Armin Schwarz, Hesse's Minister of Culture, attends the CDU parliamentary group meeting in the Hessian state parliament. Arne Dedert/dpa The western German state of Hesse plans to start offering ...

On a Friday afternoon this spring, a group of students slowly streamed into a classroom at 370 Temple Street, chatting as they found their seats. As they settled in, the instructor, Lauri Lafferty, ...

In a unique course this spring, Yiddish scholar Leyzer Burko will explore the rich dialect of Ukrainian-Yiddish, once widely spoken not just in Ukraine, but in Romania, Moldova and Poland.

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 ...

I began to learn Ukrainian in the early spring of 2022, shortly after the start of Russia’s second invasion of Ukraine. For me, languages are an important way of making sense of the world and creating ...

Babbel to launch language courses for Ukrainians to learn German, Polish and English Courses range from beginner to intermediate levels, focussing on fast learning Free courses are available via ...

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 ...

Neil Bermel receives funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Vladimir Putin has written about the “historical unity” of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, in part through their ...

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 ...