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["Max Pyziur" <pyz@brama.com>]

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Objet:   Fwd: [mova] [Fwd: [aaus-list] Ukraina TV and language teaching]
De:      "K&I Bell" <kib@magma.ca>
Date:    Jeu 19 mai 2005 23:16
À:       natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca
Copie à: pyz@brama.com
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Shanovna pani Nataliu -
         I wonder if you know that www.ukrainatv.com originates in Toronto
? Done by a very nice young man, Vasyl Kapeniak, about whom there was a 
half-page article in The Ukr Weekly last year.
         I remember he was concerned enough about transliteration to
contact us at the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, U of O., when he started up 
his site, and I informed him about the LC transliteration and some slight 
(non-Russian) variants that may be more acceptable in every-day use  (e.g.
 Yushchenko instead of Iushchenko, Andriy instead of Andrii etc.).  I'm 
surprised to hear that the site uses the g's and i's instead of h's and 
y's, but perhaps he is accommodating his clientele  that learned
transliteration in Ukraine ?
         At any rate, he is very approachable.   kontakt@ukrainatv.com   
. Vs'oho dobroho,
                         Irena

>From: "Max Pyziur" <pyz@brama.com>
>To: mova@brama.com, uvc@brama.com
>fyi,
>MP
>pyz@brama.com
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>De:      "Natalia Pylypiuk" <natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca>
>Date:    Lun 16 mai 2005 17:33
>À:       aaus-list@ukrainianstudies.org
>          "Roman Senkus" <r.senkus@utoronto.ca>
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>To Colleagues who teach Ukrainian at American and Canadian universities
>
>Dear Colleagues,
>
>I would like to draw your attention to the services of Ukraina TV
<www.UkrainaTV.com>
>
>I have been a subscriber for several months now and find that the video
clips
>of daily news, including sports, from various TV stations in Ukraine,
such as 5-yj kanal,
>TSN (1+1), Novyj Kanal, etc., are very useful in my Ukrainian language
classes.
>
>I often combine the viewing of news clips on the internet with the
reading of corresponding
>news reports on the website of 5-yj kanal <http://5tv.com.ua/newsline/>
to create listening
>and reading exercises that are devoted to current events.  Many of the
news items are sufficiently
>brief to make them useful even in the beginning-language classroom.  It
helps to have a smart
>classroom for this purpose!
>
>Besides topical material about the world and Ukraine, news reports
address material relevant
>to the season. Thus, during Christmas, Easter, etc. reports often 
include material relating to
>the puppet theatre, caroling, the writing of pysanky, church services,
etc., all of which
>enhances the study of culture and language as an integral process.
>
>Ukraina TV also has music video clips, commercials and other materials 
that give a glimpse into contemporary youth culture. All of these can be
successfully adapted for the language
>classroom.
>
>The cost of subscribing to Ukraina TV, in my opinion, is very
>reasonable.  The only problem with the website is the use
>of the Soviet transliteration system. Thus, for example, *Braty
>Hadiukiny*, *khloptsi*, and *Halyna* are all rendered
>in the Russians fashion as *Braty Gadiukiny*, *hloptsi*,  and
>*Gallina.*  But, with the help of a critical mass
>of subscribers, we might be able to convince the managers to adopt the
Library of Congress system for the transliteration
>of Ukrainian into English.
>
>As you know, the news from Ukraine are very exciting nowadays. They can
be used imaginatively to attract
>students to our classrooms.
>
>Best wishes,
>Natalia Pylypiuk
>
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>Dr. Natalia Pylypiuk, Associate Professor
>Modern Languages and Cultural Studies  http://www.mlcs.ca
>200 Arts, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2E6
>voice mail: (780) 492-3498
>
>Canadian Association of Slavists
>http://www.ualberta.ca/~csp/cas
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