As more and more people evacuate from Ukraine to Japan, some language learning apps are becoming more and more interested as new Ukrainian learners are up to 18 times more than they were before the invasion. increase.

According to the UNHCR = United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, more than 4.3 million people have been evacuated from Ukraine due to the invasion by Russia, and more than 400 people have already entered Japan.



Under these circumstances, according to the operating company of the language learning app, the number of new users of courses to learn Ukrainian in English etc. has increased significantly in Japan compared to before the military invasion, and President Zelensky of Ukraine is online in the Diet. It means that it increased 18 times in the week of the end of last month when I gave a formal speech.



The app is free and has about 500 million users worldwide, but the number of new Ukrainian learners around the world has more than six-fold over the past month or so. ..

Mr. Sho Mizutani, the director of Duolingo in Japan, said, "I hope you can learn to use it for communication with people who have evacuated and for simple greetings."



The operating company will donate part of the advertising revenue to support activities for Ukraine.

Ukrainian singer in Japan Introducing elementary daily conversation on SNS

As more and more people start learning Ukrainian, SNS that introduces simple daily conversations by singers from Ukraine who are active in Japan are attracting attention.



The Ukrainian language is introduced on SNS by Nataliya Gudzi, a singer from Ukraine who has been active in Japan for over 20 years.



Her Natasha introduces her rudimentary daily conversations every day since 22nd of last month on her own SNS with the hashtag "Ukrainian Conversation".



In this, she uses the Ukrainian spelling and katakana to convey the pronunciation in the form of "hello" as "dobrideni" and "thank you" as "deyakuyu".



From her experience of Natasha living in a nuclear accident at the age of six, she thinks that her support for Ukraine will be needed for a long time, including mental care for children. First of all, it is said that he started to make Ukraine feel closer to him.



She also tells her tips on SNS, such as the popularity of Japanese food in Ukraine and the fact that the language is close to Polish in the western part of Ukraine.



In response to Mr. Natasha's post, "I wish I could communicate with the Ukrainian people even a little" and "I recently started self-taught. I want to be able to speak more." Attention is focused on those who are trying to learn.