主题：【原创】【原创】乌克兰战场亲历记（一） -- 梦秋

However... Those were right who said that understanding any of those two is just a matter of beeing used to. So, while Russian is more difficult and has greater amount of exclusions it can be more preferable to concentrate on studying it. In the other hand, Ukrainian makes more good for the success with other slavian languages.

Hi, a lot of my family members are either historians or somehow their job is related to it or they just study it for pleasure and curiosity. I see that member "gigant26" the person that wrote:

"Being a native of both Ukrainian and Russian, and also being an amateur linguist, let me explain a few things. First, Ukrainian did not develop directly from Russian or vice versa. Ukrainian developed from the language spoken in the Kievan Rus'. etc. "

is quite knowledgeable in both history and current events of Russians and Ukrainians. I AGREE WITH THIS MEMBER TOTALLY.... please be aware that most of what is now was created at some point in history. Everything that he said is correct, these languages ARE similar in several ways, i read all of the comments on this topic and i noticed that a lot of people are saying that the Russian and Ukrainian languages are not similar, wrong, *please don't take this personally* either you didn't notice the similarities, or are not so familiar with both/either languages or some other reason. I believe that not all people have it easy to learn a language.

However, just because you know Russian/Ukrainian doesn't mean you can easily understand Ukrainian/Russian. There are* similarities between these languages and you will* understand (not fluently) one of them, if you know the other fluently.