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Hi! I would like to correct a mistake which even ukrainians are doing so ukrainian please don't be offended by this. Word "магазин" (mahazyn) is russian. It came from word "магазин" (magazin) which means a shop. Ukrainian word for a shop is "крамниця" (kramnytsia) which is a better alternative. There are a lot of words like this for example "утямка" (utiamka) - thought, sense (ukrainians mistakenly use a russian word "смысл" [smysl] - sense) or "водограй" (vodohray) - fountain (ukrainians mistakenly use a word borrowed from russian "фонтан" [fantan] - fountain). If any ukrainians are reading this comment please write below any other cool ukrainian alternatives for the foreign words and to the rest thank you for your attention, bye!
Nel complesso la trattazione è ben fatta ma vi sono due inesattezze: - copia, intesa come quantità ,viene ancora utilizzata in ambiti linguistici elevati e sorvegliati( " utilizzato in grande copia") _ l'italiano non ha perso il gerundio (facendo,mangiando,dormendo)bensì il gerundivo che viene tradotto con una perifrasi passiva come l'esempio riportato(delenda est=deve essere distrutta) Saluti e complimenti
Overall the discussion is well done but there are two inaccuracies: - copy, understood as quantity, is still used in high and supervised linguistic fields ("used in large quantities") _ Italian has not lost the gerund (doing, eating, sleeping) but rather the gerundive which is translated with a passive periphrasis like the example given (delenda est=must be destroyed) Greetings and congratulations
How about the syllabic consonants? In Czech and Slovak there is syllabic [l] and [r], possibly in other Slavic languages, but Polish lacks the syllabic consonants
Something is weird: Polish uses multiple orthographic variations for the postalveolars They use cz, sz, and ż, even tho they already have ci/ć, si/ś, and zi/ź And they still use rz to represent the ž sound instead of inheriting the sound of the Czech letter ř.
The Red-white-red is the oldest flag of the Belarusian nation. Current russian-puppet governor uses another red-green flag designed by a russian collaborate Mikola Husieŭ.
Good video. Some corrections: 1. belarusian traditionаl alphabet (taraskievica) also has "ґ", but it's optional. 2. "е" and "ё" become "я" only in the 1st syllable before the stress. 3. "е" doesn't become "ё" under stress. It's "ё" becomes "е" when unstressed. 4. "с" and "з" before a soft consonant (but not "г", "к", "х") also become soft so even with "academic" writings "звер" should be pronounced as "зьвер" 5. Vocative case is also present in belarusian, but with feminine gender it sounds like a nominative.
Which language has this logic: Every word starts with a consonant and ends with a vowel, every consonant is followed by a vowel and every vowel follows a consonant, without any digraphs or diphthongs.
My school wasted five years allegedly teaching me Latin in the time-honoured British style of learning by rote; unfortunately my French teachers used exactly the same method. Several years later I went to teach English in Italy; I had already learned German in Germany, and although IMHO Italian is the harder language for native English speakers, I learned it reasonably quickly. I still can't speak French, but I am an English-German and English-Italian interpreter (having gone back to school at 45) and I'm using my knowledge of Italian to learn Latin as it was spoken. Modern Welsh has a lot of loan words from Latin as it has come down to us from the native language in Britannia when it was a Roman province.
january names sound pretty similar, especially with a bridge "styczeń", same for april and there is the funny case of august, where the meaning is preserved, even tho the words are different - sierpień, miesiąc w którym żnie się sierpem zboże aka żniwa, so the harvest season
funfact, tho maybe you already know it: there is a version of polish cyrylic script developed in the XIX century during the third partition (after the january uprising) as a part of russification programme attempt and minor attempts of teaching it at schools. they forsook it in favour of full russification very soon tho. personally, as a pole of mixed descent (polish, lithuanian and polish-ukrainian refugees) i find learning ukrainian fun and feeling "right" - my great grandparents talked with heavy accents (and the "singing" accent), also had plenty words i find now in Ukrainian in their vernacular, which i love. then the changes in words like ą->u or -ów -> -iw, -om -> -am are easy patterns to follow, esp after growing up in a family that "zaciągała" (a word for that singing accentation from Ukraine or Belarus). funnily enough i noticed ukrainian sounds closer to czech or polish (ofc) than to russian to me. it's a great channel, i respect the vast knowledge of language theory and practice you have.
I'm a Portuguese native speaker who started learning Russian in 2008. Looking at the offered comparison, Ukrainian seems closer to Russian for me, compared with Belarusian. I had some exposure to Ukrainian since I have a few friends from there and they all speak Surzhik or sometimes even Russian, besides Ukrainian. I also tried Duolingo, which sucks, but whatever... It's much better learning by talking with natives. I could be wrong but I think Belarusian could be closer to Polish, as much as Portuguese is close to Spanish. Thanks for the video!
Uktainian here. When I first encounter Belarusian language, how cool it was for me to realize that I understand most of the writing and even speaking! I dug a little bit depper and now I can easily listen and read Blearusian, even speak a littlе😊 Thank you for the video and TRUE facts! With all these fake facts which were spreading for centuries by moscow propaganda, it's really depressing that the world believe in it.. Thank you also for true Belarusian national symbol - the flag! I really hope your video will see a large number of people and share the truth! Слава Україні💙💛 Жыве Беларусь🤍❤️🤍
In classical Latin, the sound /u/ was written with V in all contexts (just like the sound /w/), the letter later split into V for the consonant sound and U for the vowel sound
My childhood town has a street named after Kosciuszko, where the school district is located. It became bastardized into "Kah-shee-ess-ko". It's funny, I knew what a ciupaga is, but the correct pronunciation of Kosciuszko never dawned on me.
