Free course · Pre-A1 to C1

Learn Ukrainian, слово за словом

Start with the alphabet, then learn the words modern Ukrainian actually uses, most frequent first, level by level. Each lesson teaches twenty words with spaced review, and each unit ends with a checkpoint. The word list is the Ukrainian Frequency corpus study; the levels come from the validated PULS profile.

6,403
validated words
44
units
326
lessons
1,838
words with a recording

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How much real Ukrainian you can read

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Out of every 100 words of running Ukrainian text, this many are words you know. Knowing a word counts all its forms.

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Finish a lesson and this fills in: the first unit alone covers about 31.6% of running text, because the most frequent words come first.

The whole course covers 75.1% of running text; the rest is rarer words, names and numbers. Measured against UberText 2.0, the corpus the frequency list is built from. Placed-out units are not counted until you review their words.

The course map

Every unit in the course, one cell each, from the alphabet to C1. Open any unit to see its words.

Pre-A1
Alphabet and sounds
A1
Beginner
A2
Elementary
B1
Intermediate
B2
Upper intermediate
C1
Advanced
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Your numbers

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A word counts as mastered when its review interval passes three weeks. Placed-out units never count as mastered.

Where your progress is saved

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The data

Every word here comes from the Ukrainian Frequency list, with its level from the PULS profile. See how the two official lexical minimums compare in the crosswalk.

Your own reading

Paste a Ukrainian text into the text profiler to see how much of it a given level covers, or measure your vocabulary with the vocabulary-size test.

The Lightning Course

The Lightning Course is the year-long plan this course fits into: phonology drills, a speaking tutor, and progress measures. Studied there already? Import your progress.

Teach with it

Run a free class on this course: share a join link, assign units with due dates, and see who is keeping up. Your classes.

How levels are set

Only words the PULS profile has checked and leveled are in the course (6,403 of 12,000), ordered by how often they appear in real text. Read the method.

Course 0.1.0, built from the Ukrainian Frequency list (UberText 2.0) and the PULS validated vocabulary profile. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0: free and non-commercial, because the levels are.

Профіль української лексики (ПУЛЬС) / О. Синчак, В. Старко, М. Бурак, М. Свистун та ін. Львів: Школа української мови та культури УКУ, 2026.

Levels are a dated snapshot (2026-07-23), not the final profile. Recordings are native speakers from Lingua Libre (Wikimedia) where marked, credited on each card; others are labeled as synthesized.