Russian vs. Ukrainian | How Similar Are Russian and Ukrainian Words?

Russian vs. Ukrainian - Let’s compare these Slavic languages with 50 words, read by native Russian and Ukrainian speakers. Improve your Russian and Ukrainian pronunciation by repeating the words out loud.

★ Learn the Cyrillic script (Russian alphabet) fast with our Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=es.javautodidacta.learncyrillic
★ Russian-speaking and Ukrainian-speaking communities are geographic neighbors.
★ Russian (русский язык) is an East Slavic language mainly spoken across Russia. Besides Russia itself, Russian is an official language in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, and is used widely as a lingua franca throughout Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and to some extent in the Baltic states.
★ Ukrainian (украї́нська мо́ва) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family. It is the native language of about 40 million people and the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic script.

★ In this video, we’ll compare words (Russian vs. Ukrainian) for greetings, numbers, colors, food, animals, weather and transport. Make note of words that are spelled the same, but not pronounced the same - there are quite a few!

Learn the Cyrillic alphabet fast 00:00
Greetings 00:12
Numbers 00:34
Colors 1:09
Food 1:32
Animals 1:59
Weather 2:25
Transport 2:49

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