Language is not just a collection of words stored in dictionaries, and not an arbitrary set of meanings. Language is a way of thinking and reflecting reality, it is a picture of the world that our distant ancestors began to paint and our distant descendants will continue to complete. We also take a direct part in its creation, constantly adding and improving the background and plot. Our language picture shows how we see the world. And we see it in Ukrainian.

   Olga Dubchak — candidate of philological sciences, professional editor, literary editor, audio editor and editor-in-chief. In short, he wants to talk about it. It so happened that editing became the basis of her whole life, although Olga herself did not plan this. 

   She was born in Kyiv, in Obolon, which sometimes suddenly affects her speech and attitudes to various life situations. She studied in a physics-mathematics class and planned to enter KPI, but the engineering and technical specialties were "against". She entered the Faculty of Ukrainian Philology of the National Pedagogical University named after M.P. Drahomanova, because "for" all the district and city olympiads in language and literature, won by Olga, spoke. There, she defended her PhD thesis at the Department of Ukrainian Language.

   Study at school, university, further teaching, pedagogical practice and preparation of applicants for external examinations in Ukrainian language and literature Olga in general liked But there was one problem: neither Olga herself, nor the students and teachers who had the difficult fate of dealing with her, could not and cannot understand — why learn the rules if no one remembers them and does not apply them in practice? Why bother with the rule of nines (What is the rule of nines, you ask? That's what we're talking about!) if the word "chips" is it still spelled wrong everywhere? After all: why do we still dream of school lessons on the Ukrainian language, if we remember absolutely nothing about them? these questions and tell about the Ukrainian language in such a way that it would be interesting, useful and maybe even fun. Although there are no guarantees in this matter, because Olga has no sense of humor at all.

   The book "Hear Ukrainian" is the first of three dedicated to the rules of the Ukrainian language, but not what you thought, but others. If you didn't think anything like that — even better In the first book, we will talk about letters and sounds, the principles of their agreement and interaction, try to remember a few words and understand why the apostrophe — cool, but soft sign — unsure of himself and visits a specialist. Plus a bit of history and interesting facts.