3 Strategies to overcome the language barrier in UKRAINE

[viking]

I suggest learning the basics (300 most used words) and basic sentences with fill in the blanks (I want a ____). Second, get a good langauge translator app for your phone.

Then when you get to Ukraine, or any country you plan to hunt for beaver, make learning each other’s language a part of your dates. You learn her language and she learns yours. They all want to learn english so its an incentive for her not to flake on the date.

[projectdesign]

Best quote concerning language~~~> "I want to study Russian until I forget English, then re-learn English and come back to America with a bad ass Russian unknown!

[jonmorris]

I'm taking Skype lessons from a young Russian female instructor. Figured that will help in Kharkiv and even Kyiv to some degree.

[Sakura-zurz]

Let's build up Tower of Babel, Destroy a Language Barrier, I am not afraid in that situation because I believe that when I try to translate the passion for what I really like, the language barrier cannot stand in the way. I may look bold from the outside, but the reason for that is that I am just willing to do anything for what I love.

[Deathwing]

I haven’t been to Ukraine since the mid to late 2000s, and not knowing any of the languages then made for a lot of very unpleasant experiences. I can think of countless experiences mostly at the airports and some at shops of getting yelled and bitched out by people (mostly women lol) for them not understanding my English and me their language. I’d never go back there or other places like Russia or Belarus again without at least knowing a little Russian to get by with it.

[efraim.]

I guess Russian is the best because it can be used in other countries as well...

[patrickisles]

I As someone who is a fan of music, I find russian much more intuitive because it is so much more succinct compared a Western European language like German (Don't get me started on the grammar). Not only that but because it's so phonetic, you don't really have to "study" it imo.

Languages are rad as fuck to learn

[Harry-fbnl]

I will start by saying that I envy those who speak foreign languages well. However, I don't think that achieving A1 or indeed even A2 will help very much in helping you converse with a local. If anything, it will likely only earn you 'brownie' points for being one of the few who have at least made an effort to learn some of the local language.

[ChicoLatino]

Since last month I have been learning Russian and surprisingly I could be able to communicate little bit in Russian! As it's my aim to be able to speak almost all the slavic languages because of largest group of Slavic people spread across the Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
I would like to know about your language learning methods? Do you use language acquisition techniques, TPRS etc..? Or do you simply focus on reading and writing?

[philippecoutinho]

I’m Bilingual with Spanish and English and since I don’t live in Spain I always have to practise my fluency so I can still be able to communicate with my family when I visit them in the summer and winter, but in school I was that kid for most of it who didn’t really pay attention in class until the important part matters lol but when we use to study french people would think I already spoke because of how fast I manage to learn. About a month ago I started to learn Russian although I don’t really plan on moving to Eastern Europe but I want to be like security at an airport, so I thought as we are in quarantine I would start to learn because it would be a great skill to have in my locker and I’m quite pleased with what I have learnt so far but languages doesn’t always come naturally to everyone, especially people who are from the UK lol

[ciarandoyle]

Hmmmm! I aways suspected the Slavic languages are all much the same. The caption to this youtube video seems to mean, approximately, "You foreigners, none of you understand a (single) word". I can't even identify the language, perhapd its Russian, perhaps Ukrainian, but my basic Serbo-Croatian gives me the gist.

[ironheart]

Hello Mr.Conor can you ask Belarus and Ukrainian women whether or not they would like to marry non-Christian men.

[jason]

if using apps translator will that be alternate option?

[VL]

Would this work for Romania? I know this Romanian girl...lol

[tamishgoyal]

I am gonna study there in English university. Should i too learn the language?

[YogiD]

I would never learn a language for some broke chicks