7 Easy Ways to Help the Refugee Ukrainians Learn English
This is an updated post.Â
It is 2 years since this Perthshire language school began helping displaced Ukranians with their English.Â
Since then we’ve seen another horrible war begin and the Ukraine war, which was expected to last only a few months, still continues.Â
It’s worth remembering that new Ukrainians are still arriving in our communities needing help.Â
It’s not too late.Â
This list is a great way to begin, wherever you are.Â
7 Easy Ways to Help Ukrainians Learn English
Cook and Eat a Meal Together
Invite a recently arrived Ukrainian to your home. You could prepare your family’s food together and then make them welcome during your family meal. (This is NORMAL life. It’s going to provide language skills that only treating people as guests doesn’t).
Invite Someone Along While You Do Your Weekly Shop
It doesn’t seem much, but in fact, it’s a trip out of the house, it’s chatting in the car, it’s practising vocabulary and language skills for shopping. It’s very much the essential daily language skills they need.
Saturday Jigsaw Session
Not sure your home is tidy enough?
Drop into Blue Noun and share doing a jigsaw with us.
We’ll be hosting a Jigsaw Sesh every Saturday.
Come and join us in arguing over whether to start with the edges!
5-7 pm @ Blue Noun
Have a Coffee in a Cafe
Maybe you are available once a week to chat over a coffee? Either locally or further afield? (It might be a good excuse to explore your region with fresh eyes).
Visit Your Local Library Together
It’s free, it’s fabulous. Visit your local library and enjoy books & magazines together. It’s a GREAT way of finding conversation topics.
Visit Perth Pool
Swimming isn’t a naturally chatty environment, but it sure can be nice to have someone to go with regularly.
There’s always the trip there to get talking if English language skills allow it.
Hosting an Event? Or Going to an Event?
Think about reaching out with tickets or invitations to the Ukrainians in our area.
If you have an idea, drop into our Jigsaw Sesh group.
Other Resources
Thank you for your interest in helping your local Ukrainians learn English.
If you have your own suggestions for easy ways to help Ukrainians learn English, please share them in the comments.
If you are in Strathearn, Perthshire, and have questions or need advice about the best way to contribute, please drop into one of our Jigsaw Sesh events (details above).
We are running them for you to get a taste of what’s involved – and as a place for ANYONE to ask for advice from our team.
Blue Noun have a few discounted English places available every year – see our English lessons in Crieff.
Good luck everyone!
Live language learning!
Further Information
If you feel out of date on the Ukraine War, Catherine Bohart‘s got a funny but sincere way to get you back up to date. Her series TL;DR gives news updates for busy folks.Â
I am a secondary school music teacher and would be interested in helping someone over the summer holidays.
Hi Emma, great! Thank you! Have you joined this project mailing list? We’ll send you all the information that you need this way.