I feel like I accomplished my goals of being able to improve my listening comprehension skills. By watching children's shows, game shows, movies and the news, I was able to slowly start understanding speech patterns better. I am also a lot better at being able to tell when something is being spoken in Russian, and when it is being spoken in Ukrainian. Through all of the Ukrainian language I have listened to this semester, I started to be able to tell the differences in sounds a lot faster than last semester.
I still have a little more trouble pronouncing things in Ukrainian than I do in Russian. I'm not sure if Russian just feels more natural to me because I have more experience with it, or if Ukrainian is just harder to pronounce. In any case, I have grown to like the sound of Ukrainian better than Russian, which I think can be attributed to the massive increase in the amount of Ukrainian I have heard this semester.
Overall, I am excited to increase my grammar knowledge this summer at Ukrainian language school. I think that because I have taken this semester to improve upon my listening comprehension, I will have an easier time absorbing the instruction at the Ukrainian language school.
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