Yatir Nitzany - Conversational Ukrainian Quick and Easy - The Most Innovative Technique to Learn the Ukrainian Language

In order to succeed with my method, please start on the very first page of the program and fully master one page at a time prior to proceeding to the next. Otherwise, you will overwhelm yourself and fail. Please do not skip pages, nor start from the middle of the book.

It is a myth that certain people are born with the talent to learn a language, and this book disproves that myth. With this method, anyone can learn a foreign language as long as he or she follows these explicit directions:

* Memorize the vocabulary on each page.

* Follow that memorization by using a notecard to cover the words you have just memorized and test yourself.

* Then read the sentences following that are created from the vocabulary bank that you just mastered.

* Once fully memorized, give yourself the green light to proceed to the next page.

Again, if you proceed to the following page without mastering the previous, you are guaranteed to gain nothing from this book. If you follow the prescribed steps, you will realize just how effective and simplistic this method is.

Let’s Begin! “Vocabulary” (memorize the vocabulary)

I | I am — Ya

With you — Z toboyu

With him / with her — Z nym / Z neyu

With us — Z namy

For you — Dlya tebe / ( Plural) dlya vas

Without him — Bez n’ogo

Without them — Bez nyh

Always — Zavzhdy

Was — Buv

This, This is — ( Masc)Tsey, ( Fem)Tsya, ( Neuter)Tse, ( Plural)Tsi

You — ( informal) Ty / ( formal) vy / ( plural) vy

Sometimes — Inodi

Today — S’ogodni

Are you / you are — ( informal) Ty/ ( formal) vy/ ( plural) vy

Better — Krashche

These — Tsi

He, he is — Vin

She, she is — Vona

From — (from a place) Z, (from person) Vid

(Sentences composed from the vocabulary (now you can speak the sentences and connect the words)

I am with you

Ya z toboyu / ya z vamy (plural)

This is for you

Tse dlya tebe

I am from Ukraine

Ya z Ukrajiny

Are you from Kiev?

Ty z Kyjeva?

Sometimes you are with us at the mall

Inodi ty z namy u molli

I am always with her

Ya zavzhdy z neyu

Are you without them today?

Ty bez nyh S’ogodni?

Sometimes I am with him

Inodi ya z nym

*In Ukrainian, the soft sign (apostrophe in the transcribed word) after a consonant letter makes that letter softer.

I was — Ya buv

To be — Buty

Here — Tut / os’

Same — Te same / te zh

Good/ Okay — Dobre

Day — Den’

It’s / it is — ( M)Tsey/( F)Tsya/( N)Tse/( P)Tsi

And — i’ ( pronounced as ee)

Between — Mizh

Now — Zaraz / teper

Later / After — Piznishe/pislya

If — Yakshcho

Yes— Tak

Then — Potim

Tomorrow — Zavtra

Very — Duzhe

Good — (person ) (M)Dobryj/ (F)Dobra

Between now and later

Mizh teper i potim

If it’s later, better tomorrow!

Jakshcho tse pizno, krashche zavtra!

This is also good

Tse takozh dobre

It is the same

Tse tezh-same

Yes, you are very good

Tak, ty duzhe dobryj/dobra

I was here with them

Ya buv/bula tut z nymy

The same day

Togo zh dnya

Maybe — Mozhe buty

You — Ty/Vy

Even if — Navit’ yakshcho

Afterwards — Piznishe/ potim

Worse — Girshe

Where — De

Everything — ( person) vsi, ( object) vse

Somewhere — Des’

What — Shcho?

Almost — Mayzhe

There — Tam

Afterwards is worse

Potim girshe

Even if I go now

Navit’ yakshcho ya pidu zaraz

Where is everything?

De vse?

Maybe somewhere

Mozhe des’

Where are you?

De ty?

You and I

Ty i ya

What is this?

Shcho tse?

*In Ukrainian, whenever “what” is preceded by a noun, you say yakyj.

- yakyj (m.)

- yaka (f.)

- yake (n.)

- yaki (p.)

House / home — Dim

In / at — V, u/bilya

Car — Avtomobil’ / mashyna

Already — Vzhe

Good morning — Dobrogo ranku

How are you? — Yak spravy?

Where are you from? — Zvidky ty?

Me — Meni

Hello / hi — Pryvit/dobrogo dnya

What is your name? — Yak tebe zvaty?

How old are you? — Skil’ky tobi rokiv?

Son — Syn

Daughter — Dochka

Your — Vash / tvij

But / however — Ale

Hard — Zhorstkyj( hard object ), vazhko ( difficult )

Still — Dosi

She is without a car, maybe she is still at the house?

Vona bez avtomobilya, mozhe vona dosi doma?

I am already in the car with your son and daughter

Ya vzhe v mashyni z vashym synom i dochkoju

Hello, what is your name?

Pryvit, yak tebe zvaty?

How old are you?

Skil’ky tobi rokiv?

This is very hard

Tse duzhe vazhko

It’s not impossible

Tse ne nemozhlyvo

Where are you from?

Zvidky ty?

*In Ukrainian, “what is your name?” is yake tvoye imya? Informally, this is yak tebe zvaty? , while formally it is yak vas zvaty?

*In Ukrainian, to indicate “hard” we use zhorstkyj or vazhko . Zhorstkyj indicates “hard” as in “a hard object” while vazhko indicates “hard” as in difficulty.

Thank you — Dyakuyu

For — Za

For — ( a person )Dlya

That, that is — (M)Tsej /(F)Tsya /(N)Tse /(P)Tsi