Ukrainian Language | Can Polish, Serbian and Slovenian speakers understand it?

Are slavic languages sound similar?
Today, we invited 4 pannels from Poland, Ukraine, Serbia and Slovenia
and see they can understand Ukrainian
Hope you enjoy the video and please follow our pannels!
🇺🇦 Rosina @rosina_0313
🇵🇱 Ayliee @ayliee_k
🇷🇸 Draga @draga__
🇸🇮 Eva @evakotnikk

[@mariuszmaxkolonko-1220]

As a Polish person, I was in Kyiv 2019. I was having a layover between flights in the Borispol airport near Kyiv and decided to use those hours to do some side quest sightseeing. I had huge problem asking for directions because almost no one knew English, and knowing I'm a foreigner many people tried to speak Russian with me, which I don't know at all. At some point out of desperation I started talking in Polish, and then suddenly they started replying to me in Ukrainian. We immediately managed to understand each other and have a nice chat. Honestly, Ukrainian is probably the closest language to Polish, togather with Czech.

[@03817]

I am polish and when I was in Czech Republic and I tried to to speak polish, they were like...whaaat ??!! They really couldn't understand, neither could I.. maybe some words, but it was impossible to have a conversation.

[@Radonatorr]

@@03817 The more you listen the more patterns and similarities you start to recognize. Like for example the fact that whenever there is "g" sound in Polish there will be "h" sound in Czech, or where there is "ą" (nasal o) sound in Polish there will be "u" in Czech. So pigeon in Polish is "gołąb" but "holub" in Czech. Same world, regular sound changes. At first you may not undestand it at all, but then you start recognizing the patterns

[@amjan]

Slovak is the most similar language to Polish.

[@HeroManNick132]

@@amjan I think it's Silesian

[@Radonatorr]

@@SRB.4S Droga also means road in Polish, it's a synonym with ulica

[@ngoktoan]

Book in Ukrainian is книга (knyha) too. Підручник (pidruchnyk) is a text book.

[@NickB9W]

And it's still a book)

[@ngoktoan]

@NickB9W yes, it is. But not the same. For example , Harry Potter is a book, not a textbook. :)

[@ngoktoan]

@@utuieatuew8598 перепрошую, але ми не всі книги називаємо підручниками.

[@ivan4ikok]

@@ngoktoan Мені здається продюсерам не сподобалася частина в слова, що шла після к)

[@ngoktoan]

@@ivan4ikok ахахахах просто волаю))))

[@Noah_ol11]

Hope see Draga and Eva as the main member too 🇷🇸 🇸🇮 , well done , Rosina 🇺🇦 , introverted and shy , spoke so soft

[@tongobong1]

Yes and I hope Eva will look more natural feminine next time. I think she is a beautiful woman when she shows her femininity.

[@wild3estdreams10]

@@tongobong1 what the hell is this comment 💀

[@tongobong1]

@@wild3estdreams10 Don't you think she is a beautiful woman?

[@booms4337]

@@tongobong1that’s really inappropriate imo we don’t say that to a woman

[@user-sv8mc6lp3x]

@@tongobong1 and how does outerwear relate to human's beauty?🤔

[@goxy911]

Love Ukraine from Serbia. Ukranian lady is lovely.

[@PUARockstar]

Хвала

[@Aleksey20599]

Ye, she is sexy as fck

[@TheTioram]

Too shy. Maybe it shows she spent time in Korea

[@Adam4ik3579]

@@PUARockstar isnt that Croatian?

[@goxy911]

@@Adam4ik3579 cyrilic?

[@gatitorosa5763]

as a Polish slavist, this content makes my brain feel good

[@lilachodan4941]

Yes

[@goansichishig5292]

What do you think about ukrainian language

[@architech007]

What is Polish slavist? Is it someone promoting slavic agenda? Like unity amongst slavic nations?

[@gatitorosa5763]

@@architech007 a person who studied slavic studies:)

[@gatitorosa5763]

@@goansichishig5292 i don't speak it, just understand most of it and its really pretty

[@user-wy9lz4je2g]

They are all so beautiful and speak brilliant English in addition to their native language. I’m impressed 👏🏼

[@drill_don684]

fun fact they are all korean models

[@Rai2M]

Fun fact: the ukrainian girl speaks ukrainian with an english accent.

[@Rai2M]

@@drill_don684 yep, at least they *pretend* to be models

[@maxkho00]

@@Rai2M Lmao what are you talking about haha? She has zero accent in Ukrainian, absolutely none. Why are you making stuff up? Do you even speak Ukrainian?

[@user-qx7po4hk3g]

⁠​⁠@@maxkho00actually she really has an accent, i’m not sure what accent it is but she definitely has kind of weird pronunciation thing and yes i’m a native ukrainian speaker

[@Vladusyk681]

Love from Ukraine! I learn Polish and there are many common words in our❤ languages.

[@dongjuang4196]

чашка, склеп, магазин, диня, овочі 🙂

[@user-dy3io1go9l]

но сравни с многими другими словами, это уже исключения@@dongjuang4196

[@n00byte97]

All common words you have is Serbian originated :D I see ukranian as mixing of (polish/serbian), russian and germanic. Poland(Poljsha) is founded in 8th century before Christ as 3rd Serbian Kingdom and protection (by side/on side/u kraj) of RAsija and then after constantly atticking by northerns and germans/franks we move to Ukraine. In 8th century after Christ, Poland is occupied by Germans and now is "independet state" like Ukraina :D Peace brothers, dont fight, we have a same blood u madafakerz. Learn your history and you will found the truth. `Cause SILA V PRAVDE!

[@dongjuang4196]

@@n00byte97 as appears, serbs are no less brainwashed than russians. You have the same blood with Hitler. We are not fighting, we are just checking their soldiers' blood. Didn't find anyone with the same as ours.

[@andrzejs8241]

​@@n00byte97 As a native Polish, I have never heard this version of the history. Can you provide me some lectures I can read up?

[@olesiaosynovska9870]

You should’ve also invited someone from Czechia, I believe it would be quite funny, because in Czech language there are some words that in Ukrainian or Polish have not just weird, but sometimes really indecent and completely different meanings

[@arsla5308]

++😂

[@marekhajduk3905]

I really hope for some polish/czech/ukrainan/serbo-croat crossover too, but this video has already covered central/south/east slavic languages

[@vojtechkubin1590]

My favourite one is, that in slovenian language "otrok" means child, but in czech it means slave xD

[@marekhajduk3905]

@@vojtechkubin1590 I learned that one when I was reading some chemistshit on the toilet 😂👍

[@olesiaosynovska9870]

@@vojtechkubin1590 hahhahahahah amazing

[@asdin8884]

As a Belarusian I understood everything 100%, which is understandable when your languages share about 80% of lexicon

[@dmytropoliakov3505]

я от білоруську теж добре розумію на слух, але мене колись по-хорошому бентежили слова типу "апошній", "менавіта" та ще деякі інші. а ще дуже кайфові назви місяців у білоруській мові

[@asdin8884]

@@dmytropoliakov3505 дзякую! На самай справе і ў украінскай мове ёсць словы не зразумелыя для беларусаў, але найчасцей сэнс магчыма зразумець з кантэксту

[@artemvveselov]

Завжди приємно бачити незросійщених білорусів ⚪🔴⚪

[@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat]

But when will Belarusian using Belarusian

[@vinnie-chan]

That is not fair! You know two languages

[@flioink]

The thing about Slavic languages is that they share a lot of similar or identical sounding words however these "same" words have COMPLETELY different meaning depending on the language. Which can lead to some hilarious/awkward moments.

[@virshyk]

Yes😂👇 🇨🇿 šuk*t (shukat)- to f*ck 🇺🇦 шукати (shukaty)- search

[@kame9]

that happend in all languages families🤣🤣🤣

[@anjaschneider5904]

​@@kame9yes, I have heard hilarious misunderstandings between Spanish and Italian or Portuguese 😂

[@OOoOski]

It’s called “false friends”

[@mil3k]

Best examples are Polish panna or szukać in Czech :) Another one is Ukrainian "рухатися".

[@user-ngrsh]

I am so happy to see videos with Slavs😍😍😍 thank you so much! Lots of love from Ukraine❤️

[@user-fe6yy1ok5v]

the Ukrainian language is phonetically closest to the Belarusian language 84%, Polish 70%

[@darveter94]

,на жаль білоруського все менше...

[@1Real1]

@@darveter94 білоруської - саме так правильно

[@user-wb1qt8dn4j]

Пробачте, аое ви маєте на увазі схожість лексики, а не фонетикт.😉

[@arsla5308]

На польську фонетично?

[@arsla5308]

​@@user-wb1qt8dn4j+++ польська та українська не схожі фонетично. У них навіть г та v немає

[@sashagrey7361]

Love from Ukraine ❤ 🇺🇦

[@furieux6742]

Xaxa

[@eliasziad7864]

Why arent you drafted already?

[@irinatsarenko2820]

@@eliasziad7864 What a totally inappropriate comment under the entertaining video! You'd better educate yourself and spend time learning the correct reduction in English than writing so nasty things under the usual lovely phrase.

[@Lampchuanungang]

💋💋💋💋🌹🌹🌹🌷 love back given to ukraine

[@molodyjvisaginas]

Love from Ukraine, брате! (чи сестро😅)

[@valentynl.4471]

I never heard the name Rosina here in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Wikipedia says that it has an Italic and German origin. It’s very interesting to find out something new about our people!

[@alyona_ya]

Це ім'я не найпопулярніше, але на заході України мені траплялось декілька разів переважно у католиків

[@valentynl.4471]

@@alyona_ya Роза, Розалія знаю. Росіна теж гарне

[@marinaimbir]

На Західній Україні яких тільки імен не зустрінеш! Немов іспанський серіал 🤦‍♀️😁

[@unstopablenightmarefuckyou1809]

In the 21st century, you can name a child whatever you like. Names have ceased to be markers of the culture or history of the people.

[@AddY_S]

@@marinaimbirна заході України

[@maksymkulik1551]

It’s a great video. I think when it comes to Slavic languages, we must be aware of so called “false friends of a translator”. When it sounds similar, but has different meanings. Phonetics and pronunciation matter a lot when it goes about Polish and Ukrainian. I also think the age and backgrounds of the participants affect a lot how they understand each other. If you could give just a little bit of context and know how to read, it would be the way easier. For example as a Ukrainian speaker I can understand a lot of Polish 80% and Slovak language. With the Check if I read it slowly, I understand quite a lot, but when they speak it might be hard. Please make more videos like that with Ukrainian language! Thank you 😊

[@vojtechkubin1590]

Yeah, czech language has a lot of german influence. When I was younger I couldn't understand any slavic language other than czech, but when I started to interact more with Slovaks then it was suddenly possible.

[@ukrainer7723]

Well, the girls were basically right, because "кухня" can mean "cuisine" as well as "kitchen". One word for both.

[@MilosDrobac]

Cuisine comes out from the kitchen, right?

[@ukr009]

We have "куховаріння" as well, but rarely used, which stands for "cuisine".

[@JosephOccenoBFH]

I heard "cuisina кухня kuchnia кухиња kuhinja several times. This is pan-universal since it's also similar to the Romance and Germanic word.

[@tabularasa6666]

Well, they are girls after all😅

[@katarinask139]

Same in all slavic languages I think, me as a Slovak when I wanted to say cuisine in English I said kitchen😂😂😂😂

[@bogdan_cherkasov]

Ukraine ist so schön ❤❤❤

[@maxstepko2025]

Danke

[@silent_tea]

🤍🤍🥰

[@BloomessaWowWinxClub]

Dankeschön!!!

[@honeytanya963]

danke, Deutsch auch ❤

[@user-xo8tb5ly1m]

Ohhh, so Süß, dankeschön :3

[@pavlebiocanin8732]

Ukrainian girl is so beautiful. Love Ukraine from Serbia

[@PUARockstar]

Хвала

[@Krzysztof_Maksymilian_Majewski]

@@Aleksey20599 Dear friend from bloved Serbia, with all due respect but... if you were neighbors with Russia then you would either have to fight for survival or submit to their brutal hegemony. Pozdrawiam z Polski. Sława Ukrainie. God Protects our Beloved Ukraine. Russia needs to become a Human State. They need a real relationship with The Lord God - Who is the source of Love.

[@Aleksey20599]

@@Krzysztof_Maksymilian_Majewski To us Serbs, Russia is a brotherly country, they are our brothers and friends, they have always helped us through the centuries and been by our side.

[@user-nh9hb3ys9w]

@@Aleksey20599 it's not true that Ukraine recognized Kosovo , we didn´t

[@whybother987]

​@@Aleksey20599the war that Ukrainians are doing? Can you point out when and where did Ukraine attack Russia first?

[@michael_batman]

Thank you for having Ukrainian language in it! 😭😭😭😭💙💙💛💛

[@Nwk843]

🤙✌️🍻

[@Nwk843]

💙💙💙💙💙💙🫂🫂🫂🫂🍹🍹🍹🍹🍹

[@RomaInvicta-lz3zb]

Украинский язык нужен только на Украине, за его пределами разве что подумают что это русский

[@angieturner2812]

Ukrainian have never been forgotten ll

[@analis_s]

So happy to see Rosina ❤🎉

[@L.l.I.ia_N]

5:33 That's a common misconception that people believe but not true and the difference would be even more drastic if bolsheviks didn't try to bring ukrainian closer to russian. There's a lot of old ukrainian words that are hard to understand because they were band and only similar words were left and a lot of words that we pronounce today were pronounced differently. Like letter "F" is foreigne and every word with this letter originaly was supposed to have letter "T" but bolsheviks repressions changed it and many other stuff. But there's only one language in the world that is almost identical to ukrainian is belarusian.

[@maxIimI101]

Ukraine had russification from one side and polanisation from the other many times

[@brankoprosic5852]

Ukrainian language seems like it is basically Russian but heavily influenced by Polish, which makes sense given the fact that Polish-Lithuanian kingdom was a powerful hegemon in that part of Europe for centuries.

[@aaaaannnnnn]

@@brankoprosic5852Ukrainian doesn’t sound like russian at all. We just have some similar words in those two languages but the’re not the same

[@brankoprosic5852]

@@aaaaannnnnn To me it does sound like Russian, heavily influenced by Polish. It does even make sense, because Ukrainian language is spoken in geographic area between Russia and Poland, not ro say how epicenter of Ukrainian standard originated in Western Ukraine, which was, for centuries under Polish rule. The more you go to the East, the less (clean) standard Ukrainian is spoken in everyday life, by ordinary people. More than half of population of Ukraine, especially on the East, got familiar with Ukrainian in school, not at home.

[@natalyaknn]

yeah!!! you're absolutely right. I'm glad that somebody has mentioned it. russia did everything to make our language closer to theirs, not even mentioning making terrible and ruthless things to Ukrainians to make us speak russian instead of Ukrainian.

[@OstblockLatina]

If I hadn't learned the word charapaha (meaning turtle/tortoise - I don't know if there's a differentiation in Ukrainian) from Belorussian (which is VERY closely related to Ukrainian, I'd never know what it means (a Pole here). But then, when I think about it for a moment, I recall that the latin word for a turtle or tortoise's shell is carapax, which is clearly its etymological origin.

[@VVishq]

Yeap. Lingua latina non penis canina est after all.

[@aykakatibli7249]

It’s the same in Russian too.

[@JLee-kudr7]

Well done girls! It was interesting to find out about the differences in Slavic languages. You just need to clarify a little with the first word Книга (book). The word КНИГА also exists in the Ukrainian language. And the word Підручник (textbook) is a book also, only that has a different purpose of use. Підручник (textbook) - a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.

[@mavezo6718]

что интересно, в польском есть очень похожее слово, означающее то же самое, что и украинский пiдручник -- podręcznik (подрЕнчнiк)

[@anminona3327]

It also exist similar word in slovenian "priročnik" and it means book with manuals

[@SuperTatigo]

they wrote книга do I was confused why it was pronounced so wierdly

[@rodondendron]

Rosina is sooo cute. I love her style and calm voice 🥰

[@bakica_vangica]

As a Serb, I understand almost everything. The reason Draga didn't get some of them is actually due to knowing potentially too many languages. I think she knows English, Serbian and German, so when Rossi spoke in Ukranian, the stressed syllables were different than they would be in Serbian, so Draga couldn't hear the word KUHINJA. Etc. When you know many languages, sometimes things meld together and sound similar, and there is more overthinking that occurs due to having heard similar sounds and enunciations across different languages. Loved this video so much!

[@olena.tarasiuk]

A good point here. Sometimes languages just merge together in the person's head. It happened to me while I was actively trying to remember 4 languages. I discovered that flawless switching is hard, and all aspects of general phonetics suffered the most in my case.

[@d.v.t]

Several factors too when you're doing it live. Nevertheless I like her attitude a lot 😁

[@milicabirkett4012]

For me (Serb), I have to hear each word separately and *sometimes* I can understand written language easier than spoken. Sometimes both together helps, etc. I find knowing more than one language actually helps me understand better. In Serbian, for example, we have lots of German, French, and Turkish influence. So knowing some French helped me understand certain Serbian words I didn't hear growing up etc.

[@slava7694]

Im Polish and I understood 100% what the Ukrainian girl said

[@Michael.De.Santa_]

So....How's poland????.....in 3-4 months later I will be there😅😅

[@ihorcherepakha9525]

really? as a ukrainian I coudn't understand what does she mean, she made a lot of mistakes. book is "knyga" not "pidruchnyk", it's a bit different, also defenition of zebra is wrong, because she said it is a road sign, but it is a markup on the road and not sign. also in the other videos she couldn't guess what is river, but the pronuntiation is the same,I feel she is not the smartest person among them 😁

[@gerwld]

cap

[@Michael.De.Santa_]

@@gerwld okay cap🤡🤫🤫

[@ukrainiangirl23]

​@@ihorcherepakha9525she said this book refers to school, so it's clear I guess

[@el.l.5519]

Da sieht man wie Sprachen verbinden. Es ist so schön sich zu verstehen und verstanden zu werden! Знание языков открывают двери… Всем нам мира, добра и любви ❤

[@katarinka702]

Німецького б вистачило. Навіщо псувати відео рашистською мовою 🤮

[@mr_ukrainecb4093]

Verstehst du ukrainisch? Im Normaleweise zweisprachige Leute die russisch kann, verstehen gar kein ukrainisch

[@Brukc87]

​@katarinka702 100%

[@user-eo7hp6wi3y]

@@mr_ukrainecb4093 bruder, ich bin ein russischsprachiges Kind (aber nicht nach Nationalität) und habe alles auf 100% verstanden, wenn es dich interessiert..

[@bulbashko]

Все відео посміхався! Дівчата молодці! Дякую за контент!❤

[@daisydiy9849]

That’s awesome!🥹 I have dreamed of seeing such a video since I started to be interested in another slavic languages in my childhood. it's amazing how similar and different they are at the same time. Love from Ukraine🇺🇦

[@palomadelapaz915]

Розумію всі словʼянські мови,прислуховуєшся і починаєш розуміти і говорити .

[@kesiblack3703]

Rosina is so lovely. 🥰 thank you for such type of video.

[@grizaqq]

I liked it, it was interesting to watch, thanks for the content! If the series will be a little longer,it will be grateful!

[@Maxukr31]

In terms of vocabulary, the Ukrainian language is the closest to Belarusian (16% of difference), and the Russian language to Bulgarian (27% of difference). After Belarusian, Ukrainian is also closer to Slovak, Polish, and Czech than to Russian - 38% of Ukrainian vocabulary is different from Russian.(Wikipedia)

[@alexzavr8340]

Some says similarity to Belarusian is 70 % , and to Russian only 25 %.

[@m1lst3r89]

@@alexzavr8340 Belarusian and Russian are 90 percent similar.

[@Radonatorr]

@@m1lst3r89 Only if you take Surzhyk, a mix of Russian and Ukrainian, for actual Ukrainian. If you take pure Ukrainian from western and central Ukraine then Russians understand much less of it than the Poles do for example

[@I-Nex]

These methods are not objective or universal. The fact is that Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian belong to the same East Slavic language subgroup, which means that they were once one language, and this speaks for itself

[@JakieToJestPojebane]

Basically, Ukrainian and Belarussian are Russian grammar with Polish words.

[@sergeorlov]

Rosina 🇺🇦 is a very beautiful model 🤩

[@kotrynasiskauskaite4995]

She's so beautiful, but on her instagram you can see she looks on the edge of emaciated :( she should take care more, being a model is not worth all the health problems that come with that

[@anachornomor2177]

Wow!! So COOL format! Girls you are amazing

[@alexzavr8340]

My Ukrainian little sister chose the most difficult things for presentation my language. It was more interesting but people in studio where misunderstood . I think Ukrainian is not so hard to understand like everybody thinks. I think if I go to Serbia or Slovenia I would find right words to explain everything I need. In Poland I was thousands times and it wasn't a problem.

[@perunperunovic4741]

Мени и украјински као и остали словенски језици лако улазе у мозак , само треба мало концентрације , пар пива и то је то. Слични су наши језици и више него што мислимо.

[@alexzavr8340]

@@perunperunovic4741 Гледам овај видео и пијем пиво јер ми је сутра рођендан. А ако разумем девојке из Србије, Пољске и Словеније, не значи да пиво ради, без увреде.

[@PUARockstar]

​@@perunperunovic4741згоден з тобою

[@perunperunovic4741]

​@@alexzavr8340Срећан ти рођендан!

[@perunperunovic4741]

​@@PUARockstarВелики поздрав за тебе!

[@vladyslavass]

thank you for including ukrainian in your videos!!

[@adampustos1155]

In Slovenian, the closest word that I know of to "підручник" is "rokovnik" which roughly translates to notebook. "Žolta" is also an archaic word for yellow, and "zlata" is the modern word for gold (as in the colour), so a connection exists there too. "Črepaha" is the name for a certain species of turtle, but as turtles don't really live in Slovenia it's not very well known. "Malanje" is a dialectal word taken from German meaning "painting" (as in the verb) but it's being used less and less, at least in my experience.

[@sandraanasiewicz1932]

We do have a similar word in polish it’s “podręcznik” which is a book designed for students

[@andrewbear4232]

It is cool to watch this thing, when you speak Ukrainian

[@Nastasiati]

I came to Poland after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what shocked me the most that all polish people that didn’t speak English told me “oh just speak Ukrainian, I will understand” Whereas my russian relatives can’t do the same, they are totally clueless, which shows actually how different Ukraine and Russia is

[@user-gu7so8hq7c]

was that the topic of the video?

[@lucia3]

​@user-gu7so8hq7c yes, it was. Isn't the video about similarities between Slavic languages? I'm a Slovak. I've met some Ukrainians that didn't speak English. I doubt they'd come here if it wasn't for the war. I hadn't come across any East Slavic language before. It shocked me that I could understand Ukrainian pretty well.

[@notemobutsad]

ну слова, которые говорила девушка, очень даже похожи на русский. даже больше, чем языки остальных участниц. я тоже читала, что польский ближе к украинскому, но, мне кажется, мы не "totally clueless".

[@icxcnikasrb]

Не сери

[@FacialFischl]

Yup yup yup. But I also heard if you know Russian it's easy to learn Ukrainian

[@sviatoslavyakobchuk2702]

Підручник - is not actually just a book. It's specifically a book that is used for study. General book is книга or книжка.

[@HeroManNick132]

''Подръчник'' is funny because it means armrest, while for school book we use ''учебник.''

[@Litudongua]

@@HeroManNick132 это Русские слова...

[@HeroManNick132]

@@Litudongua How this is Russian?

[@georgemicelli8405]

Cool thank you for video 🤩🔥

[@davidtandi1294]

Draga = female dragon 🔥 I see her english is the most fluent among them and she also made most correct guess. She's on fire.

[@Bulsky]

Draga is the coolest name I have ever heard

[@Ognyan_Gochev]

Sorry to disappoint you, but Draga means "dear" or "darling" (femine) 😉

[@davidtandi1294]

@@Ognyan_Gochev hey, who ask you anyway? No, no, I was just kidding 😝🤣 Thanks for the darling definition So the darling was hot on fire.. 🔥

[@frostflower5555]

Darlene coming from Darling, used to be a popular English girl's name but I don't hear it anymore.

[@VintageCR]

@@frostflower5555 'Darlene' is an old English female name originated in the early middle ages(timeline) and most popular around the 1950s

[@dacha6012]

As someone who is from multiethnic family-i have roots from Serbia,Croatia,Slovakia and Macedonia (Bulgarian roots) i see videos like that very interesting because i speak Serbian,Slovak,Bulgarian (Macedonian),Russian,Polish and Ukrainian.

[@dzap4815]

If you have Bulgarian roots you're from Bulgaria not Macedonia

[@imcbocian]

​@@dzap4815oh, difference is only political not linguistic. And maybe those roots are from times when it was the same for those peoples. In Poland for example there are still some peoples that were born i todays Belarus, consider themselves Lithuanians, speak only Polish but no one make a fuss about it. And in Serbia/Croatia/Montenegro or Romania/Moldavia people can stand face to face, wrangle, understood eachother perfectly, but still arguing each speaking in separate language 😅

[@dzap4815]

@@imcbocian only 1000 or so people in Macedonia consider themselves Bulgarian Insignificant compared to 1.8 million who don't

[@imcbocian]

@@dzap4815 no one here denies it 🙂

[@diazemap]

I was not able to guess черепаха (cherepakha) - turtle, but the word sounded very familiar to me. Now I know why - there's a similar word in English - carapace (turtle shell), therefore not a good example of a Slavic word as it comes from Latin. I was also thrown off by the word підручник - textbook, in Czech, we have a similar word - područník, but it means "armrest". The rest was easy, and I am Czech.

[@valyad7228]

No, "cherepaha" has the same root with "cherep" (scull in English), cause turtle shell is scull-like

[@olablc531]

​@@valyad7228that's where it comes from! I was thinking something to do with head and when she said turtle I was mind blown.

[@olablc531]

Haha područnik as armrest makes so much sense, that I couldn't remember its Polish translation for 5 minutes xD I was thinking podręcznik knowing it's not that but your Czech word pushed away my native word 😂 It's oparcie btw. We also have podorędzie and pod ręką meaning something is close by.

[@PiotrPilinko]

@@valyad7228 Quite interesting, that original Old East Slavic желвь was discontinued in Ukrainian and Russian, and it was replaced by черепаха, while "żółw" (in Polish), "želva" (in Czech) and "желка" (Macedonian) remained.

[@lazar6510]

​@@PiotrPilinkoželjka in South Serbia, the way my grandma would say

[@piotrbukowski9566]

Wow the channel is going into the Ecolinguist territory. Really enjoyed this slavic series :)

[@user-wh8gy6hz5s]

Polish girl ❤awesome!! She is real. She so beautful as a slavik

[@yuriytemniuk5360]

I'm Ukrainian, but I also speak Polish. Kinda funny looking at them not understanding words that are obvious to me and relatively similar to Polish

[@vimedved7911]

Enjoyed the video❤

[@mynameislali]

I can speak Russian as my second language, so I understood 65-70% of what they said😮

[@daydreamer28]

It's not surprised, cause Russian is Slavic too, but you know because of war it's ignored, I guess

[@vada322]

exactly so@@daydreamer28

[@kamiccola]

I love how close Slavic languages are to each other. I'm Polish. At one work I had many Ukrainian customers that were used to speaking to Poles so they'd attempt speaking Polish to me, though whatever words they didn't know, we eventually figured out anyway so we could communicate well. I loved how they pronounce Polish words. Ukrainian Polish sounds... I don't know how to say it. Cute? Every word sounds like a diminutive. It's an improvement.

[@HeroManNick132]

Yeah, but Poles only understand Czech, Slovak and to some extend Ukrainian and Belarusian but Russian and South Slavic languages for Poles is nearly impossible, especially Bulgarian. Of course you can still understand Bulgarian but it will be a lot of challenge and struggle till you understand what is said.

[@jarzenica]

U mnie w pracy pracują też Ukraińcy i uwierz , jeśli nie będą chcieli lub choćby próbowali ... to ich nie zrozumiesz .

[@RomeoM0ntecchi]

Такі симпатичні дівчата! Однозначно, вподобайка!

[@bifa5414]

I'm a flight attendant so I had contact with many different languages and for sure with all european. So I was able to communicate in polish with people from Czech Republic and Slovakia which wasn't a surprise for me. However, I was surprised how similar the Serbian language is to Polish. So I would definitelly say that those three are the most similar. But in Lithuania there is A LOT of people who speaks in polish which was a total surprise to me at first because languages are completelly different but when I thought about it later it makes sense considering polish-lithuanian history.

[@CMV314]

In a previous video, this experiment was conducted with the same four women, except that Polish was the test. Now that we've done Ukrainian, I hope we get to see them test their knowledge of Serbian and Slovenian.

[@goranjovic3174]

I wait for it too! 😊❤

[@someoneelse8103]

Yeah, I'd like to hear the similarities and if I can understand it

[@ISupportGenoZidrusni]

My ukrainian friend was in Slovenia, and he said that it is so close to our language. I don't think so, from my perspective it's very different languages. But I really want to check it, maybe I'm wrong

[@user-ld8uq7ql5w]

@@ISupportGenoZidrusni I can disagree with your friend, I’m Ukrainian and currently live in Slovenia, andI can with 100% say that they’re really different. They’re similar in many words and pronunciations, but in grammar,punctuation they have many differences. Also if Slovenians are speaking and you don’t know at least basic words like “kaj,zakaj,ne vem” and other it will be extremely hard for you to communicate.(no hate by the way, this is just something that I learned for the past year)

[@la_bambina]

As Russian, can easy understand Ukranian language. Some word are different, but it's not a problem. :)

[@user-fd2nr7ri3w]

Wow Ukrainian languages soooo beautiful 😍😍❤️

[@dominicd2063]

Interesting to see the different words and cross-language discussion! I was confused at first with the title, because the first word had the title in Russian for book but her word was different.

[@Brukc87]

"Книга" on Ukrainian and russian have different pronunciation.

[@msbull100]

@@Brukc87 but she said пiдручник not книга.

[@kostyaa22]

Actually підручник is the book we use for studying. But book is книга on the whole

[@HeroManNick132]

''Подръчник'' makes more sense as armrest, but it's still understandable.

[@NickB9W]

And it's still a book)

[@goranjovic3174]

It is priručnik on Serbian 😊

[@HeroManNick132]

@@goranjovic3174 In Bulgarian is ''наръчник'' - ''подръчник'' is armrest.

[@kezgoblair]

Підручник cannot be understandable (out of a sentence or in not very and very clear sentence), because there is many things may be under arms or hands but just one of them is "підручник" - the book for studying (textbook). And changing "o" to "i", especially in a words or even in morphemes which consists three letters (generally - preffixes) makes such Ukrainian words not understood or hardly understood (limitedly understood) for all Slavs, including even Belarusians without enough exposure to Ukrainian.

[@AmazingJohnny]

As a Ukrainian 💙💛, I am so proud of Ukraine 🙏💙💛 !

[@rabiayasn9197]

So am i!

[@AmazingJohnny]

@@rabiayasn9197 You are Turkish, Abla.

[@rabiayasn9197]

No, i am from Ukraine, but living in Turkey

[@LifeChoiceQu]

Sooner, there will be no Ukraine. Only Russia🇷🇺

[@AmazingJohnny]

@@LifeChoiceQu NAZI

[@danawoman]

Насправді між цими мовами є багато схожих слів, але є і відмінності. Будучи у Словаччині я переважно розмовляла українською, а зі мною говорили словацькою - ми майже чудово один одного розуміли. Схожа ситуація була у Польщі.

[@borisvaiser]

Great video, lovely ladies

[@AnaMert1]

1. Was the first word "podrucznyk"? It sounds the hell like Polish "Podręcznik" (= a textbook) so I cant believe Polish wouldn't get it, especially after hearing it has something to do with school. However I heard "fabryczny" ("used in a factory"/"made for a factory") at first so I see why she was confused. 2. "Żuti" was clearly like Polish "Żółty" = yellow. Easy. 3. "Czerepacha" was very confusing, my guess was be "Czapka" (a hat, something you put on your head) because we sometimes say "czerep" for "głowa" (head) or "czaszka" (skull) in some kind of slang. And when she said it's an animal my quess was "Wiewiórka" (a squirrel) but I don't know why or Żyrafa (a giraffe) because it somehow sounds similar. Turtle was a surprise, but I guess "czapka/czaszka" kinda looks like a turtle shell? LOL And hey... I checked the vocabulary and actually "czerep" has another meaning in Polish. Not just head/skull but also "skorupa po stłuczonym naczyniu" ("a broken shell left after a container was broken") whatever it is supposed to mean. And the word "skorupa" is specific to the sturdy shells turtles have (if it was less sturdy it would be "skorupka"). 3. The music was interfering with her speech. I understood up to this point: Good day (Dobreho dnia = Dzień dobry), .... Prosina?(my guess is: Nazywam się Prosina) I came from Ukraine (Ja pryjechała z Ukrainy = Przyjechałam z Ukrainy). Then there was something with Korea (Korei?) and about kitchen/cousine (Kuchnia = Kuchnia = Kitchen or Cousine). Last sentence was something like jeszcze pojade do Korei (I will got o Korea once more) ... dużo podobaju sie (Bardzo podoba mi się = I like very much). I couldn't hear 19 at all, probably because of the music. 4. Moje hobby jest malowanie (Moim hobby jest malowanie = My hobby is painting). I dużo lubię malovaty (Bardzo lubię malować = I like painting very much). Obucia, portrety. (Obrazy, portrety = Paintings, portraits). It definitely was painting not drawing through because drawing in Polish would be rysowanie, unless she meant "malowanie kredkami" = "painting using crayons". 5. The music interfered with animal description too much. I could oionluy hear Kerina and Kerina over and over again. However I did hear "znak drożni" (znak drogowy = road sign) and we literally say "Zebra" for a pederastian crossing in Polish, so it was a big tip, shame on me I couldn't quess. But again - I was annoyed because the music was freaking louder than her speech. If I could hear czarny i biały (black and white) too it would be an easy guess.

[@Ice_V]

100/100 I got everything what Rosina said😊 Draga/Ania good work 👍 Eva tried her best too anyway👍👏 Looking forward listening to Slovenian with her and hope to see her more here🇸🇮♥️

[@user-cat888]

Omg, Ukrainian girl is so beautiful ❤❤❤🇺🇦

[@k_lin4594]

Great episode. Thank you!

[@ingata9872]

I' m living in Czech Rebuplic and there is a lot of similar words,but they sounds different.

[@andrewswiderski8811]

Rosina stunning comeliness 😍

[@gamb61]

The counting system between these countries actually isn't the same. In Slovenian we use the German way and say enaindvajset (1 + 20) for twenty-one, where for example in Serbian it is dvadeset jedan (20 + 1).

[@user-ij1oi7cw3u]

Wow, really!? Ty for this information, i thought it is only german feature.

[@Lampchuanungang]

This word "enain",this particle reminds me cimbric and tirolese

[@drfm2007]

Small Ukrainian dialects in mountains also count like that , but that is disappearing.

[@MR-ux2vu]

I saw Draga on tinder, hoping she will match me ^^ Pozdrav :)

[@EvanMan]

Great content, thanks

[@MajedSalih]

Полька про черепаху логично разложила, типа от черпать - ложка )) Интересно.

[@offgrid-bound]

Highly entertaining! 👏 as a Slavic language speaker, I was really interested in this, and got on about same level as the Polish girl. I would have a suggestion though: lose the annoying background soundtrack that makes it much harder to understand, especially the soft speaking Ukrainian girl. Otherwise, really interesting, thank you 🙏

[@anestrawberrychild]

Im Slovenaian... how did you not guess 1st and 3rd words? 1st one sounds like priročnik and its like a book for spesific topic to learn, and 3rd one is same in slovenian but its a name of spesific turtle (orjaška črepaha) and it is Green sea turtle.

[@dmska2-0]

Girls you are so nett. Go on, it’s interesting to see. ❤

[@BoboSLO1]

Finally Slovenian girl! 🇸🇮 Končno Slovenka! 🥰

[@littleturnip99]

All these ladies are beautiful 😍

[@bokiboki018]

greetings to my family,, old Slavs and all good people...

[@melekmeral2274]

Can we see the same video content with countries such as Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan?

[@Andrii_River]

The best 🇺🇦🫡

[@haraldtoepfer233]

I*m very interested in a version with Eva as the main because I grew up in southern Austria right next to Slowenija and I really liked that neighbourhood and also have some slavic words in our dialect :). And you can even hear in our dialect there are some sounds who are similar said in Slowenian, I could hear that very much when I moved to another country and then got some time when I heard neither my dialect and also no Slowenian and then heard Slowenian for the first time since a while, it was really funny.

[@tongobong1]

Where from south Austria are you from? You should know that Carinthia and Styria were once Slovenian speaking lands and people there are Germanized Slovenians according to DNA analysis. Despite some people came from Germany they have 3 times more Slavic R1a genes than Germanic R1b genes.

[@haraldtoepfer233]

@@tongobong1 doesn't matter to me, I am here and now 😊

[@tongobong1]

@@haraldtoepfer233 yes but you are most likely Slovenian by blood and genes.

[@haraldtoepfer233]

@@tongobong1 hard to tell tbh, I know we have German ancestors and some from Hungary. But yeah, my husband is Swiss, so my kids also have this influence now, we're ppl from Earth 😄.

[@tongobong1]

@@haraldtoepfer233 I don't know about you but south Austrians are Slavs by genes. It was actually a German who told me this fact.

[@anasteisha6956]

they are so pretty tho😍

[@bubacorelli4836]

In Bosnian ⚜️🇧🇦 1. Book is *ćitab* 2. Yellow is *žuto* or *plovo* 3. Turtle is *kornjača* Paint/ing is *slikarstvo* in term of art, or *krečenje* or *maljanje* as 'to paint a wall' • *Zebra* (the same)

[@wombandheartdoula]

I was born and grew up in Kyiv, and learned both Ukrainian and Russian as my native languages because both were spoken in my family. Only after the russian invasion, when I was forced to leave home with my three kids, I could actually grasp how different Ukrainian and Russian are. When we came to Poland, I could understand 50% of spoked language from the very start BECAUSE I speak Ukrainian - and it turned to 80% by the end of the week we spent in Krakow. Then in Ireland, where we stay for now, every time when I meet a Polish person, it's so endearing, like meeting someone from my country - and I always ask them to speak Polish to me if that's ok with them. Also, a couple of years ago one of my colleagues from Bielorussia sent me a recording of her granny speaking "an olden Bielorussian dialect", which was a 100% Ukrainian, as my own granny spoke it. That was so fun, she couldn't believe me when I told her that!

[@user-rh6kl1rc9g]

Украинцы терроризировали Донбас 9 лет и считают русские должны дальше на это молча смотреть? Нет, вы сами все организовали. А по поводу языка, так ты скажи что просто мечтал уехать из Украины и ближе тебе не польский, а ирландский. Вот как вы украинцы любите врать! Хлебом не корми, дай соврать. Киев никто не бомбит, просто пользуясь случаем, ты решил поменять страну и это правда. 😅

[@wombandheartdoula]

@@user-rh6kl1rc9g it's amazing how hateful can people be to strangers on the internet. what you said here was extremely hurtful to me, and I'm sorry that you think it's ok to say things like this to someone you've never met and know nothing about.

[@user-rh6kl1rc9g]

@@wombandheartdoulaзнаешь моя семья тоже уехала с Украины ещё в мирные годы и не понимаю почему надо врать и строить из себя жертву? Киев это не Донбас, поэтому причина точно не война, что в основном люди с западной Украины покинули страну. Непонятно в чем ты усмотрел ненависть? В том что раскрыли твой обман? Не соврёшь- не проживёшь)) только я не иностранец и прекрасно понимаю почему с западной Украины люди уезжают в другие страны прикрываясь войной , потому что страна бедная и без перспектив.

[@user-fo2yg1jp4h]

Подивилась етимологію слова черепаха. Виявляється, певний час в Україні також називали цю тварину желв. Потім змінили на «черепаха»)))

[@Stan732]

So cute. Great idea.

[@Lampchuanungang]

The Slavic languages are well connected, you can really see it, but from language to language, it's good for a person to know Proto-Slavic so as not to get lost because the same word in sister languages means different things. This is the most common thing in language families.

[@savitius7353]

Czerepacha - nazwisko Czerepak z Rancza ma zapewne podobny źródłosów.. pS dziewczyny jesteście piękne Słowianki, uwielbiam Annę ale Rosina zabija mnie swoim urokiem!

[@JoeDoe-cr1jl]

I tried to speak with my lovely Ukrainian girl in Ukrainian, in Russian and in Polish, we ended up speaking English.

[@swatkabombonica4103]

😂😂😂

[@user-sb8sj2mq3q]

Спасибо за ролик.

[@mynameislali]

It was really interesting! Plz make such video also with Czech and Russian!

[@timirdogolon]

Russians are not desirable, they are aggressors.

[@katarinka702]

ruzxia is terrorist state, why on earth the authors of this video would promote fascist state with fascist language???

[@Brukc87]

Russia go to hell.

[@Mila.Ukrainian]

Ukrainian girl looks like Korean , that’s probably because she likes a lot of things about Korean culture 😊

[@kostyag9521]

Ukrainian and Polish are most similar to each other

[@totomen666]

Ukrainian girl very well and nice adds aiming tips so even human who didn't knew right answer can guess it right

[@miropribanic5581]

0:56: well, Anya, the counting system is not the same...numbers, yes, but the way Slovenian counts complex numbers like 21, 32, 43 and so forth is not typically Slavic but like German, Danish and Dutch

[@annaNieZmieniajcieMiNicka]

Well, It’s Ania, not Anya.

[@miropribanic5581]

@@annaNieZmieniajcieMiNicka well done, but check the video again ;-)

[@bohdanmiller]

It will be more interesting if you will use your native languages for explaining and speaking with yourself

[@miyamatsunaga7131]

Вони такі гарні

[@arminiuszmazowszanin2670]

1st word is in polish "podręcznik" which is school book - its weird polish girl didnt catched it. Almost same word as polish.

[@antonvelkovich]

Такие милые девушки) спасибо за выпуск

[@Brukc87]

Пажалуйства! Толька вас сюда нікто нє звал!

[@antonvelkovich]

@@Brukc87 ваше мнение последнее, что меня интересует

[@Dzlyesful]

Beauty overload!