Live Stream: Celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day with Inna and Nika

[@Caradas33]

С днем Незалежності...I was walking down the street in Dublin earlier and I saw a car with Ukrainian registration plates...the window was open...and I said С днем Незалежності...Слава Україні...She could not believe it and was so so happy that an Irish person knew this...I was so happy to see her so happy....

[@KatsCats2619]

Happy Independence day🎉🌻Slava Ukraine🇺🇦💙💛🙋‍♀️

[@Gabi-oj5gk]

Slava Ukraini! Lovely greetings from Austria, God bless you,

[@pawelgas6126]

Privit! Pozdrovliaju duzhe srdechno! Ja Poliak i uchus' po ukrainski.

[@mec1580]

Salute. Happy Independence Day. Slava Ukraini!!

[@LearningSpanishwithDrL]

Great video!

[@_bbie]

Love you both and stay safe. Happy Independence from Indonesia

[@kirstyngeercken9622]

Slava Ukraini from Buffalo, New York! 🇺🇦

[@kazlidz4015]

So much love & respect to you both 🇺🇦💙💛Xx

[@md6695]

Thanks!

[@teresabaptista7016]

Happy Ukraine's Independence Day, ladies.

[@graemehyndman394]

I would fight & die to protect you,long live Ukraine! ,victory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤

[@HaleyMary]

Happy Independence day! I hope Ukraine will win the war and that there will be peace in the country soon. Best wishes from Saskatchewan, Canada!

[@HaleyMary]

I haven't heard of the band Hardkiss before. I will look them up on youtube and listen to their music. I always love learning of new bands and artists who speak different languages.

[@paulwhiteside]

Great live stream yesterday. I watched some of it. Keep up the good work fearless teachers of language and culture. 🤗🤗

[@pablodelsegundo9502]

Yaaaay, dogs make everything better!!

[@Путинхуйло-х1ы]

Be strong Glory to Ukraine From Italy! Thanks for interesting videos...... Of course you are right : we have all to support your army because weapons are bad....but Russia is even worse....

[@breakerwave31]

Thank you both so much for continuing to teach us. I'm learning very slowly. Work and family take up alot of time. Thank you for taking the time to do this with the horrors taking place. My wife and I wish you and your loved ones all the best. Yes, Cooper is the star of the show!, 😊 Please give him a big hug for us and God bless Ukraine and all of the fantastic folks who are fighting for freedom. ❤

[@vincentg6613]

Happy independence day!🇺🇦🇻🇮

[@kristinamelnichenko5775]

This made my day. Thank you beautiful people for keeping hope and freedom alive. It is Ukrainian Independence Day🌻🇺🇦💛💙🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Love the story on the flag colors!!!!

[@JeanyAzkenay]

Happy Independence Day !

[@dswag8495]

Ukrayina won't be threatened by evil. Light always overcomes darkness

[@mariodingcong2787]

Congratulations on your Independence Day Celebration!!🇺🇦🇺🇦 I pray for Ukraine every day! Ukraine will win this war!!🇺🇦🇺🇦🙏🙏🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@terrywiwchar1327]

Great video girls....loved it! Slava Ukraina!! Heroyam Slava!

[@Tom-od3eb]

Happy Independence Day. Slava Ukraini

[@luckyblackcat5256]

Okay, I try.... будьмо! Cheers! Kippis! :) You are awesome! :))

[@HaleyMary]

The stream was so cool! Even though I wasn't here earlier to participate in the chat, I enjoyed the replay. Make more of these live streams if you want! :)

[@HaleyMary]

The dog is so adorable! Love the name Cooper! He seems like a friendly dog.

[@ukrainedude88]

Wow your channel really grew over several months. Congrats

[@williamking2249]

I also subscribed to Nika's channel Verba 👍 I also know how to make Sirniki, I have them with maple syrup and sobme times powdered sugar.They are yummie.

[@rodericksibelius8472]

private private is not privit privit, I just started to learn Ukrainian Language, November 15, 2022. I just finished Professora INNA's Ukranian Alphabet 1 and Alphabet 2: the LETTERS... I love the way you structure your lessons. I am Roderick a retired Engineer from California, United States of America. It's FUN. Thank You INNA!!!... Great teaching.

[@Gabi-oj5gk]

Happy indepandance day, stay strong,

[@corriepitt7630]

Happy Independence Day! Sending best wishes to your strong and courageous people and to the nation of Ukraine!!!! Those who don‘t want to contribute to the Ukrainian Army: try to stop an attacking bear with a flower. What nonsense!

[@CaspersCave]

Happy Ukrainian Independence Day to you ladies and your families! More aid is on its way to Ukraine 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

[@eddyanckaert7763]

Nice week from eddy in belgium flanders

[@eddyanckaert7763]

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[@eddyanckaert7763]

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[@williamdeasy7507]

Happy independence day praying for better days ahead

[@gww6757]

Wish you a happy and peaceful Independence Day ❤️🇺🇦 Stay safe always

[@rick1716]

Very nice live stream. The dog is very cute.

[@thefisherking78]

I was part of that 500% in March! I plan to come help rebuild eventually and language takes time. Hope the war is over soon. Love from the States. Слава Україні 🇺🇦🤘

[@petterherlofsen7269]

Glory to Ukraine😀🍉

[@sowifie]

Oh no I was late to the stream but anyway З днем незалежності та слава Україні

[@rebekahmaddox1531]

You can still visit during the war. People go to Israel all the time & there's constant war there.

[@johnglover3682]

On May 15th, I travelled from Milwaukee, WI USA (about one hour drive north from Chicago) to Krakow, then eventually to L'viv and then onto Kyiv. I witnessed the Ukrainians leaving Przemysl on a full train to L'viv and beyond and later Ukrainians leaving Kyvi in June to Przemysl and beyond. When I was in Kyiv I transferred by body armor and other clothing, army camouflage clothing, and helmet to a soldier waiting at the Kyiv train station. (I probably should be writing this in Ukrainian.) I took photos at Bucha and Irpin of the significant damage to the buildings, including shopping center, university building, a school, and many large apartment buildings. I heard sirens go off when i was in Kyiv in the day time. The hotel doors were locked at night and I could not leave. On Sunday, I visited the Independence Square and I observed many women and children and men too walking and enjoying the warmer sunny weather he had. People were wearing very nice clothing. While I was in Przemysl, I observed the Tesco Refugee Center. I met volunteers who were living without any pay or medical insurance. Many lived in an area of the shopping center turned refugee center. The effort was to get people on the trains and to their destinations within 48 hours. Of course, older people were stuck there because they were undecided where to go and their situations must have been bleaker than the younger women with children. I cannot imagine the numbers of Ukrainians by the thousands, tens of thousands who came through the center and Przemysl train station. I was told many Polish people came to the border and drove Ukrainians to other cities in Poland and in other European Countries. The World Center Kitchen was at the center as it was at the train station serving hot food and giving out sandwiches. This was true at the Border where there was a camp of volunteers helping those who walked across the border. By this time, the number of vehicles from Ukrainian has significantly decrease with no lines. However, the line of vehicle from Przumysl was from inside the city's border and went 13 or 14 kilometers to the Ukrainians border. This stuck convoy did not seem to move. I spoke to one driver at about 2:30 a.m. and he said he'd been waiing for 24 hours without any movement. He was sill inside the city limits of Przemysl. This was about May 20th. Most of the vehicle were trucks and many had trailer with vehicles. There was a refugee staging area for travelers to sleep inside the train station in Krakow which is connect to the modern shopping center and there were two tents outside the train station. One for sleeping in and the other for eating. I visited one morning around 3:00 a.m. and four security personnel were stationed there. Two volunteers were there. (This was adjacent to the Starbucks.) I hope to return to Ukraine in July of next year. I have been working on my Ukrainian so I can get along more easily and enjoy the experience more. I only hope that the the Russians will have been pushed back more. Is it Slavo Ukraine or Slava Ukraine ?

[@barbarahernandez4153]

I donate monthly to United24. Slava Ukraini :) Happy Independence Day!

[@thenosa87]

who else remembers that video where they both were speaking russian

[@woodlandsteve]

Sorry I missed this 🇬🇧 Steve 🇬🇧

[@lexluthor6497]

I won't learn Ukranian but when all is normal again I'm going to visit ,buy a small Ukranian bottle of vodka and walk up a mountain,drink the vodka and kiss the ground.🍺ladies.Happy independence day. Slava ukraine.from 🇫🇮

[@sherrillwhately7586]

Happy Independence Day!!! 🇺🇦🇺🇸🌾🌾🌾🌻🎊🌻🔱🔱🔱. I’ve been donating to United24. Never thought I would donate toward military, but there you are. Both military and medical.

[@ralepej]

Happy Inedependence Day! How is Nikas channel written? And how is written that serie what you told and which can found on KZbin? Sounds interesting.

[@SpeakUkrainian]

Nika’s channel is called “VERBA”.

[@ralepej]

@@SpeakUkrainian Thank you :) and how about that serie? At 34:44.

[@proximashining776]

If people don't want to donate to the army because they don't want their money to be used for weapons that kill people, they should donate to organizations like Come Back Alive, that buy protection helmets, body armor and other necessary items for soldiers. This way they wouldn't spend money on weapons but would still support the army.

[@hinchlnt]

And here I am. About 11 months late to your live stream. But I have an excuse. I studied Ukrainian briefly in the summer of 2022, and then took leave, for almost a year. But I will watch you now ... provided you let me remain in your classroom. .Зараз я вивчаю українську мову з Duolingo.

[@markwalshopoulos]

One thing that I think is a wonderful coincidence is that Estonias independence day is exactly 6 months before the Ukrainian one

[@erfgthygreas1709]

Wow your beautiful ❤️

[@Asky_]

Happy independence day! It will be your last

[@jatse511]

This is essentially a political discussion here, so I'll join this... 1. I get that some Russophones probably want to speak less russian from now on given the "flashbacks" since 2014. I also hear that UA intends to ban certain russian culture, certain russian authors, and it's not new that UA continues to insist on some certain language policy to protect the UA cultures and languages. When you literally have a war that you didn't start, of course you need some good defence and stamp out infiltration. That's for sure. 2. You said around 60%+ of Ukrainians have Ukrainian as 1st language, and in fact most people, which I guess at least from your which is also my generation, had Ukrainian all along at school (so, that's also generations since 1991), while you had probably limited russian at school. The russian fed was still making excuses on how russian was foreign when it really was a foreign language. 2a. I'd elaborate my case here that Taiwan and currently HK have ongoing issues with languages given our similar, while not the same, colonial past. To me, UA is also on a road of de-colonization, so while I'd normally say "diversity (in languages and cultures) is good", such as with my country Canada, I think the decline of russian in UA is pretty inevitable and understandable. In Taiwan, still many people esp. in the north speak only Mandarin but it wasn't a local language before 1945. Still many people of Hokkien origin don't seem to master Hokkien when it was, along with Aboriginal languages and Hakka, banned under the Kuomintang colonial rule. The KMT, today, is almost like the parties banned (recently) by Zelensky's government. If Taiwan would go to war, they would side with the CCP. Really, I think KMT and CCP are pretty much like the soviets or russian fed. (cont'd)

[@jatse511]

2a. (cont'd) Banning languages, whether Hokkien/Hakka/Welsh in UK/Ukrainian in Ukraine in the past, had a chilling effect. People would discourage their children to speak those. Currently, we hear Guangzhou businesses ban Cantonese and schools have always only done Mandarin at school. 2b. My native HK is increasingly enforcing Mandarin-only at school. Many Guangzhou school children which is my origin already don't speak Cantonese. Our HK children are the next to see Cantonese banned, and they will be made to hate and disuse Cantonese. I cannot expect overseas HK-origin/descent children to know Cantonese damn well. Most of them don't. We are unlikely to detach "cultural diversity" from sentimental reasons, really. I didn't like how I had to do 6 years of Mandarin (mirrors your 3 years of russian, maybe?) Not sure how you did, but i really didn't like the M class because teachers would force me to speak M before I even knew how to speak it. They would assume M and C were similar enough that I could start speaking from day 1. I never scored well. However, I learned M far better after school time, but obviously I have zero motivation to be associated with it despite how Mandarin speakers did compliment on my apparent fluency. I had primary school in Cantonese, then I did high school in English "English as a medium of instruction school", but still we did a lot in Cantonese otherwise, and Cantonese only in Chinese subjects except that Mandarin class.

[@jatse511]

3. My family - that's why, sentimental reasons - is still mostly Cantonese. We have few to zero "northerners". So, speaking of origin, we have no need for Mandarin. In my direct lineage, we are losing Hakka and Teochew because my grandparents never taught it and never will, or they also lost fluency in either due to disuse. So I tell certain UA friends, and you here, really I would only teach my potential children Cantonese. We already lost two others, and by today's environment there's no need for more English when it is everywhere. 4. I pretty much, for these reasons, see Ukrainian a little similar to Cantonese. Being the second/third in its language family. Being fairly populous. Being underrated. But at least you have a country. No country, China, Malaysia, or Singapore, endorses Cantonese at all. It is stateless. 4a. Honestly, "one fewer Russophone country from now" is a new fact that this world should accept. The "russian world" is as toxic as "community of common destiny" (I don't like to write capitals either) or "china dream". Both major powers are today's Axis powers. As much propaganda i've already seen, in Cantonese and far more so in Mandarin, I am sure you guys already read enough written in russian. In this perspective, it's almost disturbing to see 2 of 6 UN main languages riddled with imperialism and stuff masquerading themselves as "we are for peace". 5. I think there is no fear at all of the loss of russian or Mandarin. The powers associated with either of them are still enough to make us, the people that do understand either language, remember them so well. How do I and how can I unlearn Mandarin (widely called just "Chinese", by millions of natives, like it represents the entire language family) when I hear so many bad things in it? Not just the Taiwanese (under a war threat) or HKers (under such a dystopian society and rule). Millions of people are not doing well in that huge country for tons of different reasons. Linguistically, Mandarin dialects are the worst endangered by the promotion of standard Mandarin. 6. I can't forget that it's also personally risky to openly support Taiwan or HK since the HK regime thinks saying such stuff is kinda illegal by now. I know what I write may sound confusing but, well, I cannot be illegal supporting Ukraine. Supporting UA is, to me, the same as supporting HK/TW myself.

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