Ukrainian Flag
The Ukrainian language might be new to you as it is to me. On photographs you can sometimes see street names. You also see the street and city names on maps. I always wanted to visit the capital, Kiev, which sounds so romantic and had the great, green, onion-shaped roofs on the famous Cathedral.
I also like chicken Kiev. Chicken breast with moistening butter and tasty garlic. A surprise when you cut into it in Italian restaurants which proliferated in London, England. A quick meal, and still a novelty meal, now that it is sold ready-made in supermarkets such as Tesco in the UK. The alternative spelling is Kyiv.
Odessa is also well-known. The hundreds of steps are a memorable dramatic scene in the classic film, Battleship Potemkin. Ship, port, seaside city. On the sea. Far south.
The third city which is nearest to the UK is Lvov, or Lviv, or Lemberg. Like Leo, all starting with the letter L, the word for lion. After leader or king Leo, the lion king.
The word Ukraine means on the border, as I learned from the video whose link I found in duolingo.
Useful Websites
Video about the language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76SHvlLS5I
More details on verbs and comparisons between Russian and Ukrainian
It helps to remind yourself of the English words
genitive, cognate, vocative, pluperfect, nominative, prepositional case, perfective prefix, pro-drop languages
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