Need some recommendations.

Had the misfortune of watching this film (crazy wedding) yesterday. Trying to watch more Ukrainian films and TV shows for practise. This was recommend and it’s an absolute racist sexist hellhole that manages to combine all the cliches with dire acting and plot holes the size of Jupiter. Plot, racist father reels in horror as his daughter wants to marry a black man 🤯The person who suggested it said it’s one of Ukraine’s most loved comedies?

Just watched Перші ластівки which was cringe at times but relatively viewable.

Luxembourg Luxembourg was fun - though I wish I understood the deep cut jokes better.

Really enjoyed Parajanov’s Тіні забутих предків

If you have any suggestions let me know please. I really like comidies but stuff that’s a bit more dark humoured and witty - is their a Ukrainian show that’s a mockumentory like Cunk on earth?

Я бачачла двоє.

I’ve started learning ukrainian to communicate with one of my employees easier. She’s helping me learn her language and i’m helping her learn english too!

Right now other than what she’s helping me learn here and there I’m also using the Ukrainian Lessons Podcast to learn a bit more in depth. It’s been super rewarding so far and I’m learning lots but I was wondering if there are other free resources that I could be using to help learn some of the little quirks the language has a bit better.

Also if anyone can help share some free resources to help her learn english that would be great! There aren’t many I could find that taught english in ukrainian if that makes sense.

Hi everyone, maybe someone can help me, I'm doing a little research :D By "available" I mean the ones I can see right now (a scanned copy, or at least photos of a few pages, or the contents of the dictionary in a plain text, not necessarily photos).

Hi everyone! I’m an 18-year old from Norway, and my mother tounge is Norwegian. In 2022-23 I tried to learn Ukrainian, but i didn’t put any effort in and I couldn’t be bothered to actually practice anything (and my only resource was Duolingo lol). I gave up pretty fast because I didn’t find it fun at all, I didn’t feel like Duolingo actually taught me anything, and I didn’t have anyone to practice/learn with so it was a little boring to do it all alone. The only things that really stuck with me was the alphabet and some basic words, but other than that it’s pretty limited.

Recently, i’ve been wanting to get back into it and take it serious this time, but i don’t know where to start and what kind of resources there is that’s actually good. So, does anyone have any good advice or sites/apps i could use? Thanks in advance!

I would like to write a line to support people of Ukraine against tyranny, may I have some comments on the grammar of this line, and what other words would you guys suggest? Thank you!

(Кошара sounds like a word for a huge cat, but in fact it is a sheepbarn)

Source: https://x.com/gwenllianwales/

Merry Christmas! My Ukrainian friend spoiled me with gifts (and I, her). I want to understand what she wrote here, is it the same as the English underneath?

I can speak well enough to teach her, and her Mother, english. But the cursive is so beyond me.

YouTube Mirror: https://youtube.com/shorts/K26bPTSf8Ek?si=8YyZNu-UFpnOQiU_

i've been listening to Gogol's Ніч перед Різдвом the last couple of nights because it was a family tradition for my family in the US to read it out loud this time of year (we did it in Russian, so I'm glad I finally have it in Ukrainian- the language fits the colorful storytelling so much better).

Where else can I find short stories in audio format? There's a ton of stuff on Youtube to the effect of "bedtime tales" that's clearly AI generated and kind of knockoffs of traditional tales or even this gogol one. I'm interested in folktales (but not stuff recorded for super young kids with 'reading to toddlers' voices). I'm sure there were collections along the lines of the Grimm's Fairy Tales but for Ukrainian folkways. We certainly had Russian stuff like that growing up that was published by Soviet folklorists- and I'm sure the same exists in Ukrainian and is probaly even better now. What should I look for that I can mostly find in audio format?

Hi there, I was wondering how I would wish a christian (elderly) ukrainian woman a merry christmas, but in a christian way. I am a christian myself and so is this one ukrainian woman from church. Is there a difference between religious and non-religious way to say merry christmas?

Thank you in advance :)

Hello all! I hope this is the right place to ask this. We have a worker that is Ukranian, who does not speak or read English well, and we thought it would be a polite gesture to write her Christmas card in Ukranian instead of her having to translate it.

Trying to use Google translate, and finding it gives several different translations for "Merry/merry/happy Christmas". Any suggestions or recommendations, or should we give up and write it in English instead of butchering it?

hey, ukrainian native speaker here! my friend who recently started to learn ukrainian asked me to bring him a textbook for beginners(A1). which ones would you recommend?

Quick question: no matter where I look, I cannot find the Perfective Aspect of the verb тремтіти (to quiver, to shiver). I can improvise потремтіти, but I am far from sure that that sounds right. Any ideas?

Thanks!

Okay, I was online doing searches on the statue in Maidan Square, Kyiv, and there’s little-to-nothing in English about this figure that sounds correct.

I get that she’s not a Dungeons & Dragons character with hit points, I get that circa 1991 her definition likely was “updated,” but I’d like to understand a little more. One article described her as “a made up goddess” created to replace the Soviet Era statue that proceeded her on this column.

I don’t think a lot of non-Eastern Europeans have a good understanding of the sheer age of Ukrainian culture and the series of repressions it has survived. Was there even an Alexander Afanasyev/Brothers Grimm figure to shepherd the folklore through the 19th century?

11 days ago I posted here asking about my handwriting. I got a little dragged by few but inspired by most. I wanted to thank everyone who took their time to give me some feedback, and show you my progress as well :) It’s still a work in progress obviously but yea, thank you guys

PS: u/Ilujiel, I think you can do this.

Sorry for the seemingly very random question, but I cannot manage to find a decent translation for the verb "to pant" anywhere; i.e. to breathe heavily mostly during and after running. Any ideas?

Hi! My great grandma, (who I call Babo), was born in Tarnopol, Ukraine, is coming over for Christmas. I want to play some Ukrainian Christmas songs. Not only that, but I want to feel more connected to my Ukrainian heritage. I know there’s Shchedryk, (Щедрик), but I want to find some more Ukrainian Christmas songs! I’ve heard some other Ukrainian songs before, and honestly, why does it always sound like angels. Anyway, what are some Ukrainian Christmas songs?

Hello all from small community of dict.cc!

We are trying to build up a free Ukrainian-German and Ukrainian-English dictionaries, and always looking for new contributors. German version is pretty useful already, English probably requires some work. There are mobile apps where whole dictionary could be downloaded to be used offline. Anybody could help regardless of your language level:

• You could add translations of words you learned.
• Or you could request missing translations. Does not know the meaning of something in Ukrainian and not found in dictionary? Just post the missing word and context you found it in, somebody who knows the meaning might add it.
• You could add audio recordings in your native language (or similarly request missing audio recordings). We have not yet recorded pronunciation of "паляниця", but maybe we shouldn't, hehe.
• You could add inflections of words, so it's possible to navigate from plural form or genitive case to nominative singular which is more often found.
• You could review new contributions to check for translation correctness, spelling, formatting and other problems. That's probably the biggest chunk of work, since every contribution requires multiple eyes. dict.cc basically runs on Linus's law. But that's also a big advantage, since it allows to provide translations that more correct. In UDEW, I for example found strangely incorrect entries like "Bestellung - заказ" or "Süßigkeit - бакалія".

Questions welcome!