I want to visit the Ukraine

[Marish]

We would like to offer to Native English teachers a short-term job opportunity at the Business Link Summer Camp in Crimea.

It will be a good chance for you to share your experience working in the international team, to combine a good active rest with an interesting summer job.

The camp is located in Crimea - the most picturesque resort in Ukraine, which was popular with Russian Tsars and is now one of the most famous places on the Black Sea for tourists, due to its wonderful beaches, sub-tropical climate and delicious wines.

Dates - from 28th July till 13th August 2001 (16 days including days of arrival/departure).

We will provide you with
a good salary (!)
+ full board accomodation
+ transfer Kyiv-Crimea-Kyiv
+ excursions and DIVING (!)

For more information and to book your ticket)))
please contact me at BUSINESSS LINK before 13 July
Tel.: (044) 220-5580, 227-1378, 227-1048
E-mail: marina@businesslink.kiev.ua

[JetSet]

Well it look like I will finally get my opportunity to visit the homeland sometime in 2002.

Tenatively I have planned 4 days in Lviv, as well as 2 in Kyiv, and a day or two perhaps in Chernivitsi.

I have yet to have seen pictures of Chernivitsi. Does anyone have comments?

[Felix_Caro]

Hello there ole chap. Kiev is beautiful, you will like your stay there. However, you will be better off speaking Russian because absolutely everybody speaks it. Even though the vast majority of the people living in the Ukraine understand Ukrainian, not everybody can speak it fluently because when this country was part of the Soviet Union this language was forbidden for some time. However, the vast majority of the signs that you will read outside in the streets are in Ukrainian. Just an advice.

[JetSet]

Russian might be more widely used thanks to Sovietfication, but if a foreigner learns Ukrainian, you are doing more to help Ukraine, by learning Ukrainian and not RUSSIAN. In a way you are showing your support for Ukraine. If you are planning only on being in Ukraine, and you go for Russian and not Ukrainian you are doing damage.

[Yorky999]

It seems to be a generation thing - many of the "older" generation I meet seem to depend on Russian - the younger generation speak both but really appreciate visitors attempting to speak Ukrainian.