[EDLING:2391] Moscow: Learning the Lingo

[Francis M. Hult]

The Moscow Times

Learning the Lingo

By Kirill Koriukin 
Special to The Moscow Times   
 
  
How do you learn Russian in Russia? The answer for French postgraduate history 
students Felix Chartreux and Anna Kropotkine is simple -- just mix with the 
locals.

Although they were doing just that at a weekend dacha party near Moscow, it's 
not really the full story of how they attained fluency: Both studied Russian in 
France before coming to Moscow.

Some, like 61-year-old Kaika VÊxby, need a bit more help, however. The wife of 
a Methodist pastor from Finland who plans to stay a while, VÊxby needs a 
Russian-language school. 

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