The Future of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine 

I will continue studying Ukrainian. It is the language of my ancestors and my blood. It is the language of brave resilience and it’s the most beautiful language in the world!

Wow Inna. I'm a duolingo learner of Ukrainian and I am so proud to participate to the rise of the beautiful Ukrainian language. My love for the language started with you Inna. Thank you so much for all the splendid videos and the years of effort you put in promoting Ukrainian. We love you.

I too am very pleased and proud that Duolingo reported a 2229% increase in Ukrainian learners since February 2022, as I am one of those. Duolingo's curriculum presentation has gone downhill a bit since I started in April 2022, and never did contextualize its Ukrainian curriculum at the best of times, but through sheer cussedness I worked my way through all of the units at each level till they stopped labeling the proficiencies and went to a simple game path structure. Still, it worked very well for me learning to read Cyrillic, and I only dropped it recently when I decided that maintaining my 677-day streak was not motivation enough to spend my daily practice sessions translating the same five sentences over and over (and over). If I'm going to advance, I know my next step is to find Ukrainian speaking partners in my location, but until I work up the nerve to do that, it is very good to practice with this channel. Thanks for all you do, Inna!

I’m from Canada learning Ukrainian on Duolingo. My Grandparents came from Lanivsti near Ternopil.

Hey Inna, I am an older american that grew up in the cold war era. I am proud of you for standing up for your Ukrainian language heritage and your online classes in Ukrainian language

Dear Ina - you are the right person in the right place at the right time.

Thank you for this Inna. Wonderful video. I've been learning Ukrainian since September (now with a teacher from SpeakUA) and it is a really beautiful language. Keep up the good work!

Я обожнюю це відео! 💪🏽💪🏽 Я пишу музику з українцями. Українська мова дуже важлива! Дякую Інна.

Never stop spreading your good message!!!

Thank you for this important and informative video on a subject that, as you acknowledged, is sensitive. I was, and still am, quite ignorant of the history of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine, but you reduced that ignorance with this video and inspired me to read more around the subject. Дякую. 🙏

I always wanted to learn a second language and now I have chosen it. As long as the language lives, Ukraine lives.

Thank you for speaking Ukrainian. Pozdrowienia z Polski

Hello Inna, thank you so much for sharing this important video on your channel and thank you for teaching us the Ukrainian language. Keep up the good work my friend!! 🇬🇧🤝🏼🇺🇦

Speaking Ukrainian is so important because it helps us to feel what Ukrainians are feeling. Дякую Инна! Слава Україні!

It is good to get to know you better, Inna.

Дуже дякую

Hello, I just wanted to say that I started learning Ukrainian purely to show solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Slava Ukraini

As a Cantonese-loving Catalan (amongst other things) I always denounce this logic of always going for the biggest languages in terms of speakers. I wish Ukrainian and Ukraine a bright future.

Keep up the good fight!!!

This video reminded me of an Irish quote. It's like- when you snatch a person from its native language you take his/her emotions and feelings.

Great video!

Aside from it being a beautiful language spoken by wonderful people, I want to learn Ukrainian because there is no bigger middle finger to Putin. If he wants to erase Ukrainian identity from the world, I can do my small part in fighting that by learning the language and culture of the country.

Дуже дякую 🌹🌷🌺

Two weeks ago, I encountered a Ukrainian man named Alex. He his from Mariupol. I used my rudimentary Ukrainian to speak to him and he used his not so good Ukrainian to comunicate with me in return. The results were not so easy. We managed to agree that we did not understood each other very well... I need more lessons in Ukrainian language. I juste don't have money to put on it... well! RU-vid is there and Ukrainian songs are all around! Slowly but surely I will improve myself. Keep on going! You are a light that shines for all lovers of Ukraine and its beautiful and rich language!

I really admire the strength and resilience of your people. You folks are truly inspiring and beautiful!

Thank you, Inna, for this great video and your insights! 🇺🇦

G'day from Australia Inna! Love your work and fighting spirt, keep it up. My somewhat limited ruzzian skills were shelved 2 years ago, and now I'm slowly trying to learn Ukrainian 😊

Bonus info.. The Danish tax ministry's webpage is provided in these languages: Dansk, English, Deutsch, Українська, Polski, Română, Lietuvių

Nice...SMILE!! 🙂 I want you to know that you are a very good Ambassador for Ukraine and these details are very helpful to people! I am in the USA and bought your T-Shirt in 2022 or 2023...I just LOVE Ukraine and know you will have Victory to the 1991 border-I believe even this year. I have been a poor student of Biblical Greek but I watch verse translations each day and this is a form of Bible study for me and I learn a little. I am not where I would take on the work of learning Ukrainian but I love to support you because I think you are important! Keep up your videos...you are making a difference! As I have learned more and more about Ukraine's history and culture I just love it more and more (LOVE the Volyn Folk Choir!!). A friend visited Ukraine last December (in Kharkiv region!) through a Check Republic church he used to be missionary at-they delivered food and love in Eastern Ukraine (you could hear outgoing Ukrainian artillery in the background). He invited me for next time-I told him my life insurance is VOID in a war zone and my wife has an illness so we cannot afford that situation. But I hope after the victory to come with him to help and love Ukrainians!

Любов з Ірландії! 🇮🇪 ♥️ З самого початку війни я співчував вашому народові. Я не мав наміру вивчати мову (вивчення мови ніколи не було моїм сильним боком), але через війну я познайомився зі своєю колишньою дівчиною. Хоча ми вже не спілкуємося та не бачимося протягом місяців, вона все ще є моєю найбільшою мотивацією для вивчення української мови. Через неї я познайомився та спілкуюся щоденно з багатьма українськими людьми. Я все ще на базовому рівні з майже жодною здатністю до спілкування та все ще потребую використання перекладачів наразі (таких, як це повідомлення), але моє бажання вивчати мову та спілкуватися з вами, прекрасними людьми, які прийняли мене в свою спільноту, незважаючи на мовний бар'єр, не згасло. Минулого року я глибоко занурився у Duolingo та продовжував підштовхувати себе, але після Нового року згорів. Зараз я чекаю, щоб деякі навчальні та практичні книги прийшли, на додаток до вашої книги, яка у мене є вже кілька тижнів. Поза бажанням знову спілкуватися з колишньою дівчиною та спілкуватися з нею за допомогою української мови, я хочу вміти спілкуватися з усіма українцями, навіть поза жестами та перекладачами. Це одна з моїх мет. Я хочу повернутися до глибокого занурення та наполегливості до Нового року. Зараз продовжуйте добру роботу, і всі будуть вас підтримувати! ♥️🇺🇦

I have been relearning Ukrainian for 2 years. Inna you definitely picked the right language to teach…..Ukrainian. Дякую

I like a woman who speaks her mind. Thanks for you strong political stance, Inna and thank you for making Ukrainian language learning so accessible and fun!

Good for you for standing with your convictions

💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛I believe in Ukraine and in you 💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛

I like ukrainian language and music

Добре день !Дякую for the wonderful and genuine video.The uniqueness of the language is so important for the people who want to exist as an independent nation.❤The first thing that tyranny does is destroy the language community,we should learn and help to keep Ukrainian language existence in order to defend our values.Слава Україна 🇺🇦

Thanks!

Good on you Inna.... remember what happened to the dodo! 🦤 Keep on the right track. Best wishes. Allan ✌️🇺🇦🫶

Just in case you missed my premiere, I want to inform everyone that the video is waiting for you. Thanks.

Giiiiiirl you are a really good teacher! Thank you 😊❤

interesting, thanks

I like this style of going at your own pace!

Gloria all'Ucraina, long live Ukraine and Ukrainian language!

Dear god, I graduated from high school in 1994. I'm roughly as old as your parents! My self-pity aside, I agree wholeheartedly. The Ukrainian language must thrive and you absolutely made the correct choice. May your success continue unabated.

Заставка у вас така гарна😍 В дуже українському стилі🥰

Good for you, Inna!

I’m very proud of you to teach and share the Ukrainian language! I would consider you one of the pioneers to spread your language. Keep it up! 👍🏽🙏🏼❤️

My heritage is Ukraine, I am from Canada and learning how to speak and read Ukraine and the Ukrainian cyrillic writing. I 100% support you. The emotion you showed made me instantly subscribed, plus the swearing LOL. Slava Ukraini ❤

Я пишаюся тобою, Інна.❤

Inna actually you need to say thank you to the ones who didn’t believe in you, because they challenged you and made you to get even more determination to achieve your goals 🎉 Ukranian language is beautiful 😊

I think I skewed the Australian learning language stats, that year I spent a LOT of time on Duolingo in 2022 until your school assigned my teacher ❤️❤️

Я американець, який уже майже два роки вивчає українську, і ніколи не зупиниться. За цей час я багато дізнався про українську культуру та спосіб життя, знайшов багато нових українських друзів. Я вважаю, що українська мова найкрасивіша у світі. Я вважаю це мовою героїв і тому дуже пишаюся тим, що вивчив її.

Hello Inna, I agree agree agree agree a million times. Remember my message when I encountered a Ukerianian language teacher was adamant that ruzzian was being offered and Ukerianian. I think it sucks. If it was a foreigner I might think that they are nuts....best wishes. Slava Ukraini Allan ✌️🇺🇦🫶

Inna: I'm an introvert very shy person. Also Inna: 14:06. I'm here for it 😂 🦅💫💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

As an Australian Ukrainian Duolingo user, I'm very proud of that statistic! I just stopped using Duolingo because it's become too gamified and the pronunciation isn't the best. It was useful for learning Cyrillic though. I've just bought Beginner's Ukrainian by Yuri Shevchuk which seems really good and I want to take lessons when life gives me some free time! My goal is to be able to speak and read Ukrainian when I visit free, beautiful Ukraine in the hopefully near future. Дякую Інна for fighting the good fight! Слава Україні! 💪💙💛

Gràcies per oferir-nos tota la informació possible!! Buscar la informació sobre l'ús de l'ucraïnès és molt difícil quan no saps ucraïnès. A través de l'anglès ens has oferit una ajuda primordial. Salutacions i gràcies!

What is your opinion on the Ruthenian/Rusyn language in Ukraine?

4:10 just to clear the initial confusion, she means UkSSR - Ukrainian SSR, not the common English meaning of USSR as United SSR-s. But nevertheless, great video and much support from Poland!

Hi, how are your thoughts about minority language in Ukraine, for example Rysen, Hungarian, Polish, Crimean Tatars, the Greek spoken minority in Mariupol? I pray for Ukrainian victory. As a Swedish, we have some lot of common history, from old trade routes from the Nordic Bronze age to Vikings, Väringar, Princess Anna's mother Ingegerd , and battle at Poltava, Great Nordic War. слава україні, героям слава

I will continue to learn Ukrainian, simply because I love the difference of the culture, it's my second favorite language after Japanese, it is my third language after English and Japanese respectively, and my girlfriend is from Odesa, in Southern Ukraine. It's imperative that I learn Ukrainian for these reasons. If I may say in Ukrainian: Я люблю Україну!!!! Вітання зі Сполучених Штатів. I will support you Inna to keep the culture and language alive.

I gotta say it's really jarring seeing the cute little cartoon characters on Duolingo teaching me Ukrainian, and then seeing in the news what's going on in the country in real life.

Ukrainian Australians that I have met are also very hard working language learners.

Thank you for your motivational speech. I used to sing in a choir here in Germany a couple of years ago, we also had three Ukranian songs in our repertoire, all of them where expeptional heartwarming in their melodies, and I felt this in the years let's say 2015 to 2020, when Ukraine was not a topic in the West.

Я з Хорватії, вболіваю за Україну і вірю в її перемогу. Я вивчаю українську мову два роки (почала в серпні 2022 року з Duolingo) на знак солідарності та підтримки. Я люблю цю прекрасну мову і не розумію, чому хтось взагалі запитує, якою мовою говорити (чи вивчати), українською чи російською. Слава Україні!

@Speak Ukrainian (9:26) please, substitute "it started changE" (which is incorrect) with "it started changING" or "it started to change" (which is correct).

Чи Ви могли б витлумачити, як повиннося вимовляти ? Матеріали до науки українсьої кажуть, що як (або як польське ), коли знаходиться перед приголосном або на кінці слова, але я слишу, що українці так не кажуть.

I love how you think.

I admire you. Slava Ukraini

Дійсно важливо.

It is useful to understand the language of the enemy in order to find out their military plans.

I'm looking forward to learning Ukrainian! I have a strong bond with your beautiful nation and with its proud people! Слава Україні!

Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe is a fascinating journey through Ukrainian history and culture. I am so glad he is still putting out great works.

Моя рідна країна - Греція та рідна мова - грецка. Тепер у мене дві Батьківщини: та, яка мене народила, і та, яка мене вибрала. Я поруч з вами!

I've been watching the war just to hear my beautiful Ukrainian language .

Ukrainian is beautiful. I am not (to my knowledge) Ukrainian by blood, but I want to learn the language because its gorgeous and worth keeping alive. (Edit: spelling error)

Bueno. I am from California. My native tongue is English/Spanish. I will learn to speak Ukrainian and support all people of Ukraine. ❤😊

I'm happy i took the decision to learn ukrainian. I want to visit Kyiv again and speak ukrainian.

Hi im italian, im searching someone so speak with Because im learning Ukranian, and im going to help with italian

As a Ukrainian, I agree with what you've said.

Дякую за відео, я з Латвії і російською теж більше ніде не користуюся

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

de todo corazón, Саме так! Нам Україна вище понад все! 🇵🇷🇺🇦 Свободу Керчі, pal carajo el puente, bring the letter Ґґ back )))

Я вчу українську мову два роки ❤ я люблю українську мову! Слава Україні!

💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛

Eg georgian nacional ballet sukhishvili

Перемоги України слава Україні героям слава

Love your channel - support Ukraine. Yet my positive comments were deleted - or buried, the second I posted. Wanted you to be aware. While this is an older video, the content is extremely important. Going to make a cross-post on my substack - keep up the good work

I have been learning Ukrainian on Duolingo since June 2023, and I have around 22,000 XP and I have learned a lot of new words and sentences. I have started learning Ukrainian for my online best friend, and she started learning English for me :) We have both gotten so far and I am proud. Thank you Inna for helping me out on my journey!🇺🇦❤️🇺🇸 I just finished the rest of the video, and I am shocked that they have FORBIDDEN for children to learn about their home country’s history and language… that is extremely sad.☹️ Добрий вечір, and thank you Inna, I hope you have a great day, please don’t stop posting about this beautiful culture and the language. And do not let people get in your head, Goodbye.❤️

слава Україні! Слава українській мові!

I support Ukraine

Слава Україні iнна! 🇺🇦

It is important to speak the language of one's parents.

«Нації вмирають не від інфаркту - спочатку їм віднімає мову». "Nations don't die from a heart attack - first, their language is taken away from them.” -Lina Kostenko

Maybe switch to the Latin alphabet? Greetings from Warsaw.

France 🇫🇷 et EEUU sont dédié à apprendre ukrainien

Если вы говорите по-русски, вы можете сказать оркам, какие они глупые.

orcs Ont forcé la langue russe sur ukrainiens et ukrainiennes dessus union soviétique et czars avant union soviétique 2004 révolution orange et 2014 Euromaidan a aidé augmenter ukrainien

Kyiv rus 988

A question: will you stop using English language if UK invade Ukraine a day ?

My grandmother spoke pure Ukrainian but it had many Polish words in it . I think the reality of Ukraine is a country torn between two empires