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

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

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.