Query: Summer Russian language programs in Ukraine

[Maryana Bendus]

That's exactly what I wanted to mention. And that's exactly right! You
will have a lot of options in big cities, and a lot more practice in
Russian in Eastern Ukraine. I'm from L'viv - and we all speak
Ukrainian there. Russian is very rare as an everyday spoken language
in almost all cities in the west of Ukraine. Kyiv is much more
Ukrainian-speaking now than it was some even 5 years ago, but you'll
have much more Russian language practice there than in western cities.

Best,
Maryana

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Dustin Hosseini
<iamlearningenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm afraid the city might actually make a difference.  Historically, cities
>  in western Ukraine tend to be pro-Ukrainian language in everyday life and
>  lately even officially.  On the other hand, eastern Ukraine tends to be more
>  pro-Russian.
>
>  So whereas in Lvov they'd prefer to speak Ukrainian, people would rather
>  speak Russian in say Kharkov.
>
>  In Kiev you can get away with both Russian and Ukrainian, unless you run
>  into some street vendors who absolutely refuse to speak Russian; I've
>  experienced this on numerous occasions while visiting Kiev.  Again, these
>  were street vendors who were selling tourist items - not those working in
>  general services (hotels, shops, banks, etc).
>
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