Ukrainian belongs to the East Slavic language family, sharing roots with Russian and Belarusian. For English speakers, mastering this beautiful language presents unique challenges and opportunities.

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 ...

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 ...

People around the world are looking for ways to unite with Ukraine amidst the conflict with Russia. Duolingo, a language-learning platform based in Pittsburgh, reports an estimated 341,000 ...

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 ...