We recommend viewing the documentary-educational film «How Ukrainians began to speak Ukrainian»

«How Ukrainians spoke Ukrainian» — this is an educational film about the birth, development, decline, persecution, and flourishing of the Ukrainian language. About how it formed, changed, absorbed loanwords, and created its own neologisms. The film is divided into five historically important periods: Rus', Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Hetmanate, the Russian Empire, Soviet times. Each era «spoke» in its own language, and here you will hear, for the first time, exactly how it sounded in different ages.

The host, renowned theatre and film actor Oleksiy Hnatkovskyi, will guide the film's audience through the historical periods. Simply, aptly, and occasionally with humor, he will explain how our language developed through the periods of creation, development, dispersion, fierce wars and total bans.