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

[Max Pyziur]

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I would strongly recommend Rozmovliaimo!/Let's Talk!, co-authored by
> Robert DeLossa, Roman Koropeckyj, Robert Romanchuk, and Alexandra
> Isaievych Mason. It is published by Slavica and it was the winner of the
> AATSEEL book prize in the language pedagogy category a few years ago. The
> book covers two years of language instruction (elementary and
> intermediate) and has a special section dedicated to the specific problems
> of Russian speakers learning Ukrainian.

What if I want to be "street-ready," up on the latest slang and argot?
Where can I drop a Benjamin on some of the latest publications? Hasn't
Krytyka published several tomes like this?

> Best wishes,
>
> Vitaly Chernetsky


Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com

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> Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of German, Russian & East Asian Languages
> Miami University
> Oxford, OH 45056
> tel. (513) 529-2515
> fax (513) 529-2296
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> 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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