Quote Originally Posted by Valda View Post
Ukrainians spelling is famous for being terrible.
Not at all, Valda. The Ukrainian spelling is much easier than the Russian one. No vowel reduction at all! You can write them just like you hear. The consonants are reduced, though. Besides, they use double consonants only when they sound that way. In Russian we have to memorize all those words with double consonants in which we hear only one. Классный, поддержать, восстановить, искусство, одиннадцать. Thousands of them, I think.