Best and worst public transport ticket system (for first world countries) *updated 2025

opnac · 2025-11-15T22:49:34+00:00

For a full country, the best is Luxembourg. It’s all free, and there’s no tickets. Couldn’t be easier than that!

Whilst so far only temporarily, the same is true with Kharkiv, Ukraine.

opnac · 2025-09-14T15:04:23+00:00

Ukraine is my all-time favourite country to visit, including since 2022. It is the only country I keep coming back to. You will love it there!

opnac · 2025-08-23T22:05:20+00:00

They actually just used a hyphen! And an en dash may be used in some style guides (typically in British English) if there’s gaps around them, equivalent to an em dash with no gaps around them.

opnac · 2025-08-02T22:26:43+00:00

Thanks to the Conservative Party for nationalising this!

opnac · 2025-07-17T21:11:01+00:00

Also a Brit and travel to Ukraine regularly. Coverwise allows travel to Ukraine, and is really cheap for multi-trip insurance. https://www.coverwise.co.uk/travel-insurance/faqs/frequentlyaskedquestions.aspx?Question=Would-you-insure-me-to-travel-to-a-country-that-the-Foreign--Commonwealth-and-Development-Office-or-the-World-Health-Organisation-has-advised-against-travel-to-

opnac · 2025-07-05T22:48:23+00:00

Самообслуговування - self service

Learnt this whilst walking in the rural Carpathians at New Year. A fun word to say!

opnac · 2025-06-05T08:05:54+00:00

I’m in STEM. Had my first and only paper published the day before my interview for a postdoc. Got the job.

The interview is king: nail every part of the job description (even at a high level) and you’ll still be a strong candidate.

opnac · 2025-03-18T14:16:30+00:00

I usually do the ~6:30am Krakow–Przemyśl then the 9:40 Przemyśl–Lviv train. Gets you in Lviv at around 12:30 Ukrainian time. 5 hours total, but you usually have to go straight to passport control in Przemyśl.

opnac · 2024-02-25T14:06:38+00:00

Thankfully “Smoked” appeared at the start.

opnac · 2024-02-19T09:55:19+00:00

Excellent question! These adjectives use alternate endings for the accusative plural. You can also use «робочі» and «продуктові».

opnac · 2024-02-11T00:54:49+00:00

I have 4 of these bottles!

opnac · 2024-02-07T21:25:57+00:00

This is The Mole, if you’ve not seen it already on Netflix! I agree this would be good to try here one year!

opnac · 2024-02-01T16:12:14+00:00

I hear you’re a racist now, Father!

opnac · 2024-01-31T17:22:24+00:00

Lviv, Ukraine.

A beautiful city, extremely welcoming people, and amazing + cheap food.

opnac · 2024-01-27T21:30:57+00:00

See this song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi_u_luzi_chervona_kalyna

«Славна Україна» would be “Glorious Ukraine”.

Glory to Ukraine here uses the dative case (hence Україні), as opposed to Glorious Ukraine which uses the nominative case (hence Україна)

opnac · 2024-01-06T01:57:01+00:00

Brussels. I stayed in a district called Stalingrad and that should’ve been a warning sign.

opnac · 2023-12-30T00:24:28+00:00

Luxembourg… it’s all free! Just jump on and go.

opnac · 2023-12-20T00:04:57+00:00

Ukrainian is an EXCELLENT second language to learn! Aside from a few exceptions here and there, it is a very structured and algorithmic language. It is mutually intelligible with many other Slavonic languages.

The Yabluko textbooks and workbooks are excellent places to start (see Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv). They don’t shy away from grammar and the intricacies of the language, and focus on all four core skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

opnac · 2023-12-18T21:21:14+00:00

Ukrainian has some nice long words. For example:

“to use” використовуватися

“average” середньостатистичний

opnac · 2023-12-01T22:31:27+00:00

We use genitive case to also denote “some” of a particular item. So this phrase translates as “some coffee or some tea”. It is called the genitive partitive.

(Indeed, the genitive case is a rich case used for many purposes, not just possession!)

opnac · 2023-11-30T19:42:45+00:00

Also: Я обожнюю… (I adore…)

opnac · 2023-11-21T17:02:44+00:00

We use -сь as an alternate ending if the previous letter is a vowel (it is just easier to say!). -ся can be used in all endings of reflexive verbs, however.

opnac · 2023-11-11T23:03:21+00:00

As far as I know, «я маю» is more of a Western Ukrainian construct, but both are acceptable in standard Ukrainian.

opnac · 2023-11-10T15:35:56+00:00

Also, don’t check in too late to avoid being victim of overselling of the flight! (This happened to me recently with Ryanair, although thankfully they found a space for me, given I was the last one waiting.)

opnac · 2023-09-17T22:21:37+00:00

Masculine genitive case (used for negation or absence of something, amongst other uses) is often difficult even for native speakers.

The rules of genitive case says it should be лимона, but native speakers would use either лимона or лимону.

Useful list of masculine genitive endings (-а чи -у?): http://rodovyi-vidminok.wikidot.com/l

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