How close is Russian language to Ukrainian?
Friday, September 11th, 2009 at
4:56 am
Rosetta Stone offers Russian, but not Ukrainian. I had some Ukrainian lessons as a child and want to continue to learn it now. Will the Russian Rosetta Stone mess me up or provide me with a good base for conversational Ukrainian?
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As Rosetta does not have a Ukrainian package, I’d recommend Pimsleur. You can get their basic course for $19. http://www.pimsleurmethod.com/pimsleur-ukrainian.html
I know many Ukrainians who understand Russian, but few Russians who understand Ukrainian. They both use a Cyrillic alphabet, but they have letters that look alike, but are different sounds. They have words that are the same in Russian, but with different meanings (ie: Tak).
Ukrainian does borrow a lot from Russian, but also German and Polish – and the sentence structure is Latin based, while Russian isn’t.
Stick with the Ukrainian lessons, if that is what you really want to learn.
They are as close as italian with spanish,meaning that if you’ll be studying russian most likely you’ll be able to understand ukranian.
I think –yes she can, but remember :
The Ukrainian language artificial also does not bear in itself history and it language contains Polish and Russian as base. The better way for you – began to learn Russian, coz Pincopal was right! )
I know that The Ukrainian dictionary as one of the youngest – thinks out words and imposes to citizens of "Nezalezhnoj". The unequivocal information it will be difficult to find , especially to the foreigner.
I’m sorry for my bad English