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.

Ukrainian is a Slavic language written in the Cyrillic script and spoken by around 40 million people. Ukrainian speakers live mostly in Ukraine, but given the large and historical migration dating ...

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian globally via the language learning app Duolingo has grown: figures from March 20 showed a 577 per cent increase. In ...