- [Victor] Pryvit. Mene zvaty Victor.
- [Oksana] Pryvit. Mene zvaty Oksana.
- [Mark] Pryvit.
Hello, and welcome to this special video
from "Coffee Break Languages",
in which, together with Victor and Oksana,
I'm going to be helping you learn
the basics of Ukrainian.
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Ukrainian is a beautiful language
and in the next 10 minutes or so,
over a coffee break,
we're going to be learning how to use Ukrainian
to greet people,
to introduce yourself,
some useful words and phrases,
and also to count in Ukrainian.
Now in this course,
you're going to be learning along with me
and our teachers are Oksana and Victor.
Let's begin then with section one
and we'll look at greetings.
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To begin with,
let's learn the word for hello.
Oksana, can you tell us how to say hello in Ukrainian?
- [Oksana] Pryvit.
- [Mark] Okay, I'm going to try this.
Pryvit.
- [Oksana] Pryvit.
- [Mark] Now, throughout this video,
when Oksana or Victor says a word or phrase,
we'll leave some time for you to repeat.
So, Victor, can you say the word for hello?
- [Victor] Pryvit.
- [Mark] Okay, so let's now learn how to say goodbye.
- [Oksana] Do pobachennya.
- [Mark] Okay, Oksana,
can you slow that down for us, please?
- [Oksana] Do pobachennya.
- [Mark] Okay, I'll try it.
Do pobachennya.
- [Oksana] Do pobachennya.
- [Mark] Okay, let's move on
and learn how to introduce ourselves.
At the beginning of this video,
both Victor and Oksana introduced themselves
using a really simple phrase.
Oksana, how do you say, my name is?
- [Oksana] Mene zvaty.
- [Mark] Okay, I'm going to try saying this.
Mene zvaty.
So I guess I could say,
mene zvaty Mark.
- [Oksana] And I would say, mene zvaty Oksana.
- [Mark] And Victor.
- [Victor] Mene zvaty Victor.
- [Mark] Okay, let's learn how to ask the question
what is your name?
And there are two ways of saying this.
If you're speaking to an adult
or someone you don't know,
you would say.
- [Oksana] Yak vas zvaty?
- [Mark] Let's hear that a little more slowly,
please, Oksana.
- [Oksana] Yak
vas
zvaty?
- [Mark] Yak
vas
zvaty?
- [Oksana] Yak vas zvaty?
- [Mark] Okay, and there's also an informal version.
If you're perhaps speaking to a younger person or a child.
- [Oksana] Yak tebe zvaty?
- [Mark] Slow that down for us, Oksana.
- [Oksana] Yak tebe zvaty?
- [Mark] Yak tebe zvaty?
- [Oksana] Yak tebe zvaty?
- [Mark] Okay, let's listen to a conversation
between Oksana and Victor,
and they're going to pretend that
they don't know each other.
They'll use the formal form.
- [Victor] Pryvit. Mene zvaty Victor.
Yak vas zvaty?
- [Oksana] Mene zvaty Oksana.
- [Mark] Let's listen again, and this time,
Oksana is going to add another phrase
after this conversation.
See if you can work out what that new phrase means.
- [Victor] Pryvit. Mene zvaty Victor.
Yak vas zvaty?
- [Oksana] Mene zvaty Oksana.
Duzhe pryyemno.
- [Mark] Okay, what do you think Oksana said to Victor
after introducing herself?
Listen again.
- [Oksana] Duzhe pryyemno.
- [Mark] Duzhe pryyemno means it's nice to meet you.
Pleased to meet you.
Listen again to this phrase.
- [Oksana] Duzhe pryyemno.
- [Mark] Duzhe pryyemno.
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In our second section,
we're going to be learning some useful words
and also how to count from one to 10.
To begin with,
let's learn the word for yes in Ukrainian.
Victor, what's yes in Ukrainian?
- [Victor] Tak.
- [Mark] Tak.
Okay, let's hear that from Oksana.
- [Oksana] Tak.
- [Mark] And what about the word for no?
- [Oksana] Ni.
- [Mark] Ni.
Okay, Oksana,
can you teach us how to say thank you in Ukrainian?
- [Oksana] Yes. In Ukrainian, thank you is dyakuyu.
- [Mark] Okay, I'll try saying that.
Dyakuyu.
- [Oksana] Dyakuyu.
- [Mark] Let's hear it from Victor.
- [Victor] Dyakuyu.
- [Mark] In English, when someone says thank you,
you can respond, you're welcome.
How would you say that in Ukrainian?
- [Oksana] Bud laska.
- [Mark] Bud laska.
- [Victor] Bud laska.
- [Oksana] Bud laska.
- [Mark] So we have thank you.
- [Victor] Dyakuyu.
- [Mark] And you're welcome.
- [Oksana] Bud laska.
- [Mark] Okay, it's time now to learn
how to count in Ukrainian from one to 10.
I'll say each number in English and then Oksana,
if you can repeat the number in Ukrainian
and leave a space afterwards
so that we can learn how to say it.
Let's begin.
One.
- [Oksana] Odyn.
Odyn.
- [Mark] Two.
- [Oksana] Dva.
Dva.
- [Mark] Three.
- [Oksana] Try.
Try.
- [Mark] Four.
- [Oksana] Chotyry.
Chotyry.
- [Mark] Five.
- [Oksana] P'at.
P'at.
- [Mark] Six.
- [Oksana] Shist.
Shist.
- [Mark] Seven.
- [Oksana] Sim.
Sim.
- [Mark] Eight.
- [Oksana] Visim.
Visim.
- [Mark] Nine.
- [Oksana] Dev'yat.
Dev'yat.
- [Mark] 10.
- [Oksana] Desyat.
Desyat.
- [Mark] Good.
Now let's repeat the numbers again
and we'll group them together.
So one, two, three.
- [Oksana] Odyn, dva, try.
- [Mark] Four, five, six.
- [Oksana] Chotyry, p'at, shist.
- [Mark] Seven, eight, nine, 10.
- [Oksana] Sim, visim, dev'yat, desyat.
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- [Mark] Okay, it's time to move on to section three.
And in this section,
we're going to be learning how to ask the question
how are you?
And answer that by saying,
I'm well or I'm not so well.
Let's begin by learning the question.
Victor, can you teach us how to say, how are you?
- [Victor] Yak spravy?
- [Mark] Yak spravy?
Okay, Oksana, let's hear that from you.
- [Oksana] Yak spravy?
- [Mark] Can you slow that down for us a little, please?
- [Oksana] Yak spravy?
- [Mark] Yak spravy?
Okay, let's learn some answers.
To begin with,
how would you say,
I'm well, thanks?
- [Victor] Dobre, dyakuyu.
- [Mark] Dobre, dyakuyu.
Now we've heard dyakuyu before,
we know that's thank you.
So let's hear, well, thanks, again.
- [Oksana] Dobre, dyakuyu.
- [Mark] What about if you're not feeling so well?
So, I'm not so good.
- [Oksana] Ne duzhe.
- [Mark] Ne duzhe.
- [Oksana] Ne duzhe.
- [Mark] Ne duzhe.
- [Oksana] Ne duzhe.
- [Mark] Okay, and what about
if you are feeling really well?
- [Oksana] Duzhe dobre, dyakuyu.
- [Mark] Duzhe dobre, dyakuyu.
Okay, so we've heard all of those words before,
duzhe, dobre, dyakuyu.
Great. Well, thanks.
Something like that.
Let's hear it again.
- [Victor] Duzhe dobre, dyakuyu.
- [Oksana] Duzhe dobre, dyakuyu.
- [Mark] Okay, it's time to add to the conversation
that we heard earlier where Victor and Oksana say hello
and greet each other,
ask each other their name.
This time, they're also going to ask, how are you?
So let's listen to hear who's feeling well
and who's not feeling so well.
- [Victor] Pryvit. Mene zvaty Victor.
Yak vas zvaty?
- [Oksana] Mene zvaty Oksana.
Duzhe pryyemno.
Yak spravy?
- [Victor] Ne duzhe.
Yak spravy?
- [Oksana] Duzhe dobre, dyakuyu.
- [Victor] Do pobachennya.
- [Oksana] Do pobachennya.
- [Mark] Okay, did you work out who was feeling well
and who wasn't feeling so good?
Victor said, "Ne duzhe," not great,
but Oksana was feeling really well,
she said, "Duzhe dobre, dyakuyu."
Very well, thanks.
Now they also both said something at the end.
Did you pick it up?
Let's listen again to the whole conversation
and see if you can identify what they said.
- [Victor] Pryvit. Mene zvaty Victor.
Yak vas zvaty?
- [Oksana] Mene zvaty Oksana.
Duzhe pryyemno.
Yak spravy?
- [Victor] Ne duzhe.
Yak spravy?
- [Oksana] Duzhe dobre, dyakuyu.
- [Victor] Do pobachennya.
- [Oksana] Do pobachennya.
- [Mark] That's right, they both said do pobachennya,
goodbye.
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It's time for the final section of this video
and we're going to be talking about the Ukrainian language
in this section.
So, Oksana, can you tell us how you say
I speak Ukrainian?
- [Oksana] Ya rozmovlyayu ukrayinskoyu.
- [Mark] Okay, that was quite tricky.
Can we slow that down?
Let's hear it word by word.
- [Oksana] Ya.
- [Mark] Ya.
- [Oksana] Rozmovlyayu.
- [Mark] Rozmovlyayu.
- [Oksana] Ukrayinskoyu.
- [Mark] Ukrayinskoyu.
- [Oksana] Ya rozmovlyayu ukrayinskoyu.
- [Mark] Ya rozmovlyayu ukrayinskoyu.
Now, it is probably safer to say
I speak a little Ukrainian.
So how would we say a little in Ukrainian?
- [Oksana] Troshky.
- [Mark] Troshky.
Okay, let's now add that into I speak Ukrainian.
So what is I speak a little Ukrainian?
- [Oksana] Ya rozmovlyayu troshky ukrayinskoyu.
- [Mark] Can you slow that down, please, Oksana?
- [Oksana] Ya
rozmovlyayu
troshky
ukrayinskoyu.
- [Mark] Ya rozmovlyayu troshky ukrayinskoyu.
- [Oksana] Ya rozmovlyayu troshky ukrayinskoyu.
- [Mark] And if someone says something to you
and you are not sure what they've said,
then it's useful to be able to say I don't understand.
Victor, how would you say I don't understand?
- [Victor] Ya ne rozumiyu.
- [Mark] Okay, can we slow that down a little?
- [Victor] Ya
ne
rozumiyu.
- [Mark] Ya
ne
rozumiyu.
- [Oksana] Ya ne rozumiyu.
- [Mark] Ya ne rozumiyu.
Okay, let's combine that with the phrase for I'm sorry.
- [Oksana] Vybachte.
- [Mark] Vybachte.
Let's hear that one more time.
- [Oksana] Vybachte.
- [Mark] Okay, let's learn to say I'm sorry,
I don't understand.
- [Oksana] Vybachte,
ya ne rozumiyu.
- [Mark] Vybachte,
ya ne rozumiyu.
- [Victor] Vybachte, ya ne rozumiyu.
- [Oksana] Vybachte, ya ne rozumiyu.
- [Mark] Okay, that's all for this video.
We hope that you've enjoyed learning some Ukrainian
and this video will be useful to you.
Dyakuyu.
Thank you to Victor and Oksana,
and thanks to you for watching.
- [Victor] Dyakuyu.
Do pobachennya.
- [Oksana] Dyakuyu. Do pobachennya.
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