On the occasion of the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language, the ONMedU library held a meeting with 1st-year seekers of higher education

On the occasion of the Day of Ukrainian Writing and Language, the ONMedU library held a meeting with 1st-year seekers of higher education

Olha Shanina, candidate of philological sciences, senior lecturer of the Department of Social Sciences, invited students to watch the documentary film “The Nightingale Sings. As long as he has a voice.” This tape is a new wave of documentary. Without typical off-screen subjective words, without repetition of well-known phrases, without imposition. The creators of the film compared the Ukrainian language and its development with other languages ​​that were also on the verge of extinction.

The library offered the audience a book exhibition that reveals the history of the Ukrainian language and its importance for the Ukrainian people. After the presentation of the exhibition, Iryna Grabarchuk, head of the library department, introduced the history of the establishment of the state holiday, which is aimed at realizing the importance of the Ukrainian language as the basis of national identity. Special attention was paid to the story of the progenitor of the Ukrainian written language — Reverend Nestor the Chronicler and to the debunking of myths about the artificiality of the Ukrainian language or “dialect of Russian”. The next meeting of the library and first-year students took place at the Department of Social Sciences, where, as a part of the Week of the Ukrainian Language and Writing, librarians and students of higher education read poems by Kobzar and famous poets of the indomitable country.

May the word Ukrainian always sound pure and melodious, and our love for our native language grows every day. Let’s be worthy of our language, state and those who fought, are fighting and will fight for it!