How much Ukrainian I've learned after 112 hours of study

I am learning Ukrainian.

I’m using my business’ language acquisition methods. As of today, I have studied for a total of 112 hours.

Here’s a breakdown of my study time.

My level as of now.

I do not have a Ukrainian tutor who works at the Calgary Language Nerds who is trained in our assessment methods. Therefore, I have had to assess myself. However, I believe the results are still reasonably accurate.

Speech rate: high-beginner

I speak at an average of 39 words per minute. On my rubric, that is a high-beginner level. I’ve assessed this by talking about different topics every day for 5 minutes and counting how many words I coherently strung together. I do not prepare in advance prior to speaking; I just try to flow.

Tenses: intermediate

I use the present, imperfective past, and a simple form of the future tense. I do not ever use the perfective past or what I refer to as the “real” future tense. In short, based on my self-assessment I have an intermediate level.

Cases: low-beginner

While I use all Ukrainian tenses, I do so intuitively. I just guess and hope I’m right. Lol. Therefore, I have put myself at a low-beginner.

Accuracy: not assessed

Accuracy refers to how correctly I speak across all grammar points. I plan to get a tutor to assess me on this since the assessment instructions are quite clear. I can hire a tutor and quickly teach them how to assess me. My goal is to be have 80% accuracy, which is an intermediate level.

Vocabulary size: high-beginner

I know ~880 word families. In terms of individual words, I know ~5300. I care more about word families though since that number remains, to my knowledge, relatively constant between languages. Individual word counts are definitely not the same across languages. My goal is to know at least 1000 word families, which is the entry point to an intermediate level.

Translation reliance: not assessed

It’s impossible to assess this without having conversations with real people. Since I’m not doing that now, I cannot assess this skill. I will say, though, that when I talk out loud at home to myself, I rarely need a translator.

Comprehension rate: not assessed

I’m not worried about measuring this. I suspect mine is advanced because, provided I know the words, I am already able to almost keep up with native-level speech rates even though I am still a beginner.

My overall level is high-beginner.

Perhaps the low end of a high-beginner level, to be precise. My estimate was that I would reach an intermediate level in 210 hours. I am about halfway to 210 hours and, based on my estimation, about halfway to my goal.

Woot!

Let’s see how things play out!

I will keep you posted 😊