Food and Drink


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Baikal is a drink from Russia the Soviet Union, named after a beloved big lake out east. With multiple ingredients, I can't give a neat description, but it tastes like Pine Sol. I certainly like it. Russian goods have become hard to come by, at the Ukrainian store.
 
 
 

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Finding Food Fluency
 

Siberian ginseng is not the same as ginseng.


 
 
 


 
 

But I got a version of Baikal made in Ukraine. It doesn't have the Pine Sol taste.


 
 


 
 

This particular product contains .. what's the word at the bottom left? (and what's with the word on the right?)

The word on the left is lemonade pronunciation. I asked the lady if the product contains lemonade, but she said no. Lemonade is a generic name for something along the lines of flavoured drinks. It reminds me of the way people in the American south refer to all sody pop as cokes. "Do you want a coke?"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Language and Culture


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What is the Ukrainian letter for the z sound? What about the l sound?
 

You're going to need the z sound if you want to spell Azov.
 

And what's the letter for the v sound?
 
 


 
 
 

And how about the r sound?


 

You're going to need it if you want to spell Russia.
 
 
 

We can always start to decrypt things with the word for tank, which is spelled TAHK.
 
 
 


 
 
 


 
 
 


 

Just make sure the second vowel is not e. It's a sensitive issue.
 
 
 


 
 
 


 

A bustling metropolis. I think it's pronounced like this.
 
 
 


 

How do you pronounce the first letter in Ukraine? You've heard President Zelensky.
 
 
 


 

Horilka, the Ukrainian word for vodka. Different from Russian and Polish.

Is the h sound sometimes a g sound? Maybe that's a Russian language thing.
 
 
 
 

What's the letter for the p sound?
 
 
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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