Ukrainian Letter -Р-

[@Carolina-mm]

Rr is no big deal for Spanish speakers.. but while studying Ukrainian I found so many common words between Spanish n Ukrainian.. for example ojo - око .. it's really interesting.

[@Rio-chii]

I'm a Ukrainiam who studied Spanish, and I found curious the expression "dar calabaza", because the Ukrainian girl actually rejected guys she didn't like with pumpkins.

[@reginanazarkewich2288]

agreed.. understanding Spanish and Latin really helps.

[@reginanazarkewich2288]

if you know certain Greek and Hebrew letters you can really pick it up faster..but conjugation is similar in some ways to the romance languages.. which is making learning Ukrainian a lot easier.

[@tyw7205]

@@reginanazarkewich2288 I know Greek and basics of romance languages, and yes knowing Greek and the basics of those really help, although I still struggle with the sound a little, in certain words. But for the most part, It was easy

[@whoiskevin564]

O béisbol

[@susanb5640]

My cat was looking at me really weird when I was doing the ‘roar ‘. She looked kind of worried 😊 Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦 ! Glory to the heroes !

[@AJ-Lohinska]

Haha! Big cat! I hope your cat is okay? Mine is blind, so that was fun.... 😊

[@susanb5640]

@@AJ-Lohinska yes, she is fine ! I think she was just wondering why I was making strange noises ! It’s nice of you to care for a blind cat 🐈!

[@AJ-Lohinska]

@@susanb5640 🐈aww, bless her! I'm glad she's fine. My cat has lived with me for 14 years, he had sight until 2020. Poor chap lost his vision completely during lockdown. But he is amazing and copes ever so well. I'm kind of his 'guide human' which I love being 💕 Sending all the best to your kitty from mine 😻🐈

[@cho4d]

OH MY GOD! pretending to be a tiger, as crazy as that sounds, actually helped! for the first time i could sustain the sound. it's not right, but it's closer than i was before :D

[@badassbirkin4907]

Sounds silly but how do you growl like a tiger again feel like , mind doesn't sound like a tiger lmao

[@user-MaexH]

I'm glad, I am from Bavaria. We pronounce it like the Ukrainians. 😁💙💛

[@ph111hud0]

This is very funny, i like the way you used your hands like a tiger and made the sound. I think you enjoyed making this video for us, very funny. Keep safe. Fantastic nail art :)

[@juliettegomez3881]

Я француз, і мені дуже подобаються ваші уроки, дякую 😄

[@cho4d]

hahaha if only you could hear me trying to repeat with you. my neighbours must think i am insane.

[@waltergib]

Danke!

[@athiqsyed4208]

Excellent teaching very nice sessiom

[@VRChat_Degen]

Thank you for the video.

[@kristinamelnichenko5775]

Wow you’re really good at that!

[@SzalonyKucharz]

0:30 Not if you're Scottish. They roll their r's the way the same way Romance and Slavic language speaker's do.

[@metamud8686]

Same for Dutch (or at least for those that don't pronounce it way in the back of their through that is)

[@dowlewis8307]

My nine year old son wants to start learning Ukrainian with me. He is really struggling with the rolled "R's". I asked my wife how she learned to roll "R's". To my surprise, she can't either. I've been a Spanish speaker since I was nine years old, and I guess I just took the skill for granted. I have since come to learn that many native English speakers struggle with it. I told my son that I like to bunch my tongue up in the back of my mouth and just touch the edge of the concave roof of my mouth with the edge of my tongue while cupping it too. Then it is just a matter of figuring out how to balance the pressure from your exhale vs. the resistance you offer with your tongue. He's getting it. He also struggled with learning what sound "И" makes. He knows how to pronounce and spell words like "visit" and "benefit". I asked him if the first and second syllables of each sound the same. Nope! the letter "И" is what that is about because the Cyrillic alphabet is phonetic. Once he understood that each letter only makes one sound, it made sense to him! He says he likes the Ukrainian alphabet more than the one we use in English because it makes more sense. Me too!!!

[@besconst]

"И" makes like i in "sick" and Ukr "i" is like "seek" (сик/сік)

[@dowlewis8307]

@@besconst Right. I finally just decided in my own head that "И" is the sound that comes out when I add my voice to "X".

[@陈沉沉-m2v]

​@@dowlewis8307can you teach me how to keep the balance of the air of blowing out from the lung as you siad.I can't get it very well.I've spent much time to figure it out how to pronounce the sound 'р＇,but it's too difficult for me.

[@dowlewis8307]

What part of the world are you from?@@陈沉沉-m2v

[@claudiahansen4938]

Let's get started. Rrrrrrrr!

[@kristinamelnichenko5775]

Thank you! Дякую!

[@rachelgriffin1555]

Hi Inna love your videos they help me so much. My friend Diana has recently came from Ukraine to Ireland (my home country) and has no English. I was wondering do you have any or know where to buy flash cards with Ukrainian on one side and English on the other. Thank you 💖💖💖💖

[@MorteDallAlto]

Inna actually has her own flashcards, there's a link in the description. Best of luck to you and your friend :)

[@LearningSpanishwithDrL]

Great video!

[@joshadams8761]

и is a cool sound.

[@nickloveridge3667]

Дякую Інна. This helps. I still have issues with Ю Ї И.

[@bre_me]

Knowing Spanish and English natively really helps with Ukrainian pronunciation. Both languages have equivalents in Ukrainian that native English speakers and native speakers would have trouble with if they didn’t know the other language.

[@nandeeshbk7659]

Дякую за підтримку!

[@kimgosseye8588]

I'm a french speaker and i'm not sure it helps either :D Keep up the good work! слава україні :)

[@teresabaptista7016]

Doesn't help much in French - "r" - is rolled in the back of the throat. It helps native Portuguese speakers though. Cheers.

[@WolfgangSourdeau]

Cherchez "Marinella" de Tino Rossi, vous pourrez que le "r" pouvait se rouler encore de cette manière en français jusqu'il n'y a pas si longtemps. :-)

[@teresabaptista7016]

@@WolfgangSourdeau Ma tino rossi era di origine italiana e si vede dal suo accento!

[@WolfgangSourdeau]

@@teresabaptista7016 e vero. Ma penso che i cantanti francesi tradizionali pronunciassero la r in questo modo. Alcuni altri esempi : Jacques Brel, George Brassens, Edith Piaf.

[@teresabaptista7016]

@@WolfgangSourdeau :))))) Cela sonne peut-être comme ça à tes oreilles mais même si Brel était Belge, il roulait les "r" dans le dos de sa gorge. Brassens et Piaf définitivement ils roulais les "r" en parfait français. Dans quelques dialects Italiennes - Calabrese - par exemple, ils prononce les "r" comme en Portugais, Espagnol et Ukranienne, même les Russes! Je t'embrasse dés le Portugal.

[@mjkzz28]

Rolling the R has never been a problem for me, however, it has been fun trying to teach my Chinese wife. God knows she tries, but no luck yet! I will have her watch this video. Thanx for your work. Glory to Ukraine and Glory to the Heroes.

[@greendruid33]

Great video Inna! My wife has trouble with this sound from when she was learning Spanish. Some English-speaking children have difficulty pronouncing our "r" too, but instead of replacing the target with an "l" they often replace it with a target of "w".

[@voicelessnote]

I speak French and Rr is easy. You were in a good mood in that video, it's really nice to see. Always love to see you happy! : )

[@AJ-Lohinska]

This was fun to watch you, Inna, it reminded me of my childhood. When I was a child, my Dad told me to gently place the tip of my tongue loosely behind my top teeth first, with my mouth slightly open like a small smile shape, and with it in position there, try to make it vibrate by breathing air quickly past it; over the top of it... Then add the vocal sound after I'd mastered the vibrating tongue part. It worked really well and I was the coolest child in my village! My Dad always struggled with 2 English words. As a child it made me laugh. 'Bath' and 'Bus' because Ukrainian doesn't have the th sound... it took me ages to figure out if he was going out somewhere, or going for a wash)) The tongue twisters caught me out because I got distracted, wondering what they translate into.

[@tannerlucas1566]

I'm pretty bad at both spanish and ukrainian (i'm from Texas lol), but I notice there are a lot of "false friends" in ukrainian and spanish. I also notice there are a lot of "lyu"/лю/или words in ukrainian that are really difficult for me to pronounce. i thought "rolling" the letter р/"r" would be the hard part as a native english speaker!

[@dirgniflesuoh7950]

This is funny, this sounds almost exactly like the warmup excercises we used to sing in choir singing days. It also sounds pretty much like a normal "r" to me, You even almost say "ärr" for the letter "P" like we do say "R". 🇸🇪🇺🇦🌻

[@nian60]

Interesting. That is how we pronounce R in most of Sweden too. (The southern parts of Sweden has guttural R). Thanks for the video.

[@cmallett]

Lovely video Inna! Very helpful💙💛

[@HaleyMary]

I learned Spanish as a second language when I was a kid, so rolling the Rr is no big deal for me.

[@kristinamelnichenko5775]

I’m practicing with you!!!

[@lindsayheyes925]

I have rrreal trrrouble with this. I only managed it forrr Gerrrman by prrronouncing the worrrds with a Scottish accent, after a tip frrrom a Scotsman. The English 'r' used to have the same sound apparrrrrrently, but it only surrrvives in some Scottish English accents. Thanks, Inna.

[@Kivikesku]

German doesn't really have rolling r though, apart from some dialects.

[@lindsayheyes925]

@@Kivikesku Indeed. It is quite striking with some speakers.

[@日本-t8s]

As a Canadian, it's easy

[@itzjek7842]

I disagree. I can't get it but I also don't speak french so that doesn't help

[@日本-t8s]

@itzjek7842 French I don't know French

[@dodispage4714]

Love It! ❤️ You’re the Best

[@AaronKloecken]

I have a thing for Latinos so I learned how to roll my R’s long ago to not be a total gringo 😂 Helped when it came to Russian and Ukrainian

[@teresabaptista7016]

Arroz! :))))) I am Portuguese.

[@davidmurphy563]

Hmm... Arroz... I'm hungry now.

[@youtubewatcher2]

Now I know why Ukrainians are so fierce when someon encroaches on their revier- Hope things are going well for you Inna.

[@hebreophone]

👌

[@captaintimcurry1713]

I can roll my tongue but not nearly as long as that! I'm learning a few languages with that feature so I'll have to practice more!

[@bouboulinadecirta9302]

🐯ррр!💙💛

[@phylliswillmoth4270]

Being English, Inna, I tried, but I still can't do it. Do you have some more basic instructions? Thank you so much for keeping us up with your news. I think of you often, Inna xxx

[@bre_me]

The one I have trouble with sometimes is в followed by another consonant… especially if another consonant comes before the в!

[@Akatsuki-production]

Look like i am waiting for this video ❤️❤️❤️ Please make a video on letter щ

[@stefanreichenberger5091]

I've learned to do an alveolar tap, but I still can't do an alveolar trill.

[@thomasm1281]

I am dutch and I know the - р - Errrrrrr... rrrright not so difficult 🤣

[@francisdec1615]

I'm from western Sweden. Our R is pretty strong, except if it stands in front of certain other consonants, like d, s and t, in which case it "melts" together with them. I don't know much about Slavic languages, but I see that 'rs' in Czech is pronounced in principle like in most Swedish dialects. It's a bit harder for Germans to pronounce R like in most Slavic or Roman languages, since they don't use the tip of the tongue except in some dialects. But the hardest among people with a Germanic native tongue seems to be for people speaking English as their first language.

[@WolfgangSourdeau]

Some Dutch and Germans accents have the same "rolled r"

[@autinrt]

Can you do the letter Ґ i can't seem to understand it cause it sounds like a G but there's also a Г which is also a G like in Russians

[@robertjenkins6132]

I can produce the [r] sound out of context, but it sometimes doesn't sound that good. It's like hitting a dart board: sometimes it hits dead center and sounds nice, sometimes it's "off," like I misfire and produce some other rhotic consonant [ɾ, ɹ, ʀ(too far back)]. But I very often get it right even with the occasional misfires. However, when I try to do flowing speech (instead of just out-of-context [r] practice), my L1 phonetics assert themselves and I often pronounce either single-tap [ɾ] or English [ɹ], instead of trilled [r]. I wonder if it even matters all that much. If a Ukrainian speaking English pronounces a trilled [r] instead of English [ɹ], I might perceive them as having a slight accent, but I can still understand them OK. I think it's impossible for me to have zero accent. Mainly, I want to be understood.

[@JoseFernandez-uc4pf]

It’s the same sound that Spanish letter R at the beginning of the words.

[@mr_sheen_asg]

No prrrrrrrroblem for Polish speakers 🙂 It is Amazing how many words are similar or the same in Ukrainian and Polish.

[@leonardminier9563]

In France the people who prononced the R like that are the old people in the countryside ;) So you are correct ! Hope nobody heard you in your appartment or your reputation is doom ^^

[@WillowLeeWaters]

I’d love to know how you pronounce “Yaga” as in Baba Yaga. On Google translate it says it’s pronounce “Yaha” and I’ve been hearing an American Ukrainian author of a book about her, pronounce it that way, however she did an IG Live with a Ukrainian man in Ukraine and he told her she was mispronouncing it with that “h” sound and that it’s supposed to be the hard “G” like you typically hear it said. So now I’m really curious if she’s truly been mislead by google translate lol 🙏

[@tonywalburg]

Hi, I have been to Kherson few months ago to deliver humanitarian aid.

[@__hanaa__]

Привет!❤️

[@hardwareful]

make that привіт and we're in business 🟦🟨

[@chrisbishop3687]

I will never be able to make this sound. Slava Ukaini 😂

[@lodjaboy]

I wonder what we just said.

[@MattTheBandGuy]

Jak Bayraktarrrrr!

[@annecurran2886]

«для» …будь ласка, допоможіть нам! 😜 It’s SO difficult! 😂

[@VjasadevV-xq4iy]

Hope, you will do soth on the Ukrainian noble "l" (л)ь)), like in the middle ukr, poltava, pronanciation , say, " like" = "л'обода", "льон" , etc Would be pretty much obliged ... Thank you beforehand.

[@Alek.Ovcharenko]

I find ‘х’ and ‘г’ challenging to differentiate between.

[@ninicoolification]

ბაყაყი წყალში ყიყინებს :)

[@esreve1]

Put me on the list of people with a speech impediment, haha

[@petterherlofsen7269]

What if you have a soar throat?

[@jacklane3908]

For the algo

[@bradjames3096]

For me it’s й and и

[@Journey_Beyond_]

Privit I've just join your channel 👍. I would like to ask where in kyiv I can get a professional teacher to teach me either Russian or Ukrainian..... my plan was to get a student permit for Ukraine... if there is available professional teacher. can you send me there link. thank you.

[@yana-yv3wk]

Теж букви и,ї,й досить складни. Ви можете зробити відео про це💙💛

[@vincentg6613]

😣 ohhh this letter.....

[@markhall6306]

Er is it similar to Russian er like error er

[@veertdd]

HELLO UKRAINIAN. I FEEL SO BAD ABOUT YOUR PEOPLE BEING TOOKEN AWAY AS RUSSIA IS TAKING AWAY YOUR PEOPLES LIVES. LONG LIVE UKRAINE AND THANK YOU FOR TEACHING ME THE LESSON AS I NEED TO LEARN R. Oh sorry for caps, I forgot to turn it off.

[@jccnlas8523]

It is a trill or flap r

[@Karenlowry1]

Speaking French doesn't help at all, that R is all the way in the back of the throat. 😀

[@Gonzo_-zb5mf]

Your lectures are excellent, Inna. You are going to seduce me to learn a language I was not even aware of some months ago. My mother tongue is German, so I don´t have problems with pronouncing "R". I had French at school. I was good at it, but that´s 20 years ago and I don´t know any French people. At least, I can read it. I have sympathy for your and Ukrainian issues, that´s why I found your channel. At the moment, the future is disguised, but at first I have to become fit (I told you about the health camp I was admitted to) and then I will take a course at your online school into consideration. Stay strong, Inna. I hope that you will be reunited with your husband soon. NATO has a lot of possibilities to defeat Russia, but for some reason, they are afraid of using their own doctrine. Low yield nukes with nearly no fallout would be ideal to attack Russian command posts and GRAD launchers. The advantage over new generation nukes compared to just delivering conventional weapons consists of no masses of unexploded bombs (or ammo), less loss of Ukrainian soldiers and a quick victory. I´m not afraid of WW3, I will die anyway. Regarding my belief, the world ends individually for each human, when he finally encounters Jesus. We just have this biological experience for a reason I can´t fathom. But at least I try to make the best out of it. Thank you for your videos and stay safe, Inna ! If you know a woman or a widow about your age, with or without children, please tell me because I´m 42 and I´m still not married. In this case, I would have no other choice than to learn Ukrainian. My country sucks, I want to leave anyway. I want a country I believe in. So I end my contribution with "Slava Ukraini", hoping to become a member of the club. Kind regards and sorry for writing too much, Mathew from Austria

[@andrejbicanic2113]

(словенська мова) v neuradnem pogovoru bi se razumel ,fonetično zapisano,Rrrriba ali po naše riba.Imam pa vprašanje,ukrajinski R v tujih imenih,besedah,mesto Rim(Roma),ime Ronald Regan,....ali se izgovori Rrrrenault ali je kratek r v Renault

[@YaShoom]

Всё же в испанском есть эР рычащая, которая создаёт много ударов (которую вы изображали). В украинском же (как и в русском) эР одноударная.

[@ЄвгенійПанасенко-н2к]

Що таке триєдиний народ?

[@markhall6306]

Mbl Bbl

[@badassbirkin4907]

Ppo

[@dfguko]

Learn my language. Why would i learn ukrainian its not spoken worldwide.Same goes for russian. Those slavic languages are basically all the same. You know one you know all.

[@ЄвгенійПанасенко-н2к]

No, knowing one does not mean you know all of them

[@ira346]

there is the same sound in russian language!