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Â鶹Éç World Service and Â鶹Éç College of Journalism have launched a language guide to assist journalists. Users of the multimedia website bbcukrainian.com now have access to the comprehensive resource, sharing Â鶹Éç journalists' experience of the use of language and style while reporting in Ukrainian.

The Â鶹Éç has now published 24 language guides for journalists across the world as part of the joint Â鶹Éç World Service/Â鶹Éç College of Journalism project which gives Â鶹Éç journalists, broadcasting in various languages, an opportunity to share their expertise on ways to maintain impartiality.

Special attention is paid to the issues of translation into the Ukrainian of new international terms and notions.

Â鶹Éç Ukrainian producer Svitlana Pyrkalo comments: "Like all other living languages, the Ukrainian language is in constant development, and as such it absorbs new words and definitions.

"While it's very important for Â鶹Éç journalists broadcasting to Ukraine to have a brilliant command of the language, it is also equally important that they know how to choose neutral terms to describe facts, how to avoid using emotionally loaded words so our listeners can form their own opinions. It's this expertise that we are now sharing with our colleagues in Ukraine."

Head of Â鶹Éç Ukrainian, Maciek Bernatt-Reszczynski, adds: "From its very launch in 1992, Â鶹Éç Ukrainian has been distinguished for its uniquely neutral and concise language style.

"By making this resource available to our Ukrainian audiences, we are also keen to engage them in a conversation about the language and style of unbiased and balanced coverage."

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