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Learning Russian and Ukrainian at the same time
Russian and Ukrainian share 1601 meanings in our vocabulary catalog. That overlap is the reason studying them together works and the reason it goes wrong: the same meaning in two close languages is a head start when the words align and a trap when they nearly do.
The same meanings, side by side
| Russian | Ukrainian |
|---|---|
| здесь | тут |
| там | тамIdentical written form |
| сейчас | зараз |
| всегда | завжди |
| новый | новий |
| старый | старий |
| красивый | гарний |
| год | рік |
| день | деньIdentical written form |
| вечер | вечір |
Keeping them apart
Because Russian and Ukrainian are closely related, reviews here deliberately do not introduce the same meaning in both on the same day, and never place two cards for one meaning back to back in a session. You can also have prompts shown in one of them while you study the other.
Compare Russian and Ukrainian vocabulary