About the Ukrainian language 

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

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❤

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

Дякую за Українську мову 🇺🇦

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

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

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.

永远不原谅，永远不要忘记。荣耀属于乌克兰！！💛💙

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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!

What a class, Julie! 👏🤍

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.

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

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 🤩🤩

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

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.

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

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

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

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,"

я дуже люблю Українська мова

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. :)

Thank you for your edition! ❤

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

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!

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

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

8:54 No my dear. Ukraina means "a land at the еdge". It comes from the word 'край', 'kraj', 'krai' which means 'end' or 'edge' , or 'border', or 'margin', and is used always to denote a territory which is at the edge of some bigger territory, state, or empire. The same is with the 'Kraina' region in Croatia, which was once the end part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a border with the Ottoman Empire.

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

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.

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.

Well done Julie - good to see you again.

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

love this channel!!

Don't stop making the content! You are awesome

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

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

7:45 Ukrainian literary language emerged with the first literary work in Ukrainian, Slověnic language. Which was «Slovo o zakoně i blagoděti / The sermon on law and grace» written by Ruthenian (Ukrainian) metropolitan Hilarion on 1018 in Kyjevъ.

So interesting, used to be bowled over stumbling across elements of OCS, Bulgarian, old and modern Russian within this language.... ou inversement !

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

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.

dang the comments are gonna be wild

@JuLingo Would love to know which language gets the message through with least words spoken. I always loved how the North American Indians spoke when I was knee high to a Grasshopper. As usual.. you're amazing.

Thanks for the video! What is your native laguage,, Julie?

Thank you for this vid and also for the clip of DakhaBrakha--I've spent the past hour watching their vids. Awesome!

_Something important to know, for all who are interested in history and/or support Ukraine:_ _Rus' ought not to be confused with modern “Russia”, which derives its name from the Rus' but historically is a completely different state, which almost all its existence was at war with the Rus'._ _Just like the Holy Roman Empire was actually Germany, “Russia” is actually Muscovy, despite their best attempts to convince everybody otherwise._ _Its name “Russia" received only in the 18th century, when Peter I simply changed Muscovy’s name into the “All Russian Empire” (Russia originates from Rosia, name used by the Greek Orthodox Clergy in regards to Rus')_ _Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves Russian._ _Lands that Russia (Muscovy) claims were part of the original Rus', but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus'. They can be considered parts of extended Rus', although their culture was distinct from main Rus'._ _In 1493, Muscovite duke Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus'. No other kings acknowledged that. From that point on Muscovy started to make false claims on Rus' ownership._ _“Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round, despite what Soviet and Russian (Muscovite) historians have been trying to say for years. A Slavicised Finnic, then later, Mongolized offshoot. Kyiv was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village._ _Germany used to call itself the Holy Roman Empire, that didn’t mean they became the Romans, and all of a sudden had a right to claim whole of Italy and its history, but yet, that’s exactly what Russia (Muscovy) did in regards to Rus'-Ukraine, which is a horrible injustice!_

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! 🇺🇦

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.

I wish Rosetta Stone had the Ukrainian course. I started learning Ukrainian on Duolingo. Thanks to some basic knowledge of Russian and my native language Lithuanian, I find it relatively easy and interesting to learn Ukrainian. This is my gesture of solidarity with Ukraine. My mind was blown when I heard one Slovak song that sounded like Ukrainian, it's called Jechali Kozaci.

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

Nice video! Do you also teach languages?

Dėkoju is thank you in Lithuanian languages :)

What was that last song? I loved it!

Could you make a video about mapudungun language???

Glory to Ukraine! With love from Riga, Latvia.

Thank you for this video, I love it.

Important note - theory about Indo-European and old Slavic, old east-slavic it's just a theory and tool for linguistics to study similarities between the modern languages.

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

The comment section proves to be interesting

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...

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.

Wow your Farsi pronunciation is very good!

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!!

My Favorite Author was born in Dniepro, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky... when she lived there it was part of Russia

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)

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.

🥰Happy to see your new video!

I used to hear Canadian Ukrainian . Chickai for five is about all I remember. And Nestor Pistor

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

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.

Julie, i bet you invest as much time and effort with your job as a GIS Analyst, you must be an awesome one. Thanks for another excellent video, you politely stepped carefully around the political topics. I too wish the world to live in peace.

Nice video. I’ve been learning some Ukrainian on Duolingo cause my grandma was from utzhorrod

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

Дуже гарне відео, дякую!

I wish Rosetta Stone had Ukrainian

Do a video on the Pashto language this is a very interesting language with deep history.

Great video 🖖😺

6:40 Muscovite language is not Russian, obviously. And this completely arbitrary table of percentages has nothing to do with reality because the Ukrainian vocabulary is twice bigger than Polish and Muscovite taken together, they both are fractions of Ukrainian.

I am interested in what the Cossacks spoke, and how this was compared to Ukrainian.

Many languages are part of a speech continuum, well illustrated by German, with neighbors having high mutual intelligibility, but at distance, having little. This, you can have Frisians and low Saxons speaking very similar dialects, and on the other side, things like Bavarian and luxembourgish where it will be hard to converse without consciously switching to high German. Extreme members of this would include Africaans and the archaic swabian spoken by Mennonites and Amish in the Americas. A person from Cornwall is likely to have a difficult time speaking with some people from Glasgow, both nominally speaking English. And then there are the Danes, who can't even speak with themselves.

thank you for your great work!