Frequency is the backbone; the rest is habit. A plan that works for most adult learners:
- Alphabet and sounds first. Thirty-three letters, a few days. The free course starts here.
- The first 100, then [A1](/a1). 860 words that cover 37.95% of running text. Learn each with its stress and one example phrase.
- Spaced repetition every day. Short daily reviews beat long weekly sessions. The Learn Ukrainian course schedules reviews for you, free, with no account needed; if you already use Anki, take the deck for your level. The course map shows which unit teaches what.
- [A2](/a2), then [B1](/b1). By the end of B1 you know 3,460 validated words covering 64.21% of running text.
- Read early, measure often. Paste a news article into the text profiler and see your coverage climb. Pick texts at 90% or more.
- Learn verbs in pairs. See aspect pairs and verbs of motion.
Free tools behind this site
- Word lookup: any form of a word, with stress, level and meaning.
- Vocabulary-size test: where you are now.
- Learn Ukrainian: the course, Pre-A1 to C1.
- Anki decks: one per level, free.
- The research: every part of the open study this site is built on.