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Having spoken Russian as a kid, since my family were immigrants and it was used a little bit in my house, I can definetly attest to how strange it is to hear so
by gravypod 10y ago
Having spoken Russian as a kid, since my family were immigrants and it was used a little bit in my house, I can definetly attest to how strange it is to hear someone speak Ukrainian.
You'll be sitting there listening and everything is going fine and then a few seconds into the conversation you'll think one of you had a stroke. It's like talking to someone in English and then they instantly migrate to a thick Irish-blacksmith dialect of English or maybe even cockney. You get the basis of what they're saying but it just isnt coming through at all.
Anyway Kyiv is definetly on the list of amazing places to visit.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoEvery once in awhile, I catch a snatch of what sounds a little bit like Russian, but they're a little too far away, or the subway car is a little too loud, for me to make out. I wonder how often I'm actually hearing Ukrainian.
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- avenoir 10y agoHa! Similarly, I always thought that if you know Russian Ukrainian sounds a little silly. Every time I visit my folks (Ukrainian & Armenian fam) they always have Ukrainian TV on. I really started paying attention and appreciating the language. It flows so much better than Russian and sounds so melodic. It's really beautiful. One thing I found odd is that I simply cannot comprehend it most of the time outside of picking out separate words here and there. Both of my parents have near-native comprehension of the language even though neither can speak it.
- guard-of-terra 10y agoRussian definitely had conplex flow, similar to German I think. Most songs therefore have to be unusually heavy on vocabulary and plot, Dostoevsky-style. If you try to make lyrics simple it sounds awful.