⚡ The Lightning Course

Zero to B2 Ukrainian, in a year.

An interactive tool built on the evidence: massive comprehensible input, early phonology, spaced retrieval, and a tutor feedback loop - measured against real proficiency proxies, not hours logged. Start with the alphabet today.

Can you actually hit B2 in a year?

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The arithmetic behind the course, live. Ukrainian is an FSI “hard” language - roughly 700-900 effective hours to B2. Set your honest daily budget and see where a year lands you.

Self-study efficiency:
B2
projected in 12 months

B2 is realistic. This is the target plan.

The ~3 hr/day track (~1,000 h) hits a confident B2 across all four skills, with C1-level reading and listening. The 12-month curriculum is built around exactly this pace.

1095
raw hours / year
767
effective hours (×eff.)
4.4 mo
to reach B1
8.6 mo
to reach B2
A1
A2
B1
B2
C1
Effective-hour bands for a “hard” language. The red line is your projected effective hours after one year.

Your actual pace

The calculator above is a what-if. Log the time you really study and this projects from your own average, not a guess.

Log a few days of study time to see the projection from your real pace.

The twelve-month path

Five phases from a cold start to a confident B2, at a ~3 hr/day baseline. The engine is comprehensible input; the accelerators are early phonology, spaced retrieval, and a prompt-based tutor feedback loop. Tick off each phase as you go, and measure against real proxies, not hours logged.

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Phase 0

Alphabet + phonology sprint

You are hereWeeks 1–2
Target Pre-A11.5–2 hr/day0/5 activities

Read Cyrillic fluently; establish accurate perception and production of the sound system (palatalization, г/ґ, и vs і, the trilled р, the apostrophe).

Resources for this phase
Phase 1

Core grammar skeleton + top-1,000 lexicon

Weeks 3–14
Target A2~3 hr/day0/5 activities

Case system introduced receptively (nom/acc/gen/dat/instr/loc/voc); present/past/future; aspect introduced; top-1,000 lemmas.

Resources for this phase
Phase 2

Massive input + sentence mining

Months 4–7
Target B13–3.5 hr/day0/4 activities

Consolidate all cases productively; master aspect through exposure + explicit study; 2,000–3,000 lemmas; comprehension of slow native content.

Resources for this phase
Phase 3

Output + tutoring + feedback loop

Months 8–10
Target B23–3.5 hr/day0/4 activities

Fluent functional speaking; aspect and motion verbs productively accurate; 4,000–5,000 lemmas; register awareness.

Resources for this phase
Phase 4

Consolidation, register expansion, exam prep

Months 11–12
Target B2 → C1 reach~3 hr/day0/4 activities

Solidify B2, extend receptive skills toward C1, optional УМІ (Ukrainian-as-a-foreign-language) certification.

Resources for this phase

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