Ukrainian Language Day, 9 November 2020
A language day greeting in a year when the dictation had to be written at kitchen tables.
A good Ukrainian Language and Writing Day to everyone.
The radio dictation is the custom I like best on this day, and this year it is one of the very few national events that lost nothing by being done at home. It was always a solitary activity performed simultaneously; a year of restrictions did not change that at all.
If anything more people wrote it, which I suspect is because sitting down for twenty minutes with paper and a pen was an unusually appealing prospect in November 2020.
To everyone who took part, and to the teachers, editors and translators whose day this is: my respect.
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