B2907 - UKRAINIAN

Academic Year 2023/2024

Learning outcomes

The course is intended for absolute beginners. It will teach the Ukrainian alphabet, pronunciation, transliteration and then move on to grammar embedded in everyday communicative contexts. The course also looks at key elements of Ukrainian history and culture. By the end of the course, the student: - knows the basic elements of Ukrainian language and culture; - is able to understand and produce written texts and oral speech, expressing himself/herself with relative fluency and spontaneity; - knows the basic problems and strategies of dialogic interpretation; - is able to use them in elementary communicative situations.

Course contents

The course is intended for absolute beginners, so we start with the alphabet, pronunciation, transliteration and then move on to grammar embedded in everyday communicative contexts. We look at notions of history and culture.

Readings/Bibliography

Khrystyna Krychkovska "Ласкаво Просимо!" - Corso di lingua ucraina – Hoepli

Material provided by the lecturer

Teaching methods

Lectures, exercises, interaction, homework

Assessment methods

Oral and written final examination

Teaching tools

Books, video and audio materials, grammar tables, presentations, worksheets

Office hours

See the website of Hanna Mentkovska