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Danish guy watching. Tak means thank you in Danish, so the video seemed very polite hahaha

за свої стосунки не переживав так, як за те шоб вони один одного зрозуміли!🙏🏻😨😂😂😂

I'm Ukrainian, and I know Polish, so I can't participate in this little experiment. However, I can tell that the languages are mutually understandable because I remember my mum who doesn't speek any Polish having a full half hour conversation with the first Polish person she'd ever met in her life. That man helped us a lot when we were refugees in Poland by driving us to a train station. Dziękuję bardzo

It's amazing how many words are so similar or the same. I'm Bosnian and I can understand almost everything.

You know that the language is very similar when they can talk about Greek mythology together

I am Bulgarian and almost never had to look at the English subtitles - either for Polish or for Ukrainian. I am amazed at how well Slavic people of different countries can understand each other.

Dzisiaj miałem taka sytuacje ze przyszła kobieta do nas do sklepu (ja mieszkam i urodziłem się w Niemczech) i nie mogła dać sobie radę z zakupami, podeszła do mnie po angielsku ze „help me Please” ja zauważyłem ze trzymała komórkę w rękach z tłumaczem ukraiński na angielski, to ja zacząłem gadać do niej po polsku a nagle się uśmiechnęła i odpowiadała po ukraińsku, mi troszeczkę trudno było jej zrozumieć ale w końcu pomogłem jej i nigdy nie myślałem ze te języki są takie podobne

In Spanish "sheep" is oveja, which is really close to Polish and Ukrainian.

Я беларуска i я ўсё зразумела што па-польску, што па-украiнску. Вельмi цiкавы кантэнт, дзякуй вам i вiтаньне з Беларусi! I'm Belarusian and I understood everything. Greetings from Belarus, thank you! 🇧🇾

В любой непонятной ситуации: ага добже то цикаво😂😂😂😂

Great video! When people are talking slowly in Polish, I understand a lot (I’m Ukrainian).

Це щось!))) дуже потішила та файна розмова))) Люди з Польщі, ви - неймовірні)) я перебуваю в Німеччині, але у тісному контакті з кожним, хто спілкується польською, ви дуже милі і приємні люди ☺️ дякую Вам за все 😘😘😘😘🌹

"-Co kogut robi codziennie rano? "-Kukuryku!" To było genialne 😂

English: Cream; Ukrainian: Вершки; Polish: Smietana English: Sour Cream; Ukrainian: Сметана; Polish: Kwasna Smietana

Śliczna dziewczyna. Mam nadzieję, że u niej i jej rodziny dzisiaj wszystko ok. Mam dwoje znajomych z Ukrainy, którzy mają rodziny w Żytomierzu i Kijowie. Przeraża nnie to, co oni muszą przeżywać...

I am Bulgarian. Tried not to read the English subtitles. Both Ukrainian and Polish are difficult for me. Polish a bit more, possibly because of the pronunciation. If I read the Polish subtitles I understand a bit more. I was surprised to discover that at the end of this short video I started getting quite a lot of the conversation. At least to my ear Ukrainian sound much closer to Polish than to Russian. .... Now I am sad, those poor people were forced to speak Russian for generations. I hope they will be able to revive their language, culture and literature.

Greetings from Republic of Srpska (Bosnia & Herzegovina) my slavic brother! Мuch love from a Serb. I could understand you both very well! It's unbelievable hahah! You are the best! Keep filming! 🔴🔵⚪⚜ ꒌ 🦅 🇷🇸 🏴‍☠️ СЛАВА!

Piękny jest ukraiński język! Pozdrowienia z Polski!

Rozmawiam po polsku i ukraińsku…dla mnie ta rozmowa jest bardzo zabawna :)

Дякую Польщі за підтримку України в цей важкий час.

Пока смотрел, попутно выяснил, что я ещё и английский понимаю…

Щиро дякую за дуже цікаве видео, і хоч я чистий японець, зрозумів майже все, бо давно учуся обох мов. Tutaj chciałbym dodać swoją uwagę w związku z tymi dwiema językami, ale po angielsku, żeby to zrozumieli i Polacy i Ukraińcy. Back in '80, when the Communists still ruled in the East, I became interested in the Ukrainian language, having learnt quite a lot of both Polish and Russian. But for us Japanese it was extremely hard to learn Ukrainian at that time, with almost no proper textbooks nor comprehensive dictionaries available, so I decided to go to Canada on working holiday program. I knew then that there are a lot of Ukrainian communities across North America, especially in Canada (Winnipeg, Edmonton etc). Soon after arrival I found many textbooks and dictionaries in English, which helped me self-teach Ukrainian. One day I came across some weird words, for example, 'потяг'. According to modern dictionaries it means 'leaning or inclination', but it didn't match the context. When I saw a sentence like 'потяг стояв на двірці' I almost yelled an eureka, because of course it sounded like Polish 'pociąg stał na dworcu'. In Soviet times no dictionaries published there didn't list 'потяг' in the meaning of train, and 'двірець' for railway station, instead поїзд and вокзал respectively (like Russian). Later I learnt to know that that represents the western variety of the language developed under heavy influence of Polish (with Львів/Lwów as its center), and that many Ukrainians who immigrated into Canada originated from that region. So I might still use those expressions like 'як ся маєте? ', if I had a chance to speak Ukrainian somehow here in Japan. 'Перепрашаю' за довге оповідання, я бажаю вам усім удачи і щасті.

Ako Slovák som sa na tom dobre zasmial :) A rozumel som aj jednému aj druhému lepšie, ako ste si vy dvaja rozumeli navzájom.

I understand the both Ukrainian and Polish, it's very funny to watch 😂 When it comes to any disconnect, it feels like "OMG, no-no-no, not there" 😂 And when you start to understand one another, then "yes, bingo!" 😂

Спустя какое-то время на этом канале я стал понимать 100% сказанного по-польски во всех роликах просто автоматически

When u native ukrainian and u understend them both but u never ever learned polish

That false friend between "cream" and "sour cream" was absolutely fascinating.

В мене був перед війною подібний досвід. Розмовляв з пані з Варшави, коли цієї зими летів на Шрі Ланку. Спочатку ми спілкувались англійською, а потім слово за слово і почали балакати на рідних мовах. Дуже цікаво) 9 годин польоту пролетіло дуже швидко)

W tym roku spędziłem 3 tygodnie na Ukrainie będąc na wakacjach, objechaliśmy cały kraj i powiem Wam tyle: wcześniej byliśmy w 18 krajach europejskich w tym na Balkanach, Turcji i tak miłych i sympatycznych ludzi jak na Ukrainie nie spotkaliśmy nigdzie. Ludzie byli nam bardzo pomocni, śpieszyli z pomocą. Co do języka jest bardzo podobny bardziej podobny niż słowacki czy czeski, wiele słów jest identycznych. Pozdrowienia dla Ukraińców

-ти маєш на увазі щось між людиною і твариною? -ага добра то цєкавє!

I remember being on a night bus in London where two very drunk girls were having a conversation. One was Polish, the other was Slovak. Each spoke in their own language. They appeared to be able to understand each other but it's possible the intellectual level of the conversation wasn't very demanding.

I'm a Russian learning Ukrainian. Your videos are such a joy, but I shouldn't watch them if I don't want to have a total mess in my head 🙈 ❤

Znam wielu Ukraińców to są bardzo porządni i mili ludzie..., piękne kobiety ..., pracowici mężczyźni ..., szanuje Ukraińców i miałem przyjemność pomóc kilku Ukraińcom w Szczecinie... są serdeczni i uczciwi..., takich tylko znam Ukraińców. Sympatyczna piękna dziewczyna..., dziękuje za mile spędzony czas z Wami... Stanisław Rodziewicz

False translator friendly words: Сметана - sour cream in Ukrainian and Russian Śmietanka - cream in Polish I read about it many years ago in a textbook It was so funny to finally actually see a Pole and a Ukrainian getting confused by it :)

It depends on the region. For example, in the Ternopil region, which was once under Poland, there are still many words from Polish. So, its easy to comunicate. Once a Polish deputy (Robert Nowak z Czestochowa) came to us(Obuhiv, 35 km near Kyiv). I interviewed him as a journalist. He spoke Polish, I spoke Ukrainian. I had no problems making dubbing when edging video). Becouse my grandmom (and mom, respectively) are from Ternopol region, and every summer during childhood I stay there. But the East of Ukraine will no longer understand Polish so well.

The most of Bulgarian words are come by Slavic language group obviously. I am from Bulgaria who live in the UK, love Slava languages! I recognise all of those words, in bulgarian als is куку ри гу! So much fun😂 Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 Grate Poland!

Привет, Норберт! Я мексиканец из города Мехико. Поздравляю Вас за очень интересное видео. Я выучил русский язык 5 лет в Киеве и потом 4 года в Москве. Во время прибывания в Киеве я хотел учить и украинский, но не получилось, не смотря на мои усилия, по тому, что в Киеве говорили преимущественно по-русски. По скольку я хорошо говорил по-русски, у людей говорящих по-украински не было терпения, чтобы говорить со мной по-украински. Я очень жалел что мне не удалось выучить украинский. Так вот, теперь, я учу польский язык уже почти три года с не плохим успехом, думаю, что понимаю около 60 - 70 просентов написанного текста и благодаря вашему видео я осознал, что я теперь стал понимать много украинского языка, то о чём я мечтал когда жил в Киеве. Спасибо Вам за интересное видео и буду ждать ваше дальнейшие выпуски а также подписываться на ваш канал и нажать на колокольчик. Желаю дальнейших успехов.

Both languages make me fall in love with your countries! 😍I wish I could speak them. Some day...!!!! 🇵🇱 🇺🇦 ♥️

Вiтаю друзи! Я из Молдовы, хорошо понимаю Украинский, особенно если медленно говорят, после этого видео уже думаю что понимаю польский, но это далеко не так. Однажды на таможне видел группу поляков и все что я слышал было - пше пше пше;). Норберт ты делаешь великолепный контент! Слава Украине!

Good channel. I am Ukrainian, have studied Polish 3 months. Now can speak rather good to comunicate and understand 100%. Lexically and grammatically Ukrainian and Polish 95% the same. Some vowels and consonants sound different, this is the reason why for people, who never heard the neighbour language before, it is difficult to understand it. According to my experience, with zero knowledge of Polish, after 2 weeks in Warsaw I started to understand 80%.

I have to admit that I watched this video at least 3 times, because, well, Zhenia is a perfect example of East Slavic beauty, but also because I like Ukrainian language a lot since it reminds me of Ikavian dialect of Croatian, which is mostly present in Southern Croatia (Dalmatia), but also in some parts of Eastern Croatia, Bosnia and Northern Serbia. To give a few examples: where in Standard Croatian you would say tijelo (body), svježe (fresh) svijet (world), svjetlo (a light), in Ikavian you would say tilo, sviže, svit, svitlo, which is exactly the same in Ukrainian. This sounds very exotic and kind of ''cute'' to me. And here are the words in Croatian: 0. Životinja (animal); zvijer (wild animal, beast); čovjek (man, human being) 1. Pas (dog) 2. Ovca (sheep), ovčica (small sheep); janje (lamb); vuna (wool), runo (fleece) 3. Kokoš / kokoška (hen), kokot / pijetao / pijevac (cock, rooster), and he sings (pjeva) ''kukuriku'' in the morning 4. Slon (elephant), slonica (female elephant), velike uši (big ears), slon u penziji / slon u mirovini / umirovljeni slon (retired elephant) 5. Krava (cow), krava pase travu (a cow is grazing grass), krava daje mlijeko (a cow gives milk), bik (bull), tele (calf); sir (cheese), vrhnje (cream), kiselo vrhnje (sour cream) 6. Jednorog (unicorn), jedan rog na čelu (one horn on his forhead) By the way, the word for dragon in Polish - smok, reminded me a lot of Smaug, the infamous dragon from Hobbit, and then I found some sources that claim that Tolkien actually took this word from Polish. In Croatian dragon is zmaj, which possibly has the same root as the word for a snake - zmija.

*Дякую за такий цікавий і корисний експеримент* ))

I am native Latvian speaker, I know English and Russian well. I understand Ukrainian (have lived for some time in Ukraine) and I can fully understand what she says, but Polish is challenging for me. Like some words that have no similar roots in UA, RU or LV language.

This was so fun to watch. I love the false friend of "cream" soundling like "smetana" tripping you up, and her desperately trying to explain that no you don't put sour cream in coffee 🤣 You can tell the intelligibility is good when you can joke in one language and it makes the other person laugh.

Це було дуже цікаво!

Slovak guy watching this...understood both. But Polish was easier.

Very interesting. Im from Lithuania and some words we use, some not mach. Animals in lithuanian: 1. Šuo (dog). 2. Avis (adult sheep), ėriukas (young sheep). Vilna (wool). 3. Višta (chicken), viščiukas (young chicken), gaidys (rooster), gieda (then rooster sing). 4. Dramblys (elephant), really dont know from where we take this name. 5. Karvė (cow), bulius (bull), teliukas (young cow). Sūris (cheese), grietinėlė (cream), grietinė ( sour cream), varškė (curd), rūgpienis (sour milk). 6. Vienaragis (unicorn). Vaivorykštė (rainbow). Its like lithuanian and latvian languages, looks similar, but diffrent.

Був приємно здивований побачити Кузнецову тут! Дякую за файне відео, було вельми цікаво, щоправда, як завжди (=

This is just unbelievable! I'm from north-eastern part of Slovenia and I’ve just found out that are dialects that are spoken here in north-eastern part of Slovenia (especially Haloški, Prleški and Styrian dialects) in terms of pronunciation, phonological system etc. much more similar to Ukrainian language than to standard Slovenian language and other Slovenian dialects. ?!??

Мерда огонем > смердить огнём > дышать огнём... Блин, вилять хвостом, чтоооо? ))) Мозг, ты меня обманул!

Очень позабавило, как девушка вполне логично поняла "niewidomyh" (слепых), как "невідомих" (неизвестных) - но умозаклчение при этом сделала в итоге совершенно верное, подумав о другой "функции" собаки ))

That was awesome! Thank you so much, I enjoyed it. God bless you.

Jej chodziło o to, że śmietanka do kawy jest słodka, niekwaśna. Natomiast klasyczna śmietana jest już produktem kwaśnym czyli 'kisłym'. A tak w ogóle to piękne te dialogi polsko-ukraińskie. Z wielką przyjemnością wysłuchałem.

Thanks everyone for your comments! It was such a fun experience! Cream and sour cream makes me laugh :) Also merda ogonem was the hardest part for me!

Thank you for this really unique opportunity to listen to Polish-Ukrainian conversation! I enjoyed it a lot. Ukrainian is my native language. But despite i know just a few words in Polish i could follow and understand Polish very well. It was really fascinating to watch you two speaking your own languages but understanding each other. And subtitles in English were helpful in case of some words that were difficult to guess! Great collaboration! 😊

This was hugely informative and entertaining. Thank you from Australia (Tasmania).!!!

вовна - ukr wełna - pol wool - eng дівчина просто забула це слово, але воно дуже схоже на польске )

As a Serbian nativespeaker i understand you both too ! :) But unestly little bit Polish is more similar to Serbian , it seems :) But .. some words are closer to Ukranian but in less percent in generally :) Both languages are very close to Serbian anyway ! :) :) History telling that not so far in history we lived together and based on languges it is completely true , no any doubt in it :) Brothers and Sister we are from same Slavic rooth :)

Witam z Polski! Uwielbiam Twoje filmy. Cieszę się, że widzę kolejny Twój film

Mam przyjaciółkę z Ukrainy, ja mówię po polsku a ona po ukrainsku, ale jakoś się rozumiemy haha

I'm Russian, but I speak a little Ukrainian so I could also understand some Polish and I LOVED every second of the video :) It's so amazing how similar Ukrainian and Polish are :) Great video! :)

Slovak seems to be in the middle between Polish and Ukrainian. I can understand Norbert well because he speaks so clearly. But the wovel movement in Ukrainian is „more compatible“ with Slovak. Like the „rog“ pronounced ROH, which is exactly what it is in Slovak: roh. The prolonged o pronounced as U in Polish is hard to digest ;-) Well done Norbert. Keep this up. I love your comparison series!

This is a fascinating format.

I love the way you both treat each other languages with respect! Thanks a lot, guys! Greeting from Ukraine) tak trzymać! Так і треба нам жити далі!

Więcej takich rozmów Polsko - Ukraińskich👍🏻

"Merda" in Portuguese is "Shit" imagine the mess!

Thank you for the subtitles in English, very funny! Great job!!

Прекрасное видео.

It's easier for me to understand Polish when it's written. Almost 80% is understandable while spoken Polish is for 50% clear. But that's still enough to understand the meaning. (Greetings from Ukraine)

Вершки (werszky) - to jest śmietanka Сметана (smetana) - to jest śmietana Prosiłeś wytłumaczyć w komentarzach. Pozdro z Ukrainy

cześć! dziękuję! uczę się polskiego. it was pretty easy to follow you looking at the subtitles. good luck!

Very interesting. I used to believe that Ukrainian and Russian are closer together but oviously its Polish and Ukrainian.

Great job! As a native speaker of both Polish and Ukrainian was a lot of fun to watch!

As an American who learned Russian for a number of years while living there, it is certainly easier for me to understand the Ukrainian than the Polish in this video. Many of the animal words in Polish are only a couple steps removed from Russian in their pronunciation, but being a non-native speaker of Russian makes it hard to understand even these basic and mostly similar words. This was a super fun video to watch, and I love Slavic languages, so thanks for sharing! большое спасибо.

02:40 Ooo nie zgadzam się z opinią, że smok to nie zwierzę domowe. Ja i mój smoczy kumpel Dominik właśnie świetnie się razem bawimy siedząc na kanapie, grając na plejce i żlopiac piwsko.

That was an exceptionally curious and nice bi-lingual conversation,the "false friends" "smietane" confusion was notable,this type of words is present in other languages as well:) By the way,spoken ukrainian may vary significantly from region to region,for example i was quite surprised when i discovered that "бардзо" was not part of the official Ukrainian language,even though i've heard it tones of times in the Vinnica region.Once again-awesome episode,thank you and your guests for the remarkable content!

I just started studying Ukrainian this year. This is very interesting to see. I understand just enough of her to tell what generally she's saying, (and I have a long way to go,) but I can definitely hear words from you that I somewhat recognize too. I had no idea the two languages were so similar.

Привіт з Вінниці) Cześć z Winnicy, bardzo jest ciekawo oglądać kiedy gadasz po polsku i po ukraińsku, i rozumiesz dwie strony)

Cześć, Norbert. Dziękuję za wspaniały kanał RU-vid i ciekawe nagrania. Rozumiem, że temu nagraniu już trzy lata, i ktoś powiedział Ci o śmietanie i śmietance. Ale tak, to trochę się różni w naszych językach. Mleko - молоко, Śmietana - сметана, Śmietanka - вершки (до кави) - (werszky). Wcześniej nie rozumiałem tego, kiedy ktoś proponował mnie śmietanki do kawy😁 bo nie chciałem do swojej kawy tej śmietany, którą dodaję się do pierogów czy barszczu 😁

wow its so wholesome, ive watched your videos before but not with my mother tongue and a language i know and use on the daily (Ukrainian and Polish, respectively) the girl has some amazing insight into both the Ukrainian and the Polish languages, i’m honestly surprised it’s very satisfying to hear how a Polish guy understands my language, so pleasant

Got to admit that "merda ogonem" cracked me up as a native Spanish speaker

Спасибо большое! Хорошее дело делаешь! Показываешь близость языков

I just now found this video lol!!!! I am Ukrainian who has been living in the US for many many years. I speak Russian, English, and Ukrainian. Polish was pretty easy to understand . Without looking at the subtitles, I was able to understand 70 percent of what you were talking about.

Estudié en Lviv, hablo ruso, entiendo mucho el ucraniano y logré entender mucho de lo que explicabas en polaco. Son muy interesantes tus videos de comparaciones entre idiomas. Saludos desde Cali, Colombia.

Im Croatian and I understood virtually everything lol. You just have to mind that things tend to be pronounced differently and maybe letters changed.

дякую - польска і українська мова має спільний корінь, тому і один народ розуміє інший !

Ziomek! Dawaj dalej. Jest super!

Really fun video!

I love your videos! Please, keep making them! In my opinion one of the main difficulties that Eastern Slavs face when they hear Polish are the nasal sounds, that make even similar words sound unfamiliar. Also if people knew that r is often followed by “z” sound, which doesn’t happen in Ukrainian/Russian, it would make things much easier to understand!

The Spanish word for sheep is oveja which is very similar to owca/oweczka. Looks like this words have a common root.

@Ecolinguist I think the current developments have added more meaning to that conversation, haven't they?

Это божественно! Дуже дякую. Как детектив посмотрел. Thanks a lot Bro! Tha conception is awesome!

Я Беларус, разумеў Украінку, і амаль усе словы на польскай

I am russian/ukrainian man. And I remember my grandgrandmother. She was polish. And when she was angry I heared polish mathure language )))). She loved me and never use it to my way. But I was too yang for learning polish with her. My father clearly anderstod polish but can't speak. Now from time to time I make tryes to learn polish, but using english. This method halp me to learn both of that languages. Unfortunately english is easyer for me than polish.

It's a pleasure to watch and to listen to you guys. Thank you! It's just, in the central part of Ukraine people use the word 'kogut' and in Vinnytsya as well. My grandma used it. She lived in a country side that is 30 km from Vinnytsya.

These videos are so entertaining..this guy is excellent in what he does

Израильтянин, сижу смотрю, понимаю обоих. Но класс, менi подобается.

It was interesting to watch even as a Bulgarian. I have learned some Polish but never learned Ukrainian. But the Ukrainian is closer to Bulgarian and I understand it better. It was very funny when she actually gives you hint about the cow :D:D:D

Отличное видео Норберт! Как и всегда!