A person holds a phone with an open Instagram page of Ukrainian project Ne Tryndy. Founded by U.S. Peace Corps volunteer Katherine Fitch and Ukrainian philologist Tetiana Sen in February 2020, the project aims to teach Ukrainian slang online.
For many foreign citizens, Ukraine is a bizarre country with ramshackle Soviet-style buildings surrounded by modern skyscrapers and jam-packed yellow buses dubbed as “marshrutkas.”
But there’s another peculiar thing about Ukraine — its diverse and complicated for many language, especially slang words that are popular among youth.