[EDLING:1] Latvia: Linguistic enlightenment on your bus ride

Francis M. Hult fmhult at DOLPHIN.UPENN.EDU
Thu Mar 29 15:43:48 UTC 2007


The Baltic Times

Linguistic enlightenment on your bus ride

VILNIUS - Anyone who takes public transportation in the Baltics knows the 
score. It’s inevitable that at some point you’ll find yourself crammed into a 
trolleybus, tediously staring into space as it lurches its way through city 
traffic. But what if you could do something with these wasted minutes? What if 
you could, say, study a foreign language? In fact, that’s exactly what some 
commuters in Vilnius are doing. While they’re riding on certain trolleybuses, 
they’re actually being taught English, Polish and Lithuanian.

Full story:
http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/17587/



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