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 ...

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 ...

Although NATO's official languages are English and French, the content on NATO's website has also been available in both Ukrainian and Russian since at least 2014. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Despite Russia's war of aggression and ongoing Ukrainization, Russian is still often spoken in school playgrounds. Why? DW spoke with students, parents, teachers and experts.

A Russian member of parliament has said that he and his political party believed that Ukraine and its language had no right to exist. The comments were made by Alexei Didenko during a conference on ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joshua Holzer, Westminster College (THE CONVERSATION) In 2022, after the start of the ...