Even my non-Ukrainian ears feel funny when reporters/bloggers who have been to Kyiv many times still pronounce it the orc way. Granted, I think the little bit of Duolingo Ukrainian I am doing has helped hammer home the different spelling / pronunciation for Kyiv and Odesa (seems like these are the only places in Ukraine that Duolingo knows of :D) .
The first time I heard the Ukrainian word for ‘ghost’, I was a bit confused because it sounded familiar… 😀 So here’s a fun pronunciation test for newbies like me: Привіт привид 😀
And it’s two syllables, not one the way I hear TV journalists say it.
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Киïв – красив <3
Even my non-Ukrainian ears feel funny when reporters/bloggers who have been to Kyiv many times still pronounce it the orc way. Granted, I think the little bit of Duolingo Ukrainian I am doing has helped hammer home the different spelling / pronunciation for Kyiv and Odesa (seems like these are the only places in Ukraine that Duolingo knows of :D) .
The first time I heard the Ukrainian word for ‘ghost’, I was a bit confused because it sounded familiar… 😀
So here’s a fun pronunciation test for newbies like me: Привіт привид 😀
And it’s two syllables, not one the way I hear TV journalists say it.
Kiev is orc speak?