Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was "gobsmacked" by ...

Thursday, February 24, 2022, marks a tragic date in world history: that of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This Russian-Ukrainian conflict had already been brewing since November 2013 but finally ...

The complex language history of Russia and Ukraine long ago set the stage for today’s conflict between the two countries. In an impassioned speech to the Russian parliament in March 2014, Russia’s ...

Duolingo shared a spike in their users' interest in learning Ukrainian and shares some history alongside helpful tips for learning the language. Duolingo recently reported a 200% increase in users ...

More people are taking time to study Ukrainian as the Russia-Ukraine war continues. Duolingo, a popular language learning app, reports that it saw a 577% global increase in Ukrainian language learners ...

Olha Tytarenko joined the Yale faculty in spring 2024 with the intention of introducing a formal Ukrainian language program at the University. In the fall semester, the Slavic Languages and ...

(RNS) — For centuries, Ukraine was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, but never before had the Haggadah, the Passover liturgy that millions of Jews will read around their ...

A third of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language. But Russia's invasion has led several people to distance themselves from the language. We're 60 days into Russia's assault on Ukraine. Much ...