Possibilty of an "Introduction to Ukrainian course"?

[Deleted]

Would it be possible at all for me to start a UKR 101: Intro to Ukrainian course? I think that, if some of us were able to communicate at least basically in Ukrainian, it could increase interest in Talossa in Eastern Europe (via drifters finding us randomly and seeing we can use Ukrainian).

My choice of Ukrainian may seem a little counterintuitive. After all, how many Eastern Europeans speak Ukrainian? Quite a few, to be honest. But there's another reason: Ukrainian has absorbed and given words to almost every neighboring language. Polish and Russian, the two most widely learned Slavic languages, connect to each other via Ukrainian (in fact, there may even be two separate dialects of Ukrainian: Polish Ukrainian and Russian Ukrainian). It is the metaphorical trunk of the tree of Slavic languages. Anyway, it's also the third most beautiful language according to a 1934 linguistic contest held in Paris, and that's a whole reason on its own.

Admittedly, I don't have teaching qualifications, but, based on the assessments of native speakers I've communicated with, I have enough vocabulary and grammar knowledge to communicate on day-to-day subjects and I have a basic curriculum I've been working on in my free time for a few weeks (I like teaching).

[Ian Plätschisch]

Glad to see that someone is expressing interest in the Royal Society

FYI the board name hasn't been changed, but UTal no longer exists, and it has been replaced with the Royal Society for the Advancement of Knowledge. Of course, this would not prevent you from teaching people Ukrainian if you found people who were interested.

[Deleted]

So... the response is "If you can find enough people to join, you'll have a green light"?

[Ian Plätschisch]

Nov 12, 2016 6:01:59 GMT -6 Iac Marscheir said:

So... the response is "If you can find enough people to join, you'll have a green light"?

Well, the purpose of the Royal Society is that anyone can post anything educational that they want (there is a membership structure, but I don't think it precludes others from posting), so I'd say you don't even need a green light to proceed.

[Deleted]

Well, alright. Thanks!

[Alèx Soleighlfred]

Ukranian sounds so funny to us Russians Imagine someone pronouncing english words in an intentionally wrong and funny way, messing up the vowels - that's how it sounds to us. However, though I can't actually speak Ukranian, I can understand it pretty well without vocabulary.

[Tamoran Montagnhard]

Nov 13, 2016 0:52:31 GMT -6 Alèx Soleighlfred said:

Ukranian sounds so funny to us Russians Imagine someone pronouncing english words in an intentionally wrong and funny way, messing up the vowels - that's how it sounds to us. However, though I can't actually speak Ukranian, I can understand it pretty well without vocabulary.

Messing up like changing O to A and E to И?

But talkig serious, I can see and understand why you see Ukrainian this way.

[Deleted]

I wrote a pretty detailed first lesson, and it was all ready, and then, when I went to submit it, there was an error and it brought me to a different page than the one I was writing on, and when I went back to the old one, my piece was gone.

[Angela Parsons]

Oh no! I'd be interested if this got going.