Is Polish similar to Ukrainian? Polish Ukrainian conversation 

Кастусь Каліноўскі бережіть білоруську мову, вона дуже красива, як на мене) привіт з Києва😉

Я українець розумію білоруську мову))))

тому що більше половини відео розмовляли англійскою)

Це тому що українська та білоруська є сестри близнючки.

Русский почему-то слабо похож особенно на польский

Tak tak :) Słowackiemu bardzo blisko jak i do polskiego taki i ukraińskiego :D.

Медленно и внимательно прочитав то что вы написали, не взирая на то что ни разу раньше не слышал и не читал на вашем языке - все равно прекрасно все понял. Дело в том что все мы Славяне друг другу родственники. Одни просто ближе, а другие дальше.

Denys Kazakov И ты им написал на русском?Зашибись,они так тебя поймут

@@aenlainaknoa LOL ЛОЛ ліл ŁÓŁ

@@user-pt1ko4qo3k Denys Kazakov miedlenno i wnimacielno procitaw to ćto wy napisali... Just so the Polish folks can read it hahaha

It is! Polish heritage here. Ukranian always sounds so soft and sweet!

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@@stephendise7946 Both beautiful languages.

@@anastasiyarakova8517 russian language sounds like somebody shakes a box of rocks

@@neprogav it depends who use it. Every language can be beutifull if one use it with passion. Trust me russian in right using can take your soul and make it the happinest in the world or oposite make your heart like pease of broken brick. So do not tell about that you have no idea. Now my dream is learn the arabic language. I have alot of good friends who are from arabic world. It is realy cool that they are all understand each other. Tunisian gay, maroco, egipet, iraq, iran. Now I use russian or english for convercation with tham, but realy want understand what are they talking without subtranslatiin.

100%)

Because we are fraternal peoples

@@standlyua3608 и еще потому что "украинский" сочинили поляки).

@@maxshep900 Русский сочинили монголы

@@maxshep900 Зачем провоцировать? Ты опять хочешь начать политический срач?

Belarusian is also easy to understand

Ukrainian is fine in talking speed...the only one who should slow down is you...

Ukrainian, Belorussian and Rissian native speakers can understand one another just the same way as Danish, Swedish or Norwegian speakers can understand one another))

DEN Russian don't understand ukrainian. Ukrainian understand russian because we was in USSR and our politics propagandate russian language. We was a part of empire!

Жадко, If now everybody speak english, even slavic speakers between each othere, are we all now just part of some UK or US empire? Seems to me that's the case.

Is much harder FOR WHOM?

Жадко Немирович, что за бред? В понимании украинского и белорусского нет никаких проблем, кроме привычки.

Yes. Our languages are so similar! 🤠

putler niezadowolony

​@@PopokPavlinточно не задоволений

wow they teach Polish and Ukrainian in Croatia? Do Croats feel any connection to Ukraine on account of Croatians originating in Ukraine and then migrating to western Balkans?

Yes you can study all the slavic languages at our university :). Ukrainians and Croatians are related. Croatia is a very popular destination for tourists so we have many people from Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine... so we are connected yes. We also have a group of Ukrainians who live in Croatia.

Wow! Як успіхи у вивчені?

Thank you for sharing your story! Very interesting read :)

I have always wanted to find a Ukrainian-speaking person from Canada to ask this question: to what extent are you able to understand Russian? Have you had much exposure to it?

@@mihanich With out exposure i can tell you that they understand less then they would Polish..Russian and Ukrainian are kind of far when considering how close most of the other slav languages are to each other!

I think it would be fascinating to a chat between you and Norbert. Canadian-Ukrainian is really unique for many reasons, but mainly because you didn't have to learn Russian, so your Ukrainian is more clean :)

Canadian born ukranian speaking poles? Wow I have never heard of such a thing. Sounds fascinating!

Highest time brother, highest time!!!🇵🇱🍻🇺🇦

Yes. Do not forget Volyn massacre

@@MrParlam :D хахаха

@@MrParlamA my - Katyń ,Mednoje i zabitego Lecha Kaczyńskiego z całą polską elitą.

Раньше друг друга славяне х*ярили, сейчас тупа дружат, уважаемо

Московитам не зрозуміти

@@Ruslan4k ещё как понимают:)

Литвинюк Андріан кого не понять?)))

Ну он просто знает польский немногр

@@Ruslan4k еще дурак... Сейчас посчитаем всех!!!)))

Dobrze potrafisz po polsku)) jestem Ukraincem)

@@nikodima4425 Och, dziękuję! To super! Pozdrawiam! :)

thank god' we finally have somebody who transliterates the English "wow" correctly into a Slav language: Łał. This is correct! Cheers! And fuck those idiots who schooled the entire generation to pronounce it as "vav" in their language. It's one damn simple word, and yet 99% of Ukrainians, Russians and (now it appears) Belaruses don't pronounce it right....

Szanuję Cię!)

Matheus, are you the guy from the Zloto Polski chat? I was there like a year ago, and i remember that you also (if that's you) learned russian, lol.

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Тому що ти не московит!))

Головне не забувайте там своєї мови!)

Я дуже люблю білоруську мову. Всю розмову розумію.

@@niknikols5248 ой, дурак!!

Vitaly he should be a model So attractive

@Jerzy Makowski no

@Jerzy Makowski I thought all poles were. Religious, homophobic, and misogynist. And xenophobic too

The Pole is more cut

@@goldenarchangel4262 comment reported.

А здесь речь про русский? Почему вы все время и везде по поводу и без повода трогаете наш язык?

Beaver Прывiтанне!)

Białoruś piękny kraj

мені здається українська і білоруська навіть більше схожі ніж з іншими двома(російскою і польскою). Хоча не можу порівняти як там справи з литовською, але з моєї перспективи все бесь так)

@@user-vu3cm5ct1n звичайно. У нас з барабольцями >80% спільної лексики. Слухати програми білоруською ізі)

я россиянка и тоже все понимаю )))

Dziękuję za komentarz Panie Władysławie ;)

Dokładnie, to jest magia polskiego i ukraińskiego :D.

There is something like dialect continuum :) , so we can understand Slovaks, Czechs and Sorbs - and they WEREN'T with us in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth :) That Belarusian and Ukrainians speak language close to Polish means that they didn't need to have national resurrection of language like Czechs had in Prussia - they had their words - like you can hear that people understand themselves at a basic level (and if someone had a time to talk about philosophy or economics it means that probably had also more time to learn some words :) ). We also got a lot of words from Ruthenians. I would also say, that because of PLC with many not West Slavs our palatalized R (RI) --> RZ (the same like Czech), that is between R and Ż changed into Ż sound.

@@magpie_girl3741 Obviously Czech, Slovak, Sorbian, Kashubian and to some lesser extent Polabian are indeed similar to Polish because they are all West Slavic. That's why I didn't mention them ;) I brought up Belarusian and Ukrainian because they have many West Slavic loanwords (predominantly Polish because of the PLC), whereas Russian has many South Slavic (via Old Church Slavonic). It's a miracle that Czechs managed to revive their language because they were slowly germanized. Regarding the RZ/Ř. I remember that I read somewhere that we lost in Polish the original sound due to East Slavic influence but at least some dialects kept it like Mazurian dialect but unfortunately those people considered themselves German despite speaking a Polish dialect :(

@@magpie_girl3741 Czech language practically disappeared for several hundred years and then was artificially recreated by Josef Jungmann during the so-called Czech National Revival that took place at the end of the 19th century. After Battle of White Mountain (1620), most of Czech nobility was murdered and replaced by the German one. The remaining Czech elite was Germanized. Therefore, today's Czech language is practically an exclusive invention of one person, who tried to recreate and "de-Germanise" (fun fact: Jungmann was half German) it basing on a mixture of archaic Czech, Lach dialects, Polish spoken by the local lower class, from the Polish dictionary written by Samuel Linde and German (still). He copied many words from i.a. Polish and changed their meanings (to make Czech different) ... as a result of these changes e.g. only in Czech the fifth month is "květen" (from the Polish name of fourth month - "kwiecień") - anyone who knows the origin of the name of this month knows perfectly well that in Czech language it was assigned to the wrong month. So today's Czech language has little in common with the Czech language known before the Battle of White Mountain (the latter was visibly and audibly more similar to Polish). Slovak language is also a late invention and is mainly based on that new Czech. So it's obviously hard for the Czechs and Slovaks not to notice the clear differences between their - very similar - languages and the Polish language ... and vice versa.

Just polish lithuanian commonwealth? Did you know that we are the nearest to Poland and and we had one protoslavic language?

​@@INecr0 As a Pole I don't know the history of the Czech nation enough, but shouldn't it be writen like that: The Czech language practically disappeared for several hundred years from the administrative space and public offices because the German language was treated as official language of the lands. Poland used Latin as an official language in administration and science until the end of XVIII (partitions), they used Latin in liturgy until middle of XX. It doesn't mean that Poles at the time didn't speak Polish. It means that the 'official language' expectations were different (like name suggest: 'for office'). Czechs where a part of HRE for hundreds of years - HRE was big, and Latin and German were prioritized. I'm not saying it's fair to smaller nations, but such were the times. That's why Czechs MANY times tried to make themself an equal partner, or 'a partner', even before they entered HRE, e.g. with the Glagolitic script. People are always the same (now they are learning English or Mandarin) - they seek opportunities that will give them an easier future. So opportunities for Czech nobility were different than for common folks. From Wikipedia about Battle of White Mountain: - "An estimated five-sixths of the Bohemian nobility went into exile soon after the Battle of White Mountain, and their properties were confiscated. - Before the war about 151,000 farmsteads existed in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, while by the year 1648 only 50,000 remained. - At the same time the number of inhabitants decreased from three million to only 800,000. - The result of the 1620 battle brought two centuries of recatholicization of the Czech lands and the decline of the Czech-speaking aristocracy and elite as well as the Czech language (accompanied with the growing influence of German-speaking elites)." As a daughter of farmers, as a grand-daughter of farmers, as a grand-grand-daughter of farmers, as a grand-grand-grand-daughter of farmers... I'm simply disgusted. There still were a lot of common Czechs... So what that they weren't nobility? Nobility made borders of state but the people made the language. Do you think that most of Russians stopped speaking the Slavic language, when their nobility thought it's plebian? What probably happened in Czechia (I know that it wasn't named Czechia then, but Poland also had different names, and it's faster to simply say Poland or Czechia) was the lack of new specialized vocabulary and texts written in the Czech language, so there were not many 'official' sources for discussing compromises of e.g. declenstion endings after their sounds evolved... Josef Jungmann... I don't think that I read anything of his. But it's obvious that he lived in the times when rich people started to write for and about poor folks. Look at questions about Pushkin and Russian language. Why should people care about some Russian nobility guy but not "the sixth child (out of ten) of a cobbler"? If codification of Czech is a job of one man, it's good for him. Why we should even care about Pushkin, that had resources: money, time and friends that helped promote his name - he is a lesser creator compared to Jungman. Should I say that English is "an artificially created" language just because it borrowed a lot of words from other languages? Of course, not. When Czechs (or let's call them German speaking grandchildren of Czechs, who cares?) were ready to start write books in Czech they could use German words (it's called loanwords) or they could make their own loan translations (it's called calque). Both phenomens are natural and none is better than other. We also have a lot of translations in science, or a lot of borrowings in liturgy. And so what? Germans also have a lot of loan translations. Latin also had both... There is nothing like some mistically 'pure language'. I think the problem that Czechs can have is the difference between how they write and how they speak, because they needed to make Standard Czech fast and there were more different groups of SPEAKERS of living Czech than people that wanted codify it. So on every day life it would be only logical that they still use a lot of loanwords (or different endings) than loan translations -- because people don't speak in dictionaries ;) BTW. I can also guarantee that the average person in Czechia didn't speak as it was writen in the books before the 1620 ;) Because, nobility is always small % that consider only its company to be worthy and its language as proper - so they don't even know what "the average" means (esp. before mass media ;) ) Just like the average Brit doesn't speak or eat like their queen, or the average American doesn't look and live like Kardashian family ;) --- When comes to Slovak... They obviously make a highly mutually intelligible dialect continuum with Czechs. It was Czechia that had more nobilites (money to make new friends with foreigners and talk about politics, philosophy, etc. or simply to buy expensive foreign goods), more books and first made new words for fastly developing world. It was more urban Czech (the lands are more to the West) that was the language from which more rural Slovaks were (and probably still are) talking borrowings - and there were no need to change them to make sense for common people compared to words from German or Latin. I'm sure that exposure to the other language because of mass media helps them also. But... four days ago I read the data from the "Special Eurobarometer 386". It is a survey made in 2012 about the ability to USE languages OTHER than the mother tongue. I don't want the shitshtorm here but I really recommend you to ask Slovaks and Czechs how they communicate with each other... (or better, look what they wrote about it a decade ago) and compare the answers with the data showing how many of them consider that they use the NOT THEIR MOTHER language (and how it looks with other speakers of mutually intelligible languages, Scandinavians or Spanish-Portuguese group). I'm too young to know Czechoslovakia, and I still didn't digest the data, but it was really interesting. PS. You are aware that Sobieski and other Polish nobilites used Latin names for months, right? You know that name of the month called Kwiecień means simply the month of flourishing of flowers? You know that V month is the month in which the most flowers bloom in Poland? People could use it for any month, when they thought about some specific flowers. You know that places in Europe have different climates? You know that other languages use Listopad for different month than Poles? In short: what makes you think that it was Czechs and not Poles that used word for the "wrong" month? When it's simply description of natural period of year and not specific day-to-day modern time.

Również pozdrawiam! Pozdravy! 😎

Radomir Stec taky jsem se divil, byl jsem ve Lvově a Kyjeve a je lepší na ně mluvit česky než anglicky xD

Rozumím 80 % polsky, 30% ukrajinsky.

Podibno, Podobno.

@Ivan Pewnie dlatego że Ukrainski ma podobną fonetykę do Rosyjskiego i więcej wspólnych słów.

Так, кирилиця була створена саме для слов'ян

Ти неправий, у польскої так само є аналоги одною літерою. Ж-Ż, Ш-Ś, Ч-Ć

@@user-pz7lg7hc1t To prawda. Jestem Polakiem i szkoda, że polski nie jest zapisywany Cyrylicą. To są jedyne litery Słowian!!! :) Pozdrawiam Wszystkich!

@@bartkonieczny2497 О да, польский на кириллице на белорусский похож.

@@bartkonieczny2497 там є одна проблема, вам простіше відбиватися від російської експансії. В Україні росіяни мали успіхи адже ми використовуємо один алфавіт. Тому хоч і було б приємно читати польську на кирилиці, але я турбуюся чи не покращили б ви життя російським пропагандистам... Турбуюсь за майбутнє Польщі, адже ми маємо війну з Росією, маємо досвід...

Ja 100% :P.

The only language that is 100% to Ukrainian is.... Ukrainian. The only language that is 100% to Polish is.... Polish.

Super! Powodzenia! :) I post videos for Polish learners too! Check it out and let me know if this method is effective for you: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dMzEzIt3ncE.html, I'd love to hear your feedback.

Ecolinguist ohhh ok.Dziekuje :D.

Hmm... Ivanovaite sounds like Lithuanian or Latvian rather ;-)

tantus79 Lithuanian :D .I know Lithuanian too :D.But i was born in Spain :D.Ja rodilas i vyrosla v Ispanij no da, moja familia litovskaja.Ja znaju litovskij :D :))

@@user-ip8dg5uv5q why your name is written in Georgian ?

My language is Serbian, but I've been speaking Russian and Polish for many years, so I understood Ukrainian almost perfectly, and I love it anyway. I guess for people from ex-Yugoslavia (who speak the former Serbo-Croatian, now BCMS), Ukrainian is easier to understand than Polish.

Ziemomysł pewnie używała język chachłacki

я зрозумiв все Польською мовою)

I think the ukrainian boy's sound was more clear while the belarusian sound was less clear and also the belarusian guy said he was not so fluent in speaking it and probably his speaking was affected by russian language.

I think he didn't speak very well Belarusian.

Not guaranteed but it could very well be that her dialect was a bit closer to standard Ukrainian than to Belarusian. There are many transitional dialect in rural South-Western Belarus, and the way people speak south of Brest is almost identical to standard Ukrainian, while north of Brest, it becomes closer to standard Belarusian. Unfortunately, these dialects are dying out now in Belarus as people switch to Russian

This is weird, because Slovak is the most easy to understand for us Poles. And they understand as easy as well.

you're probably from the south of Poland, here in the North-east would tell you that Belarusian or Ukrainian, it all depends on the region and the language exposure.

Im Croatian and it defijitely doesnt sound like the same language. You can hear the long east slavic krava=korova, grad=gorod in Ukrainian while Polish sounds West Slavic

@@lil_weasel219 GRAD: [misto]Ukr, [mjasto]Pl

@@lil_weasel219 lol, there's no gorod in Ukrainian

Jestem Polakiem i umiem czytac cyrylice)

To prawda!

Zajebiscie by było, jestem w stanie naprawdę dużo zrozumieć , ale jestem zbyt leniwy by sie nauczyc cyrylicy

@@rochzalewski1779 А Оу Б Ц Чь Д Е Еу Ф Ґ Х І Й К Ль Л М Н Нь О О́ П Р С Шь Т У В И З Ж Жь. Cz=Ч, Rz=Рь, Sz=Ш, Szcz=Щ, Ch=Х

Cyrylicy łatwo się nauczyć, ale nawet po ładnych paru latach wolno mi idzie jej odszyfrowywanie. I ciągle coś źle czytam, np. Н jako И albo na odwrót.

Ja jestem polakiem. Rozumiem wszystko po ukraińsku.

Ja tež ukrajineć ale ja z detynstva živu u Moldovi. Ja zaraz vyvčaju ukrajinśku i vona na latynyci meni biĺše spodobajeťśa

ближе чем расеянский)

А я нє 😬

Разумієм вжистко - розумію все 😀

Panie Adolfie ma Pan rację :) Wystarczy trochę cierpliwości i akrobacji językowych i ze spokojem da się dogadać :D

Ooo tak, robi Pan świetną robotę, bardzo brakuje tego typu rzeczy na youtube :). Ogólnie polecam się zapoznać ze staropolszczyzną, bo baaardzo wiele z tych słów jest na porządku dziennym używana przez innych Słowian, (oczywiście często w nieco "przekręconej formie"), również sporo słów ma "staropolskie" znaczenie :). www.eioba.pl/a/1vly/wyrazy-zapomniane

polacy i ukr - bracia nawiek))

Polacy i Ukraińcy braty na zawżdy :)).

>wołyń

thanks for struggling through it anyway :) also, even 30-40% will be useful if you ever feel like travelling in the region!

as a Ukrainian, I may understand 20% of spoken Serb and 90% of written

Lol that's strange since (as a Bosnian) I understood pretty much everything (both of them). Not every single word, but I could figure out the context easily

NoSmoke Jazwinski Are bosnian and serb different languages?

Quique Dillon Not really, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are pretty much the same language, although there is a difference in dialect. Bosnian and Croatian are spoken in "ijekavian" dialect which is much closer to other non-South Slavic languages while Serbian is spoken in "ekavian dialect" which is rather closer to Macedonian and Bulgarian than to other Slavic dialects. I guess thats why for me its much easier to understand Ukrainian or polish than to Serbians. But yeah, Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian are still one language with tiny differences in accents and dialects. The reason why they are officially separate languages is simply because of the politics.

Ivan B. that's interesting

Ivan B. Я Поляк і можу говорити українською, і відразу бачу, що ці дві мови дуже подібні до себе, котрі на мій погляд є цілком зрозумілі для польської особи на більш-менш 70-90% :)

@@mikoajbojarczuk9395 нічого собі, ти дійсно доволі добре пишеш на українській, як довго ти вивчав українську?

@@virskovskiy7894 майже три роки.

@@mikoajbojarczuk9395 респект)

I agree that knowing both helps tremendously. But I would say, even the pronunciation of Polish seems a bit closer to Russian than to Ukrainian for me: on one hand, there's no vowel reduction, and there's the L-to-W mutation, like in Ukrainian; on the other hand, like Russian, it's a lot "softer" than Ukrainian having all those palatalized consonants, uses "hard" G, only uses shortened infinitives, and devoices the final consonants

Polski-Czeski jest bardziej trudny al mowic powoli i mozna sie dogadac. Ja mialem okazje rozmawiac z Czechem i tylko okazyjnie uzywalismy angielski zeby wyjasnic znaczenie niektorych slow.

@@sigmuntking8529 для початку потрібно розмовляти із жителями прикордонних (де межа країн) регіонів. Там найбільше вживання споріднених слів. Чим далі від кордону, тим мова може відрізнятися.

Tak priemna

Thanks for an informative comment :) Are you studying linguistics?

Ecolinguist You're welcome. No I don't study linguistics at all (I'm a teacher of history). I'm passionnate by languages.

Language is so much related to history after all :D

Hey, ukrainian here! How's your progress with ukrainian language? Just curious)

барев дзес

AleksandrSL Що це за мова? Напиши англійською будь ласка або українською. А слово "тримати" походить від слів "три" і слова "мати" (не матір, а англійською have). Тобто одна рука, друга рука, і те що ти маєш на руках! Логіка! І ніякої тобі антинауковості!

Lingvo Studia Потужний молодець з хорошою англійською 😉💪

Lingvo Studia *питання : яка різниця є між " робота" та "праця" ?? Дякую 😊

Sagaïdakov Khanfouci Adel Значення категорії «праця» більш широке, ніж поняття «робота». Кінцевий результат. Робота завжди спрямована на отримання конкретного блага, тоді як праця може реалізовуватися саме через процес.

AleksandrSL согласен, русский человек легко поймёт Украинский. Ведь русский=украинец. А вот россиянин, который, в свою очередь = московит - нет. І це не дивно, тому як росіяни відносяться більше до Татарії ніж до Русі.

Great. If u have kids, young cousins, nieces ect. Please teach them Belarusian. Ukrainian/Belarusian are truly one people and one linguistic group. These are the only two surviving Ruthenian languages...

@Islander Local Rusyn is also a Ruthenian language. Basically Ruthenian divulged into Ukrainian, Belarusian and Rusynian. Some consider Rusyn language to be a dialect of Ukrainian, but I'm not a linguist and it's hard to say whether that would be accurate classification.

@Islander Local It's also confusing on many layers for us (Ukrainians) because we used to call ourselves Rusyns as recently as 19th century to some extend and everyone was called a Rusyn in Ukraine further centuries back. But I agree that it's probably it's own language, because I can't understand all of it.

@@mesofius i would agree aswell..We cant be like moskals...But i still feel like Rusyn and Ukrainian are two dialects of the same southern Ruthenian language!

I actually had to do a lot od that when I was traveling in Italy. My Spanish isn't fluent but it was enough to communicate with Italians in simple contexts :D

@Mark Oh я украинец и понимаю 80-90% процентов что говорит поляк

How can you understand 80% if it's a fact that ~40% of vocabulary is different? Not to mention some differences in sentence structure.

@Mark Oh that's more like it. Basically reflects factual diffidence statistics

I am Russian and I understood almost 100% Ukrainian and like 40% Polish

I'm from Russia and I understand 95% of Ukrainian and 80% of Polish. It seems to be mostly dependent on your education.

Я вивчаю* ;) I'm polish and i know ukrainian.

Hey, ukrainian here! How's your progress with ukrainian language? Just curious)

смешно то что мы, украинцы, моментом понимаем русский язык. вы же нас не понимаете, ибо наш язык гораздо ближе к польскому)

Лексикально так, але синтактично набагато ближча українська російській тому й росіяном легше здогадатися ніж полякам.

> гораздо ближе Польскому Ага, щас. Прям вообще один в один. Фонетика и Грамматика Украинского с Русским намного ближе друг другу чем Польская Украинской, а того числа слов которое Украинский делит с Польским не хватает чтобы заиметь с Поляком какой-нибудь нормальный разговор.

+TristeCarl Та нормально вистачає, але якщо співрозмовник не розуміє інших слов'янських мов крім своєї рідної, то ніщо не допоможе, хоч навіть те 70% спільної лексики з польською. Справа проста: якщо співрозмовник має талант, схильність договориться то всього вдосталь, я просто не люблю генералізувати чогось, що для кожного є індивідуальне. Щодо граматики, так вона точно найближча російській, але фонетика хмм, фонетика української дуже особлива, вона має щось з польської, має щось з російської ,але тут вона просто найбільше має суто свої питомі риси.

Понимаешь или все же с детства учишь? разные понятия. Наверняка в школе учили все украинцы

So am I

Dzięki! Powodzenia w nauce polskiego! 🤓

That's true of all dialectal continuums - but mostly in the past, entirely true in modern times. E.g. you could go from Portugal to the south of Italy, or you could go from Czechia to Poland - a 5000-1000 years ago.

Потому что ты знаешь еще русский и слышал больше украинский и еще может не очень отлично знаешь белорусский??? Польский ближе всего к белорусскому по фонологической структуре, это о многом говорит.

@@eXTreemator а причем тут русский? В украинском и беларуском очень много схожей лексики, вот смотрел беларускую новость про радиоактивные грибы и сходу все понятно в общем

Тоже отлично понимаю молдавский и румынский я из Черновцов

Isn't it amazing? :D We may not be able to speak it but we can understand :)

This is indeed an amazing thing :) Thanks for the vids.

Congrats, a lot of Russians cant understand neither Polish or Ukrainian though, i mean they can understand some words and phrases but they cant have a conversation. I tested this personally multiple times, so if the only language you know is Russia and you can understand Ukrainian and Polish no problem you have a neck for languages..:)

+Alek Shukhevych По суті, це дуже складна тема; є поляки які не розуміють ні чеської, ні словацької, ні української, ані будь-якої, чужої для них слов'янської мови; не зможуть створити навіть найпростішої розмови . Є поляки що розуміють, і це не дивно. Справа дуже проста, або хтось має схльності до цього або немає. Якщо я розумів російську ще перед тим як почав її вивчати, то і якийсь росіянин може зрозуміти польську.

+Alek Shukhevych Well, I can't agree with you. Of course, I like languages, but I haven't study any Slavic one, except Russian. And still I am able to understand other Slavic languages, more or less. These videos and other numerous examples have proven that to me. And I also know lots of Russians who understand Ukrainian easily. I even know Russians who understand other Slavic languages. Of course I'm speaking about people who've never studied those languages. But there are also other people among Russians and other Slavic nations, who don't understand other Slavic languages, and I don't know why. Maybe because they aren't interested about it or they're simply too ignorant to try to listen and to understand.

Tak, dijsno duze vsi slova shozi jak i v ukrajins'kij movi

Same cikave, sho ti napisav vse polkoyu (mabut'), ale ya use zrozumiv. Hocha nikoli ne vivchav polskoyi. 60% sliv mayut' odnakove korinnya. Meni cikavo chi zmojesh ti zrozumiti sho ya napisav? Ya pisav ukrainskoyu ale latins'kimi bukvami

да, он хорошо ее изучил. А так - русский парень).

@@maxshep900 ти напевно зараз жартуєш

@@jaegerms даже не собирался. Вы все русские, хоть и тронулись умом.

@@maxshep900 может ты хотел сказать славяне? Потому что украинцы и русские - это просто две национальности

@@maxshep900 прошу, уважаемый русский, ты уж точно не обладаешь достоверной информацией, поэтому все, что ты здесь пишешь на эту тему, будет считаться чистой провокацией

Whats your mother tongue?

English, I'm half Polish (and would like to become fluent in Polish one day)