Nothing, however, prepared me for the toughest one: teaching my own children to speak Russian, my native language, as well as English. They didn’t give a hoot about extra credit or Tootsie Pop ...

Born in Crimea and raised in Kherson, journalist Yevheniia Virlych grew up speaking both Ukrainian and Russian in her daily life. It wasn’t until 2022, when she and her family lived through the ...

People with Russian accents often mispronounce words containing multiple vowels when speaking in English. Because short vowels were eliminated in Russian, consonant clusters developed over time in ...

When Alla Pearce came to Mecklenburg County 11 years ago, she thought she’d have little chance to speak Russian and Ukrainian, the languages she grew up with. She taught English in Ukraine and m ...

Nothing, however, prepared me for the toughest one: teaching my own children to speak Russian, my native language, as well as ...