Shevchenko reads poetry and cooks borsch: how a student from the USA became the star of Ukrainian Instagram

Meet Judah. He came from America to Ukraine to study as a doctor and started instagramwhere he talks about his life. Journalists met Judah «Radio Svoboda» and shot a video about him.

“Hello, everyone is healthy, how are you doing?” (healthy everyoneоHello, how are you?) - this is how Judah greets readers on Facebook in English and Ukrainian.

Jude is 23 years old, he studies in English, but knows Ukrainian and has mastered Polish a little.

“Everyone in my group is from Poland, so I speak a little Polish, I don’t understand everything, but I can say something,” says Judah in Polish.

The student admits that learning Ukrainian was difficult.

“I almost cried, honestly, I almost cried,” he says. “There are a lot of cases, I don’t know where to put the emphasis!”

“I was in the store and wanted to pay for groceries. I said that I plаChu, but I meant that I was cryingу “- says the young man. - And the saleswoman says: “Don’t cry, it’s not so expensive!” And everyone laughed at me so much! I laughed too, because it’s really funny.”

“I felt that living in this country and not knowing the language was disrespectful to other Ukrainians, I just think so. And I mean learn the language well. Not simple sentences like “I love you,” he adds.

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Judah came to study in Ukraine on the advice of his aunt, who studied here back in the 70s. He often emphasizes that a Ukrainian diploma is valid in the United States. But you need to pass exams to practice medicine.

He often calls himself Yura from Kolomyia (a city in the Ivano-Frankivsk region).

At the same time, Judah is teaching subscribers American slang.

“You know, between young people in America we very rarely write “how are you,” he answers a subscriber when asked about greetings in English. - You can say: yo, bro, what's up, wassup, how you feel, how you doin, how you been, what's going on, what's Gucci, what's popping, "y'aight."

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They ask him: “Are you nuts? What does it mean - you’re a nut?” To which Judah replies with a laugh: “No, nuts is something like “Are you crazy?” or “Are you crazy?”

He is also mastering Ukrainian cuisine - in his saved Instagram stories he showed how he prepared real Ukrainian borscht himself.

“And last, but not least - sour cream!” - Judah says off-screen with a plate of borscht.

“This is not for you, Taras,” he addresses the plaster bust of Taras Shevchenko, standing right there on the table.

By the way, Judah respects Shevchenko very much. On his Instagram, the student recited a poem to his subscribers: “The thirteenth day has passed…”

And the American learns Ukrainian songs and plays the guitar for subscribers, asking them how a particular phrase is translated into English.

“My foreign friends,” Judah addresses his subscribers. - Learn Ukrainian!

“You won’t regret it, trust me,” he adds, repeating the phrase in English. “This is the best solution!”

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