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Life in Kyiv

The LRB Podcast

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How to Speak Ukrainian

Zelensky: You can even speak Ukrainian using a kind of Ukrainian where all the words are Ukrainian, but you're choosing one that sounds more like a Russian word. There's a certain lexicon of old school West Ukrainian exquisite Ukrainian words that kind of Ukrainian speaker will not draw upon because it's hard. It's a whole new 20,000 words of vocabulary that they haven't had time for as they can get by with what they've got. So it is this very, very complex, delicate situation.

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