About the Ukrainian language

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Today's video is a necessary one and it's been a while since I was planning on making it. The war in Ukraine is still making headlines, but here I just want to explore the Ukrainian language, its unique features, and its history. I know that at the moment anything concerning Ukraine becomes political, but here let's just see this beautiful language for what it is. I hope and wish languages always remain tools for connecting people and not a reason for conflict.
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Music used:
Blossoming Tree by Wanderer's Trove
And On We Go by Duckmaw
Watercolor Motion I by Trevor Kowalski
Ty Zh Mene Pidmanula (Traditional Ukrainian song)
Videos used:
Маша Єфросиніна про мовне питання, шоу "Дорослі Дівчата" та хейт від блогерів.
• Маша Єфросиніна про мо...
The food of Lviv. A big guide
• Їжа Львова. Великий гід
#slavic #easterneurope #ukraine

[@frankswarbrick7562]

I just listened to the music video (DakhaBrakha) shown here as an example of native Ukrainian speaking. And wow! That was amazing stuff! Almost hypnotic.

[@raindowdog7271]

It's not correct to show this DakhaBrakha' song like a native Ukrainian speaking, because this song contains phonetical words from moskoviet language

[@frankswarbrick7562]

@@raindowdog7271 Bad for Julie's video maybe, but still wonderful music.

[@Weissenschenkel]

@@raindowdog7271 I'd go for Okean Elzy instead, but the women's ensamble sounds amazing, nonetheless.

[@naddniprianec]

Try plyve kacha (пливе кача)

[@AndriiF]

​@@raindowdog7271it's first time I hear that Dakha Brakha contains moscowite's poetry in their compositions. Any examples pls?

[@hyperion303]

I've always felt like I understand 50% of what a Ukrainian person says. Greetings from Poland! Great video, Julie!

[@vladbojkiv3895]

It was the same for me with the Polish language. But when I got used to phonetics, I started to understand 75%.

[@ezreal2930]

Yeah, if phonetics would be not that different it would be even easier

[@hhh-yh8wn]

I came to Poland and started working in McDonald's. The instructions were in Polish, I got about 60%. ... However they hated me there😀

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

Maybe because Poland controlled a vast majority of Ukraine for centuries?

[@brucehur2051]

150000 YRS OLD KOREAN LANGUAGE IS OLDEST..150000 YRS OLD KOREAN LANGUAGE IS OLDEST..150000 YRS OLD KOREAN LANGUAGE IS OLDEST..150000 YRS OLD KOREAN LANGUAGE IS OLDEST..150000 YRS OLD KOREAN LANGUAGE IS OLDEST..

[@hyunsoolee5795]

Ukraine is full of dynamic, resilient and beautiful cultures and people! Thank you for this great video! I also hope for the bright future for the Ukraine people and peace in Ukraine and the world! Greetings from South Korea❤

[@vitekbodnar4503]

Thanks🙏

[@ivanschekoldin7315]

You seem to confuse Ukraine and Russia, it’s the latter that is multicultural not the former

[@felipe636]

full of nazis too

[@mattiamele3015]

@@ivanschekoldin7315I mean… even Ukraine is multicultural in comparison with Korea. 😂

[@shesathome]

@@mattiamele3015 Or Poland which is actually monoethnic except for some Ukrainian refugees.

[@bojanbojic9230]

I learned ukrainian language, when I was a kid. My mother belongs to ukrainian people. Now I can't speak it ,but I understand a lot

[@dejomajstore10]

are you Serbian?

[@bojanbojic9230]

@@dejomajstore10 Yes I am

[@danielpmonteyro]

​@@bojanbojic9230 So you can re-learn it easily

[@ЈугославНиколић]

@@danielpmonteyro isn't it logical that to a Slavic speaker it is harder to learn (other) Slavic language than it is hard to a non Slavic speaker? Though, at start he would understand much, but instead of accepting new language, he would be rejecting much of it as small irregularities from his own language

[@danielpmonteyro]

@@ЈугославНиколић that's what I feel as a Portuguese speaker learning other Romance languages

[@elier9885]

i'm currently learning ukrainian. It's a pleasure to learn it, even if, as a french, it's far away from my mothertongue. At the beggining as started that for "fun" but soon after, the escalation start, and it became political. Always a pleasure to be introduced to ukrainian culture and way of life. Слава Україні!

[@кусокводы]

Do you really learn Ukrainian seriously? I'm Ukrainian and i used to learn french so I can understand and speak a little...we can talk, i can help you 😁 Do you have telegram?

[@elier9885]

@@кусокводы так я вчу українською але я новачок. (I learn Ukrainian for a little more than a year now) It would be a pleasure to learn Ukrainian with you and teach you a bit of French ☺️

[@кусокводы]

@@elier9885 or you can find me : @and12rom

[@ДмитрийМежевич-х8о]

Героям слава! I am Ukrainian and I admire your beautiful language, you literature, cinema and your culture in general.

[@KetoZdrowie]

We travelling to a country of technic wheat flour

[@Ali-bu6lo]

Your Persian sounds great and your accent is simultaneously good and lovely.

[@JuLingo]

Thank you so much 🙂

[@ivan_matvichuk]

Дякую за українську :) Thank you for the Ukrainian language :)

[@kekeke8988]

Дякую is a loanword from Polish which was in turn ultimately derived from German denken (cognate to thank in English).

[@ivan_matvichuk]

@@kekeke8988 можливо) наші мови і так дуже подібні) Perhaps) our languages are already very similar)

[@ValionkaVia]

@@kekeke8988 denken - думати (to think) danken - дякувати (to thank)

[@frostflower5555]

@@kekeke8988 I think Polish should get rid of that word.

[@Gigusx]

@@frostflower5555 Why?

[@Anbopro]

Дуже дякую за це відео. Я чекав на це відео дуже довго. Нарешті! Вітання з України! 🇺🇦❤️

[@borovik8714]

You have red and black colors in the background - change them, because someone might mistake you for a Bandera Nazi. This is a friendly channel, light-hearted, with no content praising the genocide of half a million Poles, as done by the Bandera followers who used that flag. I am pro-Ukraine, like probably everyone in Poland, but the neonazi, Bandera symbolism associated with Ukraine is off-putting and discouring of providingn further support for Ukraine. Unless, that is your goal.

[@MykolaPylypenko1]

@@borovik8714 mmm... YOU seem to be nazi and I'm quite sure you aren't a polish but ruzzian. Hope I'm wrong and you just got brainwashed by ruzzian propaganda... First of all, black and red flag was used centuries earlier the 20th century - if you pour blood on yellow blue, these colours will turn black and red. Second, Stepan Bandera was inprisoned by nazi in the concentrated camp where also his 2 brothers and many fellows died because they were fighting against nazi and soviet troops. Now turn on the simple logic and stop saying lies about my country. Unless that is goal.

[@casual-zq6uh]

@@borovik8714 "someone might mistake you for a bandera nazi" Lol, he knows exactly what flag he has there. And no, not everyone in Poland.

[@kellydclear]

I have been learning Ukrainian, and I was very happy I was able to read this whole comment without using a translator. :) Slava Ukraina!

[@betterdonotanswer]

Сей дегенеративний відосик є переказом усіх головних брехнів московської пропаганди.

[@belariy]

ага, файна. толькі пару гістарычных заўваг. скандынавы не заваёўвалі ўсходнеславянскія землі. не было тут чаго заваёўваць, гэта была не багатая заходняя Еўропа, дзе было што рабаваць. таму скандынавы арганізавалі праз водныя шляхі нашай тэрыторыі гандаль з Візантыяй. а нашыя далёкія продкі выкарысталі скандынаваў як наёмных кіраўнікоў, каторых можна лёгка мяняць. у выніку, у выйгрышу аказаліся ўсе. і наконт дзяржаўнай польскай мовы. сапраўды дзяржаўнай яна стала толькі ў позьняй Рэчы Паспалітай. а ў раньняй дзяржаўных моваў было дзьве: у Польшчы - латынь (так так, палякі не адразу дайшлі да таго, што можна карыстацца сваёй роднай мовай), а ў ВКЛ - старажытнарусінская (старабеларуская, стараўкраінская) мова, якая дала вытокі для сучаснай беларускай і украінскай моваў. але потым, так, пачаліся працэсы паланізацыі і польская мова стала дамінаваць ва ўсёй РП. а ў цэлым, так, украінская мова капец як плыўна гучыць. і хоць я не магу ёй карыстацца, але слухаць яе магу бясконца: цячэ як ручаінка.

[@georgetheconqueror2574]

Дуже люблю білоруську мову, напевно через те що розумію її майже повністю) Було би чудово якби лукашенка повалили і більше білорусів розмовляли би рідною, білоруською мовою. Жыве Беларусь!

[@Oia_UA]

Так, і, тим більше, там про росіянську неправильно було сказано. Взагалі, у регіоні Новгорода була своя слов'янська мова, але, в інших регіонах сучасної Росії - ні. У Московії не було "росіянського народу", натомість, були різні угро-фінські й азіатські народи (зрозуміло, що вони руською не користувалися). Проте, церква використовувала церковно-слов'янську мову. Пізніше, церковно-слов'янську, вважай, силою розповсюдили по населенню і, після того, як вона трохи змішалася з місцевими мовами, з'явилася мова, яку зараз називають російською. А в Україні була своя жива слов'янська мова, яку використовував слов'янський народ. Ось і вся різниця.

[@belariy]

@@georgetheconqueror2574 паглядзім. калі Украіне ўдасца вызваліцца ад расейскіх акупантаў, тады можа і нам удасца заваліць лукашэнку, бо яны моцна зьвязаныя паміж сабой. а таму, слава Украіне!

[@cicik57]

@@Oia_UA не политизируя тему, надоело уже, вы понимаете про возможный исторический факт переселения носителей языка, при котором они действительно развили свою версию но которая всё же больше похожа на старый церковнославянский чем хаотично изменяеющиеся и влияющие друг на други другие славянские ветки которые заимствовали и испытывали влияние от всего подряд, так что какой язык реальный наследник языка киевской руси это ещё надо разобраться, а тюркские и другие корни некоторых слов в русском чётко просматриваются и что с того

[@Valigozi]

З історичної точки зору в цьому відео дійсно багато неточностей, але я все одно вдячний авторці, що розповідає світові про нашу країну та нашу мову. Стосовно Білорусі - мені дуже подобається білоруська мова і тому мені неймовірно шкода, що ваша мова зараз на межі вимирання. Вам, білорусам, треба вже зараз щось з цим робити, а не чекати на нашу перемогу, бо процес перетворення окремої країни Білорусі в просто білоруську область московії зараз відбувається шаленими темпами...

[@camo6344]

I hope Ukraine understands that the majority of the people in the world love Ukraine and are honoured to be able to help such brave people

[@jobeye3043]

Thank you, stop russian terrorists together 💪

[@destik6165]

@@jobeye3043 that shitty feeling when whole world is against our country. Thx to our president

[@Bakambol]

@@destik6165Trochę wam współczuje bo nic nie możecie zrobić z tym karłowatym psychopatą putinem.Oczywiście mam na myśli normalnych Rosjan nie popierających wojny.

[@ArchieUA]

​@@destik6165 I haven't seen pootin here in Ukraine and you say it's all his deeds... Yea, you can fool yourself but you can't fool us. It's all your ruSSian crime not pootin's itself

[@ivanschekoldin7315]

@@destik6165it’s not the whole world, not even a half of it, just a vocal minority.

[@кусокводы]

Thank you, while watching this video I couldn't help smiling because it's my native language ☺️☺️☺️

[@andreykowalski2485]

а ник написан по-русски. О да...родной)) родной язык это не тот на котором вам Порошенко повелел изъяснятся по наставлению условного Лондона, а тот, на котором вы говорили с самого своего детства. И учитывая что ваш ник написан по-русски, значит это и есть ваш родной язык - русский. Вне зависимости от политики или придурков в Кремле. Это не взаимосвязанные вещи, и русский язык не принадлежит правящей в России партии.

[@PUTLER-KAPUT]

@@andreykowalski2485 некоторые люди могут быть носителями сразу нескольких языков, при условии их одновременного изучения с раннего детства. Причём эти языки могут сильно отличаться между собой. И ничего не мешает тем людям разговаривать с мамой на русском, с папой на английском, с дедушкой на украинском, видеть сны на испанском, а на KZbin зарегистрироваться с французским псевдонимом.

[@кусокводы]

@@PUTLER-KAPUT спасибо

[@v0r0byov]

@@andreykowalski2485 что ты несёшь, дурачок? А если ник на английском это значит что родной язык английский?

[@andreykowalski2485]

@@v0r0byov дурачок здесь только ты, со спутанными мыслями которые ты не можешь составить хоть в какие либо адекватные логические связи. Но то, что у многих сейчас просто полное отсутствие логики, это уже никого этим не удивить. Для дурачков вроде тебя, которые спешат нахамить в своих девичьих истериках, поясняю - кириллицу используют только народы СССР. Она не является международным стандартом. И если человек пишет свой ник кириллицей, то только родной ему азбукой. В данном случаи использование буквы "Ы" с большой вероятностью говорит о том, что русский язык для человека является естественным и привычным. И это тот язык, который он использует чаще всего.

[@ЄгорПодвіґ]

Дякую за Українську мову 🇺🇦

[@prime3011]

так, слухати це було дуже приємно

[@NcaeB]

дякyлы подвалили )) ахахаха, гугла банит слово "дякула"

[@Imertdane]

Слава России!🇷🇺

[@ЄгорПодвіґ]

@@Imertdane Хуйлу Слава 🇷🇺💪😎

[@Anonim_567]

​@@Imertdane А что надо отвечать на спертый у украинцев лозунг ?

[@tedgemberling2359]

Thank you so much for doing this. This is such a wonderful service for the Ukrainian people. I thought it was fascinating to learn about how Ukrainian comes out of the wider East Slavic family and diverged from the other members of it.

[@39exposures]

Your Ukrainian pronounce is quite natural. Thanks for the video!

[@miles_quartz]

wow i'm so glad i stumbled across your channel! i love learning about languages and the format you use really helps my brain to focus and suck up information! hopefully this video will get picked up by the algorithm so more people can donate to the fundraiser. the Ukrainian people and everyone in the world deserves peace and safety

[@x.5364]

Thank you so much! This video sums up history so so good. For me as ukrainian myself, it was a pleasure to see a correct representation of ukrainian history, as often on internet a lot of misinformation about anything ukrainian could be found. That's outstanding! And also your phonetics are almost perfect 🤩🤩

[@hatefeidi]

Being away from my home country (Iran) for a few years and not having the contact with Persian congregation as much as I use to have , learning new languages and seeing foreigners speak my language, utterly delights me. It's just like hearing a cute baby tries speak, although still not perfect, but it's one of the best joys things in the world you can ever listen to. I don't know other languages native speakers feel the same , but I saw you in a few videos of yours that you're speaking farsi and I have to say... آفرین دختر...ادامه بده...

[@JuLingo]

خیلی ممنون

[@MDobri-sy1ce]

Due to the conflict I stopped and questioned learning the 'other East Slavic' language since I am mostly, of Ukrainian, Polish, and Italian but I started learning that other language off and on to feel more connected to my Eastern European heritage because when I was in high school Ukrainian was not available and resources were limited. That being said, my love for the culture and the other language has not changed.

[@celiabarrett2107]

You mean Russian yes? Plenty of Ukrainians still speaking it, although that has been changing and will continue I expect. I don't believe in languages being politicised.

[@MDobri-sy1ce]

@@celiabarrett2107 Neither do I but unfortunately, a lot of people do.

[@celiabarrett2107]

@@MDobri-sy1ce it's a shame isn't it? your post read like you were afraid to mention that word... And yes, language is often politicised and linguistic theories set aside to accommodate current thoughts.

[@villeporttila5161]

Same. I won't engage with anyone who supports the war, which is most of the Russian population unfortunately. So opportunities to use Russian are highly limited.

[@theALFEST]

It is not conflict it is genocide

[@asdrubalivan18]

I'm learning Ukrainian myself with a tutor and learning lots of phrases. It's a beautiful language and I have enjoyed the process. Hopefully, I'll become fluent one day.

[@ErmakBrovar]

Ukrainian is a bolshevik volapük designed to desintegrate Russian nation. It’s basically a rural dialect, contaminated by polonisms. It lacks cultural an scientific vocabulary, it’s only ok for day to day peasant communication. The documentation to nuclear power stations is still not translated from proper Russian because South-West Russian rural dialects still don’t have a vocabulary for nuclear physics.

[@vladbojkiv3895]

@@ErmakBrovar 1. In the Ukrainian language there are terms for nuclear physics. 2. Almost all of them were borrowed from other languages, just like in the Russian language.

[@viktorias63]

❤️

[@adfghbnn]

Молодець ❤

[@mahonghao9971]

永远不原谅，永远不要忘记。荣耀属于乌克兰！！💛💙

[@cristiani.lepindea8676]

I too stand with the Uranian people! 💪Slava Donbas! Documentaries: "Ukraine on Fire" & "The Putin Interviews" by Oliver Stone "Revealing Ukraine" by Igor Lopatonok "Donbass" by Anne-Laure Bonnel "Ukraine Crisis: War Crimes/Atrocities committed by Ukrainian Army [ENG] (Banned on mainstream media)", YT channel: Fallen U.S. Soldiers. "Roses Have Thorns", YT channel: Watchdog Media "Agent Zelensky" by Scott Ritter

[@adfghbnn]

Дякуємо ❤ Героям слава !

[@harczymarczy]

1:28 The transition between Ukrainian and Russian is not abrupt at all if you go from West to East. "Pure" Ukrainian is spoken in and around Lviv but if you go to the East, you hear a transitional language variant called Surzhyk which is effectively marked as Ukrainian on this map. As you reach Donetsk, you'll notice that everybody speaks Russian. (This was true before the war, of course.) Rusyn is another story, it was heavily influenced by Hungarian (and, to a lesser extent, Slovak and Romanian, too, apart from Polish) and it was therefore exempt from the Ukrainian o -> i vowel shift. Rusyn, too, may be considered as at least two languages (Subcarpathian Rusyn with four and Pannonian Rusyn which is spoken in Vojvodina, Serbian, with one). Most Rusyns are Byzantine-rite Catholic while Ukrainians are predominantly Orthodox.

[@andreykowalski2485]

да ладно, где вы в Киеве украинский язык слышите? На базаре или на вокзалах? Там да, украинский. Но в Киеве говорят на чистом русском. Куда даже более правильном чем например в Москве.

[@censord6960]

@@andreykowalski2485 сейчас почти везде звучит украинский в Киеве. русский звучал там раньше до войны и в основном розговорно. Не знаю кто ты, то ли россиянин с тупым имперским мышлением либо манкурт(сложно отличить потому что манкурты, обычно стремятся ничем не отличатся от россиян), но ты явно несёшь какую-то дичь.

[@andreykowalski2485]

@@censord6960 в Киеве нигде не звучит украинский язык и не ври об этом...Пусть девушка сама приедет в Киев когда всё закончится, и сама в этом убедится. Лично убедится, а не читая "патриотов" пишущих из-за -заграницы. Более чем уверен ты сидишь в безопасном от мобилизации месте. И твоя фраза про "русский звучал там раньше" - как бы намекает о том, что Киев для тебя, это где-то ТАМ. Так вот для территории вокруг нашего города - у вас зулусы быть может и позабыли родной язык, но в Киеве всё ещё преобладает русский язык, и здесь не срабатывает логика о том, что Путин как-то взаимосвязан с ним. В отличии от вас ЗУЛУСОВ, в Киеве всё коренное население из России, потому что в Киеве не выдавали квартиры не русским. У всех бабушки и дедушки русские. Родители, где в графе национальность у всех почти киевлян написано "русский" или "русская". И из-за того, что какие-то воры кремлёвские начали ракетами бросаться, люди не будут отрекаться от родного языка как собаки Павлова. Это только американская логика в том, что если Россия бросается ракетам, значит все как роботы должны перейти на украинский язык и подбрасывать в гору чепчики когда Британия даёт новое оружие чтобы был повод продолжать уничтожать граждан Украины. В Киеве это не является хоть сколь либо приемлемым. Здесь ждут когда и в Москве идиоты уймутся, и на Банковой и в условном "Лондоне/Вашингтоне".

[@choboltovski]

Не треба розказувати про суржик, бо він приблизно однаковий і у Львові і на Луганщині і Донеччині, просто поширення суржику залежить від кількості окупантів. У Львові окупантів менше, тому менше людей говорять окупантською, а ось Київ, Донецьк і Луганськ окуповані давно і населені майже повністю окупантами. Але сільська населення і Донеччини і Луганщини, де нема окупантських еліт, говорить чудовою українською. Те саме стосується Києва, так бідне населення, старі бабусі і дідусі як говорили українською століття тому, так нею і говорять, а окупантські еліти подовжують говорити мовою свого вождям і насаджують її іншим, тому я знаю багатьох немісцевих жителів Києва з західної України родом, які перейшли на престижну окупантську мову, що є звичайним пристосуванством. Щодо перехідних мов, то їх є дві, там де українці сотнями літ мали стабільну межу з іншими слов'янами, це Полісся, де мова поступово змінюється з української на білоруську, а також Карпати, де українська переходить в русинську, а західніше сама русинська переходить в словацьку. Межі з північними окупантами у нас не було, тому немає перехідних діалектів, хіба на північному сході Чернігівщини. З поляками межа була, але вона проходила між містами Люблин, Судомир, Ряшів, Краків і знищена внаслідок асиміляції за сотні літ перебування цих земель у складі Польщі, тому польська і українська всюди має чітку межу. Щодо "чистої української", її можна почути в основному на Полтавщині, Харківщині, Черкащині та суміжних районах, це територія де розвивалася українська мова, в інших територіях українська мова зазвичай дуже змішана з місцевими діалектами, це особливо чути в Галичині, яка довго була відрізана кордоном від решти України.

[@andreykowalski2485]

​@@choboltovski это бред вызванный страшной обидой на Россию, и не пониманием того, что в происходящем виновато ещё и руководство Украины. Притом виновато в первую очередь. А только потом уже условный Лондон и Кремль устроившие полигон из страны. Возвращаясь к "украинскому языку". Я знаю и русский, и польский и даже ваш так называемый украинский. Украинский язык - это следствие польской оккупации древнерусских земель. Именно поэтому этот язык существовал только в сельской местности, и никогда не распространялся на большие города, где население говорило по-польски, или по-русски. Ну или вообще на идише.

[@markbernier8434]

I don't know where your figures come from, but Statistics Canada says "the government release said. Canada has the largest diaspora of Ukrainians outside of Ukraine and Russia, with over 1.4 million people of Ukrainian descent living here,"

[@LLBD-kj1jb]

I'm a long time subscriber. I LOVE your videos! So thoroughly researched & interesting. You do speak a little fast (for me). I don't know what some of the linguistic terminology means, but I still learn a LOT. You never fail to impress me. What a Renaissance-like scholar you are (& stunningly gorgeous). Keep up the videos please!!!! Spaciba!

[@JuLingo]

Thank you so much 😊

[@davidclark682]

I studied Spanish in high school and had a minor in German in college. In my 50’s I studied Italian because of my frequent trips to Italy. I love studying languages and really enjoy your videos. I think when a person learns another language you appreciate the culture that uses that language. One of my special moments was conversing with a South Korean in Spanish since neither of us spoke the other’s native language.

[@danyf.1442]

Great work and well done for giving to charity👏👏👏

[@MegaMr81]

I love Ukrainian❣️ Вони наші брати та сестри. 🇵🇱🫂🇺🇦 Я вчу українську щодня. In polish word brother is brat and in Ukrainian is брат. The same spelling only different alfabet.

[@chahailus]

Thank you for this video. I've been speaking Russian for 20 years and and I've decided to learn Ukranian now. It's going great, and I am truly enjoying it. What you said is so true about lexical differences. People often think Russian and Ukranian are the same language. However, I noticed immediately many words are quite different.

[@shesathome]

7:17 Russian "вокзал (wokzal)" has origin in London district Vauxhall where there was a train station with enterntainment facilities for passengers. .

[@frankswarbrick7562]

Nice one, Julie. I even watched the entire Rosetta Stone ad. But I'm afraid my old brain simply isn't up to learning a new language. I still enjoy learning about them, though.

[@Weissenschenkel]

Your mileage may vary. My mom learned Sanskrit after her 50's and she's in her 70's now, still speaking it as L2. She was born in Brazil, half Portuguese half Belgian, no connection to Asian languages.

[@JuLingo]

Haha thanks, especially for watching the ad 😄 well, as they say, it's never too late

[@Fafnirych]

Thank you for the video about the Ukrainian language Greetings from Kyiv ❤

[@bryzhanyn]

As a ukrainian myself and also a subscriber of yours for a long time, I'm very happy that you have chosen this beautiful laguage as a topic of this video! You gave the needed historical context of the ukrainian language origins and presented the complexity and the melodiousness of this, as we often call ukrainian, - "солов'їна мова" - "the nightingale language"! This video was really great and I enjoyed it a lot! Good Luck on making new interesting videos!

[@JuLingo]

Thank you so much!

[@zulthyr1852]

even in that term, the "openness" of Ukrainian syllables could be found in romanization, it'd become "solovyina mova" notice how only one syllable, "lov" ends in a consonant

[@georgegach7]

What a class, Julie! 👏🤍

[@volodymyrzakolodyazhny]

It's pretty funny to find exploration of my Ukrainian language between Gotik and Shumer languages.

[@zmicierkurlovich6797]

Not Belarussian but Belarusian (with "oo" sound where "u" is), please.

[@stjepanistra5238]

you done great work, regard from croatia / napravila si veliki posao, pozdrav iz hrvatske

[@vladbojkiv3895]

🇺🇦❤🇭🇷

[@michaelzhur3954]

7:45 Ivan Kotliarevsky considered to have formed Ukrainian literature language - not Taras Shevchenko

[@husbanana]

As a native speaker of Belarusian I understand Ukrainian 100%. We have dialects in Belarusian Polesia that are closer to Ukrainian than to Belarusian, so our cultures are very closely intertwined. I can speak it, though not perfectly. I love Ukrainian for its melody and melodiousness. For some reason it always seemed to me that in terms of phonetics Belarusian is more similar to Polish, and Ukrainian to Czech and Slovak.

[@skepticalfaith5201]

I wish I could pin this comment. The most neutral one I’ve found

[@mikuskokenbergs8853]

Glory to Ukraine! With love from Riga, Latvia.

[@cristiani.lepindea8676]

I too stand with the Uranian people! 💪Slava Donbas! Documentaries: "Ukraine on Fire" & "The Putin Interviews" by Oliver Stone "Revealing Ukraine" by Igor Lopatonok "Donbass" by Anne-Laure Bonnel "Ukraine Crisis: War Crimes/Atrocities committed by Ukrainian Army [ENG] (Banned on mainstream media)", YT channel: Fallen U.S. Soldiers. "Roses Have Thorns", YT channel: Watchdog Media "Agent Zelensky" by Scott Ritter

[@davd1986]

Slava Cocaini!

[@eggplant4367]

я дуже люблю Українська мова

[@natalianatalia8134]

Taras Shevchenko is, of course, one of the most influential and famous Ukrainian poets. However, he is not considered to have formed the Ukrainian literary language. Ivan Kotliarevsky established the Ukrainian literary language

[@jasyamaha]

My Russian friend from Ukraine lied to me. He said everyone spoke Russian but neglected to explain how the Ukrainian language was repressed. Thank you for this short little piece of history.

[@Stevesmithjr3576]

The Russian language is oppressed in Ukraine nowadays

[@dairinni0483]

@@Stevesmithjr3576bullshit

[@JNosewicz7569]

​@@Stevesmithjr3576it's not repressed. The Ukranian Language is taught in schools.

[@natalianatalia8134]

Yes, that's pretty much how Russians behave. They usually deny how cruelly they forced Ukrainians to speak Russian. Nowadays, many young people, who were taught by Russian propaganda that the Russian language is superior to Ukrainian, are switching to our native mother tongue, Ukrainian

[@natalianatalia8134]

​@@Stevesmithjr3576Stop lying. Everybody knows that Russian language used to bloom in Ukraine before Russian invasion. You forced Ukrainian to speak Russian so long, that now see how Ukrainians are coming back to our heritage

[@clovislyme6195]

Well done Julie - good to see you again.

[@ZetaCarinae]

DakhaBrakha is fantastic, great choice! Thanks for making this video!

[@raindowdog7271]

It's not correct to show this DakhaBrakha' song like a native Ukrainian speaking, because this song contains phonetical words from moskoviet language

[@elyaka1589]

Don't stop making the content! You are awesome

[@sketchtwenty2]

This is a very helpful explanation of the Ukrainian language. Thank you for the thoroughness and clarity with which you addressed the subject.

[@bw6138]

JuLingo, you are amazing!!!!!!!! You know so many languages. Thank you for what you do. Your videos are very informative.

[@Anton_Danylchenko]

Thank you very much for the video about my native language! I was very impressed how you absolutely correctly described the meaning of the word "Ukraine" without myths about the "borderland" meaning (which are unfortunately present in almost every video about origin of Ukraine and Ukrainians). There is an old XVI century book "Peresopnytsia Gospel" where the term Ukraine is used for Biblical lands clearly in the meaning of "country", "land within the borders". Before the end of XIX century Ukrainians called themselves Rusyns in ethnic sense. Now this name is used only by small group of people in Carpathian area. In fact since XVI century both names were in use but Rusyn - meant ethnicity and Ukrainian meant "from Ukraine". Things started to change when one big neighbouring country usurped the name of Rus' and Rusyn nationalists had to switch to Ukrainian identity to give a chance for our nation to survive assimilation attempts. Ukrainian and Polish shared many words from the very start since our people were neighbours from the very start of Slavic resettlement. In fact Old Russian also had many those words that are falsely considered now as Polish borrowings. Later Old Russian was under huge influence of Old Church Slavonic (it was the only literary language there) and many original "North Slavic" words were replaced by South Slavic words there. Belarusian and Ukrainian were considered as dialects of one Rusyn language for a long time (possibly even up to XVIII century). Even now Ukrainians easily understand Belarusian and vice versa. At the same time we understand Russian mostly because it was imposed as a "language of prestige" and since we often hear it from the childhood. So we de facto have diglossia based on village-city line rather than west-east. People in villages speak Ukrainian in all parts of Ukraine (except for ethnic minority areas). For me English grammar is more difficult than Ukrainian one. We do not have Continuous time and classical Perfect time (we just use past tense verb with prefix that indicates the action is already finished). For me using prefixes and suffixes is much easier than using special verbs. But I am accustomed to it from the birth. I understand that for English speaker it is not an easy task.

[@newardthelman6871]

Greetings from Chicago. If you happen to post factual information about Ukrainian history, particularly as it relates to the Ukrainian language, the historical divergence of Belarussian, as well as Russian, please inform of your site. Слава Україні.

[@Anton_Danylchenko]

@@newardthelman6871 Greetings from Kyiv. I do not have a web site or KZbin channel. I am mostly active on Quora. Last year I mostly wrote about the war. But I have posts about Ukrainian history as well. I would also recommend KZbin channel "Kings and Generals" that posts great videos about Ukrainian history in English. There is a playlist "Project Ukraine" there.

[@JuLingo]

Thanks for sharing your native speaker knowledge!

[@mitchyoung93]

'Kraj' means edge, border. E.g. Srpska Krajina, the Serbian borderland. And that's where Ukraine got its name.

[@Anton_Danylchenko]

@@mitchyoung93 Ukrainians did not speak Serbian. We had our own language where Kraj had another meaning - country.

[@myceliation]

julie disrupts my algorithm of videos by looking the way she does

[@andreydoronin6995]

The comment section proves to be interesting

[@rebelliousfineart8202]

I’m just here because I’m love with the KZbinr

[@fabulouschild2005]

I found this video right after complaining about not seeing one of your videos in ages lol! All Slavic languages are so pretty to listen to

[@Sonicthehedgehog_007]

Щиро дякую вам ☺️ ціную цю роботу вашу якщо щось я із України 🇺🇦👼 люблю вашу мову американську 🇺🇸🗽 або британську 🇬🇧💂, я хочу вивчити аж до кінця і жити в Америці однак хочу поїхати у Нью-Йорк і жити і мати сім'ю я дуже хочу вивчити американську мову однак щиро дякую вам ☺️ що ви вивчайте нашу українську мову, я думав нашу мову ніхто не вивчає однак вивчають нашу мову вдалого вам дня до зустрічі

[@olganikoliuk9110]

Дуже гарне відео, дякую!

[@BB-yh5rd]

Grew up speaking English mostly but Portuguese as well. During high school I wanted to take German on and did an exchange in Stuttgart. Learning languages is totally addicting. For Spanish and Italian I watch stuff on Netflix and after a while my brain starts to understand them. What fascinates me is where languages merge and diverge creating for lack of a better word Creole style vernacular. One of my favorites is where Dutch starts to fade and French gradually takes over and people in between speak Flemish. Even how German and Dutch are related which heavily influenced English through the Saxons is fascinating. While my Portuguese is NE Brazilian I like hearing the language from Portugal much like I enjoy hearing the King's. Galician in Spain which in many ways is Portuguese but also not reminds me of hearing people from Scotland speak English. I gave Russian a shot about ten years ago on your sponsor and just made me a bit depressed that I'm running out of lifespan that limits my ability to learn more languages.

[@friscor.6134]

So happy you are back! Don't mind the political trolls, the rest of us thoroughly enjoy your videos. I really liked your choice of words at 11:04 for a good example of how similar languages can have similar (or same) sounding words with other meaning. :)

[@JuLingo]

Thank you!

[@ivandukovac8292]

The area of ​​"white Croatia "is the cradle and ancestral home of the Croatian people before they migrated to the shores of the Adriatic Sea. The Croatian language, like Serbian, has about 70% similar words, with the difference that Croats use the Latin alphabet.

[@iam7610]

Hello. I was a little interested in your languages. the question arose, how close are your peoples to each other?

[@skepticalfaith5201]

@@iam7610 Supposedly they are almost identical with the exception of the different alphabets, but neither of them would ever admit that. 😁

[@raoufrachedi8903]

Hey I happen to be currently learning Ukrainian , it is such a melodic and beautiful language , do you have any Slavic origins? I am trying to figure out where you are really from based on your accent but it is bit of a tough one lol

[@legofett1107]

@@bombastix3728 Z=shit .oh no Z=naZi

[@frostflower5555]

She's Russian.

[@gamermapper]

She's Ukrainian

[@emmanuelestrada2194]

She is latvian

[@jerrydonquixote5927]

Thank you for what you're doing Juli! ❤

[@mhaque4011]

love this channel!!

[@stefanmargraf7878]

Very happy about you choose Ukrainien language! I know nothing about the language, but the Ukraine is a daily topic in my heart.

[@ProleCenter]

I wonder why. You probably need to get better informed.

[@ennui9745]

@@ProleCenter In what way does he need to be "better informed", tankie? Please, enlighten us.

[@ProleCenter]

@ennui9745 He probably needs to get ALL points of view, including the "tankie" one, you pos.

[@ennui9745]

@@ProleCenter what is the tankie "point of view" on the Ukrainian language? Just get to the point and stop beating around the bush, you pos.

[@RenegadeShepard69]

@Ennui Putin is not even close to being a hard leftist, not all imperialism is stalinist, in fact Russia has always been imperialist, since way better before "tankies", Soviet union, Stalin etc. were a thing. Westerners growing a soft spot for slavs is a new phenomenon however.

[@betterdonotanswer]

6:25 This statement has nothing to do with reality, the official language of Rusь (Ukraine) remained Ruthenian (Ukrainian) under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia, as well as under the Polish Crown, which crown was the same Lithuanian, actually.

[@Selezenkas]

Был Русьский на Руси. Россия - Русь по Гречески

[@betterdonotanswer]

Oberežno, suržikъ: «Русьский на Руси...» Ruskъjь, morъdvine. Vъ Rusi, a ne na Zalěsju.

[@betterdonotanswer]

Oberežno, suržikъ: «Россия - Русь по Гречески...» Udmurta obmanuli, Rossia to je Ukrainska nazva Ukrainy ščo pobutovala vъ XVI-XVIII stolětiaxъ dopoki ne bula privlastnena Moskvoju. Grecka nazva Rusi bula Ροσία, zъ odnoju sigmoju. Grecka nazva Moskovskogo gospodarstva bula Μοσχοβία.

[@seanoriain8294]

Excellent video, Julie. Really interesting. As an Irish speaker I can identify with the history of Ukrainian. If you love learning languages, it's worth taking a look at Esperanto. It was artificial at the beginning, back in 1887, but now, 5 generations later, it has become a living language. Just like a test-tube baby becomes a child like any other child.

[@peterivankovich2990]

I beg your pardon, but the ''Rusyn'' language is almost the Belarusian language, and not close to the Ukrainian language! I saw some books from the Carpathian mountains, and I was flabbergasted that I could almost entirely understand them. I grew up in Belarus, just under Latvia, where most people spoke Belarusian, and all teaching at schools was in Belarusian in the countryside. I happened upon ''Carpathian Rusyn books'' in the US in a Half-Price Bookstore. I opened them to take a look, and was amazed. It was like reading a Belarusian book!

[@TwilightSun32]

afaik this idea of a common east slavic language root is more like a Soviet narrative. The real history is more complicated and seems to be disputable to some degree.

[@clubb2724]

dang the comments are gonna be wild

[@djmillhaus]

yeah, and finally the idiots will unsubscribe 🥳

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

*Wide Putin Walking*

[@ОлександрКотловий]

Thank you for your edition! ❤

[@Hiljaa_]

Man some of these comments are a bit odd to say the least

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

da

[@zygoptera666]

Now... as a person who somehow understands Russian. I am completely clueless hearing pure Ukrainian spoken. There is a chapter in my life were I was somehow like "Brother in Arms" with Ukrainian who spoke "Surzik". Russian-Ukrainian mix. In Soviet Army. We kinda understood each-other...

[@mitchyoung93]

Surzik is not a 'mix', it is the natural result of a language gradient between 'Ukrainian' ...whose modern form has been standardized purposedly away from Russian...to Russian proper.

[@viktorias63]

​@@mitchyoung93that's not true

[@RCSVirginia]

Once this conflict is over, I suspect that Ukrainian will be the required language for education in whatever lands the national government of Ukraine rules over. This would be similar to what is now happening in Estonia and Latvia where there is now a large legal-push to make sure that all students are educated in the national languages of the two nations. So, as a result of the current strife, all these languages are likely to have bright futures. That may not be what anyone thought would happen when this conflict began.

[@JuLingo]

From what I understand from my family members in Ukraine and comparing it to growing up in Latvia, it seems that Ukrainian has already been stronger in the educational system of Ukraine than Latvian in Latvia

[@RCSVirginia]

@@JuLingo I very much hope that your family in Ukraine is as safe and well as it can be during these terrible times, and I am sure that all of your other subscribers feel that, as well. As for the matter of languages in areas such as the Baltics and Ukraine, though I do feel that bilingualism or having multiple official languages can be a positive policy in some regions of the world, methinks that it has gone too far for that with nations to Russia's West. Having Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Ukrainian as the sole languages used in education and government in their respective nations will help reinforce the national solidarity of these countries and draw a demarcation betwixt the Russian Rodina and them. Unfortunately, the current Russian regime has shown that it will use the presence of Russian-speaking minorities as an excuse to interfere in the politics of and to invade the nations in which they reside. This saddens me because I have always been a Russophile and have always had sympathy for Russia's legitimate interests; however, there is no excuse for Russia's aggressive actions in Crimea, Eastern Ukraine and now the Ukrainian heartland itself.

[@valentynl.4471]

@@JuLingohello, Julie. Please notice that on the map in the beginning Crimea marked as not Ukrainian. It’s a big mistake

[@maggiemay3520]

​@@JuLingoso you are a fascist ukrop?

[@RayyMusik]

Dear Ukrainians, I don‘t think you can horrify us Germans with your declination thing, ‘cause we have basically the same. 🇩🇪🙂🇺🇦

[@ДмитроГладких-щ1в]

Дякую, маленька, розвитку каналу і там все таке, аж до 8 слів. Дякую за підтримку. Україна понад усе!!!!

[@david_oliveira71]

So glad to see you back uploading a video again. Thanks, Спасибі!

[@rustamkyrychenko6371]

While Shevchenko is a most known Ukrainian poet, and his works did a tremendous influence on the culture and mentality, he can barely be considered a literature Ukrainian creator :) Way before him, there was Kotliarevsky and a few others who were using just the same language, and it was almost the same as the vernacular language of that time and people.

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

fun fact - Shevchenko wrote in russian

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

@user-nc6vf6lv5z Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko wrote all his works in Russian and the South Russian dialect. Check out the primer, compiled by Shevchenko himself, for teaching the peasants of Malorossia to read and write. Primer of South Russian dialect by Taras Shevchenko was published in 1861 in St. Petersburg.

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

@CipiRipi00 There is Ukraine in 1861 ?

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

@CipiRipi00 not understand

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

@CipiRipi00 Crazy info Ukraine means ouskirt. Ouskirt of Russian Empire. As state Ukraine since 1991.

[@viktorias63]

One important fix, the father of modern Ukrainian language is not Shevchenko. While he's an important national poet, maybe the most important. That honor is often given to Ivan Kotlyarevsky.

[@_kukaracha_]

Thank you! 💙💛

[@yamisa8059]

Kievan ruś wasn't really a unified country. It's Belarusian, not Belorussian

[@МаксимСамолюк-с7с]

The background music in the end of this video is a nice touch! Hello from Ukraine :)

[@kirgo4720z]

Дякую за це відео. Україна буде жити! Українська мова також!

[@cristiani.lepindea8676]

I too stand with the Uranian people! 💪Slava Donbas! Documentaries: "Ukraine on Fire" & "The Putin Interviews" by Oliver Stone "Revealing Ukraine" by Igor Lopatonok "Donbass" by Anne-Laure Bonnel "Ukraine Crisis: War Crimes/Atrocities committed by Ukrainian Army [ENG] (Banned on mainstream media)", YT channel: Fallen U.S. Soldiers. "Roses Have Thorns", YT channel: Watchdog Media "Agent Zelensky" by Scott Ritter

[@Axacqk]

I'm never referring to Russian as anything other than "the other East Slavic language" again.

[@AdrianBoyko]

Aha! I see “pelmen[y]” on your short list of words that came from russian! I grew up in Canada where we always called them “perohy” (from Polish “pierogi”) but people from Ukraine tell me that “pelmeny” is the correct word. So, based on your video, I’ll assume that “perohy” predates “pelmeny” and that it’s not just a “Western Ukraine dialect thing” Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

[@olenam4541]

“pelmen[y]” - it's a dish with meat, russian kind of dish (based on asian kitchen). However varennyky (“pyrohy”- mostly named in villages) is Ukrainian national dish. They are bigger in size, сreated mostly with potato&onion, potato&cheese, cheese&apple, cherry etc. Actually you can combine anything and put in into dough (accept clean meat). Varennyky can be sweet or salty, are served with gravy, sauce or sour cream 🙂.

[@user-qf5kl6cv2y]

Pierogi can also mean "pie" in some languages (In Russian a "пирог" is a "pie" though said pie is basically a cake without frosting and at times dry meanwhile "пирожки" is what is what Poles call "Pierogi")

[@igorvoloshin3406]

Pelmeny is not a Russian word, it's actually a Finno-Ugfic loanword in Russian, same as the dish itself was loaned from Finno-Ugric kitchen, and it's literal meaning is "meaty ear". Native Ukrainian dumplings are somewhat different from pel'meni and are called "varenyky" (or in Western Ukraine "perohy").

[@anastasiiaf8311]

True. Most Ukrainians don't know the the famous old Ukrainian folk song that has a line "Любив козак дівчину і з сиром пироги". Actually means that the cossak loved the girl and pyrohy(varenyky) with cottage cheese. For "сир" in Ukrainian means exactly the 'cottage cheese' and not the hard cheese. The cows were the main food supplier so people not being able to process milk fast enough always made tons of cottage cheese. My grandma made that dish(cheese varenyky/pyrohy) every day! My mom still hates 'cottage cheese' as she was fed up with it.

[@igorvoloshin3406]

@@anastasiiaf8311 чому ж ні, знаю цю пісню з дитинства! 😆 "беріть собі дівчину, віддайте пироги!" 😁

[@deroberst63]

Щиро дякую вам!

[@РАшенСлавянов]

❤️🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦❤️ я русский, но берегите язык предков , в данном случае украинский язык.

[@egro_chaplia]

Но язык предков Украинцев и Русских это Праславянский язык...

[@РАшенСлавянов]

@@egro_chaplia и что из этого следует ? Как одно другому противоречит ? Да, язык украинцев и русских -праславянский (славянский), но не именно русский , ты ведь к этому клонишь !

[@egro_chaplia]

@@РАшенСлавянов Язык украинских предков это не Украинский!

[@РАшенСлавянов]

@@egro_chaplia а ты сильно украинский язык понимаешь ??? "Русский" ты наш ...😃 Подобные тебе украинцев вообще ни к славянам ни к европейцами не относят, хотят стереть их с лица земли.

[@РАшенСлавянов]

@@egro_chaplia слушай, ты утомил, украинцы говорят на своём родном славянском языке , точнее на его разновидности ! Что тебе надо, украинцы тебе что-то задолжали, может даже своими жизнями ???

[@cmoto1]

Explains why my Ukranian-American friends understood the Polish the school teacher used when they arrived here.

[@sandpiper2949]

And that is one-way process. Ukrainians understand Polish, Slovak, Chech, but they do not understand Ukrainian. When I asked my 7-years old daughter how is it possible, she answered: "Maybe because it's root language?"

[@sandpiper2949]

Ukrainian is more ancient then Greek, Latin or Sanscrit. Ukraine is a Motherland of Indo-European civilization.

[@solifugus]

Indeed. Bravo for this. You are an awesome person.

[@SchubertConsulting]

Very nice and instructive video.

[@leonstevens1382]

I would not go too far with Polish and Russian influence. Borrowings should not be confused with cognates. The Slavic languages selected from Common Slavic. So similarities don’t necessarily imply mutual influences. Each Slavic language picked and chose what it wanted to from the parent language with some tweaks and adjustments.

[@iam7610]

Absolutely right!

[@ramweiss675]

Слава Україні! Відео супер, подяка за вклад

[@OlgasBritishFells]

Молодец, что сделала видео про украинский язык. Очень интересно!

[@Tiipori]

I'm a native ukrainian speaker and oh my god, your pronunciation sounds so magical, thank you for attention to our language

[@jimatreidēs]

Greek is not a Slavic language, but it has three genders, four cases, conjugations, concordance, etc. I teach Greek to adult beginners, and all is nice and peachy until we get to cases and declensions. That’s when the students’ eyes start glazing over. Greek is not an easy language. I can imagine how hard Ukrainian is with seven cases!!

[@chanpasadopolska]

Most slavic languages have seven cases

[@chitlitlah]

I was comparing it to Latin while watching the video. It also has three genders and roughly the same cases as Ukrainian (instrumental is replaced by ablative in Latin but I bet they overlap somewhat), but the endings were very different and it was hard to say any group of declensions in Ukrainian is parallel to any group in Latin while Greek is much more similar to Latin. However, the verb conjugations she put up were very similar (the present tense anyway). You can tell the languages are related, albeit distantly.

[@billmiller4972]

I'm confessing. For a long time I also thought that Greek is a slavic language. But it is a very old indoeuropean language, more of a distant cousin of slavic.

[@gerald4013]

So many indo-european languages also have or had 3 genders and declensions and many verbal forms. Icelandic & German, Sanskrit, Old Irish, Latin, Armenian...

[@jimatreidēs]

@@gerald4013 even old English had three genders and an elaborate case system.

[@asyavyshnevska5875]

thank you, I hope your video will encourage more people to learn Ukrainian. I have a comment regarding Belarusian. it's spelled in your video as Belorussian (6:41), but in fact, it comes from Belarus 'White Rusj' -> Belarusian /belərusɪən/ (not from Belarussia 'White Russia' -> Belarussian /belərʌʃən/, as some Soviet Union lovers claim)

[@shesathome]

7:10 In fact after the Revolution 1917 Russian dictator Stalin introduced forced Ukrainization of former Russian regions Kharkov, Donbass, Odessa. Ukraine was rural poor illiterate area and Stalin injected Russian industrial regions into it to convert it to Socialist republic. But wujkis (wuj stryj is uncle in Polish, a derogative naming of Ukrs in parts annexed by Russia in 1939) took upper hand in 2014 Maidan revolt. The result is obvious. A propos my grandfather was born in Jewish settlement Wasilkiv near Kiev in 1905 and I still keep his marriage certificate dated 1930 in plain Ukrainian that sounds like "Свiдоцтво до шлюбу". Шлюб=ślub (Pol.)=wedding.

[@kekeke8988]

Many parts of Russia were artificially added to the the Ukrainian Soviet Republic because the communists felt that they wouldn't be loyal socialists unless they had factory workers and deemed it necessary to cement their hold over Ukraine which was otherwise completely rural.

[@yuliiacheberiak6967]

Most of the industry was already in Ukraine. Many entrepreneurs from Europe came to Ukraine back in the days of the Russian Empire. The entire industry of Donbas was built by Europeans. And when communism came, their businesses were simply taken away and nationalized. At that time, many Russians settled there because these enterprises hired people for little money for Ukrainians. Ukrainian peasants did not want to work there because most of them had their own land and worked on it. Later, this land was also taken away from the peasants by the Communists. I also disagree with the idea that Ukrainians were illiterate and that it was the "good" Stalin who taught us. Yes, there were uneducated people in the villages, but in the cities there were many educated elites whom Stalin simply destroyed.

[@yuliiacheberiak6967]

Which territories were artificially added, in your opinion? If you look at the territory of Ukraine during the Ukrainian People's Republic and the territories that were considered "Little Russian" provinces during the Russian Empire, significant territories were taken away from Socialist Ukraine. But no Russian lands were added.

[@shesathome]

@@yuliiacheberiak6967 Yes, Russia robbed Ukraine of Taganrog, Kuban, North Caucasus, Green Wedge (Far East - Vladivostok & Khabarovsk), Tyumen-Vorkuta and part of modern Bielarus. And Ukrainians have claims on Pyramids of Giza erected by Proto-Ukrainians Pharaohs Tutan Khomenchenko and Amenhotepyuk

[@shesathome]

@@yuliiacheberiak6967 During Russian Empire there was no such state as Ukraine. In most cities Russian was most often spoken language. Only in village-selo Ukrainian with a lot of Polish and Turkish words was common.

[@censord6960]

11:43 Little mistake) 1p should be Čytatymemo, not Čytatymo )

[@jonasjonava]

Литва, Каунас - бажаємо українським сестрам і братам перемоги над орками. Слава Україні!!! 🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹❤️🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦Lietuva.Kaunas 1000k❤️❤️❤️ Ukraine

[@vladbojkiv3895]

Ačiū

[@EUGEN093]

Так ты помоги. Там есть много вакантных мест.

[@ElijahSmith]

Aš myliu Lietuvos žmones 🇺🇦❤🇱🇹

[@jonasjonava]

@@ElijahSmith Lietuva.Kaunas 1000k❤️❤️❤️ Ukraine

[@SergeRibalchenko]

Дякую Литва, ми пам'ятатемо, хто на нас напав, а хто нам допомогав.

[@cliffcardinal9443]

A very nice post. It made me understand my effort in keeping my understanding of the Ukraine language (minimum) abreast these growing times in our global world. We feel our global language is threatened by strong language groups globally, and much thanks to you bringing languages to our homes with a certain character that appeals to the human side of all of us

[@whybother987]

Ukrainian and Russian were always separate languages. Russian deriving heavily from old church Slavonic (written language of Rus) and Ukrainian deriving heavily from the spoken language of Rus. Which were different languages.

[@Selezenkas]

Русский язык смесь Новгородского и Московского диалекта древнерусского языка, плюс смесь церковно-славянского. Нельзя отрицать это

[@egro_chaplia]

Yes

[@Nezalez]

Church Slavonic wasn't a Rus language. It was a Bulgarian language, Moscovia isn't Rus.

[@Nezalez]

​@@Selezenkasщо за бред? На болотах не говорили по давньоруськи.

[@NicoFranz-pq7kg]

@@Nezalez Глупый: Глупый и все остальные участники несут потери/убытки из-за действия.

[@ghlscitel6714]

Wasn't the Ukrainian language forbidden during the rule of Czar Alexandr II?

[@Oia_UA]

Unfortunately, from 1622 until the end of the USSR, various rulers of Muscovy, the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union prohibited the spread and use of the Ukrainian language.

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

Catherine the fat and terrible actually. She made it illegal to speak and use Ukrainian.

[@barbarahernandez4153]

I wish Rosetta Stone had Ukrainian

[@oswaldoramosferrusola5235]

Ukrainian does sound quite musical. Great job you have produced for the rest of us. You've sorted out quite well the politics thin ice. By the way, your English is flawless. I am a Spanish speaker, but I lived in England for 8 years.

[@jonnysolaris]

Wow your Farsi pronunciation is very good!

[@JuLingo]

Thank you!

[@jonnysolaris]

@@JuLingo khahesh mikonam :)

[@imramkham6392]

Your speech is very beautiful, I love your speech

[@JuLingo]

thank you!

[@imramkham6392]

@@JuLingo thanks

[@GaldorasEithel]

Could you make a video about mapudungun language???

[@RenegadeShepard69]

Would be great. I love that language.

[@gamermapper]

Hello I think it would be very interesting if you did videos in Ukrainian and Russian too. There's now even an option to have different voice tracks for the same video.