Yuri I. Shevchuk, Lecturer in Ukrainian

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MA in theory and practice of translation, Kyiv State University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1982

Ph.D. in Germanic Philology (English lexicology), Kyiv State University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1987

MA in political science (comparative politics and American government), New School for Social Research, New York, NY, 1996

 

Research interests: foreign language pedagogy, Ukrainian language, sociolinguistics, culture and identity, language and politics, post-colonial theories, film studies.

 

 

 

This popular language textbook with an interactive website offers an easy, effective, and fun way for beginners to learn how to read, write, speak and understand Ukrainian.

The second edition has been updated with new exercises, grammar lessons, photographs and illustrations. Beginner s Ukrainian covers such common conversational topics as meeting people, traveling, shopping, hobbies, family relations, vacationing, meals, weather, and much more. Priority is given to developing learners conversational skills while providing them with a solid grammar foundation. The book s companion website offers a wealth of interactive conversational, grammar, and phonetic drills designed for use by both independent and instructor-led learners.

The book includes fifteen useful lessons, covering everyday situations such as introductions, family, and shopping
An interactive website featuring audio dialogues and exercises recorded using native speakers is also available to users.

The guide also includes useful cultural and grammatical notes; appendices of critical information, including declension tables, noun endings, common Ukrainian names, numbers, verb conjugations and more; and a Ukrainian-English/ English-Ukrainian dictionary of words used in the book.

 

Yuri Shevchuk’s translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is published in Kyiv.

1. Article on the information war under Russian aggression against Ukraine in the leading Ukrainian national website Ukrainska Pravda (March 10, 2014):
 

http://www.pravda.com.ua/columns/2014/03/10/7018260/

 

 

2. Article on the language situation during the Russian aggression against Ukraine now in the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror of the Week), a highly respected national weekly publication in Ukraine (published in Ukrainian and Russian (July 11, 2014):

(Ukrainian) http://gazeta.dt.ua/socium/ob-yednannya-navkolo-odniyeyi-derzhavnoyi-movi-kategorichniy-imperativ-_.html
 

(Russian) http://gazeta.zn.ua/socium/obedinenie-vokrug-odnogo-gosudarstvennogo-yazyka-kategoricheskiy-imperativ-_.html

 

 

3. Interview on the Ukrainian Public Radio (Hromadske Radio) (July 18, 2014): 
 

http://hromadskeradio.org/2014/07/18/yuriy-shevchuk-pro-vikladannya-ukrayinskoyi-movi-ta-movnu-shizofreniyu/

 

 

 

4. Interview on the Ukrainian Television Channel Kultura (their answer to the US PBS’s Charlie Rose) (August 22, 2014):
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jcuiwammjs

 

 

Also:
 

1. Interview on Radio Kultura, Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

http://schedule.nrcu.gov.ua/grid/channel/period/item-listen-popup.html?periodItemID=878286
 

2. The lecture “The Policy of Language Pairing and the Future of the Ukrainian Language”, June 2, 2015, the University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine (in Ukrainian).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3o82fk8v_Q#t=17

 

3. Segment on language situation, bilingualism in Ukraine on the ICTV Ukrainian national TV channel (in Ukrainian)

http://fakty.ictv.ua/ua/index/view-media/id/92290

 

4. “Ukrainian Identity, Language, and Culture after the Revolution of Dignity,” public lecture at the Ye Bookstore, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 3, 2015 (in Ukrainian).

https://www.mixcloud.com/viktor-ishchenko/лекція-юрія-шевчука-на-тему-українська-ідентичність-мова-і-культура-після-майдану-книгарня-є

 

5. Interview on the popular program Evening with Mykola Kniazhytsky of the Espresso TV, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 5, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6THs5QY47k&list=PLCPC7CzMu8ouuyOZ84w-L4KywJSFB0xEs&index=1

 

6. Interview for the Ukrainian broadcast division of Radio Liberty, June 8, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

http://www.radiosvoboda.mobi/a/27059088.html

 

7. Interview on the Morning in Kyiv, popular news program of the Kyiv TV, June 10, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPasQ2JUJPA&feature=youtu.be

 

8. Quote in the Uriadovy Kurier (Government Courier) on the state of Ukrainian filmmaking, June 13, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

http://www.ukurier.gov.ua/uk/articles/chi-zmozhe-odna-gvardiya-podolati-sotnyu-specnazu

 

9. Interview on the state of language, identity and culture for the glavcom.ua June 19, 2015

(in Ukrainian) http://glavcom.ua/articles/30152.html

 

10. Reprint of the interview for glavcom.ua web site by the http://ukrajina.tak.today June 23, 2015

(in Ukrainian) http://ukrajina.tak.today/shevchyk-perexodyty-na-rosijsku

 

11. Interview for the Zakhid Studio of the Espresso TV, July 4, 2015 (in Ukrainian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P5ahzI5bK8&feature=youtu.be

 

12. Interview for the zik.ua on the policy of language pairing as a new powerful tool of Russification in Ukraine, July 8, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

http://zik.ua/ua/analytics/2015/07/08/yuriy_shevchuk_movna_shyzofreniya__nova_potuzhna_forma_rusyfikatsii_605587

 

13. Interview for the Hromadske Radio (Public Radio), Kyiv, Ukraine on the language situation in Ukraine, July 19, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

http://hromadskeradio.org/gromadska-hvylya/zhodna-tytulna-naciya-ne-vypravdovuyetsya-za-pravo-maty-odnu-derzhavnu-movu-yuriy-shevchuk

 

14. Nazifying Ukraine on the Silver Screen in the Wake of the Tribeca Film Festival, article published by two leading Ukrainian filmmaking industry publications: kinokolo.ua, screenplay.com.ua and the Ukrainian National Filmmakers’ Union, April 30, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

 

http://kinokolo.ua/articles/836/

http://www.screenplay.com.ua/articles/?id=846

http://ukrkino.com.ua/kinotext/articles/?id=1937

 

15. American Film in Search of a Ukrainian Protagonist. Is It Possible to Be Ukrainian without Being One, a film review of the feature documentary Crocodile Gennadiy competing at the Tribeca Film Festival 2015, published by two leading Ukrainian filmmaking industry publications: kinokolo.ua, screenplay.com.ua and the Ukrainian National Filmmakers’ Union, May 15, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

 

http://screenplay.com.ua/articles/?id=854

http://kinokolo.ua/articles/837/

http://www.ukrkino.com.ua/news/?id=2045

 

16. Article on the state of the Ukrainian filmmaking on the telekritika.ua July 21, 2015 (in Ukrainian).

http://www.telekritika.ua/kontekst/2015-07-21/109378

 

17. Article on the state of the Ukrainian filmmaking in the leading filmmaking industry publication screenplay.com.ua July 26, 2015 (in Ukrainian)

http://www.screenplay.com.ua/articles/?id=914

18. Yuri Shevchuk speaks at the United Nations International Mother Language Day, on Feb 22, 2016

 

 

 

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