Thread: Do Ukrainian speakers have accents when they speak in Russian?

Do Ukrainian speakers have accents when they speak in Russian? Russian's not my first language so I can't really tell.

Of course, they do have an accent. Even kids. For kids russian and ukrainian languages are both mother tongues. And in my opinion, they have strong accent. But we do understand them always.

Not all Ukrainians have accents. Some of them can be easily confused with Russians.

The most prominent part of a typical Ukrainian accent is more breathy "г". This is not a 100% accurate way to discern a Ukrainian, because some people from the South regions of Russia pronounce "г" the same way. But in 99% of cases it's a dead giveaway, along with some Ukrainian or semi-Ukrainian words that bleed into Ukrainians speech (like "шо" instead of "что"). Other mentioned traits are relatively rare.

All in all, I would not say that Ukrainians have strong accents (comparing to other foreigners), because most sounds in Ukrainian are identical to those in Russian, and 1-2 sounds that are pronounced slightly differently do not make for a "strong" accent, in my opinion.

In a five years the topic was revived.

I'd say that possible accent differs sufficiently depending on the region of Ukraine. For example, in the West of Ukraine there is a very peculiar manner to pronounce affirmative sentences with raising intonation at the last word. I found that last years this manner became something like a fashion in K(ie/yi)v.

I think there are words that are written the same but pronounced differently. I know a little Russian and I am learning Ukrainian. The words I think of are книга, вино, пиво, великий, часто, масло, and the like. While learning Ukrainian, I sometimes make pronunciation errors and pronounce the words as if they were Russian but are actually Ukrainian.

I think that Ukrainian forget to soften the preceding consonant before е, so they may pronounce a word like переводить like пэрэводыть for Russians, but may have to pronounce it as if there were written пєрєвадіть for the Ukrainians themselves.

Please, can someone help me with this: Russian TV programs in Ukrainian TV

thanks.