Cultural Post 1

[Taylor Johnson]

My family is Ukrainian, and I have always wished that the language would have been passed down to me and my sister. I also have a very strong interest in Russian/Ukrainian history, and I have gotten fairly good at Russian, so I decided that it would probably be good for me to add Ukrainian. I am also applying for a Fulbright in Ukraine for next year, and although mostly everyone in Ukraine knows Russian, I feel like it will demonstrate a better effort to understand the country’s culture if I make an effort to learn the language. I know that I will not be anywhere near fluent by next year, but my Russian abilities will be able to fill in my gaps in Ukrainian while I am (hopefully) completing my Fulbright there next year.