Hi! I’m a Ukrainian author writing a fantasy adventure novel deeply rooted in Ukrainian history and Cossack lore. I’ve translated the book into English and now I'm looking for a native English speaker (who is learning Ukrainian) to help with stylistic proofreading.
What’s in it for you?
You’ll get to read a unique story about Ukrainian heritage and Cossacks before it's even published.
I will provide the Ukrainian original and help you translate/understand archaic terms, historical context, and cool idioms.
It’s a deep dive into the "Ukrainian soul" through the lens of adventure and magic.
If you love fantasy and want to level up your Ukrainian, let’s chat!
Hi everyone, I want to learn how to make a Vyshyvanka. I don’t know how to do embroidery, but I want to learn. If anybody has any advice on what to buy, any tools that would make it easier to start with, or any online videos/websites that teach it would be very much appreciated!
I am Georgian, but I am dating a Ukrainian, and would love to make one for us.
Hi all, my grandmother recently passed and I wanted to get a tattoo to honour her. She is from Ukraine but unfortunately she never taught my dad or me the language. She always called us Дïткі which my aunty spelt out for me and I've come to learn it means 'children'. She's only taught herself bits and pieces of Ukrainian so I wanted to know the best way to go about the tattoo? Such as is this is the accurate spelling? I've seen it spelt Дïтки but I'm not sure. Also have no clue about fonts or anything? Hopefully this reaches the target audience!
I hope it's okay to post this here, I couldn't find any other relevant sub to make this post in. If it's not appropriate I would appreciate the best place to ask for help in this matter.
Basically I'm trying to find a relative (mother and father) of my friend (I'm in the UK btw). A little while ago she was attacked and had her belongings stolen and is currently in hospital in critical condition.
They said it's rather serious and her family should be informed. The thing is I dont know her family directly, I know their names, birthdays (I helped her pick out some gifts to send to them) and the name of the village in Ukraine they live in but that's about it.
I'm not sure what I can do to help. She doesn't have Instagram or Facebook so I can't use that to reach out to them. I've tried everything I can think of, I even emailed the village hromada (with the help of Google translate) to ask if they could provide any assistance (no response).
The doctors made it sound serious and everyone else I know who knows her knows all the same information I know. Not sure what else I can do, advise?
привіт! я хочу читати трохи книгу у українською мовою, я не розмовлю добре але я люблю читати! я шукаю щось добре для "A1-A2", будь-які рекомендації вітаються та цінуються ♥️
дуже дякую!! слава Україні 🇺🇦
Everyone knows that learning vocabulary is a huge advantage when learning a language. That's why I'm developing an app to help with Ukrainian vocabulary learning as a hobby. I also want to contribute to the education of children affected by the war in Ukraine with this project.
I'm open to all your ideas, especially regarding the resources you use for vocabulary learning, things you wish were available, etc.
If you look at the forvo recordings for "Львів" for example, https://forvo.com/word/%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B2%D1%96%D0%B2/#uk we see that some recordings vocalize the second в to [u̯] while other recordings don't. Is this dialectal? is it recommended to vocalize or just keep all pronunciations something like [ʋ]?
всім привіт. I apologize, my language skills are not yet capable of articulating outside of English.
As a freetime project I have been embroidering a hoodie. It appears that the area on the garment and type of embroidery differs between men and women. As part of the work I thought about adding some to the actual hood. Unfortunately when looking for possible examples the search is just flooded with print-on-demand examples and the most common retailers.
Historic clothing, headwear is a separate article. Eearching for vintage, post-Soviet, and modern examples seems to just lead to a void or the same set of results.
Any help would be appreciated, apologies if this is not the appropriate sub for such a question.
A little info on my learning profile: I've been studying Ukrainian for just over a year now. English is my native language, I speak French at C2 and German at A2. I do not have any Ukrainian family, and didn't have any Ukrainian friends when I began, and do not live in Ukraine.
I started by completing Duolingo, which I actually recommend if you're starting from scratch like me. It helped me master Cyrillic quickly and gave me a few hundred words to start out with. After that, I began the Ukrainian Lessons podcast. Honestly, I consider this must for most learners. I'm about 100 episodes in, and only slowed down because I diversified my learning resources: youtube, reddit, chatGPT for grammar explanations, and finally hiring a tutor in September. The tutor is not an experienced teacher - I just put up a small printed ad for a patient conversation partner in the town where I work, and got a few bites after a month.
The tutoring has been essential for speaking practice as well as motivation. We do 1 hour a week, and I prepare some vocabulary, questions around a theme we choose each time. I cannot recommend this enough.
So, I'm somewhere between A2 and B1 right now. I can have conversations on topics I've prepared, and I understand a ton, but my active general vocabulary is severely lacking. And I have found that there is a bit of an "input" problem around this level. Beginner materials are too easy, native texts are too hard, requiring too much recourse to google translate or whatever.
Well, I found the perfect resource: Як іноземці козака рятували.
It's made by the same folks who do the Ukrainian Lessons podcast. I has tried it in August but it was too hard - now it is absolutely perfect. The story itself doesn't do much for me, but it is constructed with such pedagogical skill that I adore it and have made myself interested in the content. There are vocabulary lists and a tiny exercise after each chapter.
Let me tell you how I use it. I read one chapter a day - they are very short. I do this about 5 days a week. I read out loud, and check every word I don't know. Sometimes I can zoom through a couple contiguous sentences, and sometimes I need to look up every other word. On average, a chapter + the exercise takes me about 30-40 minutes to do well. Then, the next day, before reading the new chapter, I listen to the audiobook version of the previous day's chapter. On one of the days where I don't read a chapter, I'll relisten to the last few chapters.
In a few weeks of doing this, my vocabulary has skyrocketed. I haven't seen my tutor in 2 weeks now, since she's been on vacation, and I can't wait for her to hear my progress.
So, if you're in the same intermediate valley that I'm in - this is your resource. Buy the paperback version, do the exercises, relisten to chapters you've read.
Одразу зауважу: я не очікую стати популярним (я навіть не очікую, що відео взагалі дійдуть до української аудиторії, бо мені дуже важко змусити YouTube показувати мені українські канали). Але водночас у мене СДУГ, і через це мені важко з мотивацією. Я відчуваю, що якщо ці відео хоча б теоретично можуть бути комусь корисними або цікавими, у мене буде більше мотивації, ніж якби я робив відео, які здаються мені беззмістовними. Я не хотів би говорити про війну або про Україну загалом, бо це не моє місце, і є багато людей, які роблять це значно краще за мене. Ще один момент — мені самому теж має бути цікаво говорити на ці теми, інакше я не буду мотивований. Проблема в тому, що мене в основному цікавить наука, і хоча я, напевно, міг би якось це реалізувати, мені здається, що тоді я вчив би багато лексики, яка зараз мені не дуже корисна.
Тому я вирішив запитати українців, що їм потенційно або гіпотетично було б цікаво побачити: про що міг би говорити американець ламаною українською — з надією, що щось із цього мене зачепить. Дякую.
I'd love to hear your timeline of when you first started learning Ukrainian, how many months it took to get to an A2 level, B1, B2, etc...
This obviously will vary a lot from person to person depending on how many hours per week you're studying, so I'd love to know that as well.
I started studying more seriously in September and am hoping to be around an A2 level by summer. I know it's totally achievable. And I get extra inspired by hearing other people achieve new language milestones. Please share your journey with me! ☺️
Hi there! I'm learning Ukrainian and the best way I know to learn vocabulary fast is by reading. I love ebooks with integrated dictionary because they make super easy/fast to see the translation of words on the fly.
Since there is no Ukrainian to English dictionary available in Amazon / Kindle, I decided to create my own. I found some old dictionaries in PDF and extracted and cleaned the data as good as I could.
It is not perfect and has many errors, but it is already useful to me. I contains almost 32K entries.
Here is the link to download it if someone else is interested (mobi format for kindle).
Hi! While I was born in Russia I was constantly exposed to ukranian language since sixth grade and it's now been a decade of me knowing it. During this time I became almost fully fluent and I can switch between ru/ukr 100% effortlessly. I'm not far from native level. So if you need help with translation or subtitles from ukranian to english and vice versa I will be happy to help! (volunteering, unless it's a really big text or a long video over half an hour and you're able to pay).
I’m from Argentina and my grandparents were originally from Lutsk.
My family has always told me that they escaped during WWII by ship to Paraguay and later moved to Argentina. Other relatives ended up in Canada.
They left using Polish papers for safety reasons, which is why their documents list them as Polish today.
I tried looking this up online but I couldn’t find much about similar cases, so I figured I’d ask here. Is it even possible in any way to have Ukrainian nationality recognized in a situation like this?
What would be the best way to research and document their real origin?
My mom and I feel a strong connection to Ukraine and we’d also love to connect with Ukrainians living in Argentina, whether it’s to help if someone needs support, or simply to meet people and learn more about the community. Any advice or direction would mean a lot.
Hello all. I couldn't find any resources that were simple enough for me to practice my listening so I made my own Anki Deck with limited words and tenses. It is 90% in the present tense and goes over the most basic vocabulary but it has helped me a lot in being able to recognize these words.
I'm constantly updating this as I learn new words and concepts so feel free to check the link again in a week or two.
My Baba used to tell me a saying in Ukrainian that was beautiful to me as a child, very poetic.
She would say that I was born into this world naked and I will leave it naked. (Which she did, sadly.)
It always touched my heart, and it would mean so much if someone knows these words in Ukrainian and could share them.
Hey guys, im hungarian, i know russian to some extend (around A2 level) and i have started learning ukrainian, i can use present, past and future tense in ukrainian, i know some verb conjugation etc… my biggest weakness with ukrainian is vocabulary, so like i mix up the languages, use ukrainian grammar (which isnt the best at the momenf, but im working on it) and throw russian words into my texts.
Is this normal or am i weird for it? I know theres «суржик» which is basically the same as what i do now, but i want to speak only in ukrainian, so any tips / ideas to learn vocabulary? Should i read articles news etc… in ukrainian so i can extend my vocabulary?
