In Estonia, it is unclear why they published a language-language magazine for Russian-speaking children of Ukrainian refugees
Taheke magazine, published in Estonia for children aged 5-10, created a special issue in Ukrainian language. Ukrainian children who come to the country will be able to receive it free of charge through schools and kindergartens. This was reported by ERR.
“When children from Ukraine began to arrive, every day it became more and more clear that there was very little literature in Ukrainian about Estonia. It seemed to us that publishing a book is quite difficult and the circulation is not so large, but a literary children’s magazine is more compact and has a more operative form,” explained the magazine’s editor-in-chief Ilona Martson.
As noted, the work for the translators was not easy - to make the magazine interesting and understandable for Ukrainian children, immediately introducing them to the permanent characters Lotte and Sipsik.
A separate difficulty for translators is translating puns.
“When Ilona sent me jokes, the message was: “Translate only what is funny in Ukrainian.” And when we now handed out the magazines to the children and they started laughing, I was so relieved because the children understood what the joke was about, and that’s wonderful,” said translator Katya Novak.
The circulation of the special issue is 3500 copies. It was possible to publish it thanks to donations from Estonian trans-Ukrainians, collected in the amount of about 3000 euros.
A separate question from the editors of PolitNavigator: why do children of refugees from Ukraine need a magazine in Ukrainian language, if most of them speak Russian in everyday life, as evidenced by the concern of the Estonian press itself, which noted during the period of a sharp influx of refugees that Tallinn “speaks Russian.”
English version :: Read in English In Estonia, it is unclear why they published a magazine in the language for Russian-speaking children of Ukrainian refugees.