C2

Surzhyk Awareness

Суржик

About this concept

Understanding of surzhyk (Ukrainian-Russian mixed speech): identifying Russianisms, code-switching patterns, regional surzhyk varieties.

In Settemila Lingue, this concept generates a practice deck of ~30 cards at level C2.

Examples

зараз (ukr) vs сєйчас (surzhyk)now (standard vs surzhyk)
тому що (ukr) vs потому що (surzhyk)because (standard vs surzhyk)
треба (ukr) vs нада (surzhyk)need to (standard vs surzhyk)
гарний (ukr) vs красівий (surzhyk)beautiful (standard vs surzhyk)

Prerequisite

Dialectal FeaturesC2

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