Ukrainian script hacking by Judith Meyer

Ukrainian script hacking by Judith Meyer – the optimal pathway to learn the Ukrainian alphabet – is better to be avoided. I gave the book 1 star because it is such an appalling mess. This should have been about the Cyrillic alphabet as it is used in Ukrainian, so imagine my surprise to see, at the end of the book, the russian spelling for Odesa, with double s instead of the correct one. It was not a mistake as throughout the book, a little at first and more and more towards the end, there were examples for “russian politician” or “russian artist” or russians included in the examples for “famous people”. It is appalling considering that the book is about UKRAINIAN script, not Cyrillic… and that this book was published 3 years into russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine and 11 years into the latest invasion.

I looked into the author, as I assumed, like anyone would, that someone who writes a book on Ukrainian script is pro-Ukrainian. No, she is not. On her twitter account, she mentions Ukraine in the last year only to compare it to Gaza. She said that russia can loose as many men they want but that Ukraine can’t do that, which is a russian-propaganda talking point, making it as Ukraine has a single option – to surrender. It also creates the false idea that surrendering means the killings would stop, which is wrong as Bucha, Irpin, and Izyum showed what happens when the russians take a place. In 2022 she even shared an article which said that US and UK are to blame for russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

She barely mentions Ukraine on her twitter, nothing about the killing of children, the attacks on civilians, or the torture of POWs. I wonder why did she wrote and publish this book. Why “Ukrainian script hacking” and not “Cyrillic script hacking”? Avoid the book, it is not worth reading.