(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SYRIAN STUDENT LEARNING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, OMAR AL-TAWIL, SAYING: "At first we did not understand anything and when we first heard the words we started laughing. Yes it was truly ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany - Seven 7th Mission Support Command Soldiers are spending the week learning Russian. The Army Reserve Soldiers are from the 361st Civil Affairs Brigade headquarters in ...

Languages rise and fall with history, in nations and university language departments alike. In 1980, when Roman Koropeckyj stepped into his classroom at Harvard to teach Polish, he was “gobsmacked” by ...

I recently watched the newest installment in the James Bond Franchise, No Time to Die. Predictably, the villain’s henchmen all spoke Russian. This reflects a deeply-rooted truth: In the United States, ...

For the last year, I have been watching a bunch of Russian movies on Netflix. I started doing so to make up for my indolence: my Russian language tutor – a saint – would give me piles of exercises to ...

Fast-forward a few years, and one of these young Russophiles might just evolve into the next Erin Doyle or Jimmy Lodge. Considered a linguistic phenom by his teachers and school administrators, Lodge, ...

This is part of a weekly series introducing readers to individuals who are passionate about our Mid-Valley community. Learning a new language is hard, and Lola Burkovskaya, originally from Kyrgyzstan, ...

Of all the enjoyable courses I took at Bates, Russian was my favorite. Although I didn’t begin Russian until senior year, it remains a defining aspect of my time at Bates and one of the things I miss ...

Many of us have entertained the idea of expanding our horizons. Learning a foreign language is an obvious option. It’s one that I would personally endorse: My individual circumstances were such that, ...

Growing up in the bilingual city of Kyiv in the 1990s, I studied the Ukrainian language like a museum object—intensely, but at a distance, never quite feeling all of its textures or bringing it home.