Episode #8: Explaining Ukrainian

05/08/2020 1h 50min
Episode #8: Explaining Ukrainian

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Episode Synopsis

This pod the boys are joined by Ian's longtime friend Lee Reaney, a Canadian expat and journalist based in Lviv, Ukraine. Ian and Lee regale about Ian's diaspora trip to the country in 2017 and touch on how heritage language learning can unlock one's personal history. After, Lee explains the unique coexistence of Ukrainian and Russian in Ukraine and how the former is being promoted since the Euromaidan Revolution. Finally Lee discusses the blended language Surjik and his latest articles on discovering Ukraine through film.

Read Lee at Lviv Today, What's on-Kyiv and en.hromadske.ua