Do any of you have Ukrainian ancestry?

according to the link I provided above, yes, Jewish is not just considered a religious practice but a nationality as well in Ukraine, which I find to be the case for most former Soviet States

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And which nationality can that be?

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shortncute11185 wrote:

according to the link I provided above, yes, Jewish is not just considered a religious practice but a nationality as well in Ukraine, which I find to be the case for most former Soviet States

Well, some thousands of Jews from the former Soviet Union are arriving in Germany (more than 120,000 within the last ten years), a great percentage from the Ukraine.

There opinion about their [former] nationality is as well different to yours, shortncute, as the official one.

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

msolga wrote:
And yes, Ukrainian food is wonderful! ... farmerman, thinks it's quite horrible...

<I must admit that I like more the "Central European Versions" of Borschtsch, Mlinzi, Pirogi, Wareniki, Golubzi to the original Ukrainian kind, too :wink: >

I just can't let this pass, Walter! What is this about "Central European versions" of the blessed food of the Motherland? Shocked

Plagiarism, theft, pure & simple, I say! Evil or Very Mad

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You are certainly correct, msolga.

But I admit that Borecka, Kaladetz, Hallupsi, Grumera Wurst, Kraut Paruch, Kees Knoepfla etc just tastes better for me :wink:

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Ah, they're all great, Walter! Peasant food is the best food! Very Happy

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Right, but that is German-Ukrainian food Laughing

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No! You KNOW what the correct answer is, Walter! Laughing

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Swabian-Ukranian?

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Swabian-modified Ukrainian! Razz

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What I said: good old blessed food from Central Europe Laughing

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<shaking head vigorously>

Walter, Walter ...! You are very stubborn! Laughing

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Did you meet Mrs. Walter Shocked

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

Did you meet Mrs. Walter

<No, she didn't - otherwise she would have said:'Walter, as usual, you are soooooooooooooooo ....'>

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shortncute11185 wrote:

I've finally discovered the top NINE populated cities in Ukraine and here they are in case anyone hadn't known before and is curious to find out:

Kyiv--2.61m
Kharkiv--1.47m
Dnipropetrovsk--1.07m
Odesa--1.03m
Donetsk--1.02m
Zaporizhia--815,000
Lviv--733,000
Kryvyi Rih--669,000
Mykolaiv--514,000

source: http://www.ucrainica.info/intro/distribution.htm

demographics:
Ukrainian 77.8%
Russian 17.3%
Romanian 0.8%
Belarusian 0.6%
Crimean Tatar 0.5%
Bulgarian, Hungarian, Polish 0.4%
Jewish 0.3%

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine#Demographics

very fascinating facts!!

Thanks for that, S'n'C! Very Happy

Yes, interesting, indeed!

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Dobryy den msolga!

I have a linguistic question for you:

If a Ukrainian and a Russian were to converse one day in their native tongues, would t be easy for them to understand each other?

For instance if a French-speaking person from France and a French-Canadian were to converse they'd be able to interpret what the other is saying even if their accent is somewhat different and the don't have the exact same terminology.

Just wondering... Smile

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shortncute11185 wrote:

[..]If a Ukrainian and a Russian were to converse one day in their native tongues, would t be easy for them to understand each other?[..]

My mother tongue is Russian and when I hear Ukrainian speech I can say I do understand most of it. Of course it all depends: if a Ukrainian wanted me to understand nothing of what he or she says such person would have no problem doing so, I believe. It is easier for a Russian to grasp written text than verbal conversation: I recollect when I was only a 10 year old boy I could read verse in Ukrainian and it was not difficult to me at all. If two Ukrainians talk one to another and speak quickly I can only attempt to guess what it is all about. But when I listen to the radio and the station is Ukrainian I do understand it, especially news. That is to say a Russian can understand 90% of a Ukrainian analogue of BBC English but in a colloquial form it may be not so simple.

I am Russian myself but my father and the father of my mother were Ukrainians. Though one cannot surprise anyone here with Ukrainian ancestry.

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Dobryy den back at you, S'n'C! Very Happy

There's a lot of overlap in Slavic languages (not that I'm an expert in these things.) When I was in Yugoslavia I could understand enough words (About every eighth or so) to get by. I was also constantly mistaken for a local (brown hair, brown eyes, high cheekbones, skin colouring - I looked just like one of them.) Folk would get stroppy & think I was playing games with then when, after the initial "Dobryy den", I often appeared a bit dazed & confused by the rest of the conversation. Thought I was trying to be smart! Very Happy

I have a recently arrived exchange student in one of my classes, from Czechoslovakia ... She nearly fell out of here seat with shock when I hit her with "Dobryy den!" the other morning. Very Happy

The last thing she expected to come out of her teacher's mouth! But I think I'll have to learn a few more useful things to say ... I'm a bit stumped after that! You probably know more Ukrainian than me!

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