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Interest in learning Hungarian language has increased significantly in Ukraine
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Hungarian is even more popular in Transcarpathia (Kárpátalja) than English said Government Commissioner István Grezsa at Zánka Erzsébet camp where he met a group of Ukrainian children vacationing in Hungary.
In the current school year, 1235 Ukrainian children studied Hungarian in Transcarpathia.
According to current Ukrainian law, if five parents ask for the school to organize Hungarian classes the school must fulfill the request. Increasingly, parents asking for this possibility even in places where ethnic Hungarian are in minority the commissioner said.
Apart from that, more than four thousand adults enrolled in free intensive Hungarian language courses at 62 locations across Transcarpathia in July said Grezsa.
In the Zánka summer camp, currently 440 Ukrainian children – who study Hungarian – spending their vacation; they are accompanied by thirty teachers who are helped by volunteers from Károli Gáspár Reformed University’s Beregszász Campus.