Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 12:58:11 05/06/05
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[Totally off-topic] On May 06, 2005 at 11:03:01, mike schoonover wrote: >hi daniel, >judging by your diction and spelling are you proving my point? >and just who am i insulting,english has been taught in russian >schools for a very long time Partially true. Foreighn language -- usually English or (sometimes) German -- in an average school was taught 1.5 hours per week, from 6th grade to 10th grade (it was long time ago, it may started one grade earlier or later). >with good results. Wrong. Kids who came from average school -- not from specialized school that specialized in foreighn language -- don't know foreighn language at all. All those hours were absolutely useless. In the USSR main problem was absolute lack of TV, books, journals, people with whom you can communicate on those languages, etc. Country was isolated from the outer world. You could choose between exactly 2 english-language newspapers -- Soviet "Moscow Times", and (sometimes) English communist "Morning Star". There were no need to understand "science,technical,and and political subjects originating in the west". Yes, scientists, or at least some of them, had (relatively easy) access to the Western scientific journals; that was not true even for technological journals -- yes, several leading organizations gave their employees access to (some) journals, but for majority of engineers there were special organizations who translated documentation and (selected) articles into russian, and then published them. And you can find yourself in the serious trouble if you try to look into "political subjects originating in the west"". Now in Russia main problem is lack of funds for eductaion. Person who knows foreighn language well can find job in some commercial organization with salary several times larger than teacher's salary. And if we suppose that funds will (miraculously) appear, there is no way you can quickly recruit enough good teachers. It looks that you don't know history at all, or at least know highly edited version of it. Thanks, Eugene
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