It didn’t even make it into the top 5: less than 10% of Ukrainians consider Russian necessary
Ukrainians answered questions about which foreign languages they consider most necessary.
Mostly people over 60 consider the Russian language necessary / photo forumdaily.com
Russian did not even get into the top 5 foreign languages that Ukrainians consider necessary.
This is stated in a study by Active Group .
Ukrainians answered questions about which foreign languages they consider most necessary. In the first place was English, and Russian – in sixth:
- English – 84.9%;
- German – 22.2%;
- French – 13.7%;
- Spanish – 13.6%;
- Polish – 11.1%;
- Russian – 9.6%;
- Chinese – 6.5%;
- Portuguese – 6.3%;
- Arabic – 2.4%;
- others – 1.4%.
The share of those who consider Russian necessary for learning is the largest among people over 60 years of age. English is considered the most important by all age groups of Ukrainians.
And in the list of languages that are necessary for career growth, Polish dropped to seventh place:
- English – 86.9%;
- German – 25.2%;
- Chinese – 21.1%;
- Polish – 20.1%;
- Spanish – 17.2%;
- French – 14.5%;
- Russian – 12.3%;
- Portuguese – 8.7%;
- Arabic – 4.8%;
- others – 3.2%.
- (c)UNIAN 2021
“The share of those who consider Russian necessary for learning is the largest among people over 60 years of age.”
At 60 years of age, if you think Russian is necessary for learning, means you have learnt FA in your life.
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My wife refers to them as “Dura” and I believe the translation is dead tree branch … :))
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“Mostly people over 60 consider the Russian language necessary”
Those 60 and older are Soviet-era people and so it’s of no surprise. The young Ukrainian people mostly prefer to learn a Western language, and no doubt, this is in large part thanks to the Moscow runt.
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