When speakers of different languages meet, their words, sounds and even grammatical structures mingle in surprising ways.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, the number of people studying Ukrainian on Duolingo, a language learning website and mobile app, has increased by more than 500%. Most of those who are taking up ...

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