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 notes
• Appendices 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

About the Author
Yuri I. Shevchuk, a native of Volodymyrets, Ukraine, received his PhD in Germanic Philology from Kyiv State University in 1987. He has taught Ukrainian at Harvard University Summer School since 1990 and at Columbia University since 2004. He also teaches courses in Soviet and post-Soviet film and directs the Ukrainian Film Club at Columbia University. Shevchuk is also author of the groundbreaking Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary (Hippocrene Books, 2021). He resides in New York City.


Book Information
ISBN 9780781814393
Author Yuri I. Shevchuk
Format Paperback
Page Count 432
Imprint Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.
Publisher Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S.