Free online courses of Ukrainian language offered for foreigners
Activists from Kyiv-based Borys Grinchenko University launched free online courses of Ukrainian language.

The courses are aimed at foreigners who speak English, French or Chinese and want to learn Ukrainian. The classes will be held twice a week using Skype.

A basic course of Ukrainian will include lectures and assignments, reading texts, and discussing various topics during the online panels.

The courses will start in the end of November and will go on for four months. The classes will be held by professors and students of Grinchenko University, but volunteers from other universities are welcome to join.

“This project will be a simple and effective way to integrate Ukraine into the European community through direct communication and cooperation of students and teachers of different educational centers,” reads the statement by Grinchenko University professor Olena Bondareva on the course’s website.

To take the course, one should fill the form at the project’s website or send an email to slovopys@gmail.com.

The activists who launched the courses have previously initiated a language project Slovopys (“Spelling” in Ukrainian) to create an interactive dictionary of rare Ukrainian words. Today Slobopys has over 11,000 subscribers on Facebook.

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