My First Ukrainian Dictionary

Withcolorful, eye-catching illustrations to stimulate imagination and curiosity, My First Ukrainian Dictionary is specially designed forchildren ages 5 to 12. It contains more than 1,000 everyday words (from colors, animals, household items, foods and more)--each illustrated and translated into Ukrainianwith accompanying phonetic pronunciation. Theillustrations are arranged alphabetically by English so even young readers caneasily search for words, and each one is labeled with clear, boldtype. Recent studies suggest that children should beginlearning a foreign language before age 10 for best results. This dictionary isa fun, engaging way for parents or grandparents to introduce Ukrainian to youngchildren. Teachers will also find the dictionary useful for students who arelearning Ukrainian or English from Kindergarten and up.Ukrainian is an EastSlavic language spoken by over 40 million people worldwide. It is an officiallanguage of Ukraine in Eastern Europe and written with the Ukrainian alphabetusing a variation of the Cyrillic script.