Problems of Young People in Ukraine: Linguo-Cultural Approach to Teaching English Philology and Translation Students

The article addresses teaching through a linguo-cultural lens, with particular attention to the discourse of Ukrainian youth as shaped by their lived experience of war. The research is based on various materials. And these materials include interviews, personal blogs, and social media texts. All these sources together illustrate the social, psychological, and cultural challenges that young Ukrainians are currently facing. Among the collected materials there are interruptions in education, economic challenges, psychological burdens, civic engagement, and the evolving understanding of individual and collective identity. First-year students often produce translations that remain too close to the surface of the text, failing to render the underlying cultural resonances. The article offers pedagogical strategies which are designed to strengthen linguistic proficiency, heighten sensitivity to cultural specificity, and cultivate reflective approaches to translating texts that deal with complex social realities.