How Close Are Ukrainian and Russian?

🔥 Learn languages like I do with LingQ: https://bit.ly/3uC8PES CC subtitles available in multiple languages. Ksenia, from Russia, learned Ukrainian in Ukraine. I asked her how much Ukrainian a Russian speaker, with no previous exposure, understands. Answer: 40%. Ksenia's YouTube channel:    / @kseniaturkova8600   0:00 How difficult is Ukrainian for Russian speakers? 6:13 The importance of learning the language of the country you live in. 7:49 Mixing Russian and Ukrainian. 10:35 Any unsolicited criticism in language learning is unwelcome. 13:32 How languages influence each other. ___ Study a language on LingQ: https://bit.ly/3uC8PES My Podcast: Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3iZsbic Apple: https://apple.co/3z1F1lD Google: https://bit.ly/2W3DYmK Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TbcX8i... Get my 10 Secrets of Language Learning: https://www.thelinguist.com FREE grammar guides: https://www.lingq.com/en/grammar-reso... Join the LingQ Discord server:   / discord   My language learning blog on The Linguist: https://bit.ly/2MW83Ab My Instagram page:   / lingosteve_   My TikTok:   / lingosteve   The LingQ language learning blog: https://bit.ly/35yvaqK #ukrainian #ukraine #languagelearning