Why students do not study Russian anymore

[Stephen J. Bobick]

Marta Sherwood-Pike wrote:
> Half of the small class consisted of Koreans and Japanese,
> who had already learned a language not closely related to their own
> (English), and I, fairly proficient in Russian, grasped the concepts of
> the very different grammar, but the other Americans were clueless. Most
> American students emerge from high schools without the mental skills to
> learn difficult foreign languages, chiefly because they are not exposed to
> a bilingual environment in their childhood.

In addition, I would argue that a major difficulty is that many do not
have a firm grasp of English grammar.

-- Stephen Bobick

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