Elementary Ukrainian I

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This course teaches language as a gateway to Ukrainian literature, history, and arts and the means of communication in everyday life, offering thorough grounding in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.On successful completion of Elementary Ukrainian I and II, students will have control of the basic linguistic structure and common core vocabulary of Ukrainian; converse with native speakers with a degree of confidence and grammatical accuracy; communicate in speech and writing on general subjects; read simple accounts of current events; and function successfully at Ukrainian schools, urban communities, stores, restaurants, theaters, etc.The course is centered around an all-skill textbook used at leading universities in the US and integrates an interactive audio-visual component based on Ukrainian songs, developed at Cornell by Krystyna Golovakova.