{"id":17951,"date":"2021-07-25T07:59:43","date_gmt":"2021-07-25T07:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17951"},"modified":"2021-07-25T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-25T07:59:43","slug":"george-kent-told-how-he-learned-the-ukrainian-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17951","title":{"rendered":"George Kent Told How He Learned the Ukrainian Language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires George Kent, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, told how he learned the Ukrainian language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 25, 2021 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?cat=16\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Ukraine News<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It was not difficult. I worked here at the embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, for two terms. At first, I was only a Russian-speaking employee of the embassy. And I promised my Ukrainian friends that if I had the opportunity to return, I would definitely study the Ukrainian language, and during the second term &#8211; I would speak Ukrainian. Well, I used to work in Poland. Knowledge of Polish and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17565\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17565\">Russian <\/a>was very useful. I studied Ukrainian at our institute for four months, and then I started working here in Kyiv, \u201dKent said in an interview in which he spoke Ukrainian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 12, the US Embassy in Ukraine announced that US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent had begun work in Kyiv as Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires of the United States. He is temporarily replacing Christina Quinn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17615\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"17615\">State Language Exams Are Starting in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Source<\/span>: <span style=\"color:#fae000\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ukrgate<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires George Kent, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, told how he learned the Ukrainian language. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 25, 2021 \u2013 Ukraine News &#8220;It was not difficult. I worked here at the embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, for two terms. At first, I was only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":17952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7948,7947,996,2399,1014,1036],"class_list":["post-17951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ukraine-news","tag-embassies","tag-george-kent","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-gate","tag-ukrainian-language","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17953,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17951\/revisions\/17953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}