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Ukraine & the Balkans: Ukrainian as a 3rd Language; Cyrillic vs Latin Script in Serbia

Written byVeronica Khokhlova
Posted 7 April 2006 23:35 GMT

MoldovAnn has started taking Ukrainian language classes: “This week’s lesson was conducted almost entirely in Ukrainian, and when we were all at a loss, our teacher reverted to Russian. This means I am learning a third language on the basis of my second language […].” Daniel of The Native Speaker writes about the interchangeability of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts in Serbian and the politics inherent in this phenomenon.

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Written byVeronica Khokhlova

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