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El libro de texto que tuilizaremos en el curso se llama Ukrainian:
a complete course for beginners.
Autores: Olena Bekh , James Dingely
Edición: Hodder Headline Plc.
ISBN: 0-340-62073-0
Serie: Teach Yorself
Año de edición: 2002
Este libro se puede adquirir en la librería
virtual: http://www.knyha.com/ukr/catalog/10590/
El libro está en inglés, os expongo aquí
su breve descripción:
This
is a complete course in spoken and written Ukrainian.
If you have never learnt Ukrainian before, or if your
Ukrainian needs brushing up, "Teach Yourself Ukrainian"
is for you. There is a audio cassette to accompany the
course, available with the book in a pack.
Olena
Bekh and James Dingley have created a practical course
that is both fun and easy to work through. They explain
everything clearly along the way and give you plenty
of opportunities to practise what you have learnt.
The
course structure means that you can work at your own
pace, arranging your learning to suit your needs. Based
on the Council of Europe's Threshold guidelines on language
learning, the course contains:
Eighteen
graded units of dialogues, culture notes, grammar and
exercises
A
step-by-step pronunciation guide
A
Ukrainian-English vocabulary
By
the end of the course you'll be able to cope with a
whole range of situations and participate fully and
confidently in life in Ukraine.
INTRODUCTION
Ukraine
is one of the new countries on the map of Europe, but
the language and history of the people who live there
can be traced back at least as far as the tenth century,
when Kyiv (still better known as Kiev) was already a
well-established meeting place of trade routes and nations.
In Ukraine it is possible to hear Bulgarian, Greek,
Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Romany, Russian and Yiddish.
One language however unites all the people of Ukraine
- Ukrainian, the sole official language of the Ukrainian
state. Incidentally, Ukrainian forms of names of towns
and rivers will be used throughout the book - hence
Kyiv (Kiev), L'viv (Lvov, Lwow, Lemberg), Odesa (Odessa),
Dnipro (Dnieper).
There
are many reasons for learning Ukrainian. Intellectual
curiosity about the language and culture of a "new"
European people is certainly one. At a more immediately
practical level Ukraine is still waiting to be discovered
as a tourist country. As Ukraine becomes stronger economically,
the need will grow for foreign businessmen to have some
idea of the language in order to do business there.
Whatever the reason, we hope that you will enjoy the
flavour of the Ukrainian language as much as you will
enjoy the rich flavours of Ukrainian cooking.
How
to use the book
The
book is divided into eighteen units. With one exception,
each unit contains dialogues, grammar notes under the
heading "How the language works" and illustrative
material to back up what you have learned. Exercises
of various types will give you a chance to test your
knowledge.
We
are convinced that the best way to learn Ukrainian is
to acquire as soon as possible the ability to read,
however slowly and painstakingly at first, dialogues
and texts that we hope are both interesting and lively,
even to the point of being far-fetched! The tapes provide
an extra opportunity to hear the material and practise
your own spoken Ukrainian. The first half of the book
contains units that may seem to contain an alarming
amount of grammar. Don't panic - it doesn't all need
to be learned at once! The information is there for
continuous reference.
We
hope to have succeeded in presenting the kind of Ukrainian
that will be accepted and understood anywhere in Ukraine.
Once you have completed the 18 units, you will have
a solid foundation on which to develop your knowledge.
Ukrainians will be delighted that you have taken the
trouble to learn something of their language.
In
Teach Yourself Ukrainian you will meet a number of characters
closely connected with Ukraine. Stephen Taylor is the
director of Hermes Clothing. He is interested in business
opportunities in Ukraine and has already started to
learn Ukrainian. His friend, Taras Koval, an Englishman
with a Ukrainian background, has been teaching him the
language, and together they plan a trip to Ukraine which
will combine business with pleasure. Taras is married
to Vira from Ukraine. Before his trip to Ukraine Stephen
makes a useful contact when he meets an English lawyer
of Ukrainian extraction, Yuri Morozenko. Stephen's business
contacts in Ukraine are Solomiia Koval'chuk, the director
of a clothing company in Kyiv, and Ihor Stakhiv, the
general manager of the company. You will also meet Ihor's
wife Ol'ha and their three children, Natalka, Ostap
and Olenka. Taras has a Ukrainian friend, Bohdan. During
his trip around Ukraine Stephen meets his old friend,
Andrew, an American journalist.
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