"Dear friends, thank you for your support." Russian blogger Ilya Varlamov mentioned Belarus and the Belarusian language in an interview

Photo: screenshot from a video on the YouTube channel Sheinkin40

Russian, English, Belarusian

On the Russian-language Israeli YouTube channel Sheinkin40 an interview with Ilya Varlamov was published, where at some point the conversation turned to Belarus.

Varlamov was interviewed by Mark Lavy and Anton Privolnov, widely known as the host of the program "Kontrolnaya Zakupka" (Test Purchase) on Russian television.

When the conversation came to knowing and learning foreign languages, the travel blogger admitted that, besides Russian, he only knows English, and, as he himself admits, not at the highest level. The second foreign language Varlamov ever studied is Belarusian.

The blogger noted that he finds learning foreign languages quite difficult.

"I even started learning Belarusian recently," Varlamov said, after which he was asked to say something in Belarusian.

"Шаноўныя сябры, дзякую вам за падтрымку" (Dear friends, thank you for your support), he said.

And then he added that the Belarusian language is very beautiful.

"I started learning it at one time to support Belarusians, because many, primarily in the West, especially after 2022, began to perceive Belarus as some region of Russia. That is, it is clear that Lukashenka has submitted to Putin and he is absolutely not bothered by anything, and he is playing his own game.

But the thing is, when sanctions are imposed, there is Russia and there is some Belarus, which simply goes through a comma, like there is the USA and Alaska," says Varlamov, adding that he would like to emphasize that Belarus is, after all, a separate state with its own culture and language.

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Ilya Varlamov. Photo: screenshot from a video on the YouTube channel Sheinkin40

"There, 'dog' is masculine"

According to the journalist, when he started learning Belarusian, it turned out to be much more difficult than learning Italian or Spanish.

"At first, it seems to you that these are our letters and all that, but the language is, of course, very different; there are other rules, structure, there, 'dog' (сабака) is masculine."

Therefore, according to Varlamov, because the languages are similar, the biggest problem is that it is harder for a person to readjust.

"Because you're used to constructing words, sentences, stresses in Russian – and everything is different there," Varlamov explained.

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