There is no secret that both Ukrainian and English languages have a lot to give to their learners. But have you ever seen a book that can boost your progress in mastering them from the standpoint of both languages at the same time?
Until today, one of the greatest challenges of learning Ukrainian as a foreign or second language is the fact that there are no Ukrainian-English or English-Ukrainian dictionaries compiled for foreign learners. All such dictionaries published so far are meant either for Ukrainians learning English or those who translate from Ukrainian into English or from English into Ukrainian. This predicament has just been solved with the publication of the Ukrainian-English Collocation Dictionary, compiled by Dr. Yuri Shevchuk of Columbia University. The Dictionary covers the most frequently used segment of the modern Ukrainian lexicon and describes how each entry is used in actual speech in detail.
America House will hold a discussion of this trailblazing resource that has no precedents in world lexicography with the author himself, Yuri Shevchuk on July 19 at 6:30 p.m.
We’ll be streaming this event in English to our Facebook and YouTube pages.
Join the discussion with your questions and learn exciting facts about English and Ukrainian!
Learn more about Yuri:
Yuri Shevchuk is the lecturer of Ukrainian language at Columbia University’s Department of Slavic Languages and the Harriman Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Philology from Kyiv State University (1987), and MA in Political Science from the New School for Social Research (1996). In 1990-1993 and 1996-2012 he taught Ukrainian at Harvard University Summer School. He also teaches Ukrainian at Yale and Cornell. Yuri Shevchuk has published in the US, Canadian, and Ukrainian press and on the Internet on issues of Ukrainian language, identity, culture, Ukrainian and world cinema. His latest book the Ukrainian-English Collocation Dіctionary, Hippocrene Books, New York, N.Y., 2021, 1,000 pages is a breakthrough in the Ukrainian language pedagogy and has no precedents in Slavic or English bilingual lexicography.
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