Ukrainian Lessons Podcast — for everyone who learns and loves the Ukrainian language
Learn Ukrainian at any level — from absolute beginner to advanced — with this structured and engaging Ukrainian language podcast course! 💙💛
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There’s a season for every level:
🎧 Season 1 – Absolute beginner: basics, pronunciation, and everyday Ukrainian
🎧 Season 2 – Elementary to intermediate: real-life situations with focus on cases + Ukrainian History in simple Ukrainian
🎧 Season 3 – Intermediate: a story-based course about an American girl in Kyiv
🎧 Season 4 – Intermediate to advanced (slow Ukrainian): culture, idioms, and grammar in slow, clear Ukrainian
🎧 Season 5 – Intermediate to advanced (slow Ukrainian): culture, history, and guest interviews
🎧 Season 6 – Advanced (slow Ukrainian): Ukraine after 2022, poetry, and deep topics
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Ukrainian Lessons Podcast — for everyone who learns and loves the Ukrainian language
ULP 6-230 | Українська поезія. Ліна Костенко «Страшні слова, коли вони мовчать» | Ukrainian Lessons Podcast Season 6
🗣 In the final episode of our short series, the poetry itself takes center stage. "Страшні слова, коли вони мовчать" ("Words are scary when they are silent") ― this poem by brilliant Lina Kostenko is a perfect and symbolic ending to our Ukrainian Poetry series.
Together with the podcast host Anna, dive deep into the poem, enhance your vocabulary with the словничок (dictionary), and learn to masterfully recite the verses.
❗️ Season 6 of the podcast is entirely in slow, simple Ukrainian. For easier episodes with English, check out our Season #1 or Season #2.
Transcript and Exercises! 😍
Конспект уроку – Lesson notes for this episode include:
- Transcript of the entire episode in Ukrainian;
- Translation of challenging vocabulary in the margin;
- Питання-відповіді: Comprehension questions with suggested answers;
- Словничок: This episode's focus vocabulary with additional examples in various forms;
- Three exercises to practice the lesson’s vocabulary and phrases. Answers included.
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