Week 1: Greetings

Introduction

Welcome to the first week of your Ukrainian course Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture. This week you’ll learn to greet people and other useful phrases for a first conversation.

By the end of this week, you should be able to:

• Introduce yourself and ask somebody’s name in Ukrainian.
• Greet others, say goodbye, thank you and how you are doing.
• Say what is your profession and to ask others about theirs.
• Start to familiarise yourself with the Ukrainian alphabet.

Figure 1: Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine: view of Kyiv city centre and St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery from the Church of St. Sophia, Kyiv.

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Photo of Kyiv city centre. St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery is blue and gold. There are a large busy square in front, other buildings behind and lots of trees.

Figure 1: Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine: view of Kyiv city centre and St. Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery from the Church of St. ...