At Echo Eastern Europe, learning Ukrainian is never just about conjugating verbs or memorising cases. From the very first lesson, students step into something bigger: a large, warm, Ukrainian-speaking circle that feels like coming home even if you’ve never set foot in Kyiv. Thousands of people from more than 90 countries have already discovered that here the language arrives wrapped in laughter, songs, shared meals on Zoom, and friendships that outlast any course.
Who We Are Echo Eastern Europe was born in a small Kyiv apartment in the autumn of 2015, when a handful of teachers decided that the Ukrainian language deserved to be taught with the same love with which grandmothers tell fairy tales. Nine years later we are a school without walls: our teachers and students live on four continents, from Canada to Australia, Portugal to Japan. We kept the Kyiv spirit but moved classes online so that distance would never again be an excuse.
Every teacher at Echo is a native speaker who genuinely loves what they do. Many of us have master’s degrees in Ukrainian philology, years of experience, and, more importantly, the ability to explain why “на Вкраїні” and “в Україні” both exist and when native speakers roll their eyes at the wrong choice. We do not read from textbooks in a monotone; we argue about poetry, sing lullabies, recall how our babusya scolded us for wrong stress, and cry together over Shevchenko on his birthday. Students say that after a few months they don’t just speak Ukrainian; they start thinking and even dreaming in it.
What We Offer Our courses are built the way Ukrainians build their lives: with a solid foundation, lots of talking, and constant feasts of the soul.
• Balanced group courses (A1–C1) Small groups of 4–8 people meet two or three times a week. Half the lesson is systematic grammar that finally makes the seven cases feel logical, and the other half is pure speaking: debates, role-plays, telling your life story, ordering borscht in a village café, or explaining to an imaginary border guard why you absolutely must enter the country right now. By the end of level A2 most students can already gossip with their Ukrainian mother-in-law.
• Individual programmes tailored exactly to you Moving to Lviv in three months and only need survival phrases? Writing a dissertation on Lesya Ukrainka? Want your six-year-old to chat with cousins in Ivano-Frankivsk? We will build the course around your life, your speed, and your dreams.
• Ukrainian for children and teenagers We honestly believe that Ukrainian can be the favourite subject. Kids learn through games, cartoons (“Mavka”, “Cossacks”, “Petson and Findus” dubbed in perfect Ukrainian), songs, and crafts. Teenagers discuss TikTok trends, modern music, and why “паляниця” is still the best password. Parents are often shocked when children start correcting their own pronunciation.
• Free conversation clubs twice a week Every Thursday and Sunday the screen fills with familiar faces. Sometimes a famous writer drops in, sometimes a rock musician teaches slang, sometimes a historian explains why half of Europe once spoke Ukrainian at court. You just turn on your camera, pour yourself tea, and talk for two hours straight. Many lifelong friendships (and even a few weddings) began in these clubs.
• Preparation for official exams and citizenship interviews We know every detail of the НАЗК state certification and the new citizenship language requirements. Our students pass on the first try more often than the national average, and they do it without terror and tears.
• Cultural immersion programmes Once a year we organise big offline meet-ups. Kyiv in May, Lviv in October, Warsaw, Berlin, Lisbon, Toronto; wherever the largest group lives that year, we all gather. We sing around the fire, cook varenyky until dawn, walk around the evening city practising the conditional mood, and realise that the screen was never able to convey how loudly Ukrainians actually laugh.
All textbooks, workbooks, audio, video, and even the memes we send you at midnight are included in the price. You pay for the course and receive the entire Ukrainian world as a gift.
Perfect Moments to Start Learning Ukrainian Life has a way of nudging us at the right time.
Maybe you’ve been invited to your first Malanka (Ukrainian Christmas) and you want to understand why everyone is suddenly wearing folk costumes and throwing wheat at each other.
Maybe your child comes home from kindergarten singing “Ой у лузі червона калина” but answers babusia only in English, and your heart breaks a little.
Maybe you fell in love with a Ukrainian and Google Translate is no longer enough to explain that you don’t just like them; you want to grow old on the same bench under the same linden tree.
Maybe you stood in Kyiv under the chestnut trees in May, heard someone speaking this melodic, ancient-yet-modern language, and suddenly felt that part of your soul has always belonged here.
Or maybe you simply want to be able to say “дякую” and feel it with your whole heart, not just pronounce it.
Whenever that moment comes, we will be waiting.
Why Students Choose Echo Again and Again Because after the first month you can already hear the result: your “р” starts rolling, you stop being afraid of the vocative case, and you accidentally order coffee in Ukrainian in a Prague café.
Because teachers remember that your cat is called Knysh and your grandmother’s name was Sofia, and they ask how they are doing.
Because there is no shame here. Mispronounced “ґудзик” or confused “щирий” with “швидкий”; we just laugh together and move on.
Because after the course ends, you don’t leave. You stay in the conversation clubs, in the chat that never sleeps, in the offline meet-ups where people fly across oceans just to hug those they once knew only as Zoom squares.
Because many students come back years later with their children so that the next generation can also say “доброго вечора, ми з України” with the same pride.
Open the Door to Your Ukrainian World Learning Ukrainian at Echo is not a hobby. It is adoption into a large, noisy, loving family that sings at the table, argues about politics until dawn, and never forgets to call on birthdays.
If you are ready to speak the language that survived centuries of bans and still sounds like spring after winter, come.
Browse our full collection of courses, watch video reviews from students who now argue with their Ukrainian partners only in perfect Ukrainian, and choose the start date that feels right.
The kettle is already on the stove, the varenyky are waiting, and someone in the chat has just written: “А де наші нові студенти? Приходьте, ми вас обіймемо!”
Welcome home.
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