Colloquial Ukrainian (Colloquial Series) [Paperback]

Ian Press (Author), Stefan Pugh (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415306264 | ISBN-13: 978-0415306263 | Publication Date: March 21, 2003 | Edition: 1

Colloquial Ukrainian is easy to use and no prior knowledge of the language is required. These CDs are recorded by native Ukrainian speakers and will play on any audio system. The material can be used on its own or to accompany the book, helping you with pronunciation and listening skills.

Editorial Reviews

Language Notes

Text: English --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Ian Press is Established Professor in Russian and Stefan Pugh is Reader in Russian, both at the University of St. Andrews. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 373 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (March 21, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415306264
• ISBN-13: 978-0415306263
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.6 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,233,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars OK, but not great, December 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Colloquial Ukrainian (Colloquial Series) (Audio Cassette)

I found that the cassettes and book started out slowly and well but then became extremely difficult around the 3rd and 4th chapters. For example, in the 3rd lesson on tape, the dialog was taped with a lot of background noise (realistic for the restaurant setting). This makes it very difficult for a beginner to understand the new words! The beginning spent a lot of time on phonemes and the alphabet- both very helpful.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This manual gets you going quickly!, November 6, 1998

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Lynn Duchez ([e-mail]) (Cleveland, Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colloquial Ukrainian (Colloquial Series) (Paperback)

Ukrainian as a second language for English speakers is especially difficult, because the student must learn a new phonetic system via a cyrillic alphabet. "Colloquial Ukrainian" starts with understanding the cyrillic phonex and teaches beginning grammar through common dialogue.

Great book to begin self-instruction of the language. It would be improved if the dictionary pages included more vocabulary.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars get a dictionary, March 5, 2009

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perekladach (Carbondale, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Colloquial Ukrainian (Colloquial Series) (Paperback)

The author of this book has a very chatty writing style, which would go over better with me if he had done a more thorough job of glossing his material. There are too many words used in the lessons that can't be found in the glossary at the back, so either access to a native speaker or a dictionary will be necessary to avoid becoming too frustrated. That being said, the coverage of the grammar is not too bad. One major plus is the excellent treatment of Ukrainian phonics at the beginning of the book-careful practice with it will reward a beginning student with a good, authentic pronunciation- it is in fact one of the best treatments of phonics I've seen for any Slavic language.