A PRACTICAL COMPANION FOR LEARNING UKRAINIAN IN ROMANIA(A review of the phrasebook: Ioan Herbil, Mihaela Herbil. Ghid de Conversație Român-Ucrainean. București: RCR Editoral, 2017. 384 p.)

The publication of the Romanian-Ukrainian phrasebook by Ioan Herbil and Mihaela Herbil (Bucharest, 2017) is an important contribution to the development of Ukrainian studies, which have been carried out for more than 20 years at the Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature of Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. The opening of the specialization in Ukrainian Studies at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of the Faculty of Philology at the University of Cluj in the academic year 1999/2000 was due to the need, mainly caused by historical and political events, to provide professional training for native Ukrainians in Romania as highly qualified specialists in the field of Ukrainian language, literature and culture for teaching and translation purposes, for which a corresponding curriculum was developed. As time went by, however, the demand for learning Ukrainian language from students whose mother tongue was not Ukrainian increased, so the efforts of the teachers of the Department of Ukrainian Language and Literature were directed not only at creating a research base for studying Ukrainian dialectology, toponymy or anthroponymy, translation of Ukrainian literature into Romanian, etc., but also at developing a linguodidactic direction in the study of Ukrainian as a foreign language by native Romanian speakers. This has been facilitated by numerous academic publications by the staff of the department, including the peer-reviewed Romanian-Ukrainian Phrasebook. The review describes the structure, content, information and thematic content of the Phrasebook, pointing out some sections that are primarily devoted to the coverage of the phonetic and accentuation features of the Ukrainian language or to the transcription of Ukrainian words or phrases, which will undoubtedly facilitate the perception of all linguistic nuances by those who have decided to deepen their knowledge of Ukrainian as an inherited language or to master another foreign language. Key words: phrasebook, Romanian-Ukrainian linguistic, literary and cultural connections, Ukrainian as a heritage language and as a foreign language in Romania.