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 ...

ODESA – When Russia invaded on Feb. 24, it immediately triggered a surge of patriotism in Ukraine that included a push for people to make more use of the nation’s official language: Ukrainian. Signs ...

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 ...

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 ...

Victor Yanukovych‘s Party of the Regions is pushing for a referendum on granting Russian official status as a national language, in addition to Ukrainian. Taras of Ukrainiana points out the ...

LVIV and ODESA, Ukraine — In prewar Ukraine, Svitlana Panova spoke her native Russian without giving it much thought. But now, she has lost her home to Russia twice — fleeing Crimea after Russia's ...

Misha Kostin, a 21-year-old construction engineer in eastern Ukraine, loves The Simpsons. He's loved it for 10 years. He says the animated series "illustrates everyday life problems in humorous ways, ...

A Ukrainian official called out a Russian ambassador in Europe on Saturday for language that he condemned as "genocidal." The outcry was sparked by Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's Permanent Representative ...

CORRECTS para 4 to read Sea of Azov sted Black Sea Galyna Lekunova, a veterinarian in the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, was left fuming by a new law in January mandating the use of Ukrainian in ...

Whether someone's speech is a language or a dialect is a matter of both linguistics and politics. illust-monster/iStock/Getty Images Plus In 2022, after the start of ...