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 ...

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.

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 ...

This column is about language, not foreign affairs. But language is culture. It offers a way to form bonds with people from other lands. When a peaceful country is fighting for its survival, when ...

The instruction of the Ukrainian language has been virtually wiped out in areas that Moscow-backed separatists control in eastern Ukraine where an armed conflict has simmered since April 2014, the ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...