TROPtastic t1_iyc8uvp wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:06 AM

Reply to comment by spyczech in Lithuania should phase out Russian language teaching - president's adviser by Interrete

This is not a ban: this is the government deciding that they aren't going to fund Russian 2nd language teaching with limited funds and school hours. Students will still be free to speak Russian to each other.

spyczech t1_iyc9502 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 9:10 AM

Okay that is an important distinction, thanks for the clarification. It still rings a little icky, but yeah thats a very different situation.

I think it could deprive those kids of economic prospects or the ability to learn fluency to say comminucate at family gatherings but that is a much subtler critique

TROPtastic t1_iye3ex1 wrote on November 30, 2022 at 6:41 PM

Thanks to Putin, the economic reasons to learn Russian have evaporated. Learning it for conversation with family is still important for some people, but I would imagine that Russian language tutoring (which still exists in Lithuania) would be a faster and more efficient way to get conversational fluency than several years of school classes.