Difference between Ukrainian and Russian languages

Привет-привет, guys! It's Taya today with you and you're on the channel Taya Ukraine. Today I would like to tell you the difference between Russian and Ukrainian language. The first thing that you already know that we use both a Cyrillic alphabet. However, we have different letters and the way we pronounce them. We both have 33 letters in our alphabets. Let's start with Ё. This letter is pronounced Ё in Russian, but we don't have such letter. This sound we combine in Ukrainian language using just two our own letters. Another letter is ТВЁРДЫЙ ЗНАК. It has no sound. Instead of this letter we just use apostrophe. Or apostrophe, I think you pronounce it correctly. So, for example, in Russian there is a word СЬЕЛ. We, to make this sound, we will use apostrophe СЬИВ. This letter, as foreigners simply say БЛ, it's pronounced И. And we don't have such letter, we use this one И. However, Russians use this letter and they pronounce it as И. But to make И sound in Ukrainian we use this letter, like I in English. But in Russian there is no this letter as И. Complicated, huh? The unique letter in Ukrainian language is this one Й. And in Russian there is no sound. Another different letter is Э. We don't have such letter, this sound, we write this letter Э. However, this letter in Russian they pronounce it as Е or Э sometimes as well. Another uniqueness is about this letter. In Russian it's Г. In Ukrainian we call it Г. It's not Х, but it's something in between. But in Russian there is no such sound as Г. And in Ukrainian we have the sound as Г and it's this letter. Very similar Г, like harder than in English. The grammar and sentence structure is very similar. I would say the same in both Russian and Ukrainian. However, in Ukrainian we have 7 cases and in Russian there are 6. For those who don't understand how our languages work, it's very complicated. Because we change the ending of every single word we say. So what is the case? For example, I have a sentence. I bought a bed. Bed in Ukrainian language here will be ЛИШКО. However, if I use a sentence I'm sitting on a bed, then it will be changed to НА ЛИШКУ. In Ukrainian there is one more case that we call vocative. So when you basically call someone, usually we use it for names. The name Catherine, in Ukrainian Катерина. But when we call her we use Катерино. That is a literature Ukrainian language. We have similar words in Ukrainian and Russian as well as totally different. But the main thing you need to understand and know that in Russian language the words are not written the way they read. Ukrainian language is easier in that because you write it the way you read it and we only have few words that are exceptions. So let's see what are totally similar words in Russian and Ukrainian language. For example, the word ТИ will be ЧАЙ. You pronounce and write them the same. Another word is ТЮ. ДВА. Same thing. ДУШ. Yes, you can use this bad word in Ukraine, because nobody knows in my country that this is a bad word. Words with little difference. СОЛЬЦЕ. You don't pronounce L letter in Russian. СОЛЬЦЕ. In Ukrainian. МЯЧ. МОЛОКО. The words that came from other foreign languages into our language we can also pronounce differently. For example, ТЕЛЕФОН. ТЕЛЕФОН. КОМПЮТЕР. ТЕЛЕВИЗОР. In Russian, the consonant letters are a little bit softer, and in Ukrainian they're a little bit harder. There are a lot of words where you change vowel like O into E and some other. For example, ДОМ. ДИМ. We also have in Ukrainian another word, a synonym for that. СТОЛ. СТИЛ. And totally different words that we have in Russian and Ukrainian. ГОРОД. МИСТО. КРОВАТЬ. ЛИШКО. Modern Russian language actually formed in 18th century and has a lot of foreign words that are very similar to German and French and maybe some English. My favorite table is MONTH. Let's compare Ukrainian and Russian words. СИЧЕНЬ. ЯНВАРЬ. ЛЮТЫЙ. ФЕВРАЛЬ. БЕРЕЗЕНЬ. МАРТ. КВИТЕНЬ. АПРЕЛЬ. ТРАВАНЬ. МАЙ. ЧЕРВАНЬ. ИЮНЬ. ЛИПЕНЬ. ИЮЛЬ. СЕРПЕНЬ. АВГУСТ. ВЕРЕСЕНЬ. СЕНТЯБРЬ. ЖОВТЕНЬ. ОКТЯБРЬ. ЛИСТОПАД. НОЯБРЬ. ГРУДЕНЬ. ДЕКАБРЬ. As you can see all the words were totally different. A lot of Russian people do not understand Ukrainian as long as they spend their summer at their grandma's village in Ukraine and they watch somehow Ukrainian TV, maybe they know some Ukrainian, but they do not speak it. Like if you ask a Russian person who have never spent their time in Ukraine, say something in Ukrainian, they will never ever be able to remember the words or say full sentences. When they show in the news in Russia our politicians speaking or people, they translate it because people do not understand. They have a big country and a lot of people there speak their own language that is not similar to Slavic language and for them Ukrainian like they how they can hear it. However, in Ukraine all people understand Russian and mostly all can speak it, but they may sound very unconfident, I would say. You have still one primary language. Let's hear some sentences in Ukrainian and Russian. Ты хочешь поехать на концерт в Немеччину? Чтобы приготовить стейк, пожарьте мясо на высокой температуре 2 минуты. How does it sound like for you? What difference did you hear? Please write in comments, I am very happy to read all of your insights. And in the end of the video I would like to say that Ukrainian language got during all this time a lot of bannings and didn't have a good branding because for a couple of decades 300 maybe years Ukrainian language was supposed as a language of uneducated village people. And until this day Russian think this language and Belorussian sound very funny for them. When the war started, when Ukrainian soldiers checking people how to identify is it a Russian or Ukrainian soldier if they don't have any signs, they ask the person to say What is the difference and pronounce? Russians cannot pronounce these words. They would say instead of They would say something like Maybe they will say something like They have no idea what it means. So that's a little interesting fact for you. So thank you so much for watching this video. Let me know in comments also when I meet Americans 8 out of 10 people ask me what's the difference between Russian and Ukrainian and I'm like why this question? Why they are interested in this question? You can ask me anything else about the culture. So maybe you can give me some insights about that. Why it's interesting and thank you for watching my video. See you next time. Bye-bye.