Ukrainian Language | Can Polish, Serbian and Slovenian speakers understand it? 

As a Polish person, I was in Kyiv 2019. I was having a layover between flights in the Borispol airport near Kyiv and decided to use those hours to do some side quest sightseeing. I had huge problem asking for directions because almost no one knew English, and knowing I'm a foreigner many people tried to speak Russian with me, which I don't know at all. At some point out of desperation I started talking in Polish, and then suddenly they started replying to me in Ukrainian. We immediately managed to understand each other and have a nice chat. Honestly, Ukrainian is probably the closest language to Polish, togather with Czech.

Book in Ukrainian is книга (knyha) too. Підручник (pidruchnyk) is a text book.

Love Ukraine from Serbia. Ukranian lady is lovely.

Hope see Draga and Eva as the main member too 🇷🇸 🇸🇮 , well done , Rosina 🇺🇦 , introverted and shy , spoke so soft

As a Belarusian I understood everything 100%, which is understandable when your languages share about 80% of lexicon

as a Polish slavist, this content makes my brain feel good

They are all so beautiful and speak brilliant English in addition to their native language. I’m impressed 👏🏼

the Ukrainian language is phonetically closest to the Belarusian language 84%, Polish 70%

Love from Ukraine! I learn Polish and there are many common words in our❤ languages.

The thing about Slavic languages is that they share a lot of similar or identical sounding words however these "same" words have COMPLETELY different meaning depending on the language. Which can lead to some hilarious/awkward moments.

You should’ve also invited someone from Czechia, I believe it would be quite funny, because in Czech language there are some words that in Ukrainian or Polish have not just weird, but sometimes really indecent and completely different meanings

Well, the girls were basically right, because "кухня" can mean "cuisine" as well as "kitchen". One word for both.

Love from Ukraine ❤ 🇺🇦

Ukrainian girl is so beautiful. Love Ukraine from Serbia

Ukraine ist so schön ❤❤❤

Thank you for having Ukrainian language in it! 😭😭😭😭💙💙💛💛

I am so happy to see videos with Slavs😍😍😍 thank you so much! Lots of love from Ukraine❤️

I never heard the name Rosina here in Ukraine 🇺🇦. Wikipedia says that it has an Italic and German origin. It’s very interesting to find out something new about our people!

I came to Poland after the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what shocked me the most that all polish people that didn’t speak English told me “oh just speak Ukrainian, I will understand” Whereas my russian relatives can’t do the same, they are totally clueless, which shows actually how different Ukraine and Russia is

Im Polish and I understood 100% what the Ukrainian girl said

It’s a great video. I think when it comes to Slavic languages, we must be aware of so called “false friends of a translator”. When it sounds similar, but has different meanings. Phonetics and pronunciation matter a lot when it goes about Polish and Ukrainian. I also think the age and backgrounds of the participants affect a lot how they understand each other. If you could give just a little bit of context and know how to read, it would be the way easier. For example as a Ukrainian speaker I can understand a lot of Polish 80% and Slovak language. With the Check if I read it slowly, I understand quite a lot, but when they speak it might be hard. Please make more videos like that with Ukrainian language! Thank you 😊

Rosina is sooo cute. I love her style and calm voice 🥰

So happy to see Rosina ❤🎉

As a Serb, I understand almost everything. The reason Draga didn't get some of them is actually due to knowing potentially too many languages. I think she knows English, Serbian and German, so when Rossi spoke in Ukranian, the stressed syllables were different than they would be in Serbian, so Draga couldn't hear the word KUHINJA. Etc. When you know many languages, sometimes things meld together and sound similar, and there is more overthinking that occurs due to having heard similar sounds and enunciations across different languages. Loved this video so much!

5:33 That's a common misconception that people believe but not true and the difference would be even more drastic if bolsheviks didn't try to bring ukrainian closer to russian. There's a lot of old ukrainian words that are hard to understand because they were band and only similar words were left and a lot of words that we pronounce today were pronounced differently. Like letter "F" is foreigne and every word with this letter originaly was supposed to have letter "T" but bolsheviks repressions changed it and many other stuff. But there's only one language in the world that is almost identical to ukrainian is belarusian.

If I hadn't learned the word charapaha (meaning turtle/tortoise - I don't know if there's a differentiation in Ukrainian) from Belorussian (which is VERY closely related to Ukrainian, I'd never know what it means (a Pole here). But then, when I think about it for a moment, I recall that the latin word for a turtle or tortoise's shell is carapax, which is clearly its etymological origin.

Rosina 🇺🇦 is a very beautiful model 🤩

I liked it, it was interesting to watch, thanks for the content! If the series will be a little longer,it will be grateful!

Розумію всі словʼянські мови,прислуховуєшся і починаєш розуміти і говорити .

Well done girls! It was interesting to find out about the differences in Slavic languages. You just need to clarify a little with the first word Книга (book). The word КНИГА also exists in the Ukrainian language. And the word Підручник (textbook) is a book also, only that has a different purpose of use. Підручник (textbook) - a book used as a standard work for the study of a particular subject.

Wow!! So COOL format! Girls you are amazing

In terms of vocabulary, the Ukrainian language is the closest to Belarusian (16% of difference), and the Russian language to Bulgarian (27% of difference). After Belarusian, Ukrainian is also closer to Slovak, Polish, and Czech than to Russian - 38% of Ukrainian vocabulary is different from Russian.(Wikipedia)

Rosina is so lovely. 🥰 thank you for such type of video.

That’s awesome!🥹 I have dreamed of seeing such a video since I started to be interested in another slavic languages in my childhood. it's amazing how similar and different they are at the same time. Love from Ukraine🇺🇦

It is cool to watch this thing, when you speak Ukrainian

Da sieht man wie Sprachen verbinden. Es ist so schön sich zu verstehen und verstanden zu werden! Знание языков открывают двери… Всем нам мира, добра и любви ❤

thank you for including ukrainian in your videos!!

Все відео посміхався! Дівчата молодці! Дякую за контент!❤

My Ukrainian little sister chose the most difficult things for presentation my language. It was more interesting but people in studio where misunderstood . I think Ukrainian is not so hard to understand like everybody thinks. I think if I go to Serbia or Slovenia I would find right words to explain everything I need. In Poland I was thousands times and it wasn't a problem.

Draga = female dragon 🔥 I see her english is the most fluent among them and she also made most correct guess. She's on fire.

Підручник - is not actually just a book. It's specifically a book that is used for study. General book is книга or книжка.

Polish girl ❤awesome!! She is real. She so beautful as a slavik

As Russian, can easy understand Ukranian language. Some word are different, but it's not a problem. :)

Cool thank you for video 🤩🔥

As someone who is from multiethnic family-i have roots from Serbia,Croatia,Slovakia and Macedonia (Bulgarian roots) i see videos like that very interesting because i speak Serbian,Slovak,Bulgarian (Macedonian),Russian,Polish and Ukrainian.

In Slovenian, the closest word that I know of to "підручник" is "rokovnik" which roughly translates to notebook. "Žolta" is also an archaic word for yellow, and "zlata" is the modern word for gold (as in the colour), so a connection exists there too. "Črepaha" is the name for a certain species of turtle, but as turtles don't really live in Slovenia it's not very well known. "Malanje" is a dialectal word taken from German meaning "painting" (as in the verb) but it's being used less and less, at least in my experience.

Wow the channel is going into the Ecolinguist territory. Really enjoyed this slavic series :)

I'm Ukrainian, but I also speak Polish. Kinda funny looking at them not understanding words that are obvious to me and relatively similar to Polish

In a previous video, this experiment was conducted with the same four women, except that Polish was the test. Now that we've done Ukrainian, I hope we get to see them test their knowledge of Serbian and Slovenian.

I can speak Russian as my second language, so I understood 65-70% of what they said😮

We do have a similar word in polish it’s “podręcznik” which is a book designed for students

I love how close Slavic languages are to each other. I'm Polish. At one work I had many Ukrainian customers that were used to speaking to Poles so they'd attempt speaking Polish to me, though whatever words they didn't know, we eventually figured out anyway so we could communicate well. I loved how they pronounce Polish words. Ukrainian Polish sounds... I don't know how to say it. Cute? Every word sounds like a diminutive. It's an improvement.

I was not able to guess черепаха (cherepakha) - turtle, but the word sounded very familiar to me. Now I know why - there's a similar word in English - carapace (turtle shell), therefore not a good example of a Slavic word as it comes from Latin. I was also thrown off by the word підручник - textbook, in Czech, we have a similar word - područník, but it means "armrest". The rest was easy, and I am Czech.

Enjoyed the video❤

As a Ukrainian 💙💛, I am so proud of Ukraine 🙏💙💛 !

Такі симпатичні дівчата! Однозначно, вподобайка!

Actually підручник is the book we use for studying. But book is книга on the whole

I'm a flight attendant so I had contact with many different languages and for sure with all european. So I was able to communicate in polish with people from Czech Republic and Slovakia which wasn't a surprise for me. However, I was surprised how similar the Serbian language is to Polish. So I would definitelly say that those three are the most similar. But in Lithuania there is A LOT of people who speaks in polish which was a total surprise to me at first because languages are completelly different but when I thought about it later it makes sense considering polish-lithuanian history.

Great episode. Thank you!

Highly entertaining! 👏 as a Slavic language speaker, I was really interested in this, and got on about same level as the Polish girl. I would have a suggestion though: lose the annoying background soundtrack that makes it much harder to understand, especially the soft speaking Ukrainian girl. Otherwise, really interesting, thank you 🙏

I was born and grew up in Kyiv, and learned both Ukrainian and Russian as my native languages because both were spoken in my family. Only after the russian invasion, when I was forced to leave home with my three kids, I could actually grasp how different Ukrainian and Russian are. When we came to Poland, I could understand 50% of spoked language from the very start BECAUSE I speak Ukrainian - and it turned to 80% by the end of the week we spent in Krakow. Then in Ireland, where we stay for now, every time when I meet a Polish person, it's so endearing, like meeting someone from my country - and I always ask them to speak Polish to me if that's ok with them. Also, a couple of years ago one of my colleagues from Bielorussia sent me a recording of her granny speaking "an olden Bielorussian dialect", which was a 100% Ukrainian, as my own granny spoke it. That was so fun, she couldn't believe me when I told her that!

Interesting to see the different words and cross-language discussion! I was confused at first with the title, because the first word had the title in Russian for book but her word was different.

Great content, thanks

Wow Ukrainian languages soooo beautiful 😍😍❤️

I tried to speak with my lovely Ukrainian girl in Ukrainian, in Russian and in Polish, we ended up speaking English.

I saw Draga on tinder, hoping she will match me ^^ Pozdrav :)

In Bosnian ⚜️🇧🇦 1. Book is *ćitab* 2. Yellow is *žuto* or *plovo* 3. Turtle is *kornjača* Paint/ing is *slikarstvo* in term of art, or *krečenje* or *maljanje* as 'to paint a wall' • *Zebra* (the same)

Насправді між цими мовами є багато схожих слів, але є і відмінності. Будучи у Словаччині я переважно розмовляла українською, а зі мною говорили словацькою - ми майже чудово один одного розуміли. Схожа ситуація була у Польщі.

Finally Slovenian girl! 🇸🇮 Končno Slovenka! 🥰

I' m living in Czech Rebuplic and there is a lot of similar words,but they sounds different.

As you can see all girls are in slippers. Slav moment) Як ви могли помітити, всі дівчата в хатніх капцях. Слов'янки бо)

Rosina stunning comeliness 😍

Полька про черепаху логично разложила, типа от черпать - ложка )) Интересно.

Ukrainian girl very well and nice adds aiming tips so even human who didn't knew right answer can guess it right

Great video, lovely ladies

The counting system between these countries actually isn't the same. In Slovenian we use the German way and say enaindvajset (1 + 20) for twenty-one, where for example in Serbian it is dvadeset jedan (20 + 1).

Я как русскоязычный казах - всех благополучно понял, как не странно, но большая часть настолько была похоже на русский язык, что я даже был в ступоре, "черепаха" не лучший выбор слова, в украинском по-моему мнению - есть слова, которые исторически роднее!

The Slavic languages are well connected, you can really see it, but from language to language, it's good for a person to know Proto-Slavic so as not to get lost because the same word in sister languages means different things. This is the most common thing in language families.

1. Was the first word "podrucznyk"? It sounds the hell like Polish "Podręcznik" (= a textbook) so I cant believe Polish wouldn't get it, especially after hearing it has something to do with school. However I heard "fabryczny" ("used in a factory"/"made for a factory") at first so I see why she was confused. 2. "Żuti" was clearly like Polish "Żółty" = yellow. Easy. 3. "Czerepacha" was very confusing, my guess was be "Czapka" (a hat, something you put on your head) because we sometimes say "czerep" for "głowa" (head) or "czaszka" (skull) in some kind of slang. And when she said it's an animal my quess was "Wiewiórka" (a squirrel) but I don't know why or Żyrafa (a giraffe) because it somehow sounds similar. Turtle was a surprise, but I guess "czapka/czaszka" kinda looks like a turtle shell? LOL And hey... I checked the vocabulary and actually "czerep" has another meaning in Polish. Not just head/skull but also "skorupa po stłuczonym naczyniu" ("a broken shell left after a container was broken") whatever it is supposed to mean. And the word "skorupa" is specific to the sturdy shells turtles have (if it was less sturdy it would be "skorupka"). 3. The music was interfering with her speech. I understood up to this point: Good day (Dobreho dnia = Dzień dobry), .... Prosina?(my guess is: Nazywam się Prosina) I came from Ukraine (Ja pryjechała z Ukrainy = Przyjechałam z Ukrainy). Then there was something with Korea (Korei?) and about kitchen/cousine (Kuchnia = Kuchnia = Kitchen or Cousine). Last sentence was something like jeszcze pojade do Korei (I will got o Korea once more) ... dużo podobaju sie (Bardzo podoba mi się = I like very much). I couldn't hear 19 at all, probably because of the music. 4. Moje hobby jest malowanie (Moim hobby jest malowanie = My hobby is painting). I dużo lubię malovaty (Bardzo lubię malować = I like painting very much). Obucia, portrety. (Obrazy, portrety = Paintings, portraits). It definitely was painting not drawing through because drawing in Polish would be rysowanie, unless she meant "malowanie kredkami" = "painting using crayons". 5. The music interfered with animal description too much. I could oionluy hear Kerina and Kerina over and over again. However I did hear "znak drożni" (znak drogowy = road sign) and we literally say "Zebra" for a pederastian crossing in Polish, so it was a big tip, shame on me I couldn't quess. But again - I was annoyed because the music was freaking louder than her speech. If I could hear czarny i biały (black and white) too it would be an easy guess.

Czerepacha - nazwisko Czerepak z Rancza ma zapewne podobny źródłosów.. pS dziewczyny jesteście piękne Słowianki, uwielbiam Annę ale Rosina zabija mnie swoim urokiem!

I*m very interested in a version with Eva as the main because I grew up in southern Austria right next to Slowenija and I really liked that neighbourhood and also have some slavic words in our dialect :). And you can even hear in our dialect there are some sounds who are similar said in Slowenian, I could hear that very much when I moved to another country and then got some time when I heard neither my dialect and also no Slowenian and then heard Slowenian for the first time since a while, it was really funny.

Omg, Ukrainian girl is so beautiful ❤❤❤🇺🇦

All these ladies are beautiful 😍

100/100 I got everything what Rosina said😊 Draga/Ania good work 👍 Eva tried her best too anyway👍👏 Looking forward listening to Slovenian with her and hope to see her more here🇸🇮♥️

Подивилась етимологію слова черепаха. Виявляється, певний час в Україні також називали цю тварину желв. Потім змінили на «черепаха»)))

Wondefrull girls. Very helpful, interesting conversations about different topics in different slavic languages. Good job! P.S. Co do czerepachy to z rodziną opiekowaliśmy się dziewczynkami z Ukrainy, które przybyły do Polski z babcią i gdyby mi w ciągu tych kilku miesięcy nie powiedziały co oznacza to słowa za nic prawdopodobnie nie domyśliłbym się znaczenie tego słowa.

Girls you are so nett. Go on, it’s interesting to see. ❤

Ukrainian girl looks like Korean , that’s probably because she likes a lot of things about Korean culture 😊

Rosina has such sad eyes. I want to present her with a fluffy blanket and all her favorite korean foods and maybe hot chocolate

greetings to my family,, old Slavs and all good people...

Im Slovenaian... how did you not guess 1st and 3rd words? 1st one sounds like priročnik and its like a book for spesific topic to learn, and 3rd one is same in slovenian but its a name of spesific turtle (orjaška črepaha) and it is Green sea turtle.

It was really interesting! Plz make such video also with Czech and Russian!

Ukrainian and Polish are most similar to each other

So cute. Great idea.

Draga is so cute, couldn't stop watching her during the video...

11 років тому,я приїхала в Німеччину до своєї подружки,вона німкеня,але вона мала хлопця поляка і я з ним розмовляла українською,а він зі мною -польскою,ми чудово розуміли один одного без перекладача,так були деякі слова,які ми не розуміли,але насправді,нам було легко спілкуватися.

In my opinion as Ukrainian, the farthest of 3 languages shown is Slovenian because there is only a plenty of similarities. Serbian is closer, but still not so similar. According to studies, Polish has 60% similarity with Ukrainian, although we were enemies in the past.

Can we see the same video content with countries such as Turkey, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan?

World friends kisses in the hearts of all Slavic roses. Cute videos, lack of hammer of Asian, Latin, Slavic languages in the head of beautiful Anglophones too. We had arabic languages too kisses on arabic speaking ladies. What is missing is world friends showing more the diversity of Indian languages with beautiful models and the Greek language, Greek is full of dialects and deep down we don't know as much about these cultural worlds as it seems. The channel is improving. I'm happy to see suggestions materialized But it still lacks more details than I asked for back there.

If you know Ukrainian dialects, especially western ones, you can understand Serbian quite well. But not sure if it works the opposite way the same 😅