsor/host in USA under the U4U program. Do you know of any families with small children that need to escape the war? We would prefer to host a family that lost their home to war and the father is fighting in the military, but that's not a requirement. I've joined several FB groups and websites but I was thinking maybe you have first hand experience since you're in the country. Thanks!
Maybe you should try an Iraqi or Syrian family; you know, the countries that AmeriKKKa brought democracy too. Did you also offer this to them?
Old Slavonic was the written language of the Orthodox Church, but the Old Slavonic is based on Bulgarian, since the Bulgarians were the closest Slavic neighbours of the Byzantine Greeks. So the Bible was translated from Greek into Slavonic and than the missionaries spread out and brought Christianity and together with it this form of Bulgarian to all the other Eastern Slavs. But those Slavs did not speak Slavonic. They spoke something related, so that the Slavonic in the church was somehow intelligeable for them, but the different East Slavic tribes had their own dialects or languages. But from those languages we have very few written traces, since Old Slavonic was used almost exclusively by the few people who could actually read and wright, who were mostly priests and monks, like Latin was used in the Catholic West throughout the Middle Ages. So Old Slavonic is not the mother of Ukrainian or Russian but the former written roof language (Dachsprache). Later the Eastern Slavs developed their own written standard on their own languages, since Old Slavonic became more and more harder to understand for them and they also wanted to emancipate themselves from this honorable but still a bit foreign Old Slavonic language.
Ви плутаєте старослов'янську/праслов'янську та церковнослов'янську
Solovey is a nightingale
I really didn't expect this crossover!
Ukrainian is my native language, and I'm curious how it sounds for foreigners? Is it nice or so so?)
Please write your opinion. Many thanks
Melodic, though as someone learning Ukrainian the case system is horrific 😆
@@ukrainewarroom To whom exactly does it sound melodic?
@@osnapitzbry troll
It's an attractive-sounding language, quite charming in my opinion.
yeah, it does sound nice
The more I watch your vids, the more I want to do a 1 month travel and go from here in Vancouver 🇨🇦 to Ukraine then through other cities.
i say "howdy, howdy" a lot, so i would say the beginning of this video, would be about the same, maybe! just something i have always done, lol.
You might want to connect that solar panel to a charge controller before connecting it to your battery. This will regulate the voltage and not risk over charging your battery.
That was interesting.
Russian always sounds like the speaker is angry to me.
Ukrainian does sound much better.
I like the way Bald approaches Russian without regard for Grammer.
I'll have to take his word for it, I don't speak Russian.
Anyway, good video.
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You think that we believe that an AmeriKKKan can distinguish the difference between ukrainian and Russian? Mate; you'd even have a hard time hearing the difference between Polish and German.
Ukrainian is a pure Slavic language, proto-Slavs lived in UA!
@@ottoreitstock2465 Yes, before Russia was more than a bunch of unorganized tribes. Read some history before posting troll.
@@markmitchell457 Russia was colonised by the Slavic tribes of Ukraine (Slavic expansion to north and east), Moscow did not exist before 13th century. Yes, most of Europian territory of russia was populated by a bunch of unorganized Finno-Ugric and later Turcic tribes.
@@markmitchell457 Russian language is synthetic mix of Church-Slavonic, local Finno-Ugric languages, old Ruthenian from territory of Rus (Ukraine and Belarus) and some non slavic Tatar languages. The Muskovy stoled the name of Rus (Russia in Greek), the name of language, the symbols, the history of real Rus only in 1721. The history of Russia as an Empire is huge levels of lie, manipulations and fakes. Old Rus-Ukraine is not real ancestor of modern Russia. The heart of Russia - Moskow is Finno-Ugric land, not Slavic. A lot geographical names near Moskow and name of this capital is Finnish.
Incredible video! I appreciate it!🇺🇦
I'm sure that Inna is an excellent teacher, but it's still quite difficult to take her historical statements about Ukrainian and Russian languages seriously. “Modern Russian and Ukrainian languages came from Old Slavonic language”. Actually both of them came from Old East Slavic (or Old Russian). Old Slavonic (or Old Church Slavonic) was used for church service and to translate the bible from Greek. Besides it was rather literary language for long time so that ordinary people didn’t speak it. I mean, it was two completely different languages which existed in parallel. Old Church Slavonic is a predecessor of “modern” Church Slavonic language which still used by the Eastern Orthodox Church in different countries for liturgies. It’s like “Slavic Latin”. And at the same time Old East Slavic is a predecessor of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian languages.
“Ukrainian is older than Russian language”. Why is it so? We know for sure that Old Russian broke up into these three languages (Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian) after Kievan Rus was divided between various states in the middle of the XIV century, such as the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and a conglomerate of northeastern Russian principalities, who fell into dependence on the Golden Horde which later will become the Moscow Tsardom. It is quite difficult to determine the beginning and end of any language. But it can be said for sure that the formation of the Russian and Ukrainian languages took place at about the same time, since people who used to speak Old East Slavic (Old Russian) ended up in different states and were influenced by different cultures.
I’m Russian and i wholeheartedly support the Ukrainians in their fight against Putin and his army. I understand that most Ukrainians do not like Russians and I can understand their hatred. However this is not a reason to adjust history to fit their political position.
Слава Україні!💙💛
@CrimeaIsUkraine for you Kievan Rus = Ukraine or what? Maybe the Roman Empire is the same as Italy?
Modern Ukrainian language has about 250000 words, modern russian has less than 200000. Only that indicates that Ukrainian is older. In a nutshell russian has been created artificially for church purposes, while Ukrainian has been formed naturally and much older than russian.
And stop spreading false history that was created by Moscow. You are clearly not a supporter of Ukraine as you are pushing these fake narratives.
@@unounounoq Paid troll
Good on you mate👍. I wish there were more Russians like you.
29:27 bullshit. In Kievan Rus' there were
Old East Slavic
Old Norse
Medieval Greek
Finnic languages
Research has shown that Old East Slavic grammar and vocabulary was much more like modern Ukrainian than modern Russian. As a matter of fact Ukrainian is the closest modern Slavic language to Old East Slavic.
I would love me some teacher like her, she is cute.
I have been to that same Nova Poshta. Looking forward to the day when I can return to visit Kyiv. Slava Ukraiini !!!
Inna! This is awesome 😁
That's crazy I was just wondering about this..
How many pure Ukrainian dialects are there? Russian excluded. Are there Ukrainian dialects difficult to understand?
Закарпацький та гуцульський трохи складні, інші дуже зрозумілі
40 yr old men don’t dab lol
Why is every video of u says fundraiser. Where does the funds go ? Are the viewers raising funds for u by watching these videos ?
The money goes to the charity Razom for Ukraine 🇺🇦
Ukrainian is such a beautiful language - It is ironic that Putin's effort to eliminate Ukraine has resulted in so many people all over the world uniting to support this country and becoming inspired by its people to learn their beautiful language.
You did a good job ordering coffee Johnny lol
25:50
"Life is to short to drink bad coffee"...........uh oh! lol
Ты живёшь так давно в Украине и так плохо говоришь? Серьезно? Твой русский хуже чем украинский…
Ты каждый день носишь украинскую футболку но не можешь связать двух слов в разговоре. Какой смысл?
"не можешь отвечать речь на улице"? А собственно ты почему такой безграмотный, раз кичишься и укоряешь других? Или как это обычно бывает, в своем глазу бревна не видишь?
@@RyokKrin Как я могу сказать это правильно, что я имею в виду?
@@Howsitgoing-wy8iy ну вот, а Джони пытаешься что-то выставить в упрек, твой уровень не лучше чем у него, по крайней мере используя переводчик он мог бы написать не хуже чем ты, а отвечая на вопрос, правильная конструкция предложения была бы: "но не можешь *ответить* (или " *говорить* *с* ") прохожим( *и* ) на улице" или куда лучше бы звучало "не можешь связать двух слов в разговоре". И второе, твой ответ мне должен был бы быть написан как: "а как мне правильно сформулировать то, что я имел ввиду?"
@@RyokKrin Хорошо 👌
not bird language but nightingale language.
the video comparing two languages is unfair. two girls speaking vs a street thug speaking
10 out of 10, my old mucker! Keep trying :) One day you’ll master the grammatical intricacies of Eastern European languages. Not easy, let me tell you
Did you buy that knife in Ukraine or did you bring it from US?
I bought it here in Ukraine, at Epicenter.
This was really helpful. Дякую! As you were saying, back when I visited Ukraine in 2004 and 2005, the business language was Russian, so that’s the language I started learning. I picked it back up after the war in the Duolingo app, and thankfully Ukrainian was offered too. I’m further along in my Russian lessons, but the longer the Russian war lasts, I’ve wondered if there would be a shift in willingness for Ukrainians to speak Russian. I know not every Ukrainian will feel the same, so I need to learn both. This video encouraged me to spend more time catching up with Ukrainian lessons. I hope to get to visit Ukraine again in the future, after the war.
I am Afghan and in this war I support Ukraine 100%. However, I find the Russian language more elegant and beautiful that the Ukrainian language. I lived in Moscow and Kyiv.
Wow. Inna has beautiful eyes
Calm down raj
New video, new woman. lol
How are you in Kyiv? Did I miss a memo about the invasion?
Johnny, thank you for the info about sending pkg from USA to Ukraine using Novo posta. I have one question I hope you can answer... I want to send my friend in Kyiev Ukraine a sterling silver necklace from USA. Will it be confiscated by customs even though it is probably considered costume jewelry and not fine jewelry? I understand you cannot send fine jewelry to Ukraine from usa.
WOW!!! THOSE EYES
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Johnny, you showed Russian video example in the wrong context intentionally. 😠
Slava Ukraina 🇺🇦 ✊ 👊 🤝 🇸🇪
- What about volunteering ?
Keyboard Warrior Alert
I thought there was a war there
Heroaiam slava
Blyat is my favorite word now. I've beening waiting for someone to fuck up at my my job an for me to run up an say Blyat. Lol
Whats in the box?
DONT open the box!
uhhh....whats in the boooooxx???
Trust me DONT open. The box!
Come on, whats in the booooxxxxx???
I would have laughed myself ailly if you ordered Seven(film) just to make the joke for us xD
To learn Spanish the first thing you need is the accent. Maybe should pretend to speak English with an Ukrainian accent and the sound will be not so English ….just saying what I would do.
Where I can get your shirt Johnny?
we know her ❤️