Learning Journal Week Three

[Mark Kligman]

It is now week 3 and at this point I have established a good foundation of grammar, sentence structure and conversation building in my knowledge of Ukrainian. From here on, my language partner and I decided that it would be a goo idea to continue to build on top of my conversational skills in Ukrainian. My language partner showed me a video of the Ukrainian Prime Minister delivering a speech on national television where he ended up using Russian language out of frustration in his failure to correctly pronounce eloquent Ukrainian speech. My language partner pointed out that a main reason why the Prime Minister was having trouble in his speech because he lacked the practice of using Ukrainian in a relaxed setting. Therefore we decided that I will be learning Ukrainian through language immersion since I will get accustomed to its use they way that I am used to using Russian language. We spent the rest of the week learning physical traits, addressing those in a proper sentence and with proper conjugation. I learned how to ask people common questions in regard to their name, height, age, hair, eye color, etc. as well as answer those questions appropriately when I myself am asked these questions.