Learn Ukrainian

Start at the alphabet

The Ukrainian on-ramp is written by hand, not generated, and it is 198 cards long. Every card is spoken in a recorded Ukrainian voice, and what you get right is scheduled for review rather than shown again at random.

• 33letters
• 10digits
• 15pronunciation rules
• 100core words
• 20everyday phrases
• 20sentences

Three of the pronunciation cards, exactly as the course teaches them:

• г — г is a breathy “h” from the throat, never a hard “g”гроші — money
• ґ — the rare ґ is the only letter that makes the hard “g” of “go”ґанок — porch
• и — и is a hard vowel made further back than “ee” — Ukrainian has no ысин — son

Then material that does not run out

Once you are reading, the level is the point. The Text Generator writes Ukrainian at the CEFR level, length, topic and format you ask for, so the step up is a setting rather than a new book. Speaking scores you word by word as you read aloud. The Conversation Partner talks back. The Translator explains a sentence instead of replacing it, and the Corrector marks what you wrote and says why.

Above the on-ramp sits the Path — a station map from A1 to C2 with grammar, vocabulary and checkpoint stations — and Words & Notes, where everything you save comes back on a spaced-repetition schedule in seven quiz styles.

What Ukrainian actually costs a beginner

The first surprise is г, which is a breathy h from the throat and never the hard g of go — the hard g has its own separate and rare letter, ґ. Then и, a hard vowel made further back than an ee, and і and ї, which Russian does not have at all. Ukrainian spelling is also more faithful to the sound than Russian's: an unstressed vowel keeps its value rather than blurring, so what you read is much closer to what you say. Every letter is a card, and every word and sentence in the course is spoken in a Ukrainian voice.