Olha in Brazilian Portuguese means "look at her!" and is pronounced oliya. The l and h together in Brazilian Portuguese is pronounced liya, liye, liyo, or liyu depending on the next letter. Olhe is pronouced oliye.
@@katitadeb every person is exotic if u r not from there…unless u r one of those white guilt Americans who thinks Europeans have no culture and can’t be exotic
As a Ukrainian? I can confirm this 110% to be true! 😅 I’m a tech business owner with a degree, a published author and a RU-vidr, BUT it all doesn’t count unless you have a family! And yes I do get up at 5 am to cook for my boys (hubby and sons) before doing the chores, putting on makeup (even on a weekend!), and only then getting to work (I work from home). And I’ll get to my manicure appointment no matter what! And pedicure even in winter 😅 crazy how far social pressure and tradition go! But a woman is a woman, someone caring and keeping up her family. But then I’ve got a caring husband, too. If a man is lazy? He’s not a man for me, no matter how “hot” looking he is! The hottest man for me? Is a family man for whom his wife and kids are a priority!!!
This video hits different after February’s invasion. I’m so glad it was made before this whole sad mess started. Keep it up because the more we understand other cultures the less likely we’ll justify sad wars ♥️ ☮️
The sad war created by Nato forceful expansion, stealth military bases and Ukrainians nationals threatening Eastern Ukrainians who are ethical Russians as sub-humans who killed over the past 8 years target targeting civilians and shelling the Donbas killing over 14,000. Then again you are probably not aware of any of these facts this conflict is more complex than people are aware of.
@@r3n736 That's total bullshit. NATO is not threatening anyone, Russia is just mad that their neighbours don't want to be annexed by them. The Donbass-Situation was also created by Russia. And even if it wasn't, that's no reason to invade a country and murder and rape civilians 🤦
@@christianwendt7852 How many wars has the US, and it’s western allies (NATO), waged, since WW2? How many nations, their villages, cities, and people, have they bombed to hell, to SHOCK & AWE, a brutally awesome, and very disturbing fact. And yet, the ultimate condemnation is that not one of these wars was legal, or justified, and they were all aggressive mass atrocities, committed by war criminals. From the US-led Korean War (1950-1953), through Vietnam war, wars in Latin America, and Africa, to bombing the hell out of Yugoslavia, the Gulf Wars in the Middle East, Afghanistan, Libya, and the ongoing wars to this day, in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Somalia. More than seven decades of non-stop wars of brutal aggression, including covert and proxy wars. The death-toll, from all of these US-led wars, is estimated to be 25-30 million!!!! The United States launched all of these "military operations", without any authorization from the United Nations. All it had, in the end, as support, was a so-called "Coalition of the Willing", a small group of primarily North Atlantic governments, represented in NATO, primarily US, UK, that they are willing to violate international law, to give Uncle Sam and Lady Victoria, some dubious moral, and political cover, with a veneer of "free and democratic"consensus. Every war that the US engaged in, with NATO allies, has been or is still illegal, as none of them meet the criteria for Just Cause. Under Article 51 of the UN Charter - to which all nations are signatories and therefore bound by - the only two criteria, for a Just Cause for war, are: -Authorization by the Security Council, -A claim to self-defense from an attack by another nation, or group of nation’s. The latter is what give Russia a legitimate claim a just cause, no if’s, no but’s, no what-aboutism, as we all know, or should have known, what the US, and NATO, have been doing in Ukraine, as it has been proven over, and over again. Yet, in all of its dozens and dozens, of wars (the sheer number is itself indicative of rogue and criminal conduct), the United States never had a UN Security Council mandate for Just Cause, neither was its homeland being attacked, or that of any Western nation, for that matter. Claim of self-defense - as in attacking Afghanistan in 2001 after 9/11, and occupying that country for - 20 - years, with NATO accomplices, was flagrantly baseless. The US is right now illegally occupying parts of Syria, and Iraq, while it’s bombing the hell out of Yemen, and Somalia, massacring Syrian, Iraqi, Yemeni and Somali civilians. Whereas its economic sanctions are killing thousands of innocent people, including children, in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, among others. The distorted, and psychotic condemnation, of Russia, by and in the US, and it’s Western partners, is but a window into a mass brainwashing narrative, that the US and NATO, propagate through their media, parroting it to us all. All this is why the UN will never take any action against Russia, and it has China standing firmly, to veto any condemning resolution tabled in the UN Security Council. Endgame is Russia, and it’s President Putin, will get everything they want from this war, and more, at their convenience, and time schedule. All the while the US, and NATO, will look like fools, again, criminal fools, who this time have miscalculated, and have shot themselves in the foot Now that’s SAD!!! You can use a computer, an internet browser, google like search engine and tally the statistics on sites like United Nations, Human Rights institutions…The results may be more acceptable to you…Just a few key words to direct your search…Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Syria, Yemen…and illegal regimes change activities in South America and Africa…I am sure the number add up…. Nobody like war (except the MIC, and those taking their brides), but if 15,000 of your neighbors or family were being killed by some bad group, what would you do? Sit by and complain or try and stop them. Example of MIC companies: Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Honeywell, General Electric, Textron
Her outfit/ haircut is terrible though 🤦♂️. It’s completely unflattering to her face. She could be a 7 but she’s a 4 because she has a horrible haircut. That doesn’t sound fashionable 🤷♂️
Marina a couple of days you asked on Instagram Which kind of content would we, as viewers, like to see in your Channel. THIS. This is exactly what I personally like and kept me as a subscriber for a couple of years now 😁. Cause your channel tries to crush the barriers of culture differences and make me want to date someone from other countries and personally helped me A LOT when I was in Holland. Your channel is awesome😎. Blessings from Panama 🇵🇦
Same here, I wanna find out what it’s like to date a Dutch guy? Cause my grandma was Dutch and I love the Netherlands (along with many other countries including the Ukraine!) and I found loads of things on RU-vid.
I was with an Ukrainian woman for two years, although she was more ugh.. tame these are still pretty much spot on. We didn't have much of a clash of culture since I'm Bulgarian. Since she was my first and only girlfriend this video is really hitting me hard....
Did she ever offer you a glass of red wine? Ukrainian women practice a woodoo tradition of adding some of their menstruation blood to red wine and offering it to a man. They think it makes the man to fall madly in love with the woman-owner of that blood.
I met a girl from Ukraine in college (I live in the U.S.). She went by the English translation of her first name, which is Janet. I miss her. Hope she and her family are doing well. :(
Great video! Very accurate. I am Canadian and my wife of 10 years is Ukrainian. There are a couple more insights I would add. Ukrainian women are very close with their families, much more than the typical North American. They are very strong and very capable. They have strong family values and hugely loyal. They can get very very upset! Beware! I call my wife “the crazy Ukrainian” and she is AMAZING!
Yes, to some extent our men spoil us. I learned to pay for myself in the US. Then, upon return, when I was trying to do that, my dates were offended) I guess it is something that can be negotiated
Lucas really represents us, Brazilian dudes, really cool, please, keep sending this kind of content is very funny and cultural, and i have to say how i think Ukrainian a beautiful language.
I'm Ukrainian and I know that I have relatives somwhere in Parana, Brazil. In the first half of XX century millions of Ukrainians migrated to Brazil. So, most likely you have Ukrainian roots (besides, your name - Valentina, is common and very widespread in Ukraine)
@@olehtomilov2909 Yes, the state of Paraná received many Ukrainian immigrants and the architecture of the churches there is highly influenced by traditional Ukrainian architecture, I've never visited but I've seen pictures, I was born in a northern and distant state and my ancestry is mostly Portuguese, but seeing this one video, the girl's personality and expectations match my personality more than the Brazilian girl's video on this channel. I always thought Valentina was a Latin name, I didn't know it was also used in Slavic countries, interesting.
Married 22 years to my Ukrainian American wife and we have her mother and grandmother across the street in their house. This was fun and pretty accurate. I know the channel is about dating, but I would love a channel about Ukrainian family and in laws. It would be even funnier for me. 🙂
Yeah Alinchic (spelt phonetically I don’t know the actual spelling) Bald and Bankrupt kinda put that country on the map 😂😂😂 Also, yes I would like to see that video of Belarus
as a Ukrainian guy i can tell that the video is pretty accurate, didn't cause my butt hurt haha, but still let's remember not to generalize! it's never 100% possibility that your Ukrainian girlfriend will be like that. as it was stated in the beginning of the video, our mentality has been being changed this days!
I guess it's has something to do with the generation, so young generation tend to be more different than the previous ones, so now for me it's really rare to see a woman who likes cooking, no matter the country lol
Loving this Marina. I like all your series but this was the first one that made me watch all your videos and now, without missing one. Congratulations. Keep doing it. Greetings from Panama 🇵🇦🇵🇦🇵🇦
I love how they say Ďakujem (Thank you) the same way as we do here in Slovakia. I believe we're the only two nations in the world who say is the same way.
I’m Ukrainian by blood, grew up in Latvia in Russian culture and family. Russian, Ukrainian, Latvian, and I know other countries like Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, are all very very similar. In some cases are even identical. Depends where you grew up but Slavic women are Slavic women, come on. 😆😆 If you keep your tradition that is. Cause some Slavic girls moved to different countries they don’t even know their culture. I thankfully do, even though I moved to UK when I was 9. Still consider myself Russian. Depends where you’re roots are really, and where you spent your childhood. Mine I spent mostly in Latvia, and summers with grandparents in Ukraine. Love my Slavic culture. ❤️
I don’t know how to speak either language so Ukrainian sounds like a softer sweeter tone Russian and Russian sounds like an aggressive tone Russian both are beautiful language and I’m Bosnian and serbo Croatian sounds quite similar to both since they are slavic
@@phantom_wolf5274 «Ukrainian sounds like a softer tone russian” Because people in Russia though slightly in this way, the war started. Saying that we are similar is really offensive. Russians can’t even understand our language. We have only 40% in common. Thanks to the years of occupation
@@Polina-ye3wh they sound similar when you don’t know the languages Idk how to speak either language so they sound similar to me and I’m sorry if it really offends Russians and Ukrainians
I have a genuine question. Are Ukrainians from eastern Ukraine different from Western Ukrainians? Individually I have met 2 Eastern Ukrainians and 2 Western Ukrainians. Western ones were more hard to socialize/ice break (as shown in this video). They were very reserved, serious. But unlike them, the Eastern Ukrainians I have met were much easy going, much easily socializing. I am wondering whether it was just a coincidence or there is a general difference between Eastern and Western Ukrainians?
I wouldn't say it is a strict dichotomy between the West and the East, it is rather a gradient, and not a simple one. :) There's also Central Ukraine, and there's Southern Ukraine (especially Bessarabian part of it), each region has its specifics and culture. The western part of Ukraine is not homogeneous either: compare Volyň, Zakarpatja, Lviv and Bukovina - I wouldnt even try to fit this into one sentence. And like they say in the video, we always tend to generalize, but individual experiences might vary. There's a quite entertaining channel on RU-vid, Ukraïner - they run different expeditions and interview various people around. Before them I never realized how much diversity is there.
I am asking in terms of their "seriousness" in the first contact. I remember that one of the Western Ukrainians was from the part of Ukraine that was neighboring Romania (and I think the Ukrainians living there actually belong to an ethnic minority, different from the majority of Ukrainians). She was a very serious, reserved, cold girl. But the girl from the East was from Donetsk. But she migrated to Kiev after the war (so she was definitely pro-Ukrainian, than pro-Russian😄). She was very open, very friendly, easygoing. All of you here described me general differences between East and West (like religion and the language they speak). I am aware of that difference. I am wondering specifically about the difference in the character of "coldness/seriousness" and "warmness/quick-socializer". Does this trait has a regional pattern in Ukraine (like Easterners being warmer than Westerners)?
@@РэйЧехов lol that's just not true. There's no Russian or Polish influence, i think you read too much internet instead of going there. There's russian influence in russia and polish influence in poland and ukrainian influence in ukraine.
Having a family is something many women do want actually. I feel like as an American who grew up with a polish mother, it’s a similar view. Women want men who take the lead, but also mature and caring. I do like the gender roles as well as long as their is teamwork and respect. The Catholic faith is part of Ukraine, too. May GOD Bless Y’all and May Mary, The Mother of Jesus Christ Protect Y’all Always. ✝️🕊❤️
I grew up in a big catholic family as well? My mother is a Scottish immigrant to the USA and she was a police woman. And it’s true in some cases personally ? (And I know this may change I don’t for right now tho) want to have a family but I’m only in my 20’s I got plenty of time to worry about that. For now I just wanna do my music dream and career.
What a great video Marina, by far one of the best! Love the Starsky bag at the end! 😁 Also really loved how you included the fact that they are not super into the politically correct culture, I’m glad you featured that, it was very refreshing to hear. 🤗
So cute and truly episode. I'm also Ukrainian. My German husband was surprised every time when i went to buy milk with a full make-up 👸 or cooked for dinner a lot of dishes. Intercultural relationships are always hard and interesting, life full of compromise and communication. But they are totally worth it. Remember, its 2021 now and women have the same rights as men. But sometimes we want the simple things; be a woman when man should be a man 👫
I agree with you. I want to be a rock musician right? But one day in the future ? I want a husband who will be there for me when I need him. Like the guy in the video. I also never am seen without makeup I guess it runs in my family. No woman is in my family. I’m not Ukrainian (I’m not disrespecting the culture it seems really awesome!) but I get what your saying.
You know you're dating a Ukrainian woman when she's fighting on the front lines next to you to protect her country from an illegal and immoral invasion from Putin. And somehow she's even more beautiful with a gun in her hands.
I have to totally agree with this video as well as the Russian one as my crazy girl is Russian born but grew up in Odessa. I was in awe when she wore a mink fur coat to the grocery store and doesn't own a pair of sweats. Keep up the great work
Did they ever offer you a glass of red wine? Ukrainian women practice a woodoo tradition of adding some of their menstruation blood to red wine and offering it to a man. They think it makes the man to fall madly in love with the woman-owner of that blood.
There is a lot we can learn from these women. You can be well-educated, have a job and still be a humble person who wants to contribute to society and have a partner and kids when you come home after work. P.S.: Brazilians are everywhere ahaha
As an eastern European myself I can assure you that it is possible to be a hot, high educated, succeful, Mother or/and wife that every single day cooks healthy meal and have a perfectly clean house-it is possible but quite exhausting:) I do not recommend it:)
Here is more to learn. Ukrainian women practice a woodoo tradition of adding some of their menstruation blood to red wine and offering it to a man. They think it makes the man to fall madly in love with the woman-owner of that blood.
so so so was waiting for this one. 200% true. 1 thing you guys missed, as to how much ukrainian women are supportive to her man, no matter what. like in the russian video. awsome built.
omg its so accurate. My gf is from Kiew. She is in Germany because of the war and she is really like this. I love her classical view on things and how feminine and carrying she is.
This is the, bar none, most accurate depiction I have seen of what it's like to date a Ukrainian woman. It is very unnerving, for an American guy at least, to have a woman care for him like this. It is also hard to understand the perimeter/city/keep defenses that need to be taken down. It's not perfect for all Slavic women, of course, but I still feel like this is the first video I've seen that is "accurate enough" to send to my skeptical friends after studying, befriending, and dating Ukrainian women for the last 20 years! Kudos--very helpful video!
Perfect! It is so spot on! I have really close friends in Ukraine and have taken trips to Kharkiv to spend time with them. I see why so many men can fall in love with Ukrainian women))).
Some of it horrifies me as a Ukrainians woman. I don't like that chitchat on the sofa. Also I would always detest the idea of dressing out just to throw garbage or buy some bread. But Ukrainian women are indeed very strong, opinionated, educated, feminine and family-oriented.
I am Ukrainian, 39 y.o. This all is so true. I am now in the Netherlands. And many things are quite different here. It's a nice country but i do miss home.
Another great video Marina! I’ve always loved your Slavic/Eastern European Women videos the most. It’s nice that they generally are not PC and want men to be men and women be women; Embracing each other’s differences and not trying to blur the lines between femininity/masculinity for the sake of equality etc.
I dated a beautiful Ukrainian woman who is now my beautiful Ukrainian wife. Your video is "spot on". And remember there is only ONE beautiful woman in the world.
I’m American? But I also am alot like Olha if I were to get a boyfriend? I would want him to treat me as an equal but also be my strong shoulder but I also would be part of the decision making. Like my mother was in her marriage. Also? Nothing stops me from putting on makeup I love makeup! I even have a channel I post on about the looks I do
I married a Ukrainian, . .16 years and we have a 15 year old daughter, . . .still don't understand her mental processes. LOL! But my wife had a great sense of humor and that was obvious from the start. I have been to 28 different countries and Ukraine has some of the most beautiful women on earth. Just be careful to weed out the materialistic ones if that is possible.
Out of all the countries, I think this type of lady is the most appealing in personality. No time for nonsense feminism or political correctness. but a desire for overall respect and skipping small talk.
Ukrainian women practice a woodoo tradition of adding some of their menstruation blood to red wine and offering it to a man. They think it makes the man to fall madly in love with the woman-owner of that blood.
Putting the family first you could add to every video concerning slavic women. It is nothing specific for Ukraine only, you will also find it in the rest of eastern and southeastern Europe.
This video really helped me understand the ")" as smiley face. I never had a clue before, now when I go back to her emails I can see a lot of ) in many sentences. At first I thought she forgot the open parentheses. lol
I knew people from Odessa speak mostly Russian… I was surprised to hear her speaking Ukrainian in the beginning and then saying she’s from Odessa rather then, let’s say, Lviv.
What a coincidence. I have visited Odessa and it’s beautiful Sophia Park. I never dated any women there but had some interesting conversations. They truly are a wonderful people and my heart goes out to them in this crucial time.
There is a common aspect between Eastern Europe and the Middle East in terms of family aspect in which both sides values it to the most Lovely ukrainien lady May the war stop soon Greetings from Libya
I am interested in a video on dating a Swedish woman and possibly on dating a Swedish man. I recently started taking Swedish language lessons. Swedish society seems much friendlier to women than Ukraine.
