u/khliblover56

I took some Ukrainian lessons over the last half year and one of my teachers was pointing out that a couple of words I tried to use were "Russicisms". Unfortunately, I was not able to verify this independently and had a couple of times the feeling that this was rather a statement on colloquial / regional usage. Some particular word pairs that stood out to me were:

• потяг ✅ - поїзд ❌
• телефонувати ✅ - дзвонити ❌
• відпустка ✅ - вакації ❌

I am therefore curios to know whether these suggestions are indeed correct.

Also whether anyone knows here if by chance any language / cultural institute is working on standardization guidelines. This may sound odd, but is pretty "normal" in Germany were we have institutes on standardized usage and orthography of the German language.