Increased Enrollments article

[Margarita Orlova]

But if American businessmen do not know Russian, Russians will cheat on  
them. I've heard about that problem with Chinese;)

Margarita

On Wednesday, November 14, 2007, at 08:59  PM, Inna Caron wrote:

>> A hypothetical (or maybe not) question - if the Russians are all  
>> learning
>> English because we (businesses) are coming to them, will we learn  
>> Russian
> if
>> they start coming to us?
>
>> Renee
>
> I believe the Russians are all learning English because it is the
> international language these days. Same reason they learned French  
> back in
> the 19th century (rather than because so many refugees from Napoleonic
> France opened up fashion shops all over Petersburg and Moscow :-)
>
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