Here is another great video on Italian gestures:

ah, did i say i <em>love</em> your posts? cause i do!

i love the vids, especially japanese edition!

the ukrainian one is pretty accurate except for the “over the head” gesture which kinda makes sense when she explains it but i’ve never seen anyone use it, <em>ever</em>.

and we have another very popular gesture which i’m surprised didn’t make it to her list - 🤙. unlike the hawaiian “<em>shaka</em>” here in ukraine and russia if you raise your thumb to the mouth while pointing pinky up would mean you smoke some (sometimes drink some, but mostly smoke some).

ah, and another one i remembered just now! basically we have a saying «вешать лапшу на уши» literally translated as “to put noodles on one’s ear” which basically means to lie to someone, feed them lines, etc. so when you hear someone lie to you or say something that is not true, you do thins thing where you wave palms around your ear as if taking down imaginary noodles that the person put on you.

can i ask what interested you in studying ukrainian? i’d expect it to be the last language on anyone‘s list, lol.

As I'm currently studying Ukrainian, I'd like to add this video.

Gesture language in Russia and Ukraine! What you shouldn't use? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJgsaRmGDpY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJgsaRmGDpY</a>;

I think it’s interesting how the American “OK” gesture can mean something totally different in other cultures.

Sometimes I speak without speaking a word by just babbling on and on.

But in seriousness, a lot of my speaking is done through my writings.

I never talk with my hands... well, OK, maybe a little...