SAGA - A nonprofit group serving as the secretariat for the Saga Prefectural GovernmentSaga Prefectural Government, local municipalities and private groups accepting Ukrainian evacuees has created a helpful guide for Japanese speakers to have simple conversations in Ukrainian.
The nonprofit Terra People Association has made 20,000 copies of the conversation sheet which lists simple phrases in Ukrainian to help local residents and Ukrainian evacuees interact with each other.
Twenty-eight Ukrainians in 13 groups evacuated to Saga Prefecture in the wake of the Russian invasion, and a total of 25 currently live in the prefecture. The language barrier has prevented Saga locals and Ukrainians from getting to know each other. Ukrainian phrases are written in the Ukrainian alphabet with Japanese phonetic katakana to help with pronunciation and their corresponding Japanese terms, which can be folded down to the size of a business card. They include simple greetings, such as dobryi den meaning hello, and vybachte, which means sorry or excuse me. It also shows how to say things like I want to go to and I want to eat in Ukrainian.
v I-H 4 Jm 5 h 1 rU to check the pronunciation based on the sheet. The group says there are more than 8,000 copies left of the guide sheets, which are being requested from support organizations outside Saga, including in Kanagawa, Osaka and Oita prefectures.
The guide sheets have been distributed to all elementary and junior high schools in the city of Saga, and the group gives them out free of charge to those who ask for them.
According to the Terra People Association, Kenzo Yamaji told the Mainichi Shimbun, It's a business card-size sheet, so you can put it in your wallet or other belongings, and I hope people use it to causally talk to Ukrainians when they see them. For more information, contact the Terra People Association at 0952 -- 24 - 3334 in Japanese.