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I’m a native speaker of Russian and Ukrainian. I speak Russian at home (in the USA), English at work, and do not have exposure to Ukrainian except for occasion
by galkk 2y ago
I’m a native speaker of Russian and Ukrainian.
I speak Russian at home (in the USA), English at work, and do not have exposure to Ukrainian except for occasionally looking at local news sites.
When I visited Ukraine after 8 years, I found that, for the first several days, my brain was formulating sentences in English first when I wanted to say something. I needed to force myself to switch to Ukrainian.
But, overall, I felt that Ukrainian was moving into the "foreign" part of my brain.
- egorfine 2y agoПривіт! :-) Anecdotal account. Not that I ever had to actually speak Ukrainian, I knew it so much better than the vast majority of our political elite. However as I was leaning Polish I have discovered that it sneakily replaced Ukrainian in mind. Just a couple months ago I have met a moron here in Warsaw who went to accuse me of shit and I wanted to answer him in perfect Ukrainian and... I couldn't. Not a word. All Polish.