Western Ukraine Thorntree forum

Western Ukraine forum

Recent posts

1. 

   RE: Yiddish? Polish? A couple of words

   by NorthAmerican 02 October 2011

   I think that the Ruthenians were in that same general area -- eastern Poland and western Ukraine.-- were they not? That could account…

2. 

   RE: Usefulness of Russian in Eastern Europe

   by seraphim 26 October 2009

   I found Russian to be more useful in western Ukraine than English. My Russian is far less good than my English, and I mixed it with Polish…

3. 

   Re: Help needed! Calling native or fluent Ukrainian speakers?

   by markiyan 29 September 2009

   Not if you go to western Ukraine!!! And almost everybody will Understand Ukrainian! I would recommend Ukrainian...

4. 

   Pre-1914 Austro-Hungarian/Russian border

   by NorthAmerican 10 June 2008

   My grandmother left Russia in 1913 under the pretext of making a pilgrimage to the monastery at Pochayiv, in what is now western Ukraine.…

5. 

   Crimea tours

   by jman98 14 November 2007

   The vast majority of Ukrainians prefer to speak Russian and do not speak Ukrainian unless forced to. There are exceptions to this as…