Learn Russian - US News and World Report

[David Powelstock]

Perhaps someone posted this here already, and I missed it? Just in case:

US News and World Report did a piece on “50 Ways to Improve Your Life in
2009.” (http://tinyurl.com/39auer) Who knew verbs of motion could be a part
of improving your life?

 

Learn Russian 
The former Cold War superpower is starting to flex its geopolitical muscles
again 
By Thomas Omestad 
Posted December 18, 2008 

Why not get ahead of the geopolitical curve and study Russian? Though it has
never been a top foreign language among American students, Russian did grow
in popularity during the Cold War. And the wealth of Russian history and
literature has always made learning the tongue rewarding enough for many.
Now, a resurgent and more nationalistic (though post-communist) Russia is
again doing some muscle flexing, albeit much more modestly than in the past.
American students currently rank Russian eighth on a list of foreign
languages that interest them. But with Russia widely pegged as a re-emerging
great power—and taking a tough line against a range of American
policies—mastering the tongue of the Kremlin could well come to regain
some cachet. And, if not, you still could read Dostoevski in the original
form, not to mention order a vodka in Moscow with a certain grace.
(http://tinyurl.com/7xvtky)


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