Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic 108Y, Elementary Ukrainian

Language Laboratory Resources

The audio resources below are for use with the textbook Modern Ukrainian by Assya Humesky. For more information and for instructions on the use of these audio materials, please visit the Instructions Page. These recordings were made in accordance with the first edition of this textbook. Changes in subsequent editions of the printed textbook are not reflected in the audio materials. Thus, the material in the recordings is sometimes different from what is in the textbook. The links on the pages accessed below open streaming audio files. Unfortunately, this technology usually fails in older versions of the Netscape browser, which will require you to open the mp3 file directly.

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• Lesson 0. The Ukrainian Sound System. pp. xviii - xli
• Lesson 1. Nominative case — Nouns-Pronouns-Adjectives. pp. 1 - 21.
• Lesson 2. Vocative — Present tense — Infinitive. pp. 22 - 40.
• Lesson 3. Accusative case — Nouns — Pronouns. pp. 41 - 57
• Lesson 4. Genitive case — Nouns — Pronouns — Future (compound). pp. 58 - 73.
• Lesson 5. Accusative and Genitive — Adjectives — Possessives — Future (simple). pp. 74 - 89.
• Lesson 6. Verb conjugation — Past tense — Aspect. pp. 90 - 108.
• Lesson 7. Locative case — Nouns-Pronouns — Conditions. pp. 109 - 126.
• Lesson 8. Locative-Adjectives — Possessives — Imperative. pp. 126 - 141
• Lesson 9. Instrumental — Nouns-Pronouns— Partitive genitive. pp. 142 - 155.
• Lesson 10. Instrumental — Adjectives-Possessives — Surnames — Time — Verbs of reciprocity. pp. 156 - 173.
• Lesson 11. Verbs of motion — Time — Uses of the instrumental. pp. 174 - 200.
• Lesson 12. Dative case — Nouns-Pronouns — Verbs of motion — Time (clock). pp. 201 - 220.
• Lesson 13. Dative of adjectives and possessives — Reflexive verbs — Negative pronouns and adverbs. pp. 221 - 236.
• Lesson 14. Nominative plural — Nouns-Pronouns-Adjectives — Possessive adjectives — Expressions of quantity with numbers 2,3,4 — More verbs of motion. pp. 237 - 259.
• Lesson 15. Accusative and Genitive plural — Nouns — Pronouns — Adjectives — Expressions of quantity — Prefixed verbs of motion. pp. 260 - 278.
• Lesson 16. Comparison of adjectives and adverbs— Masculine short adjectives— Numerals 11 to 100— Dates— Telling age. pp. 279 - 300.
• Lesson 17. Locative plural — Nouns-Pronouns-Adjectives — The numerals 200 and higher (Nom. case) — The ordinal numerals 200 and higher — Dates (year). pp. 301 - 313.
• Lesson 18. Instrumental plural — Nouns-Pronouns-Adjectives — Passive participles — Approximation — Time (duration, recurrence). pp. 314 - 332.
• Lesson 19. Dative plural — Nouns-Pronouns-Adjectives — Active participles — Declension of numerals 1 to 100 and adverbs of quantity. pp. 333 - 348.
• Lesson 20. Gerunds — Declension of numerals 200 and higher — Collective numerals — Approximation (cont.). pp. 349 - 369.