Learning Journal Week Seven

[Mark Kligman]

Throughout week 7 I learned the names of animals that one would see at a zoo. Speaking of zoo, my language partner and I discussed what locations are popular among Ukrainian people for their outings and the zoo is considered a popular location. After we covered animals, we went into occupations and workplaces. I found it interesting that many of the business terms in English such as management, consulting, marketing, etc. are basically the exact same words in Ukrainian. Several other occupation names were also similar to the Russian language making this topic one of the easiest to learn for me. However, there were some occupations that were completely different in Ukrainian and unlike any other language I am familiar with so we allocated the majority of our time so I could become familiar with those. We also went over addressing university major and minors and how to incorporate that into a conversation in Ukrainian appropriately. Learning these terms an how to apply them appropriately has helped me with my confidence in speaking Ukrainian.