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This popular language textbook with an interactive website offers an easy, effective, and fun way for beginners to learn how to read, write, speak and understand Ukrainian. The Third Integrated edition is integrated with the Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary (2021) via a set of specially designed lexical and syntactic exercises in each of its 15 lessons.  Beginner's Ukrainian covers such common conversational topics as meeting people, traveling, shopping, hobbies, family relations, vacationing, meals, weather, and much more. Priority is given to developing learners' conversational skills while providing them with a solid grammar foundation. The book's companion website offers a wealth of interactive conversational, grammar, and phonetic drills designed for use by both independent and instructor-led learners.The book includes 15 useful lessons, covering everyday situations such as introductions, family, and shopping. An interactive website featuring audio dialogues and exercises recorded using native speakers is also available to users. The guide also includes:Useful cultural and grammatical notesAppendices of critical information, including declension tables, noun endings, common Ukrainian names, numbers, verb conjugations and more.A Ukrainian-English/ English-Ukrainian dictionary of words used in the book

"Shevchuk has not only produced an infinitely helpfulresource for anyone interested in Ukrainian, but given us one of the mostbreathtaking scholarly achievements in Slavonic Studies in many years. It is amonument to the Ukrainian language and a watershed in its development on theglobal stage.” — Rory Finnin, University ofCambridgeTheUkrainian-English Collocation Dictionary describes thecore Ukrainian lexicon as it is used in contemporary speech. This dictionaryhas no precedents in Ukrainian and Slavic bilingual lexicography and combineselements of six types of dictionaries: translation, collocation, learner’s,thesaurus, phraseological and encyclopedic dictionaries.This updatedsecond edition of the dictionary includes important revisions, new entries, anda new English-Ukrainian Word Index that will help readersquickly find word entries. The Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary isa must-have for Ukrainian language learners of all levels (elementary,intermediate, advanced and superior), Ukrainian language instructors andinstructors of theory and practice of translation, Ukrainian-English andEnglish-Ukrainian translators and interpreters, comparative linguists,lexicographers, researchers, business people, journalists, and anyone with aninterest in the Ukrainian language. It is an irreplaceable resource for Ukrainian-speakerswho study English and native speakers of Ukrainian who wish to perfect andenrich their Ukrainian.Includes:·        Over 9,000 entriesthat comprise the most frequently used Ukrainian lexicon·        More than 200,000word combinations·        80,000illustrative examples, including common Ukrainian idioms and their Englishequivalents·        English-UkrainianWord Index with over 6,000 items·        A comprehensiveintroduction to the Ukrainian language and grammar

Mastering modern Ukrainian pronunciation made easy and fun! Say it in Ukrainian is a pioneering language course that offers an easy, engaging, and effective way to master Ukrainian pronunciation. The book is carefully-paced and user-friendly, with eye-catching illustrations and illustrative examples throughout, detailed explanations of vowels, consonants, typical assimilation patterns, articulation tips, and clearly set pronunciation tasks for each exercise. A key feature of this textbook is that it showcases standard Ukrainian pronunciation in its regional, social, age, and gender variability, offering students a unique opportunity to familiarize themselves with a wide range of Ukrainian voices. A free companion website provides audio exercises and phonetic drills to reinforce learners’ pronunciation skills. Though Say it in Ukrainian can be used as a standalone book, it also works well with Beginner’s Ukrainian with Interactive Online Workbook and The Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary, also by Yuri Shevchuk. This course is appropriate for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of Ukrainian, whether for classroom use with an instructor or for self-study. Includes:•A detailed and accessible description of the Ukrainian sound system, its logic and the traits that distinguish it from English and neighboring Slavic languages •More than 400 phonetic exercises specially designed to facilitate quick acquisition of Ukrainian standard pronunciation •Phonetic drills featuring all Ukrainian phonemes in the initial, medial, and final position in the word as well as in the phonetic environment typically affecting their realization in speech (regressive assimilation, simplification)•Access to a free companion website with audio, phonetic drills and additional exercises