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Ukrainian online news Ukrainian online news can be found at the Kyiv Post. This is much better than the Russian Pravda. It is serious news about Ukraine and Ukrainian issues offered in the English language. If you are a student of Ukrainian or want to learn Ukrainian I think its a great idea to keep [...]

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Beautiful Ukrainian Prime Minister Who is the most beautiful world leader? By far without a question the Ukrainian Prime minister. She is not only beautiful, but intelligent, moral and but tough. She lead the orange revolution, was jailed for political reason, has unfairly had political mud slung at her, stood up to Putin and Russian [...]

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Phonetic Slavic languages Phonetic comes from ancient Greek meaning ‘sound – voice’. The Slavic languages are phonetic. This is one great advantage when trying to learn. Despite the strange streams of consonants or the Cyrillic alphabet, once you learn the 50 or so sound combinations and letters you can read as you would speak. Here [...]

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15% more earnings for bilingual skills I have been looking around at how much people get paid for being bilingual. If you are talking apples and apples, bilingualism will reward you with about a 15% increase per year in your pay. However, this is for basic job. The reward for a professionals, will be a [...]

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The word dobry in Russian, Polish and Ukrainian languages Dobry is the universal Slavic word meaning “good”.  You could be in Ukraine, Poland, Russia or anywhere in Eastern Europe, and if you only knew this word, you could be OK in many situations.The Russian, Ukrainian or Polish word dobry can mean “good, fine, OK, sure, lets do [...]

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Preposition ‘on’ in the Slavic languages – Russian, Ukrainian, Polish. When native Slavic language speakers, such as speakers of Russian, Ukrainian or Polish speak English they often have trouble with prepositions.  In Russian, Ukrainian and Polish the preposition ‘on’ is represented by the word ‘na’. Na means on, but it has a much wider meaning [...]

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English is not spoken in Crimea. I thought the magic language of English thats works everywhere would be spoken in Crimea.  Not even a little. Not even one word.  Not even young Russian students.  Ukrainian is the offical language but really Russian is spoken a bit more. Also Tartar is spoken by a small minority.  [...]

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I am currently on vacation in Crimea, right now Feodosia. I thought I would flex and expand some of my linquistic skills and learn some Ukrainian and Russian, as a complement to Polish.  I have to say nothing mentally has happened other than me sleeping on the beach and back in my flat.  I have never [...]

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Crimea Crimea was inhabited by Proto-Indo Europeans, Cimmerians, Greeks, Scythians, Iranians, Goths, Huns, Bulgars, Khazars, Kievan Rus (Ukrainians), Byzantine Greeks, Kipchaks, Mongols, Tartars, Ottomans, Germans, Russians and now Ukrainians again. The area of Crimea or Krym in Ukrainian is now mostly inhabited by Russian and Ukrainians with a Tartar minority.  Although Ukrainian is the official [...]

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I think the best school for learning Ukrainian is UCU.  The main reason is the people who teach at the University. The instructors have a great deal of experience in getting foreigners to speak Ukrainian. However, the most important quality which makes them stand out from the rest is they are altruists. They are connected [...]

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