LVIV, Ukraine – The teacher sounded her words slowly, careful to show which syllable to stress: eyebrow. Cheekbones. Hair.
The students, arranged in a semicircle around her, parroted them back. But they were not there to learn a foreign tongue: Aged 11 to 70, they were Ukrainians, in Ukraine, trying to master the official language of their own country.
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