SOVIET SCHOOLS
TEACHING OF ENGLISH TO REPLACE GERMAN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, September 22. The Commissar of Education is arranging that the English language shall replace German as the most widely taught foreign language in Soviet schools. Those in which English and French are compulsory will be quadrupled. The knowledge of English has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, and it is reported that M. Stalin is learning it in order to read Shakespeare.
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Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 9
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76SOVIET SCHOOLS Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 9
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