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One or two Ukrainian words sound reassuringly familiar - no prizes for guessing what Kafe, Restoran, Bar and Aeroport mean. Nevertheless, when those words are written in Ukrainian cyrillic it's an altogether trickier matter. Suffice it to say that you're unlikely to return from a two month back-packing trip, fluent in the lingo. But that's no reason not to give it a shot! 
We've scratched our heads and twiddled our menacing cossack beards and come up with a fully anglicised guide for those basic encounters. Our protracted 300 page dictionary will be published by Oxford University Press in the near future. OK, we're getting a bit carried away... in the words of tough talking former prime minister and cricket aficionado John Major, let's get back to basics: a few words... 
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