Sunday, October 25, 2015

What Variant of English Is the Most Popular in Ukraine?


What variant of English is the most popular in Ukraine? Me as a person who has dedicated his life to the study of foreign languages can answer the question in the very best way.  Here, in Ukraine, everybody is taught as if London variant of British English in school.  In fact the most of secondary school graduates don’t speak English at all or use disastrous Ukrlish or Runglish. Those few really can communicate English prefer American English. Why so? The answer is simple the most of English intellectual products here are from the US so American English is more natural to local people than British English.  Talking about International English that is very popular in Europe it is worth to admit that it’s not needed here because Ukrainians are business contacted to Russians and Polish people in most of the cases and use Russian and Polish to communicate as well. The biggest part of Ukrainian companies with International contacts hires professional translators and interpreters those as I’ve already mentioned prefer American English.

News from Ukraine.


The war is as if over but the tension is still felt well anywhere here. Today’s elections show us that Ukrainian political forces are in heavy struggle. Their competition seems too keen for me. Sometimes I even think that they don’t care about Ukraine at all, the only thing they think about is their own popularity and influence here. I hope this is only my personal impression. Economy is being slowly improved. People say we will have economic troubles just after the election. Well, I hope the things won’t be so grave for us. The only thing that bothers the majority of Ukrainians is the dramatic increase of the housing and communal service tariffs.