Learning Journal 14

[Taylor Johnson]

This semester, I focused on learning the basics of Ukrainian. I used my textbook, watched language videos, and listened to Ukrainian audio files in order to learn. The biggest challenge I faced this semester was separating Russian from Ukrainian. The alphabet is almost identical, but there are different pronunciation rules which gave me some trouble in the beginning. Also, because the language is so similar to Russian (in terms of sound), I sometimes found myself filling in a Russian word in place of a Ukrainian word that I either did not learn or forgot. For next semester, I will continue to focus on learning the cases, as I did not get through all seven of the cases in Ukrainian.