Eastern Slavic Language
Cyrillic Alphabet (33 letters)
38 percent of it\'s lexicon differs from Russian. (Slightly more than Spanish and Italian, which differ by 33 percent.)
Ukrainian language does NOT use articles in sentences
No auxiliaries (be, can, do, shall) to help tenses
However Russian learners may give undue prominence to words that English native speakers would swallow; for example as and has in the following sentences: He\'s as strong as an ox / She has 3 brothers. Russian learners may ask questions with falling instead of rising intonation, which does not sound polite to English native speakers.
Young learners may mix up Cyrillic and Latin letters and sounds

8H 2014-21015 Cultures & Languages in Our Classroom By Leanne Hume