This podcast is suitable for beginners.
Mostly they will be about pronunciation of words, colloquial phrases, vocabulary topics and also sometimes I will conduct vocabulary dictations.

Український подкаст для початківців з Альоною / Ukrainian podcast for beginners with Alyona 

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Hey there! Time to practice some confusing letters:) Today we are practicing letters Х and Г.

Words featuring "Х":

хлопець  - boy
хмара - cloud

Additional ones:
Холодно - cold (adverb)
Хата - a house, a hut
Хом'як - a hamster

Words featuring "Г" :

гора (hora) - mountain
година (hodyna) - hour

Additional ones:
Голод - hunger
Газ - gas
Гараж - a garage

Sentences:

У хлопця була година.  - The boy had an hour.
На горі була велика хмара. - There was a big cloud on the mountain.

Additional ones:
Тут холодно - It's cold here
Це хліб - It's bread

Letters Х and Г

If you want to say HELLO, it depends on the time of day.
If it's morning, it's better to say ДОБРОГО РАНКУ.
If it's afternoon, it's ДОБРИЙ ДЕНЬ
If it is evening - then ДОБРИЙ ВЕЧІР or ДОБРОГО ВЕЧОРА
If it's night -- ДОБРОЇ НОЧІ
If you want to wish someone good night, you can use the previous phrase or ДОБРАНІЧ
It is also possible to say ВІТАЮ, but this word has two meanings: HELLO or Congratulations
These are formal greetings.
However, if you're talking to a friend, it's okay to say ПРИВІТ.

So how to say goodbye or bye? 
Goodbye is до побачення. By the way, побачення means “a date” and до in this context means “till”, but this phrase still means “goodbye”.
If you want to say “see you”, you can say “до зустрічі”. 
These are kind of formal ones.
And if you are talking to a friend and want to say “bye”, you can say:
– па-па (bye bye)
– бувай (bye)
So we can say it like “Як справи”.
“Як ти” – which is informal.

And what should we answer? 
We can say: 
Добре – which means good.
Дуже добре – very good 
Нормально – normal
Не дуже – not much. As I have said before, дуже – means very. So we literally say “not very”.
Чудово – great
Погано – bad
It is also possible to say “непогано” which means “not bad”


Basic words in Ukrainian 

Hi! Today we will talk about letters Г, І, Й, Ї, Ц and Щ.
Examples:
- голова (a head)
- гора (a mountain)
- гострий (spicy or sharp)
- хмара (a cloud)
- хліб (a bread)
- хвиля (a wave) 
- іграшка (a toy)
- ім’я (a name)
- ідея (an idea)
- йод (iodine)
- йти (to go)
- йой (exclamation)
- їжак (a hedgehog), 
- їжа (food)
-  їсти (to eat)
- цуцик (a puppy)
-  цирк (a circus)
-  цезар (Caesar)
- щастя (happiness)
-  щодня  (every day)
-  що ( what) 
- щедрий ( generous.)




