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Personal experience: five techniques that help in learning a foreign language

Ksenia Turkova now lives in the USA and works as a journalist in the Russian service of Voice of America. She is fluent in Ukrainian, although she lived in Kiev all 4 year. According to "Voice of America"She had to get up at six in the morning to learn the language while the three-year-old son was sleeping. She spoke about her experience in quick language learning.

Photos: Facebook Ksenia Turkova

Help and initiative

I am convinced that the best place to start is with an inspiring teacher. And I found such a teacher in Lviv - this is a philologist, linguist, associate professor at the Lviv Ivan Franko National University Solomiya Buk. We studied on Skype, and for this I had to wake up very early - at six: this was the time when my three-year-old son was still sleeping.

But it is important that not only the teacher inspires you - you also need to inspire him. I didn't want to stick to just the textbook. For example, I read the texts of Ukrainian television news, and Solomiya corrected the accents and pronunciation.

Theory of small steps

And, in my opinion, it is important to do everything gradually, step by step. I used this technique on the radio. At first, during the interview, I asked only one question in Ukrainian. A few days later - two questions, then - three... Until, in the end, I was unable to conduct an hour-long interview in Ukrainian. It seems to me that the same can be done not on the radio, but in everyday communication - add one, two, three sentences in Ukrainian - and so gradually increase the use of the language.

Fall into childhood

Oddly enough, my child also helped me make huge progress! Every day we started with children's programs and cartoons. And in the evening I read books to him in Ukrainian. He still loves Ukrainian poetry very much, and we took several of his favorite books with us to the United States. The language in children's books and cartoons is very simple, and this is what is needed at the elementary level. In addition, cartoons are also a treat for the ear, because Ukrainian dubbing is considered one of the best.

Literature

Of course, we shouldn’t ignore adult literature either. Honestly, it's difficult, but it really enriches the language with new words and expressions. Here in the United States, I try to read in three languages: Russian, Ukrainian and English. I recently read “Boarding School” by Sergei Zhadan, and I was very impressed by this book. By the way, I noticed that one language seems to help another. The higher my English, the better my Ukrainian - and vice versa.

(Not) comparison

But the most important and at the same time the most difficult trick for me is not to compare the Ukrainian language with Russian. You need to abstract yourself from the Russian language while studying, because this comparison will bother you.

For example, I compared Ukrainian with Finnish and Italian, which I once studied. These languages, in my opinion, have something in common in pronunciation - it is read as it is written. It was very funny when I arrived in Venice and instead of questo I said “this”.

I believe that the main thing for learning Ukrainian is to treat it not as a language “similar” to Russian, but as an absolutely independent, rich and, of course, very good language.

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