ENGLISH FOR RUSSIANS
TEACHING IN SCHOOLS
ORDER FOR EXTENSION
MOSCOW, Sept. 22
The Soviet commissariat of education is arranging that the English language shall replace German as the most widely-taught foreign language in Soviet schools.
Under the new arrangement the number of Soviet schools in which English and French will be compulsory will be quadrupled. A knowledge of English lias grown up by leaps and bounds in recent years. It is reported that M. Stalin is learning English in order to be able to read Shakespeare.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 5
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