Language difficulty is subjective When learning a new language, we usually transfer what we know from our first language to our second, third and so on, Blanco says. This includes hand gestures ...

Based on the 2001 census, about 14.3 million Ukrainian people (29% of the population) speak Russian as a first language, although by some estimates it is higher.

But because maintaining a first language other than English isn’t typically supported in a child’s K-12 education, there are too few bilingual teachers in the U.S.