Been looking intermittently at the Belarusian language, along with my main one. Belarusian and Ukrainian share some 84% of vocabulary, whereas the figure for Ukrainian and Russian is only about 62% (compare with Spanish-Italian 67%). Belarusian and Ukrainian also share a comparably larger vocabulary with Polish than Russian does, whereas Russian have at least some non-slavic loanwords where the others don't - for instance, the months of the year, where Russian uses the Roman names and Ukr/Blr use indigenous ones. Right now in Ukraine it is lystopád, the month when the leaves fall. If you speak Russian, it is nayábr.

I can understand extended parts of the video below. 0:0-1:11 she says [some time-unit] ago I started learning Polish, if you go to my channel you can listen to me speaking in my videos, of course my pronunciation isn't perfect yet, but every month I speak better ... In this video I want to share with you my experience with learning Polish ... something something advice, in this video maximum useful information, if you find this interesting [watch] till the end. (title screen). In my opinion all of my advice can be used to learn other different languages, not just Polish. For example, I'm learning English right now in parallel ... and all this advice I use myself every day.

These words she uses I recognize as same or near-same in Ukrainian, but I know they are different in Russian.

móva - language
yak - how
alé - but
kalí - when / if
tsikáviy - interesting
vykaristóvayu - I use

But she also says kanyéshna ('of course'), which is said in Russian but not Ukrainian.

The title reads "How to learn/study Polish language?".




This other speaker has a very interesting melody which is very unique. I also found they have the very best word for squirrel.


And on the other end... I tried this one untexted and I can listen comfortably throughout and I basically know what he's saying, just a few gaps. It's going somewhere!