I began to learn Ukrainian in the early spring of 2022, shortly after the start of Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine. For me, languages are an important way of making sense of the world and creating ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.

Celebrities in Kyiv, a businessman in Kharkiv, an interior designer from Crimea...they're all studying Ukrainian amid a growth in interest in learning the language among the country's native Russian ...

“I guess the general sense is that for a lot of Eastern European immigrants across Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Georgia, or any Central Asian country, once you leave your home, the lingua franca is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Antonina Sidorenko, 9, holds a Ukrainian language schoolbook on the first day of online school in her village in southern Ukraine ...

In Chernihiv, northeast of Kyiv, Ukrainian language lessons take place in one of the few intact rooms in the city’s public library, damaged earlier this year when the Russians pummeled the city with ...