Ukrainian textbooks? (was NY Times - "The Retreat of the Tongue of the Czars")

[James Beale]

You have identified a great market niche.  We import publications from
Russia and Ukraine and specialize in materials for learning/teaching.  The
only textbook we have had success in locating and acquiring for sale is
(ironically enough) a textbook of Ukrainian for Russian speakers (with an
audio cassette).  One of the publishers we work with in Kyiv pleasantly
surprised us when they told us of a new textbook for English speakers.  We
asked them to locate and send us a copy, only to discover it was a rather
very pirated looking copy of Teach Yourself Ukrainian.

I am afraid that even before the crisis hit, the Ukrainian publishing market
was too weak and chaotic to develop materials for the export market.  Many
publishers live on government orders for schools, etc.

James Beale
Russia Online, Inc.
Tel: 301-933-0607  Fax: 301-933-0615
Shop online 24/7: http://shop.russia-on-line.com
 

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[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Grover Furr, Fastmail
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 8:16 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] Ukrainian textbooks? (was NY Times - "The Retreat of the
Tongue of the Czars")

Whether Russian is declining or not, Ukrainian is surely becoming more 
important.

There must be textbooks to teach Ukrainian to non-Ukrainian speakers.

What are the best such textbooks for English; French; German; Russian 
speakers?

I'd be especially interested in the last. A Ukrainian textbook aimed at 
speakers of Russian would inevitably concentrate on examples of 
linguistic interference in such closely related languages.

Grover Furr
Montclair SU

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