Language teacher Liliya Rissling writes some words in Ukrainian on the blackboard as her students wonder what Laskavo prosimo means.
It means "Welcome" – or "Tenderly we ask", if you translate it literally," says Rissling. She's giving the first session of a beginners' course in Ukrainian at an adult education centre in Trier, western Germany.
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