Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "The people of Ukraine returns to their roots and abandon Russian cultural influence" video.

I've hardly listened to music that wasn't Ukrainian for months, now. Kozak System probably my favourite (as in, one of my favourite bands EVER), but also DakhaBrakha, mentioned in the video, and Zhadan i Sobaky or rather, any combination of musicians including Serhiy Zhadan. Jerry Heil's КОЗАЦЬКОМУ РОДУ is addictive - a brilliant piece of writing and amazing video as well as a great track, I play it again and again like a teenager. 💙💛
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halychanka_mamochka Thanks! Just listened to Козаки - they're good
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@damiondee1 I envy you! I missed them when they were in the UK
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@ironandzinc For people interested in factual history, Timothy Snyder's excellent lectures on the Making of Modern Ukraine are all accessible on YT (thank you Yale University). Class 8 - Early Jews of Modern Ukraine - will give you the background you need to argue with people who make statements like the one I'm replying to here. Слава Україні 💙💛
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I saw them in London a few years ago - a true last minute thing, some friends had a spare ticket - and I had no idea until now that the frontman is Ukrainian!! This is how invisible Ukrainian culture has been until now - not the cultural output itself, just the fact that it's Ukrainian, as opposed to russian or, you know, from the vague 'eastern Europe' that most westerners have always had in their (our) heads. Україна назавжди! 💙💛
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I'm English-Italian bilingual and started learning Ukrainian last April, with no Slavic background whatsoever. For the first few months it was indeed impossible to distinguish spoken Ukrainian from russian, but I kept training my ear and now when I hear russian I can tell. I'm still barely able to hold up a conversation in Ukrainian but my comprehension is so much better. Thank you YT for the countless videos! I also wake up with Ukrainian radio every morning, I would recommend it to everyone learning. 💙💛 (btw my knowledge of Italian is helping me immensely - there's still a lot of grammar to learn but the way Ukranian works as a language will make more sense to an Italian speaker than to an English speaker)
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@GlennRA3 It is fairly recent from what I've heard while learning (maybe from a century ago?). I'm sure the brilliant language historians in this thread will come to our aid. I do know that russians pronounce Г as a hard 'g', while Ukrainians pronounce it differently - and more beautifully, in my opinion - hence the addition of Ґ to the Ukrainian alphabet. This is very noticeable at the moment in the pronunciation of 'Luhansk' - recently I watched an interview with a russian POW who first pronounced it the russian way, then tried really hard to replicate the Ukrainian pronunciation - which was picked up by some people in the comments section.
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